The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1927, Page 1

VOL. XXX., NO. 4771. PAN-AMERIG “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” HOUSE REDUGES TAXSCHEDULES; CHANGE SLIGHT No Raise in Rates in Revenue Bill Passed—Appropria- tions Are Passed. The House of Representatives last | night passed the two most import measures of the session— the re bill and the general appropri Dbill. In the former there was mnot a single raise in taxes and there were two reductions. The revenue measure passed by vote of nine to seven, the cons vative forces being recruited by addition to Speaker Smith and Grier who voted solidly against inc e in ta m at this After Hu- bill was passed, Mr. who voted for the emergency « but against the bill, gave notice reconsideration today of the vote by which the clause was adopted. a v the M any time Paul 156 Passes Unanimously The general appropriations ure, carrying approximately $2.000.000, pasced by a unanimous vo! Th largest single appropriation is for the suppogt of schools aggregating $850, 000. Roads and trails came next with $460,000. Chairman Ross at tempted to amend the bill to reduc: the latter item to $400,000 but failed 1o get a second to his amendment Mr. Sheldon fared in like fashion when he undertook to reduce the salary of the Attorney General to $4,000 per year The school items included: $515,000 for schools in incorporated towns a incorporated school districts; §2! 000 for schools outside of incorporaf ed towns and incorporated school districts; citizenship night schools $10,000; transportation of pupils. $10,000; provision of certain addi tional school faciliites, $15,000; pay- ment of tuition to incorporated tow for ~pupils residing outside of the limits of such towns, $15,000. In ad- dition to these items, there was ap- propriated for administrative expenses of the Department of Education the sum of $26.500. Make Several Amendments Under the leadership of Reprosen tatives Juomen and Grier, several smendments were adopted. The Com mittee had reported its bill without allowing any additional salaries for the Seeretary to the Governor and Secretary Karl Theile. For the for mer the House allowed $1440 as in previous years, and $4,000 was ap- propriated for the latter as for sev eral years past. The Governor was allowed $2,60¢ entertainment fund, an increase of $1,000 over the Committoe recom- mendation, and §1,250 was appropriai- ed for repairs to the Executive Man sion which had not been inciuded n the original bill. The sum of $1,000 was added to the Committee allowance to the office of Commissioner of Education to be expended in printing a manual and course of a study for High Schools. An extra $1,000 Pioneers’ Home to for a garden plot. The Commissioner was granted $2,400 for stenographic help in addition to the normal al lowance of $500 for contingent ex penses. The Board of Dental Examiners’ item was raised from §500 to §1,000. The appropriation for shelter cabin was raised from the committee fig- ure of $30,000 to $40,000. The Clerk of the House and Secre- tary of the Benate were given $1,500 each for payment of extra clerical help and for overtime work for reg-. ular employees. Each of these iten. was raised $300 over the Committee figure of $1,200. Spend Day on Taxation The House spent the entire day dobating the revenue measure. In- troduced by title only ten days ago, an effort was made to have each ol the schedules inserted by amendmet but this failed after several hours fight which was lead by Represen tative Lomen. A majority of the House voted; to adopt the Committee’s schedules as a basis upon which to work which meant that it took nine votes to change any of the rates proposed by the Committee. The addition of Representatives Grier and Smith to the conservative forces gave them the strength te strike out every raise proposed Ity the Committee. The first wag @& ral< in the surtax on trap-! caught fish from $2 per thousand $5. This was voted out and the oll) $2 rate roinstated. The second was| a raise on herring oil from 40 cents to $2 per barrel and on fish meal from 40 cents per ton to $2. By a nine to seven vote this also was; stricken and the old schedule re- stored. The third proposed raise was on mining, which the committee jumped to three per cent on the incomes in excess of $500,000. The old rates were voted back in the bill, one per cent betwaen $10,000 and $. 30,000, one and one-half per cent §500,000 to _ (Continued on Page Elght) meas the land was given purchase of Education {ment necessary | JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927 De Autremont ‘Jokes in .Quiz on ‘Cruelest Crime’ Jnunty and gharp, !-Iugh De Autremont parries questions about the wacton killing of four mea in the robbery of a train in the Sis toads. By DAN B(IWERMAN. International Illustrated News Staff i Correspondent, EDFORD, Ore.—A skimped little fellow, accused of pare M ticipating in one of the most brutal crimes on the Pacific slope, sits In jail here—telling funny stories. “Down in my horra town, Artesia, N. M., they catéh mud fish,” says Hugh De Autremcent as he puffs at a cigarette. “The fish live In mud and they catch them with shovels. Once a friend of mine caught one and trained it, but he left it too near a creek bank one day and it fell in and drowned.” To questions about the robbery of a train Inthe Siskiyou Mountains, the twenty-three.year-old youth smiles. ‘I didn't do 1t,” he assur Postal inspectors say he did. T #ay Hugh, then eighteen, and older brothers, stopped the train. lieving a shipment of gold & lined up three trainmen with their bands in the air, and pumped them full of lead. Unable to get into mail car, they dynamited it, biow ing a mall clerk to bits. For five years a search was con tinued for the brothers. Then JACKSONVILLE, lécted to try Hugh time since the trial ing Attorney George cumstantial evidence convict him of the man, one m‘ our men BOND ISSUE IS 3 tie- Ore., De onened, w. upon murder H]]ml LOST, WRANGELL -........ WRANGELL, A the special election ; erday, proposition of issuing municipal bonds in the sum of $50,000 for school pur- poses, s defeated by a 74 to 53 The proposition to issue bonds the sum of §30,000 for improv of the Municipal also defeated by 4.-—AL Sy A favorable vote of 65 ywould have been necessary icarried either proposition. per to have The fight against the issuance of | of | their catalogues in preparation for the tgmds by the Municipality Wrangell was led by P. . McCor- mack, retired business men and fo mer member of the Territorial Legi lature, —————- Eighty-six Mexicans and Rebels Killed, Round-up MEXICO CITY, May 4.—Eighty- six rebels were killedl when several bands were dispersed or extermin- ated in the States of Quamajuato, Querrero and Sacatecas, the Presi- dentlal Bureau announced today. Waterwork: | a vote | |by the members of the club, cent [ing match on May Autremont he Roberts which of in tho |auditorium. | Anderson on vote of | ir | eular ocality |Rescue Crews Still Work | Kid Love Affair Broken Up; Lad Suie nku NEWARK, N, J His love affaigs with year-old school’ mate his parents, Joseph aged 15 years, shot himself to death last night-in his home May his halted - POISON TAKEN BY GRAY FOR TEST PURPOSE . Important ;estlmon) Given in Snydér Murder Trial in New York. BULLETIN, NEW YORK, May 4 —Henry Judd Gray testified this afternoon he suggested that | Hugh, unde med nafe, was found to be serving with the armv in the Phillipines. He was brought back to face trial at Eugene. Jail leaves him dapper and smart,’ “I didn't do it,” is his stock ai swer to all questions about the crime. He has successfully withe| stood all efforts to cross-examine him. But about anything else, he ram- bles on. “I saw some swell looking ‘ml in Medford,” he volunteers. “I'd like to see some more, but all I see here is guards. In the Phillipin t native women are so wild we sol- diers used to have to catch them and tie up one leg to keep them home.” His thoughts turn back to the days before he was a hunted man. “In Artesfa,” he tells, * & teacher yught a horned toad to class and gave it a drag from a cigarette to demonstrate the evil effects of nico- tine. Now every toad in New Mex- jco smokes." Whether the youth is buoying hlm- * up with his talk and his cool front, or whether he's one of the sirange, rare men who find nothing terrorizing in murder trials and a 1, no one knows. But if it's & Liuff, it's & goud one. 1 The has been for jury and today, the showed interest Pr outlined the web of cir- the State will attempt to Charles 0. Johnson, brake- the Siskiyou hold-up. GARDEN CLUB TO MEET ON FRIDAY se- first cut- sarden Club will have rmmu.lnl\ meeting Friday night § o'clock in the High School] One of the features of will be a talk by J. . “Lawns,” their care ana with expert advice on the best means of combating the parti- weeds which abound in this This talk will be given in to many requests for in-| about the care of lawns; A spell- the names of flowers will be conducted by R. C. Mize ai- ter Mr, Anderson's talk. It has been suggested that the members study | Lits at the evening upkeep, response formation the spelling bee. to Reach 70 Entombed Men FAIRMON'T, w. Va, May 4. Rescue workers pressed forward hop- ing to reach some cf the 70 miners entombed in the Everettsville minec for four days. The death toll is mow 24. There is faint hope that a few men might have barricaded them- selves in. |band and asked if it |able | He | Snyder iyou Mountains, and prattles about women and smoking | He’s shown handeuffed to Sheriff Ralph Jennings, of Jackson County, Ore., where he’ll stand trial for murder. i bowed a sash weight would be a “suit- able" instrument with which to kill Snyder. Gray admitted he struck the first blow but said he would have failed if Mrs. Snyder had not helped him. NEW YORK, admitted the Snyder once promised, Mrs. fendant, to help her kill her husband. He tested omt on him the killing her husband and to sure the sleeping powders she e strong enough, she made ( them. After watching the . she decided they would so ay said Mrs. Snyder showed him 000 insurance policy on her hus would be pay was drowned told him hev drowned mm i on the murder Henry witness stand « that ue Snyder, co-de obtain she testified means make had ay el Ber husband Mrs. Snyder husband “might *bg summer,” Late in N'nlf‘fiwr Gray said Mrs. | told him she tried to kil husband by gas but faile do mnot have any luck,” she told him. “The tube was long enough to stick into his nose.” As Gray testified, Mrs. Snyder in her seat with her he it said hor | hanging. | WASH. HIGHWAY COMMISSION IS NOW TANGLED UP Two Sets of Officers Are Chosen — Court Liti- gation Is Promised. OLYMPIA, Wash., May State Highway Commission, affer twr hectic sessions yesterday afternoon. featured by an open split which found Gov. R. H. Hartle aligned State Auditor Clansen and Treasurer Potts, now app rently has two sets of officers Claugen and Potts, who constitute majority of the Commission, elect ed George McCoy, Assistant way Engineer, Secreta at the morning session and elected Claus irman at the afternoon meat 4 a as 1 been un vot 1 who had Chairman, Hartley officially acting against McCoy Clausen and Potts were ter the meeting that Humes, had b of the Highway Commission by State Administrative Board and Gov Hartley selected as Chairman The Administrative Board posed of heads of the State Depari-| ments. Gov. partment audit the as lvised al Samuel J. Hartley ordered the State De- | of Efficiency to seize and Highway Department 5 books and as a result the states $21,000,000 highway - program 13 threatened with court litigation ——————— ICnpt 'Gray Ascends To Break Own Record| BELLhVII,LH lll,. May 1 Hawthorne C. Gray ascended at o'clock fhis afternoon in a second attempt to break the world's fre: balloon aititude of 35433 feet. Mo established this new American record last March 9, when he lost conscious Cap* iness at 28,510 feet. 'Woman Goes Grazy and Kills 3 of 5 Children MANILA, May 4. — A suddenly crazed peasant women attacked her five children with a bolo, large heavy sword-like knife, and killed three, terribly wounding two others. Two girls of five and three years and a baby boy were hacked to death | Judd poison | sat | High- | 1 named as Secretary | the | is com ! : Neiw Breaks in "GREAT BRITAIN | ' MAKES REPLY ON | il - U. S, WAR DEBTS 'Conl(‘!lls of Note Be Publish-| ed Tomorrow Reply Is to Mellon’s Viewpoint. NEW .m and Mi ning miake and etch ORLEANS, May 1 between Vicksburg d alor th today h hon sizsippi flood more add ri ater than mi rite 1 e | NDON Ly g 1 @ debts note e on of which note debt ary May h i Th viewpoint hetieved rited 5 PRES, EMERITUS . CALIFORNAU Briti rd to be th ome the controy etween Secretary 1 British quer ( ht viewpoint that v more 1 < than rsy over ellon Exehe hot | | i | cellor The note to Mellon Britain is rece ftinental war paying the is to be a re oly Great from ¢ L( ]” '“l“\r ld(‘ Away—20 Years Head of University. United - SUDDEN RAID IN PORTLAND |00 Officers Sweep Down on! Law Breakers Hun- dreds Are Arrested. Passes | | | | | | | PORTLAND, O ing with a sudder law Dbreakers, 100 puty Sherifts, Immig jand_ Deputy Constal |swept down in raid in Portl: dreds wer “ The officers {1all 7 o'clock |knowing what the meeting about Chief of i Inspector HUDSON MAXIM SEROUSL! I H-H"\'i‘l;(u\'ti lson Maxim, inventor, ul|~|\ ill. Physici said he fering from anemia and uleers |stomach Maxim, who T4 years of was forced to return home from his| iCalifornia trip last February wh l\l‘ was taken ill. He rocover anl enjoyed fairly good health until again stricken ‘||lvll| two weeks e tunned n, b off policen ration last xtens Th City not | the/ Mayor,| ation | last purnose The Police an | i | | ASSACIATED PRESS (UNDERWOOD) DR. BENJAMIN |DE WHEELE | Dr. Benjamin Ide Emeritus of the California, died here filness l'v‘ ity ot long \\‘r ele Univers ftor nhm l \l\ 3 J., May i sn of The owth of fornia is the hievement jamin lde y president nies of the institution. He |ed president of the university occupying the chair of Greek | comparative philolog Cornell 11899, At that time the sity ‘Reachmg Settlement in Chaplin’s Income Taxes| [[ii0iti, (0 vouns amone | - | enrollment of students { WASHINGTON, May 4. The gov Tn.-‘ r{}v‘:lu»’nll a \l the v.\'.l.mn:!'m of the [ernment has reached an agreement|ynjversity in 1919 and became presi- {with eounsel for Charlie Chaplin for | qent cmeritus, the enrollment had settlement of claims against Wit {reqened nearly 20,000 i for income mx before 1924, Chaplin's | ASRASIHIL- I HEED representatives and Internal Re-| paw men of scholarly attainme: venue Bureau are King on returnsiyaq heen the recipient of a gre for 1925 and 1 weking to roach numhe of academic honors from in- an equitab) ut’ | stitutions of learning than Dy, Wheel fer. Among those which conferred de 1 upon him were Brown Univer 'AID FOR FORTUNA T SRy, i e LEDGE BY PLANE A. B. in 1875 and his master's degree {three yeavs later: Princeton, H {vard, Yale, Cornell, John's i Penusylvania, Dartmouth, Columbia Colgate, [llinois, Wisconsin, Unive sity of Kentuck University Athens and University of lieldelbere, Al he was graduated from Brown University Dr. Wheeler spent coveral years as instructor at his Alma Mater and at Harvard and Corneli. For two 1805 and 1896, he was pro- of Greek literature at the an School of Classical Studie and in 1909-1919 he was Roosevelt professor at the Univer- |sity of Berlin Goes to California | When he assumed his dunties as | president of the. University of Cali- |fornia, Dr. Wheeler from the begin- {ning displayed his ability as a organiz in university ay a v of education. Ho Pago l-'!:hm the story story great ersity of the in the lifts of Wheeler, who guided physical of Cali- principal Dr. Ber tor & desti- slact- whil and in of the an e 1 th wis " | Gov. George A, Parks sent (last night to Nome directing lan airplane leaving Nome today ‘\m horage with Dr. Rex Swartz, at Fortuna Ledge and render such | jnnlp as is needed to the victims 'the influenza epidemic which is ing at that y — e SEATTLE HALIBUT PRICES May 4.—Halibut cents yesterday the Gloria with White Star with Harding with 7,000 Discovery with 9,000 Wesloy with 5,000 pounds with 9,000 pounds e wire | that for stop | sold The 10, \I‘u\l for .lr'll\‘ll\ 000 pounds, 000 pounds, | pounds, pounds, and Yaquina ness and BROTHER OF COLONEL STEESE GOES 1(,r~mlnn ul on INTERIOR M. Steese, brother of Col James G. Steese, and also connected with the Alaska Road Commission passed through Junean with his wife | n the Yukon, bound for Fairbanks Capt. Steese has been transferred from Colorado to the Fairlfanks dis. trict where he will be connected witu work of the Alaska Road Commission for several months. J. Moore, fireman for the Road Commission, and Mrs, passed through Juneau on kon, enroute to Chitina. —————— CONE GIVEN SIX MONTHS Capt. LONDON, May 4 played in the London are an indication of American visitors in During the winter, are few Americans here, no hip flasks in the show But with the beginning of the tourist business starts, liquor containers appear: like spring blossoms, in the street, Strand and Piccadilly which cater to Americans. spring tourist rush gets there are flasks in half the shops, with cocktail shakers novelty shops the town when there there wing April, the Alaska Moore the Yu W flat George Cone was sentenced to six months imprisonment by Commis- gloner F. A. Boyle of the United States Commissioner’s Court this morning on the charge of furnishing limuxlcanng liquor to women. As the and MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS _—~ DIES IN EUROPE \Vh(‘t‘lel“"“' to con When | busi- | affairs | Hip flasks dis- number of are as « over night, Regent stores under way city ~ ————— PRICE TEN CENTS N POLICY IS OUTLINED PRES COOLIDGE . EXPLAINS AIMS FOR BIG UNION \Declares U. S Plan\ to Aid Western Republics for New Civilization. Presi- t told the Pan- Conference Ivin € delegates in Commercial all members of the Pan-Am- i Union are on an equal foot- \\un the Untiad States is an established policy of s Government,” said President | Coolidge, “to use resoure not | to burden them but to assist them; ol them but to cooper- ate. Out of the Pan-American ]l nion is the creating.of a new civ- ilization in these western Repub- A“l\ presentative of 1 that is |the be history of the Old {world.” BOOZE CRAFT FEDERALSHIP BE RELEASED |Boat Selzed 270 Miles Off California Coast, with Cargo, Released. !I ‘|v| ‘.IIL T in the SAN FRANCISCO, Federal Court has ordered the Cus- toms and Coast Guard officials to {release the Federalship and her mil- tlion dollar liquor cargo. The Federalship was seized 270 miles off the California coast. The Court’s order forbade the offi- [cials to oppose the vassel's dapart- fure. The order also cut the red tapo which held the vessel here f the Hast week since the United States Attorney General decided that the grounds for holding the vessel was ing. Plans had been laid for re leasing the steamer last Monday but a new Treasury Department order directed the Customs official to hold the ship pending further negotiations with Panama, under which registry the Fede ship sails, —ee— - Scollards Settle Their $2,000,000 Differences | VANCOUVER, Wash !ter months of dispute, an amicable |settlement Lias boen reached between Mrs. Sarah Smith Wilbur Scollard |in the legal difffculties with her jhusband. George Francisco Scollard o 1 £2,000,000 worth of secur- ius cliarges his misappropriated charges against him withdrawn, -re - |Gasoline War Is Over In Southem California JLES, (al May 4. The Southern (n]il(;rnln BOS slashed the Los Angeles (o 1214 cents a gallon within lust two months, was prefaced day when five companies announcec jthey would return te the 12l cont [)ll(e‘ The companies said this will #lso place other Pacific Coast points lon the previous pric ook & - bk LIS Walter Bsothe Doomed to Die Is Belief ROANOKE, Va v 4 forming an operation on Walter Boothe, physicians sald he has “no chance, absolutely, for recovery.” Boothe spent nenrly three hours on the operating table. A dislocated vertebrae, which js blamed for his prese uulylml condition, was set | May 4. — The | { | | | { May 4.—Af- All criminal will be LOS ANG end of the | which ~After per- HIP FLASKS INDICATE U. S. LONDON VISITORS other wet goods paraphernalia. There arc sizes and shapes for all tastes and purses. There are silver flasks for vest pockets, as well as the hip, for coat pockets, and of nickel and aluminum for over. coats and automobiles. There are flasks in the shape oi cane and umbrella handles, flasks disguised as books and, in fact, near, ly every other form, excepting that of a bottle, all designed for thirsty individuals who desire to carry re- freshments concealed from any eagle eyed sleuths who might have a weak- ness for spotting bulging pockets,