The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1934, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934. EMERGENCY TAX 7w o OF 10 PER CENT PASSES SENATE Processing Levy on Cer- tain Oils Is Also Given Approval PRESIDENT’S IDEAS ‘ AGAIN DISREGARDED House Leaders Announce ’ Their Stand Unless F. D. R. Gives O. K. WASHIN’GTON April 12.—In two quick moves yesterday after-| noon the Senate adopted an emer-| gency one year ten percent addi- | tional tax on all individual mcome tax returns for 1935. The Serate also disregarded the | President’s objections by approving a processing tax on imported veg- etable oils. | Democratic leaders spoke of a veto of the Revenue Bill if the oil tax stayed in. Tuesday the Senate defeated the Welkin ring in Penns income tax increase but the issue [ake more gains. C fame up again yesterday and car- ;”.“ afare DEoztrfle Sang i ormer ambassador to Japan, i ried on reconsideration. sition to David A. Reed. l.m The increase means that if a, and Maurice H. Bloc person had a $100 income tax h giotti a will have to pay an additional $10. House leaders announced the would oppose the increase unless President Roosevelt said additional revenue was needed. € MARGIOTTI RS MORRIS MAURICE BLOOM De who: Republ OTHER TAXES INCREASED | { ‘WASHINGTON, April 12—'I'I1Pl Senate today voted a big increase in inheritance taxes designed to raise ninety two million dollars annually. This was accomplished when the LaFollette amendment to the bill was adopted, making the range of superinheritance or | estate levies one to sixty percent as against one to forty five and o R LD S S L e It is doubtful that the House| NOME, Alaska, April 12. will concur to the bill as sent!pilot Maurtiz Slepnoff has a from the Senaw e, flying the big nine-pass B etster plane, accompa KlDNAPED BABY \O'm Schmitz, Geographer Georg | banks. The big plane came down jat 4 o'clock yester | sick. weak upon arriv. \here and was assisted into an au hcm Cape Van Karen, Dr. Schmitz, end rushed to the hospital ft Thlrteen-Year-Old YOUth treatment. He was rescued fro. Thinks He Should Get |the ice floe under protest hecaw % ’ {he wanted to be the last man Couple of Years e e 7 ithe 89 to be taken off. | Plans called, for the plane CHICAGO, 1L, April szGeorgE‘]E“\e Bers J0F Touisies . ¥ Rogalski, aged 13, is held for mur- V0 American mechan der and he thinks he ought to get|t0day- a “couple of years' for kidnaping Sixty-nine of the maroconed two-year-old Dorette Zietlow, who |Ar¢ reported to have been died from exposure, after being im- prisoned in the attic of an aband- Van Karen. Marooned on Arctic Ice Floe, Is Very Ill |ics Lavery and Armistead, of Fai het afterno Siberia. head of the e on Arctic floes for months, oned ice plant by Rogalski. The little girl was kidnaped last Sun- g E E ALL BUT SIX day and found Tuesday night iflt b G the attic, stripped naked and‘i MOSCOW, April 12.—Radio I nearly frozen. | ice floes Sanity Test |they are expected to be Rogalski is facing a sanity test.|off today and probably taken the Clinic of the Criminal Coururhey may au be t.aken to Nome. that “I guess I'm to blame that —_— she died. I shouldn't have left sopiecr s | - HUGE AMOUNT ~ PROPOSED FOR Asked if he had ever cried, the boy said: “I used to when a baby but I'm too smart to do that any more.” He said he did not know why | he lured the baby from her home on promise to give her a nickel. The boy's father said he never wishes to see his son again. e eee Burt Dool, Anchorage Laundryman, Is Dead WASHING’IUN. April {other ten billion dollars the inaugurated under Industri day by United States Senats ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 12.| —Burt Dool, aged 54, proprietor of | ¥ ioneer ndry, died yes-| ::’:da;' i M 85" thorizing tripling ‘the original ap-| & propriation items. The proposals included five bil- + Dunkle to Fly million dollars Ambulance Plane To Northland SEATTLE, April 12—W. E. Dunkle, Alaska mining man, is having his flying ambulance L equipped with pontoons at the ! Boeing Field, preparatory to departure next week for the north. He will base his plane at Wasilla. million dollars for Coast Geodet and Geological surveys. Mayor- of Bellingham me: taken {off the ice floe and flown to Cape n ed by Dr. | ge | | Ushakorff, and American mechan-| r- T - pedition which has been marooned | is very al to 7% m to the , sometime n e- | ports said all but six on the Arctic have been rescued and taken | to! He told Dr. Harry Hoffman, of Anadyr where a ship is waiting. PUBLIC WORKS 12—An- to carry on the program for Public Works al | Recovery Act was proppsed yester-| or ic Dies Suddenly Today BELLINGHAM, Wash. April 12. cook, was found dead in his room | serious —Mayor John Sells, aged 73 years, G.H EARLE D A REED € D COPELAND | Some of the candidates for governor and senator who are making the Ivania as primaries near and Democrats seck to corge H. Earle, recent minister to Austria and C. D, dates i governor, and Roland S. Mor ic candidate for senator in oppo- eat is also sought by Gittord Finchot Wm. Schnader and Charles Mar- S, e Rep. candidates for governor. DR SCHMITZ IS 'TAKEN TO NOME FOR TREATMENT Head of Soviet Expedition, Alaskan Pilot Mckes Flight Over Arctic Ice NOME, Alaska, April 12— Pilot Morow ,of the Northern Air Transport, has made the round trip flight from Nome to Litile Diemede Isiand in Bering Strait, with Superintendent Le- rcy Robinson of the lecal office I of ‘the Burcau of Indian Af- | fairs. Robinson went te inspect | the construction ¢f the new choo! hcuse on the {sland. -eo— MANSION GUES - UP IN FLAMES 22-room Home,with Gold- | Leafed Bathroom, De- stroyed Earl_v Today “ LARCHEMONT. N. Y., April 12— | The ornate home of A. C. Blumen- thal, wealthy . theatrical producer and real estate operator, was de- stroyed by fire early morning. | The loss estimated at between 1$300,000 and $500,000. | The 22-room mansion was noted {for luxurious appointments, includ- |ing a gold-leafed bathroom, cost- |ing about $20,000 TO START SUIT RGAINST ARTHUR CUTTEN, TRADER { to Bar Chicago Operat- or from All Markets | WASHINGTON, April 12—The Government seeks to bar Arthur | Cutten, Chicago grain trader, from doing business on any contract market in the United States. The Federal effort is mapped out and will be instituted at a hearing in Chicago on May 14. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., of Wis- has cited Cullen for violation of consin by introducing a bill au- |the Grain Futures' Act, charging the trader with conspiracy, collus- ion and with failure to make re- ports required under the Act, also lion eight hundred and fifty-five | making false reports and having for non-Federal| used dummy firms to conceal his projects, six hundred million dol-| true position on the Chicago mar- lars for Civil Works and twenty ket. AN L bR | VETERAN FOUND DEAD Hugh C. Bucher, 5l-year-old Blumenthal and his estranged iwife, Peggy Fears, of Broadway lmusxca] comedy fame, have not | |lived in the mansion for nearly |six months. {Government Will Attempt | | operations ?March was $203,500. the monthly estimates compiled at | | Operating Expenditure Non -Opcrating Reve- ALASKA JUNEAU MARCH NET FOR MONTH, §203,500 Average Per Ton Value Drops to 64 Cents. but Profit Remains High The March net profl‘ before charges from the Alaska Juneau's { during the month of . according to San Francicco and issued here to day by J. A. Williams, Acting): Superintendent. 2 The gold content of the ore dropped to 63.17 cents per ton and the silver and lead recovered t the total up to even 64! A total of 362,500 tons of ore was mined and trammed to the | mill. The monthly estimates follos Tons mined and tramme dto mill, | 362,500. ‘Cents Operating Revenue Per Ton ' Gold (at $20.67 per fine ounce) $229,000 63.17 Lead and silver, less ; & marketing3 costs. 3,000 .33’ Total $ Mining and tram- ming $102,500 Milling 76,000 "0 97 All other Juneau op- erating costs 11,500 New York stock transfer and San ; Francisco office expenses 97 \ Total 53.38 Operating profit .$ 38,500 10.62 nue, less outside prospecting 8,500 | $ 47,500 i Estimated revenue | from price received for gold in excess cf $20.67 per ounce $156, Total profit before char gcs $203,500 - | | VACATION OF ROOSEVELT IS ENDED TODAY , { President Returns from' Fishing Trip, Starts for Washington MIAMI, Florida, April 12.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt, tanned by his va- cation of two weeks on tropical waters, arrived here this forenoon. He went immediately to a train and started on his return to the Capital Ci $6 FOR 8 HOURS | Six dollars a day minimum pay and a work day of eight hours i the schedule that will be put into effect this season on the mining properties operated by A. A. Zim- merman, who has holdings on| Pedro and Sourdough Creeks inj the Fairbanks district, and on In- dependence Creek, Circle. District. Work will start as soon as the water runs. House Inqulry of “Brain Trust” Rounds OQut “Probe Wany Quizzed Season”: WASHINGTON, April 12.—Con- gress will be rounding out an un- usually fertile inquiry season when the House completes the probe on William A. Wirt’s charges that some of the President’s “brain trusters” are aiming at dictator- ship and communism. Bankers and brokers were first on the grid in the Congressional investigations of recent months; then came ocean mail contratcors, air mail operators, army suppliers, aviation manufacturers. Those Congressmtn who are not quite friendly to the professorial World War veteran, who has been|counselors would like to make the a resident of Ketchikan for the!House Committee's investigation of |past four years, in the Thomas Basin Hotel. Dunkle will pilot his own |died suddenly today as the result having resulted from a heart at- of an attack of the heart. plane north, tack, death | employed as a!the Indiana educator's statement a man hunt through ranks of the “brain trust.” ‘That loosely-applied term orig- the inated when Mr, Roosevelt, as 1Mosl Groups Suffer from | gains for 4a AIRLINES Army airmail fliers, unable to pay their board bills because they had not received additional salary allotted them for airmail service, are shown carrying on under difficulties in the offices of the airmail service at Byrd alrport, Richmond, Va. They were preparing their own bunks as the postoffice department moved to get new bids from comm thc mail analn. (Assomated Preu Photo) ~ SHARP ADVANCES Member of " ARE MADE TOBAY C‘""‘ “N::"d - BY SPEI}IALTIESC i ning Par!y to Visit Alaska in Summer Profit Taking—Market | Close IS Il'l‘egulal‘ ASHINGTON, April 12.— 1 Plans for escorting an of- 12—Sharp| ficial party to the Alaska fish- specialties| ing areas including the Prib- NEW YORK, April number of | provided the principal feature of ~fofs during sealing are be- the mixed market today. Some| ing made by United States utilities recovered moderately but| Commiseloner of Fisheries most groups suffered from profit' Frank ¥. Bell. i taking. Grains were weak, "Ihe Secretary of Commerce Dan- close was irregular with iel C. Roper, United States totaling about one million ,sham,f Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas and United States Senator C. C. Dill of Wash ton are expected to accompany the Commissioner on his trip to Alaska. {1-YEAR-OLD BOY IS NAMED AS MURDERER Killed 10- Year Old Boy - Bonds To New Highs | Another burst of strength in| !bonds sent corporate averages to! | new highs for the past two years ng- oz' more. Issues up one two around fivel points included Curtis Publishing Armour, Celanese, Indus(ndl/Rdy~ on, American Beet Sugar, prefe u‘d " Amusements stocks were in de-| mand, Loews going up one point. Other Issues Up Goodyear, Firestone and Ameri-{ can Telephone and Telegraph were | up one point | Santa Fe, U. S. Smelting, Com-j mercial Solvents, Dupont and WML- ern Union were down one to two, e e e with Axe then Buried Steels and motors ore hesi-| yi tant, Body in Sand CLOSING PRICES TODAY POWELL RIVER, B. C. April 5 = 12.—A coroner’s jury has named NEW YORK, April 12—Closing prank Millen, aged 14 years, for quotation of Alaska Juncau mine|tn. prytal axe slaying of ten-year- stock ftoday is 21%, Americaliglq jgohn McPariane, whose body Can 104%, American Power and| ywes found in a shallow sandspit Light Anaconda 17%, Armour grave B 3%, Bethlehm Steel 43, OUr-|"nen is said to have confessed tissWright 4%, 'Fox Fdn‘ls 15‘Jv”previously. General Motors 38’2, International| “phe jury said that in event the Harvester 41 Kennecott 21, boy is found guilty and also found | Southern Railway Ulen Cf’"‘; to be mentally deficient, “we rec- pany, no sale; United Alrcraft| mmeng sterilization methods be 2%, United States Sicel 53 | adopted.” ***** = ! The Millen boy smiled during the inquest, especially as the axe he used was placed in evidence. The quarrel betweer the two |boys grew out of the killing of | Millen’s dog after it had bitten young McFarlane, e ‘Daredevxls Nabbed in Dynamite Truck Governor of New York ed by several profe of Adminisiration a rs g s been lumped at one time or an-| BREVARD, N. C, April 12— other under the heading. Sheriff Tom Wood thinks two men Soduibls Diversion |he arrested near here are entitled Some fembers of Congress re-|to all the prizes for sheer garded the investigation as offer-|lessness ing diversion after several months| He overtook of testimony laden with long strings | truck over tw them speeding a big ting mountain roads. of dollar marks, ciy and dig-| They were nk. 1ts.) AuAgate? Bove red inmore| The truck was loaded with dyna- than one congressional inquiry, but mite. a “prain trust,” never | . = So far the investigators have LOVE As ES OFFICE accomplished results along several lines. | George J. Love has ta The Senate Banking Committee the duties of Register of the Unit- started early last year, and up to|ed States Land Office for Alaska a few weeks ago it had amassed|With headquarters at Anchorage, a record of 5000000 words and succeeding J. Lindley Green, re- had painted a detailed picture of |lired. Miss Florence Kolb remains (Continued on Page Two) |85 assistant. N over RE.BID FOR MAIL POl A gy s meals and sleeping on improvised rercial lines which soon will zarry JUNEAU T0 GET NEW C.6. CUTTER, CHAMBER HEARS Capt Browm' Says Service Plans toStation One of New Vessels Here | That June.m \ull get one of the new cutters now under con- struction for the United States Coast Guard Service is a practical Cl the Chamber of Com- > told today by Capt. Fletcher Brown, Commanding Of- ficer of the Cutter Tallapoosa,| who with other officers on the cut- ter, was a guest of the local or- ganization on its Annual Coast Guard Day. Washington plans to send one he new cutters, now under construction, to Juneau, he said. It ought to arrive here for station about the latter part of mnext| September, and the Tallapoosa will be sent to California, Enjeys Alaska Duty . Welcomed by President C. T. Gardner, who greeted the Coast Guard officers and personnel as a part of the community, Capt. Brown expressed his appreciation of the spirit with which members of the Service and their families have been received by Juneau. “We do consider ourselves to be a part of the community life. If we were not properly received we could not do so, and I want to express my appreciation of the fine way in which you have re- ceived us and our families,” he declared. He introduced his fellow officers in a aceful and witty manner, presenting hief Engineer Blood, Lieut. H.. C. Perkins, Executive Officer, Lieut, olfe and Imlay, Dr. J. P. Mayer and Ensign War- ren Davis. Mr. Davis, he said, is a son of Division Engineer Da- vis, assigned to Seattle, and a football player any coach would be glad to have on his team as a fullback. He is one of the newly assigned officers on the Tallapoosa. Cleanup Week April 22 The week, April 22 to 28 inclu- has been designed as Annual Fix-up, Cleanup and Paintup Week, was announced today by President Gardner. The ap- pointment of a special committee ! sive composed of Rev. John A. Glasse, R Raven and B. D. Stewart to} handle the Chamber's part in the undertaking was also announc- | ed E Thé Chamber also passed un-| mously a resolution protesting | ainst the passage of House Bill \o 7979, relative to licensed men carried by vessels under 100 gross tons. It asked the Territorial Chamber to submit the matter to all its members on a referendum vote, Some two weeks ago, the Cham- ber telegraphed a protest against| the bill to Delegate Dimond. It was in receipt of a letter rrom‘ him today which said the Dele-| gate had been keeping closely in| touch with the legislation and was informed now that it had no H (Continued on Page Eight) GEN. JOHNSON AND PARTY IN NEAR DISASTER ENROUTESOUTH Train Whizzes Past Rear of Auto Trailer, Only ' Missing Vehicle by Few Inches MIAMI, Florida, April 12. Hugh S. Jehnson, NRA Administrator, narrow- ly escaped death teday when a large combina tion auto trailer missed, by inches, be- ing struck by a train while he was enroute here to meet President Roosevelt returning from his two weeks’ vaca- tion. Besides Gen. Johnson, those in the car included Donald Richberg, NRA General Coun- sel; Marvin Mcintyre, White Heuse Secretary, and about twenty White House cerres- pondents and their wives. Gen. Johnson was. seated in the rear end of the trailer which barely cleared the tracks as the train roared by. Gen. Johnson humorously remarked that if anyone on the trailer had been wearing an overcoat, he would have been hn DIMOND URGING. ALASKACONTROL FOR FISHERIES Home Rule——-\fiould Put Twenty Thousand Al- askans to Work —Gen, WASHINGTON, April 12.— Alaska Delegate Antheny J. Di- mend, teday in urging the Marihe Committee to report favorably on the bill to place fishing in Alaska under centrol of the Territerial Legislature, said cannery operators imported 12,000 persons annually te work in their plants “keeping Alas- kans out of work.” Delegate Dimond said that the fishing industry, under home rule, could support at least five times the number of persons now engaged in it, and estimated that about 20,000 are employed annually in the canneries. INSULL LOSES APPEAL FIGHT, TURKEY COURT Chicago Fugitive Will Be on Return Trip to U. S. Today BULLETIN ISTANBUL, April 12.—Samuel Insull start- ed on his journey to the Uni- ted States at 7 o'clock tonight in charge of Federal officers. ISTANBUL, April 12—The Turk- ish Court of Appeals has refused to consider Samuel Insull's appeal against extradition and the author- ities notified him he would be started lon the return trip to the United States sometime today. BB *5 Pupils in Germany Must Salute Fh( STUTTGART, Germany, April 12.—School children and teachers must stand at attention and give the Nazi salute when flags are hoisted over school buildings, says the Wuertemberg Ministry of Edu~ cation in a decree which empha- sizes “the importance of the nas tional emblem.” 4