The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1931, Page 4

i \ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1931. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER Published every evening except Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered In the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month. By mall, postage paid, at the following rates: One year, in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, im advance, $1.26. Subscribers wiil eonfer a favor if they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or Irregularity in the delivery of_ their papes. B Telephone for Bditorial and Business Offices, 874. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ase for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the tocal news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY DTHER PUBLICATION. POLL SHOWS ROOSEVELT HEAVY FAVORITE. J. Isador Straus, noted New Yorker, has just polled the delegates and alternates—except the New has been reduced, make this seem improb- able. What appears more probable is that business has now reached the bottom of the valley, the width of which is still inde- terminate. Looking back over the events of recent months, it seems unlikely that we shall again experience so calamitous a i combination of circumstances as those of the concluding months of 1930 Unfavorable developments of the month have included a large number of important dividend reductions and omissions, which not only serve as an unpleasant reminder of the heayy decrease in corporate earn- ings last year, but imply that these com- panies do not see enough improvement ahead { to warrant dipping into surplus to main- tain dividends which are not being earned. March tax collections, falling 40 per cent below those of March last year, were a further reminder of the severity of the depression, and mean that the Treasury faces a probable deficit of between $700,000,- 000 ‘and $800,000,000 at the end of the year, | with a possible increase in taxes to follow. | Commodity prices have shown an outerop- ping of renewed softness here and there, | while the announcement of the Farm Board | that it will not undertake to valorize the 1931 wheat crop, though by no means un- expected, and undoubtedly constructive in the long run as indicating the abandonment of Government interference with the mar- | ket, nas nevertheless revived concern as fo | the immediate outlook for agriculture. Re- flecting theseé developments, and the gen- eral sluggishress of trade revival, the stock market isplayed considerable weakness towards the end of the month and prices lost a substantial part of their earlier gains. Arnold Bennett. (New York World-Telegram.) “To think we shall never again read a new book York delegation—of the 1928 Democratic National by Arnold Bennett!™ Convention on their choice for the nomination !n| 1932. The result, although not conclusive, was| enough to indicate that Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt is the most popular of several prominently men- tioned as the pre-convention choice. Mr. Straus submitted his questionnaire to about 1560 delegates or alternates. Of this number 942 responded, and 478 were votes for Gov. Roosevelt, the remainder being split among 19 other candi-| dates. Ex-Gov. Alfred E. Smith was second with ! 125, or about one-fourth as many as for Roosevelt, | Owen D. Young, third with 73, and Gov. Ritchie| of Maryland received 39. Clearly the New York | Governor is well ahead of the field. If the percent- age of those favoring him among those who did| not respond is as favorable as it was in the re-| sponses, he would have a clear majority of votes, but less than the necessary two-thirds required by the Democrats for nomination. If he can retain | this hold on the popular will of his until this time | next year, he probably will enter ihe convention | an odds-on favorite. It is in the length of time to elapse before| convention time that the great danger to Gov.| Roosevelt’s chances lies. Friends of other men in| the field, looking for anything that will advance their own chances, always concentrate their nf{orts} on the one man who is far out in the lead. To head him off is the main task of all the oLhers.} Many things may happen between now and June, | 1932, which would reverse or entirely erase the| Straus picture. However, there is no denying that the Roosevelt forces have very good reason to feel| cheerful about the outlook, even though it would | be premature to order redfire for a celebration of victory. THE BRITISH COLUMBIA INCOME TAX. Bometimes many of us think we are too heavily taxed, that the cost of government is becoming all too burdensome in Alaska. Unquestionably the tendency has been for years to expand governmental activities, extend governmental assistance and all this adds to taxation. However, we have a long way to go before we shall be ready to accept a levy such as was just made effective in British Columbia. Newspapers in that Province are carrying official advertisements giving notice to employers of a spec- ial revenue tax act passed recently by the Pro- vincial Parliament and now effective. It imposes a rate of one per cent upon all employees whose wagesl exceed stated sums. In case of a married person whose wife or husband resides in the Province, the amount at which the tax becomes due is $25 per week. For single persons, married persons whose spouses reside outside of the Province, and all others, the same tax is assessed on salaries from $15 per week upward. Tax dodging is avoided by the expedient of requiring employers to do the collecting monthly and forward it to the Pro- vincial Tax Collector. It is hardly possible that | such a tax on low incomes will be popujar. If the Tolmie ‘Government goes before the people in a Provincial election next summer, some of the protest is apt to be translated into votes for the opposition party. GENERAL BUSINESS CONDITIONS. ‘While Government spokesmen point to a slight decrease in unemployment throughout the country as a whole in March, in the business situation there was no startling change and business and financial leaders are almost a unit in agreement that there will be none. There are indications that recovery has started but the road back to a normal state will not be short nor exactly easy. Commenting on current conditions in its month- ly summary, the National City Bank of New York, one of the country’s strongest financial institutions has this to say: The decline in industrial activity has been halted, and business, aided by sea- sonal influences, has shown a tendency to expand. Thus far, however, the recovery has been irregular and slow, and the ques- tion as to its permanence is still a matter of opinion rather than practical demon- stration. This is to be expected at this stage, following so profound a disruption of econ- omic conditions as has occurred all over the world. Supporting evidence of an improvement in business appears in composite indexes of production and trade, computed to allow The number of homes in the English-speaking world that have heard the above, or something like 'it, spoken with simple, sincere sorrow in the past three days is the best tribute of all to a man who, whatever his claims to immortal fame, was unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of this generation. Nor is it hard to explain his popu- larity. He fused realism and romanticism into some- thing utterly delightful. Whether it was sordid, smudgy realities of a North Staffordshire pottery district or prosaic sheets, pillow-cases, spoons, forks and other vast organized intricacies of a huge metro- politan hotel, his memory missed no detail, but his imagination lifted every trifle into the glamorous, absorbing realim of the born story-teller. “Sex?" He neither over nor under-valued it. He used plenty of it, without pathology or pruriency. He was not of those realists who think that to be real they must be revolting. fashionably clean of mind could read him with unfailing pleasure. This in itself has become some- thing of a high literary distinction in the present liked to talk most unromantically about the prac- tical side of it. He gloated over the number of | words he wrote in a year. Trollope of sheer mechanical productivity. He loved | him. When somebody asked him what he wrote | “The Pretty Lady” for he replied, “For £10,000.” Yet any one who knows the British tempera-‘ ment will put down many of the famous Bennett | brutalities to inborn British horror of posing as an “artist” and rhapsodizing about one's “art.” There were also his bleak upbringing in Staffordshire, and his hard rubs as a struggling beginner in London, to keep his feet on the ground and his talk free from hifalutin’. The “Old West’ Tale” is one of the finest novels our time has produced—broad, firm, sincere, yet| fascinatingly varied and vivacious. The whole Five Towns series is work any author might be proud to leave behind him. He knew every dull inch of his background, every drab detail of the life he described. And he burnished and brightened it all with a magic that is pure genius. “Buried Alive” deserved all its success as novel and play—an amaz- | ingly clever idea deliclously handled. When Ben- | nett went in for humor, as in “Denry,” “The Grand | Babylon Hotel” and “Mr. Prohack,” it usually became that well bred playfulness which is peculiarly the British notion of literary fun-making—rather tame and tepid for American taste, but excellent if you relish it. Did Bennett come anywhere near the Dos- tolevski he so ardently admired? He would have been the first to disclaim it. But with much of Dostoievski’'s genius for endowing minute detail with an unbelievable interest, with much of Dostoievski's mastery in filling big canvases, Arnold Bennett out- did the great Russian in grace, charm and an intimacy of style that brought him almost along- side the reader's chair. Millions of Bennett ad- mirers have felt since last Friday as if they had lost a close friend. And that is something even supreme genius does not always attaig. Happy Days Return to Nevada. (New York Herald-Tribune.) Reverting to the customs of an earlier and more picturgsque era, Nevada has recreated a flavor of the free-and-easy times of the gold rush in return- ing to open and legalized gambling. Now only the gold-dust bags of bewhiskered prospectors and the |derringers of quick-shooting professionals on the |faro tables will be lacking to distinguish the scene from the brave days of the '80s and '90s, when laying a double eagle on the green roulette cloth was as innocent an amusement as ordering three fingers of sound bourbon. Poker, roulette, faro bank, “21” games, chuck-a- luck tables and a dozen versions of hazard are re- ported to be in full swing at Reno and the print- ing presses are runnimg overtime turning out license cards for gambling establishments. Happy days are come again, and even the boons and usufructs of the new forty-two-day divorce law are momentarily lost to view in the charm of illimitable vistas of flashing wheels, where very bet en plein holds promise of a 36-to-1 return on the player's money. Mayor E. E. Roberts of Reno, a survivor of the old ‘days, seems to partake of a tolerance and breadth of spirit altogether foreign to the times when he asserts it “is all nonsense trying to regu- late people’s morals by law.” “For eight years,” he says, “I have been trying to make Reno a place where everybody can do just as they please, just so they don’t interefere with other people's rights. Now we can lawfully do what we have always done under cover.” for season variation. These, during the past few months, have either ceased to decline or have shown some upturn. While there is no certainty that the decline may not be resumed later on, as was the case after the temporary revival last Spring, the prolonged decline that has already taken place, and the low levéls to which business This heretical doctrine is certain to provoke some to indignation. To others Mayor Roberts will seem like an ancient and tolerant Lochinvar riding, in broad hat and fur chaps, out of the West. One-half the world never knew that the other half belonged to the Wendel heirs.—(Indianapolis Star.) 4 . Even readers un-; era. | with proper vouchers and duly veri- | Romanticist as he was in much of his work, he|fied to the undersigned at his resi- | He was as proud as)hotice. the money he earned and the luxuries it brought!day of February, 1931. Indiana’s Ex-Representative, Defeated, Now Goes to Trial For Selling Postmasterships ©VANSVILLE, Ind., April 14— Harry E. Rowbottom, who until March 4 represented the first In- | diana district in Congress, will be brought to trial here today on a charge of accepting bribes from persons who sought appointments, tin the postal service. . It is the first time in the state's | history that one of its representas:: tives has faced a charge of COM&: mitting a criminal offense agaimst the government. | His trial will be held in the Evansville division of the southern Indiana district court, presided over by Judge Robert C. Bali- | zell. He will not return to Congrag_g regardless of the outcome of hisf trial. Running for re-clection last’ November, he was defeated by John , W. Boehne, Democrat, also of! Evansville. | Traffic In Appeintments | Reports that there had been a traffic in postal appointments in | Rowbottom’s district were carried _ to Washington late last year by | Benjamin F. Huffman of Rockport,|0ver to the Departient of Jus-; first district republican chairman, tice. and Gene Schemerhorn, another Is Arrested Republican politician, also of Rock-| Rowbottom was arrested January port. |27 on an affidavit filed by Georgs | Postal inspectors were sent to the |R. Jeffrey, district attorney. Sub- district, and in January of this!sequently he was indicted, specifi- year the Postoffice Department|cally charged with accepting $750 summarily removed four post-iirom Walter G. Ayer for recom- masters and suspended a rural car- | mending the appointment of a rel- rier. ve, Gresham Ayer, as a rural t carrier at Rockport. m‘;};e tom::?x:gcc}io:g?:;:immxe: He was charged also wilh accept- $800 from S. G. Johnson for 4 }ing into the case, the evidence gathered | ° M by the inspectors being mmedvrucmmendmg his appointment as P ipostmaster at Dale, and also {charged with receiving $200 from! iMcKinley Ayer for recommending this appointment as postmaster at| In the Commissioner's Court for the | Chrisney. Territory of Alaska, Division, Rowbottom has been at liberty Number One. lunder $10,000 bond pending trial. Before E. E. Zimmer, U. 8. Com-, He is 40 years old, married, and missioner and Ex-Officio Probate | has two children. Judge, Haines Precinct. 1 - In the Matter of the Estate of TOM VALEUR, deceased. {“WAS A STRUGGLE Notice is hereby given, that the | undersigned was, on the 24th day\ TO STAY ON JOB” of February, 1931, duly appointed administrator of the estate of Tom|{ <1 had been in mighty bad Valeur, deceased. All persons hav-| health for eighteen months before ing claims against the estate oftaking Sargon,” stated Chas. W. the said deceased will present them | Morgan, 1746 E. 15th St, Port- NOTICE TO CREDITORS dence, Haines, Alaska, within six (6) months from the date of this| Dated at Haines, Alaska, this 24th | B. A. BARNETT, i Administator, with. the| will annexed. | First publication, March 381, 1931. Last publication, april 21, 1931. ! | pOSIE R R R e GENERAL PAINT CONTRACTING ; Those planning exterior work this summer should place their orders now to insure comple- tion while the weather lasts. B. W. BURKE TELEPHONE 4151 Alaska’s Resident Decorator P e T PR CHAS. W. MORGAN {land, Oreg. assistant foreman for | the Oregon Worsted Co. “My blood |was thin and at night I'd have !awful cramps in my legs, I had no appetite, my kidneys were over- active, and I was so weak that getting through my day's work was a struggle. Three bottles of Sargon built up my blood and system, { overcame the cramps and regulated ' my kidneys. T've never felt strong- er or better! Sargon Pills didn't gripe or upset me at all and helped a lot by keeping my bowels regu- lated perfectly.” Sold by Butler-Mauro Drug Co. —adv. — | LAS SENORITAS | | Specialty Orchestra | ALL GIRLS' BAND | Music for all occasions | TELEPHONE 402 . Tae JuNEau LAUNDRY Franklin Street, between Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 ST ATTENTION: MOTORISTS AND DOG OWNERS i [2 Starting today all automobile drivers not obeying street traffic signs will be tagged according to law. All dogs running after auto- mobiles will be treated as public nuisances. GEORGE A. GETCHELL, —adv. Chief of Police. — - SOHOMBEL'S ELECTRIC SHOP adv. ‘TELEPHONE 4502 183 TA4XI STAND AT PIONEER POOL ROOM Day and Night Service Our Savings Department We wish to call your attention to the fact that this bank main- tains a first class Savings Department. We receive on savings sccounts any amount from one dollar up. On each account we compound the interest semi-annually, adding the interest to the account without any trouble on the part of the depositor. Additions may be made at any time. On these savings accounts we pay 4 per cent interest. We recommend this kind of ac- count to persons who have monmey for which they have no immediate use and which they want kept in a safe place until needed. The compounding of interest is automatic. The money is not idle, but is constantly making more money for yow, accumulating for the rainy day or the day of need when other sources fail. We would be pleased to have you call and open & savings account with ws. The B. M. Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska 3 D e e e WATCH FOR NEXT AMERICAN LEGION SMOKER A. B. Hall W.P. Johnson FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING MACHINES GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS Phone 17 Front Street Juneau L3 T P . ] | Second Hand Guns Rought and Sold New Guns and Ammunition SEE BIG VAN | THE GUN MAN | Opposite Coliseum Thentre The Best Laundry At a Fair Price WHERE? CAPITAL LAUNDRY Franklin St. | Phone 355 “The Merrimakers” 4 PIECE ORCHESTRA Telephone 402 Mausic furnished for all occasions Scandinavian-American or Am- erican Jazz Music Featuring Midweek Dances every Wednesday—Moose Hall e A HAVE YOUR FURS CLEANED with modern machinery. The better way. . . . We invite you to inspect this new equipment in operation. % New silk linings are here now in a hig variety. Yurman’s The Furrier Triangle Building - SNOW WHITE LAUNDRY CAPITAL CLEANERS DOUGLAS AGENCY CITY BAKERY, MRS. REIDI Telephone 7 Leave your order at bakery or phone and we will call PHONE YOUR ORDERS TO US We will attend to them promptly. Our COAL, Hay, Grain and Transfer business is increasing daily. There’s a reason. Give us a trial order today and learn why. You Can’t Help Being Pleased D. B. FEMMER PHONE 114 Our bread and pastry suits the taste and pleases the digestion. Our modern bakery is sanitary and the in- gredients of our baked foods are pure, and of real food value. Peerless Bakery “Remember the Name” 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 . L S S —— ) DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | D] 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. | PHONE 56 Hours 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. | . . —— BE & | Dr. Charles P. Jenne DENTIST | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine | Building Telephr e 176 | l Dr. J. W. Bayne |‘ | | i | {| Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Office hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment. H Phozne 321 - Dr. A. W. 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Box 82 MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 14" Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in \ Seottish Rite Temple.LW/t" beginning at 7:30 p. m. H. L. REDLINGSHAF- ER, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. vy ORDER OF EASTERN STAR Becond and Fourth 4 Tuesdays of each month, at 8 o'clock, Scottish Rite Temple. JESSIK KELLER, Worthy Mat- ron; FANNY L. ROB- INSON, Secretary. Robert Simpson Opt. D. ! Graduate Los Angeles Col- | lege of Optometry and | Opthalmology i Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground . DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL | Optometrist-Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitteu Room 17, Valentine Bldg. Office phone 484, residense phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:60 to 5:30 Hazel James Madden Teacher of the Pianoforte and | cxponent of the Dunning System of Improved Music Study Leschetizky Technic—Alchin | Harmony | Studio, 206 Main St. Phone 196 UNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors | and Embalmers Night Phone 336-2 Day Phone 12 HAAS Famous Candies The Cash Bazaar Open Evenings ROOM and BOARD Mrs. John B. Marshall PHONE 2201 3 ° CARBACE HAULED AND LOT CLEANING E. O. DAVIS Phone 584 NEW RECORDS NEW SHEET MUSIC RADIO SERVICE Expert Radio Repairing Radio Tubes and Supplies JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE EMILIO GALAO'S Recreation Parlors NOW OPEN Bowling—Pool LOWER FRONT STREET HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. “ Dally smpre Want Ads Pav. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 176, 2icetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Councll Chambers, Fifth Strees JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E. Meets first and third &Mmdnys, 8 o'clock, «t Eagles’ Hall Douglas. AIEX GAIR, W. P, GUY SMITH, Secretary. Visiuing brothers welcome. AT A YO R ORI Our trucks go any place amy time. A tank for Diesel Oil l and a tank for crude oil save burner trouble. l PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 | RELIABLE TRANSFER | FOREST wWOo0D GARBAGE HAULING Office at Wolland’s Tailor Shop Chester Barnesson PHONE 66 DAIRY FERTILIZER JUNEAU TRANSFER Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 L. O. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWRITERS Guaranteed by J. B. BURFORD & CO. “Our door step is worn by satistied customers” ) us retain their shape PHONE 528 | TOM SHEARER Gumenhmdampmledhyi PLAY BILLIARDS —at— BURFORD’S CARL’S TAXI PHONE 399 Day or Night -— | r——— ————--