The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1930, Page 1

s EEE R T A1 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXV., NO. 5343. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1930. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER PRICE TEN CENTS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE POLICE USE CLUBS TO BREAK UP PARADE CHAUTEMPS 1S SEATENBEFORE Chamber of Deputies Re | fuses to Give New Cab- inet Confidence Vote PLEAS OF PREMIER FAIL OF RESPONSE Former Premier Tardieu Is Asked to Form Suc- ceeding Ministry PARIS, Feb. 26.—France's new | left wing cf the Government met defeat in its first appearance be- | fore the Chamber of Deputies a)nh" bitter attack from opposition to Fremier Chautemps and despite his pleas that it is important that France send a delegation back to the* London Naval Conference quickly, his ministry was beaten on the crudial vote of confidence by a margin of 15 votes, 289 to 277, For the third time in the his-| tory of the Republic, the Chamber | of Deputies refused an incoming ministry a chance. Former Prémier Tardeau was cheered upon. his entrance. taamted Chautemps for havinf;_ ccused the downfall of his prede-} o in nrdey teepabue the Radical L Soclalist Party a_chance to get| the Governmental portfolios.” | The general Paris opinion is that Tardeau or Briand will be called| upon to form a new government.| TARDIEU ACCEPTS TASK | Feb. 26—Former Pre-| n Terdieu has accepted the task of forming a new French| Cabinet to succeed the Chautemp | ministry - | Carry War on Drys to House He i’ Members of the Women’s Committee for Modification of the Dry La 8 listen to testimony as to the operation of the dry laws which is being given before the House Judiciary Committee. The women are: front row, left to right: Mrs. Charles Sabin, of New York; Miss Bell Gurnee, secretary of the District of Columbia division of the society. Back row: Mrs. Amasa Stone Mather, Mrs. Pomeroy {1 Francis, both members of the society. “Iaternational N | l"-......l..‘ QUOTATIONS . ® & 0 0 0 0t 0N 00 00 | NEW YORK, Feb. 26. — Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today | at 7%, American Ice 37%, Ana- conda 73%, Bethlehem Steel 99%, | Central Alloys 33%, General Mot- ors 42%, Gold Dust 42%, Granby 56'., Grigsby Grunow 17%, Kenne- | cott 59%, National Acme 247%, Na-| tional Brands 267, Packard 19%, | Radio 47%, Standard Oil of Cali-| fornia ;60%, U. 8. Steel 183. Award;d”l)ivorce ;bout 24 Hours After Filed| —r— | LAS VEGAS, New Mexico, Feb 26.—Mrs, Margaret Tully, wife of| the “Hobo Author” of Hollywood, Jim Tully, was late yesterday awarded a divorce on tht grounds of extreme cruelty, scarcely 24| hours after the suit was filed. J VIVACIOUS MARION SWENSON, AFTER MANY WEARY, BUT STILL EXCITING MONTHS IN ARCTIC, IS GLAD SHE IS NEARING HOME is a bit taller tnan the average girl, and is sturdily built. Last night she wore an outing Jacket and pair of laced leather boots as she, Capt. Swenson, and Capt. P. Milovzorov, Russian cap- tain of the Stavropol came ashore the Alaska. The first th eye wi own p * only rema , look, Dad!" nt In Reporis ecks Miss Swenson was in | to the A writer of fiction could not have produced a more perfect figure for the part she played in the Eiclson- Borland search expedition than Miss Marion Swenson, Seattle girl, who,” with her fath Ca Olaf Swenson, passed through eau last night aboard the Alaska, after being frozen in Arctic ice since last ~ September. Vivacious, qu played an undy Eielson search, pleted, apr thrill her once back to the the long winte during Dec ber and Janui when P’ were operating from her fath ship, the Nanuk. Miss Swenson : was an e dis- interest in the ich, though com- ontinues to more as she 1ooks| ng events of a and pla CROP “ADJUSTMENT” LIKELY TO BECOME CHIEF FARM ISSUE FRANK I. WELLER Farm Editor (Acsociated Press Feature Service) WASHINCTON, Feb. 26.—A ques- tion as big as farm relief seems to have been. given American ag- riculture in the federal farm board’s crop adjustment campaign. Set up by the agricultural mar- keting act, which Congress passed for the express purpose of solving the problems of surplus produc- ticn, the farm board has pass he responsibility on to the in ; vidual farmer by asking him | r crops only in amounts for which it sees a demand. A start has been made in cotton and wheat. Under direction of the new $30,- €20000 American Cotton Coopera- . tive association, a committee of its directors has been authorized to weld all state, federal and local in- formational agencies into a nation- al effort to slash 6,000,000 acres from the annual cotton acreage. It has been running approximate- Iy ,000,000 acres, Economist. 5 wasn’t much When there was ivity on account of unfav- erable weather, we slept until nea: 1y noon.” From the time the Nanuk was caught in the ice in September un- he reached Nome a few weeks Miss Swenson saw little ‘civili- ion. It was with relief she fin- believe it should be kept under - |y reached Fairbanks, where she 000,000 acres. The farm board ad-lsoy1q entrain for Seward and there vised farmers not to plant thisig.,i) for her home. year on land that has been produc- Glad to Be South ing less than one-third of a bale! of the excitement pre- to the acre. In some regions times during the search has required as much as four in the frozen Arctic five acres to make a bale. Attempts to reduce wheat acre- age have been less spectacular, less After organized and far less definite. The | oo ¢ present winter wheat acreage is l:n-}flt lieved to have been increased about 2 per cent above normal and Chair- man Legge has indicated that a statement on spring wheat might be issued soon urging a sufficient reduction to offset at least the winter wheat increase. The board says the country is producing about 20 per cent more! wheat than used in domestic trade, | which makes it necessary for the 20 per cent to be sold on the basis of the world’s price, It predicts that if farmers will cut wheat acre- age 20 per cent they ean sell pro-lestimates made at Towa State Col- duction ~of reduced acreage for lege. A section of land would re- more money than they get from qire more than 2,500,000 tons of larger acreage and production. lwatfl‘ a year, 2go0. ale Ir vailing at expedition iwaste: inearing or home once more. returning to Seattle, she ad alternative, vay High school, or, as an take advantage of the trip to New York offered her compensation for the long winter months spent in the Arctic ice. She has not been home since June 15. AT Y SR TONS OF WATER FOR MOISTURE AMES, Ia., Feb. 26—t takes 120 tons of water to cover an acre of lground with an inch of moisture, rainfall of 34 inches, according to 'J.Vl:\\'()n TENNENT LEADS | " |Mayor in yesterday’s primary here Miss Swenson is glad to be| ther continue with her work 'or 4,080 tens to provide the normal | YOUNG MANIS FIFTY SCHOOL CHILDREN HURT I NEWEST FRENCH MINISTRY DEFEATED N STILL BLAST SHOT DOWN BY IRATE HUSBAND Attentions to Wife Causesi Her Mate to Take Quick Action CONTRACTOR JAILED ON MURDER CHARGE Is Arrestcdfat Home of His Sister—Recognized by Autoist HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb, 26— Daniel Bateman, aged 30, a con- tractor, is in the city jail charged with the murder last night of Guy Witzen, aged 20 years, a Water Department employee, on a lonely dark canyon road north of wood. | Bateman, incensed over Witzen’s |attentions to Mrs. Bateman, dis- icharged a shotgun load into the ‘man’s body as,.the two autos pass- !ed on the narrow road z : Bateman was arrested at the home of his sister., He was regog- !nized by Harry Stuckey, riding with | Witzen at the time of the shoot-) |ing. i i ‘_, | | | | b am e T ot t MAYOR EDWARDS B3 GETS MAJORITY, o OVER EVERYBODY | 'Seattle Mayor Wins Pri- COMMUNISTS START ACTION Five Hundred Attempt to Parade at Noon—Po- lice Quell Disorder SEATTLE MARCHERS DISPLAY BANNERS One Weman; Staits Fight. with Officers—Placed Under Arrest SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—Seat- |tle police used eclubs, fists, motorcycles and antomobilep'x‘ to break up a parade of ap- proximately 500 Communists |and Radicals which started in the south end of the down town district about noon to- day. g The marchers were carry= ing banners reading: i “Down With Capitalism.”' “Work or Wages.” i i About 50 police offi 'were sent to quell the dis- turbance. They tore up the , banners. ; ke | One wmnntg,‘ Helen Hufa, jaged 21, was arrested among those who attempted to fight off the police. No one was seriously in- jured beyond bruises. mary with More Votes than All Competitors | the street from the school. | SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—Mayor Frank |Edward received a clear majority |of all votes cast in yesterday's pri- {mary election. He and City Coun- {ctiman, O’ AL Guss igghlt’ opposs L. Continues leach other in the election next | o Lose Ground, month. Former Mayor Edwin J. Brown was third in the race and Says Physician is eliminated from ‘the contest The vote was as follows: | Mayor Edwards, 32716; Case, ® {17,866; Brown, 13377. Mayor Ed- © jwards's plurality against combined © jvote of opponents was 1473 * The following six candidates were ® nomindted for the' Couneil for the ® |election in March, in the order ® |named, three to be élected: e felt no immediate appre- | Frank Laube, John E. Carroll, ® hension. ‘4. James Scavotto, Lou Cohen, Will- ® L3 iam Hickman Moore and George ® © @ ‘@, @ & & & o ¢ o o o TROLLERS TAX. UNDER ATTACK Tacoma Man Files Suit to Enjoin Treasurer from Collecting - Tax showing brokern windows. . WASHINGTON, Feb Dr. Frances Hagner said that Wiliam Howard Taft e “continues to lose ground e and that he is not as well today as he was a few days | ago.” ‘ Dr. Hagner stated that he o} e 26— IN TACOMA PRIMAR TACOMA, Feb. 26.—Mayor M. G, Tennent led the candidates for He will contest the election with |Fred Shoemaker, who ran seccond, in the finals. Major James N: begin, was third. There werec candidates. five ———— AVERY IS HERE ON : WAY TO SOAPSTONE Charles Avery,” from e Navy base at San Diego, arrived on the steamer Yukon and is stopping off | The constitutionality of the non- here while waiting for transpor- resident trollers’ tax of *Alask |tation to Soapstone Point where he was attacked yesterday in a suit will be radio operator. filed in the United States Districl Court by Lund & Lund, of H"ounded Tough in which it is sought to |Gangster Issues the Territory from enforcing the tax. H. L. Faulkner is associated with the Seattle law firm in %he |case Wood Freeman, a troller of coma, is the plaintiff in the which was brought against stein G. Smith as Treasurer ® Alaska. John Rustgard, Attorney ® General of Alaska, will ® the Territory. e Says Is Regulatory The complaint charges that the ® tax s a regulatory measure and ® not one to raise revenues for the ® Territory. This, it avers, is a vio- ® letion of the Alaska Organic Act ® which specifically reposes the au- ® thority of regulating the fi 3 ® industry in the hands of Cong ® The non-resident license fee for ® trollers is $250 and for resident © @ | trollers'is $1. . ) i A @9 0090999 ¢ 90 (Continued on Page Seven) iWar Ultimatum | e CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 26— Frank McErland, known as the toughest of gangsters. wounded by three bullets while in a private hospital Monday night, has been re- moved to the home of his mother after sounding from his sick bed that a new gang war was on. “The war is on. It won't be any popgun war. Never mind who shot me. I'll take care of myself,” he told po- lice: detectives = who are looking for Joe Saltis, for- mer partner of McErland in the beer business. Ta- . ° \ Val- . of represe @eccc0o0o0ecccscescecso o R enjoin for Fifty school children were injured when an explosion demolished two houses and tore out all the windows on one side of a nublic school in Brooklyn. The explosion occurred in a dwelling across F-zlice said explosion wa in which a still was found. Upper picture shows ruins of demolished houses. Below: School building, due to accum 4,000,000 Brows Wrinkle; Associated Press Plioto The line of march extended only one block when the po- ilice broke it up. - e CARD. MERRY ulated gas in basement of house March 15 Is Tax Dcadline? DEL VAL IS WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Uncle Sam expects more than 4,000,000 individual income tax returns for 1929 to come his way before March 15. Every single person who had a net income of $1,500 or more for the year, or gross income of $5,000 and married couples who ad net incomes of $3,500 or more, or gross incomes of $5,000 or more, must file returns. Returns are to be made on spe- tial forms with the collector of in- ternal revenue for the district in| which each person lives. | tax is one-half of on normal tax on the fi 000 in exi of personal exemp- tion and credits, two per cent nor-| mal tax on the next $4,000, and four percent normal tax the balance of net income. is a surtax oxn net incomes than $10,000. income” includes all ed from any source less it is exempt from t “Net income” means > less various deductic or moj new of mor: Gross in- payer also may claim $400 h person dependent on him f support, if such pers 18 years of age or incapab: -support. | law provides that a single who s “head of a family ‘ all °d the same [ mptions as a married person. | ren hushand and wife, living| r, make separate returns,| er may claim the $3.500 exemp- | ion or they may divide it. { Most taxpayers are salaried per-; who are entitled to 25 per credit on their “earned net cme.” To arrive at this crods'[ correctly, the taxpayer should com- pute the amount payable without ' ned income credit, then deduct cent. The balance is the 1N of sel The person Al be sons { cent arned income” is defined salaries, professional and other amounts received as com- pensation for personal services ac<i tually rendered,” as an unmarr dependents, would compute his tax on a net income of $5,000: ident ~ French | Senate Following is an example of how | ed taxpayer, with no DEAD, ROME | Former Papal Secretary of | State Dies Suddenly —OQperation Net Less tion income personal $5,000.00 exemp- $1,500.00 at per $3,500.00 per Balance taxable one-half of one cent One-half of one t of $3,500 per cent 17.50 earned income | ROME, Feb. 26.—Cardinal Merry Del Val, former Papal Secretary of State, in recent years Arch Priest of St. Peters, died today from heart failure after an ap- |pendicitis operation. He was 65 years of age. Three times he was mentioned as Pontiff. j The Cardinal was stricken yes- iterday and died suddenly. | The Cardiual's death leaves the i{Cullege of Cmdinals with 32 so- Insurgents Now in ‘ called foreign Cardinals and 28 Control of Santo |1talian Cardinals. Domingo Government| 5 of World War Veteran Strikes Down Wife Then Leaps to Death DOMINGO, ¥Feb. 26— 1t forces have captured | fortress and public buildings | nto Domingo thus consoli- | their position throughout | the Dominican Republic, President Vasquez and Vice-Pres- Alfonesca took refuge in the Legation. There has been no bloodshed and the city is quiet today Gustavo Diaz, President of Senate, has taken refuge in Danish Consulate but during to- day it i5 expected he will seek; y. refuge in one of the legations as Der over the head with the base the right of consulates to offer|[0f & statue then plunged through an asylum is not recogniged by the @0 open window. He recently had Insurgents. 1:{ nervous breakdown. AR e S | AT o s ; ROGERS IN HOSPITAL Demands Immediate Ed Rogers, 69, entered St. Ann's Dismissal of Power | ‘, i a / . . , hospital early this week for treat- Commission ()fll(‘lalimem His ailment is heart trouble. | cror—echoirabi ZIMMERMAN RETURNS NEW YORK, Feb. 26—Striking down his wife who. tried to restrain him, Richard Howland Jones, aged 35 Annapolis graduate and N Lieutenant in the World War, leaped to his death from the eighth floor of an apartment house on Park Avenue, late yesterday. Turning upon his wife who was struggling with him, Jones struck the the WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — Im-| .diate dismissal of F. E. Bonner, ! cretary of the Federal Power| J. G. Zimmerman, Douglas man mmission, 1s demanded in the who went south for medical treat-. by Senator Norris, Who ment a short time ago, is again in complained the official was a “pow-|st. Ann's hospital. er man.” |last night on the Yukon, m C