The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1935, Page 1

- BRITISH NAVAI.} ESTIMATES ARE GIVEN APPROVAL House of Commons Votes Favorable on Large Budget for 1935 | LONDON, March 15~The House, of CSmmons today voted approval,| by a vote of 158 to 48, of the na- val estimates for 1935 of sixty mil- lion, fifty thousand pounds, or about $286,000,000. This is an increase of three and one-half million pounds over last year’s budget for the Navy. B L >oo STOGK PRICES SHOW UPTURN, QUIET BUYING Depressed Isswes of Yester- day Stage Slight Comeback NEW YORK, March 15.—Stocks were lifted out of the reactionary i trend today by quiet trading in industrials and specialties. | Despite the disappointing slide in cotton, a number of yesterday's depressed issues came back mod- erately today and several shares 4 i Most any young man would envy ihic baby alligator which the pit of Miss Jessica Smith, ¢f Miami, who was nam- cd Miss Flcrida in competition with 250 o'her bcauties. 4 | NEWARK, N. J, March 15— RULING MADE AGAINST NRA .~ BYFED. JUDGE Injunction Granted Prohib- | iting Prosecuting or Indicting |Pederal Judge Guy L. Fake has 'ruled that .the National Industrial Recovery Act, as applied to inter- |state business *is unconstitutional because it attempts an unlawful delegation of authority.” | The ruling was made, granting an injunction to the Acme, Inc, of Jersey City to restrain United States Attorney Harlan Besson, | from prosecuting or indicting the !company for alleged code viola-| tions. } It is considered the case will be | appealed. | The company manufactures paper1 | clips, nails, staples and similar pro- l qucts. | ! The company refused to give in-| formation ' relative to payroll or | products. HIGH AWARD TO COMMANDER OF - ALASKA FLIGHT ;llCapone: g Placed in Solitary Former Public Enemy No. | Engages in Fight in Alcatraz SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 15.—Disclosure that Al Capone, orig= inal Public Enemy No. 1, was res cently sent to solitary confinement in Alcatraz Prison because of & fistic encounter with amosher:oon= viet, was made known by Prison officials. % separated the fighting » g | Guards men, Capone is serving an 11-year sen~ tence for income tax evasion on the rocky island in San Bay, set aside for incarceration dangerous convicts. 1 WALKOUTS ARE THREATENED IN 3 INDUSTRIE Administration Concerned Over Situation—Green Says Nothing Now ‘WASHINGTON, March 15, Strike threats in three major ins dustries—Coal, textile and auto- mobiles—gave emphasis to the blung were up che point or two at the close. ! CLOSING 'PRICES TODAY ' NEW YORK, March 15.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau minc stock today is 18%, American Can 114%, American Power and Light 1%, Anaconda 8%, Armour N 3%, Bethlehem Steel 24, Calumet and Hecla 2%, General Motors 277, International Harvester 36, Kenne- cott 14%, United States Steel 29, Pound $4.79%, Bremner bid 54, SENATOR LONG ‘GONTINUES HIS | FILIBUSTERING Drastic Cloture Rule May Be Invoked to Stop Kingfish’s Move WASHINGTON, March 15— Mackay Trophy Presented to Brigadier General assertion of President Will |Green that the American Federa« |tion of Labor would quit eounsel- HmnyJLAmld .. |ing. and. patience if Wagrs® ¢ Labor Disputes bill fails t0 pass. WASHINGTON, March 15—/ The measure would outlaw com- Brigadier General Henry H. Ar- pany dominated unions, create a nold has been awarded the Mac- Permanent independent Labor Re- Kay trophy as emblematic of last lations Board with power to carry yvear's outstanding aeronautical its decision to court for enforce- achievement, the flight to Alaska ment and permit the majority of |and return on the Army bombing employees in a plant to select @ planes. |labor organization and represent The Army officer received the all employees in that plant. {first award of the trophy made President Green has made no {in 1912, reference to industrial unrest in asked 60; Nabesna bid 67, asked 82. struggle for action on the Work Relief bill, Senators sought to re- - e DAVID BLAGK move the obstacle of Senator Huey | P. Long’s filibustering tactics. PA E AWAY | Talk of both day and night ses- |sions are heard to smash Long’s AT FA'RBANKS strategy or of a drastic closure rule which will limit debate, thus stopping the Kingfish from talking Death Comes to Pioneer Mining Man as He Sits Senator Long is playing for time because he charged there is an in Chair at Home undercover movement to prevent votes of two absent ailing Senators, Carawy of Arkansas, and Overton of Louisiana, on the McCarran prevailing wage amendment. Both 'Senators are for the amendment, Long said. WAR PROFITS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 15. —David Black, aged 64 years, died Is he sat in a chair in his home here as a result of heart frouble. Born in Canada he went to the United States in 1891 and came north to Nome in 1900. He spent seven years near Nome mining.! Leaving Nome he prospected and mined in the Innoko, Koyukuk and | Poorman districts. He was a high-' ly esteemed member of the Alaska' | TAKEN UP BY BTt e . GEN. JOHNSON MORE AIDFOR bt { : so' Urg FARMER ASKED A NEW YORK, March 15. — Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, writing.in the ‘ American Magazine, urges elimina- Secretary Of Agnculture tion of 90 per cent of all war Makes Suggestion Dur- ing Debate on NRA 1o fix ievery peice Initheiwhole o national pattern at its pre-war WASHINGTON, March 15—Sec- level.” retary of Agriculture Wallace sug-' gested that factories turn out 50 per cent more goods at definitely lower prices in a debate over the future of the industrial recovery policies. The Secretary of Agriculture saia Tn A H B I TR AT E these cheaper goods will be a great! GUAST STR I K E help to the farmers for whom crop' reductions have about reached the' SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 15—An attempt to arbitrate the maximum benefits. e | Who Hasn’t a Dog? ' e differences between the seamen ROBBINSVILLE, N. C., March and operators and halt the strike 15.—Some sort of a record in pet which has tied up some 20 ‘coast keeping is claimed for Milltown, a ships is being undertaken by the sawmill village near here. There Department of Labor Conciliator 'the President authority in war time are 31 families ig the town and by Joseph Myers. He is optimistic. actual count, the dog population Most of the idle ships are oil numbers 51, Matching threat for threat in the| | profits and calls for a law glvn;zj BEGIN ATTEMPT | REVIVAL OF " BUSINESS ON “SOUND BASIS Upturn Most Pronounced Since Depression Low of 1932 - NEW YORK, March 15. — The weekly review of Dun-Bradstree, Inc., today declared the present business upturn represents the soundest revival since the depres- sion low of 1932. Neither the vagaries of March weather nor the uncertain National legislation are sufficiently potent to swerve the movement of general business by any wide degree from the defimitely charted course, says the review. LAST GALL ON INCOME TAXES . WASHINGTON, March 15:—Mid- night tonight is the deadline for paying the first instaliments on | Federal income taxes, 5 ——————— Gilpatrick Confirmed as Sitka Postmaster WASHINGTON, March 15. —The Senate has confirmed the nomi-' nation of James H. Gilpatrick to be postmaster at Sitka, Alaska, T LOLA MAE ALEXANDER VOCAL STUDIO TO BE REOPENED ON MONDAY Lola Mae Alexander, who has re- turned after a sixweeks' absence in the South, will reopen her vocal SHOOTS HISEL |lof Loveland, Colorado, and a long the three industries which threat- ens to express itself by walkouts, but the situation is causing the Administration much concern. ————————— NAVIGATION IN ONE SECTION TO OPEN ON MAY 15 Slumwheele_r-Tana to Sail from McGrath— New Vessel Planned SEATTLE, March 15. — Frank Mortimer, Manageér of the Alaska Rivers Navigation Company, an- nounced today that the Kuskokwim River sternwheeler Tana will be open the season’s navigation sail- ing from McGrath on May 15. Salling the same route as the Tanana, McGrath and Berry Land- ing, will be the new steamboat Wallace Langley. Carpenters will be taken north to complete the ‘Wallace Langley. ANCHORAGE MAN ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 15. —John Ames, aged 59 years, native time resident of Kodiak and An- chorage, was found shot to death in his home here. ' He had been ill for a long time and the authorities called it a case of suicide. Survivors are a widow and three sons. T Man and Wife Indicted *in Seattle for Fraud SEATTLE, March 15. — W. W. Renick and his wife have been studio in the Goldstein Building on Monday, March 18, she an- nounced today. The municipal governments of Alaska impose real and personal taxes within their boundaries. convicted of using the mails to de- fraud by obtaining money from persons in many cities on the al- legation they could claim shares in the mythical $300,000,000 estate of the late Col,Jacob Baker, of Phila- delphia. FOR BIENNIUM 1S §2,563,650 | APPRflTflMW’ Bills Enacted Into Law MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS by the Twelfth Legislature ) Of the 143 bills introduced in the Territorial House of Repre- Which Ended Last Night A total of 32 Senuse. bills were |enacted into law by the Twelfth SPCCial Items $239,|33"unmnves 58 were enacted into Legislature which adjourned last Making Grand Total of $2,802,783 Setting a new record for getting the appropriations bill out of ‘the way, laside $2,563,650 for expenses of 'the ‘Territory . during the next two tions of $239,133.90. The total, figure of $2,802,783.90 is more than half a million over two years ago. when the appropriation was appro: te- {1y $2,257,000. i Work of the Ways and Means lecommittee in the House ' of ' which George A. Lingo was chairman and the Taxation and Revenue ‘com- mittee in the Senate, headed” by John B. Powers, was given 'high compliment by the members: and those close to the Legislature. Starting early the committees worked diligently at their ‘hard fask and were able to report out long before the usual time. The House committee bill was before the members more than two weeks before the session ended and al- though the Senate made some ‘| changes there was little difficulty ‘lencountered in getting together. The efficiency of the House Ways and Means committee was general- 1y credited with being responsible for the early adjournment of the session. Schools Large Ifem A total of $16,100 was appropri- ated for the Governor's office and $16,950 to the Attorney: General, The -Auditor got $87,070, including $6,400 for additional clerical help, and the Treasurer was given $49,- 550. One of the largest items was schools which amounts to $1,014,000. Of this amount $365000 was set aside for.schools outside incorpor- ated towns, $100,000 appropriated in anticipation of probable school needs in the Matanuska Valley when colonists arrive. A $10,000 item was also included in the transportation total for the same purpose. The Commissioner of Edu- cation was granted $33,700, an item of $5,000 being included so the Commissioner can make a survey of school conditions in the Terri- tory. For University For the University of Alaska, the former Agrigultural College, an ap- propriation. of $192,602 was made, including $10,000 for short courses and $35,000, for a library building and equipment. Administration and maintenance of the University was set at $122,602.50. A total of $200,000 was alloted for roads and $16,000 to the High- way Engineer. Of the $200,000, half is to be expended by the Board of Road ‘Commissioners and half by t.@n Highway Engineer. $45,000 for Radio Phones Other items in the general ap- propriation bill are: Territorial {Banking Board, $1,500; Alaska His- torical Library and Museum, $9,- 000; health and sanitation, $21,- 200; Alaska Pioneers' Home, $150,- 400; allowance for aged residents, $400,000; dependent children, $90, 000; relief of destitution, $50,000; further relief of needy and indi- gent, $80,000; rescue and relief of persons, $5078; primary elec- 4ion, $10,000; aid to public libraries, $2,000; - livestock inspection, $1,500; bounty on wolves and coyotes, $40,- 000; ty. “on eagles, $10,000; hounty, on hair seals, $30,000; clegh- ing salihon streams, $15,000; Board of Medical Examiners, $500; Board of Dental Examiners, $600; Board of. Pharmacy, $500; Board of Law | Examiners, $100; Board of Optom- etry, $300; Territorial Boxing Com- mission, $250; for annual fairs, $8,- 000; radio stations, $10,000; radio telephones, $45,000; supplementary appropriations, $1,000; emergency appropriation for carrying out pro- visions of laws, $5,000. T Good Outlook For Passage, lWork Relief Bill WASHINGTON, March 15— Leaders in Congress today ex- presed the opinion that the | Administration’s Work Relief bill will go through swiftly and vitteally as the Administration l wants: it. ilaw by the Legislature. A sum- | mary of the measures follows: H. B. 4—Appropriating $24,250 to meet deficiencies in various of- fices. H. B. 8—Appropriating $9,850 for Commissioner of Education. | H. B. 29 —Appropriating $2,000 to pay for temporary quarters for i fire. H.' B. 27.—Appropriating $10,000 to City of Nome to assist in main- tenance of schools. H. B. 37.—Defining further the duties of the Treasurer relative to hahdling and payment of interest by banks on public funds. H. B. 12-Fixing a license fee of $1 a year on commercial resident clam diggers and $15 for non-resi- dents, and providing the license fees must be paid by those buying from the diggers. H. B. 16.—Appropriating $1,125 to pay salary of Treasurer-elect Os- car Olsen until he takes office. H. B. 28.—Allowing city councils to set up zoning regulations. H. B. 22.—Providing for publica- tion of the session laws. H. B. 56.—Directing the Commis- sioner of Education to prepare a course of study on alcoholism and ‘harcotics for the public schools. H. B. 15—~Requiring advance no-| tice of alibi defense and time of commission of offense in criminal prosecutions. H. B. 48.—Appropriating $5640 to reimburse: W, E. Muller for ex- penses Incurred in search for trol- ing boat “Thelma.” H. B. 60.—Authorizing Treasurer to make a refund of $100 to Al- fred Torgersen of Kodiak for beer license he did not use. H. B, 55.—Paying R. C. Louder- milch of Anchorage $75 for burial of James Bolton, an indigent. H. B. 23, 24, 25, 26—Specifying the Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor and Highway Engineer shall take office on ‘April 1 instead of in January. H. B. 8l.—Allowing sale of real and personal property conjointly in‘ settling estates. H. B. 61.—Appropriating $3,000 to the Territorial Chamber of Com- merce. H. B. 6.—Raising bounty on wolves and coyotes from $15 to $20. H. B. 68.—Permitting compensa- tion for resident member of Board of Education, H. B. 30.-—-Appropriating $15,000 for construction of shelter cabins, H. B, 63—Providing for certifica- tion of teachers in private and de- nominational . schools. H. B. 123.—Defining what juve- niles may be committed to the Board of Chfldren’s Guardians. night. They are as follows: . B. 3—To make uniform any |reference to or citation of the ) Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1933, S. B. 16.—Prohibiting the reten- tion of lost pfoperty by finder the Twelfth Legislature ' set|deficiencies in the office of the | without advertising or notifying of- ficers. ! S. B. 6—~Repealing. the presént | law requiring ‘persons operating ari- tions of $239,13.90. The. total figure| Craig school, recently destroyed by | planes to give security for ability |to respond in damages to persons | injured. 8. B. 17.—Requiring second-hand | dealers and pawnbrokers to keep records. 8. B. 7.—Providing [or the ors | ganization and cperaticn of Co- operative Associations termed “Co- operative Marketing Associations,” | the purpose being to permit mar- keting of agricultural and agquatic ‘products through co-ops. | for the relief of destitution during | the biennium ending March 31, this ar. | 8. B. 24—Permitting judges to reject names of jurors in cases | where they think the expense and | distance would be too great. | 8 B. 34—Making a person in | charge of construction, alteration |or repair of a building the agent |of the owner, so that he can be held liable for wages or other ob- ligations. | 8. B. 1.—Clarifying the present | statute by deflmng delinquency ;nnd making contributing to the | delinquency of a minor a felony. |'"8./B. 36-—Abolishing estate by leurtesy ahd. providing either hus- band or ‘wife can dispose of inherii- ed property without consent of the other. 8. B. 19.—Setting up provision for dounty absentee ballots. 8. B. 15—Providing a penalty of $1,000 up and a year in jail for | the careless use of firearms, aimed to curb hunting accidents and pro- viding that it will be unlawful to shoot at anything without know- ing definitely what it is. 8. B. 33—Requiring mine owners | whose properties are being worked under lease or agreement to post notices within 10 days in order to be free from responsibility of ob- ligation incyrred by the leasor. 8. B. 40—Prohibiting any pub- lic executive or employee in the Territory making $200 a month or more from accepting any other work for compensation. 8. B. 21—Prohibiting discharge of firearms within incorporated citles and towns. { 8. B. 47—Fixing attorney fees in certain actions. 8. B. 48.—Correcting existing law relative to pleadings and demurrer. 8. B. 38.—Prohibiting the em- ployment of any husbhand or: wife H. 'B. 42.—8etting the legal rate]!n a public office whose spouse’has of interest at six percent, except|an average income of $200 ' per in contracts where 10 per cent is|month. allowed. H. / 8. B. 60.—Paying the C. W. Car- B. 4l—Authorizing Banking | ter Mortuary $75 for burial expens- Board to extend time banks may|es of Hirlam Parsons, an indigent. defer making payments on de- posits. H. B. 4#—Appropriating $25,000 for Nome ' sehool. to attend regular meet- Board. of “Ketchikan $330 for medical 8.' B. 51.—Requiring ‘Auditor to keep on file list of all foreign and domestic corporations. 8. B. 52.—Making incompatibility H, B. 135.—Allowing $5 a day|0f temperament grounds for di- and expenses to members of Medi- | vorce. 8. B, 54—Naming the collateral security the Treasurer may accept . —Paying Dr. R. V. Ellis|to secure Territorial deposits. 8. B. 6—Fixing a penalty for services rendered to Axel Christian- | drunkenness and disorderly conduct sen, an indigent of Craig. H. B. 64—Paying $180.50 to pay costs in search for U. H. McDow- H. B. 113, ~Appropriating $16,000 for new school at Craig. H. B, 7~Pixing time of residence of thoge entitled to old age. allow- lances at 25 years immediately prior to a) ., H. B. 21.~8etting up plan where- by cities may elect boards to han- dle public utilities. H. B. 97.—Changing the name of the Agricultural College and School of Mines to the University of Alas- ka. H. B. 75.—Appropriating $15,883 to pay claims against Territory. H. B. 133—Raising license tax on undertakers in towns of more than 500 to $100 per year. H. B. 134—Raising tax on power, | |telephone and .water companies from one half of one per cent to three fourths of one per cfl! H. B. 99—Providing that ¢om- munities wanting radio phone sta-' in public places. 8. B. 61.—Appropriating $3,000 for an Alaska exhibit at the San Diego fair, S. B. 42—Naming the Board of Administration to select a site for a Women’s Pioneer Home, but mak- ing no appropriation. 8. B. 8.—Oandidates filing for office st have “voted at each primary election for four years on the party ticket they propose to file on. 8. B. 56.—Amending the work- men’s compensation bill to require ’pnyrnent to the Territory by em- ployers of $2200 in addition to $195 burial expenses in cases of de- ceased employees having no depen- dents, such money to be credited to the .current appropriation for the | allowance of aged residents. 8. B. 35—Giving authority to the Board of Administration to en- ter into contract with the Secretary fare work among natives. S. B. 12—Prohibiting 'reckless \Contln]gd-_o‘;l—l’-aze Seven) 8. B. 22.—Appropriating $30,000 > TIRE PRICE TEN CENTS LICENSE HEAD, NEW PROVISIONS $50,000 Appropriated. for License Officers and Other Expenses DRUNKEN DRIVING AND DISORDERLY BILLS AID Mine Department, Mining Tax Approved as Leg- islature Adjourns After agreeing to a liquor bill which continuds econtrol with the Liquor Board, provides for license officers and local option, the Twelfth Territorial Legislature ad- Journed sine die at 8:55 o'clock last night, setting an all time record for an early finish. Previous ses- ' slons have run many hours over- time. Before they adjourned, many of them to catch the Victoria south- bound, the Legislators appropriated $2,802,783 for Territorial expenses, placed a graduated net income tax on mining and created a' Depart- ment of Mines with the purpose of furthering the industry in Alaska. Brief Measure The liquor bill, around which hinged early adjournment and was a thorn in the flesh during the en- tire session, turned out to be a brief measure, amending the exist- ing statute and adding but two things to the authority already granted the Board—local option and license ofifcers. The Treasurer iz given authority to nominate four vision, at a salary of not over $250° a month as tax collectors and care for licensing in their respective Di- visions under supervision of the Board. Local option is allowed incorpor- ated cities and towns with the Board authorized to set up a plan whereby such incorporated places may vote on the matter. An ap- propriation of $50,000 was granted the Board for carrying out pro- visions of the Act. Enforcement Laws Enforcement is still ‘left up to marshals and city officers but two bills which passed the Legislature gives greater authority to the Dis- trict Attorney’s office. One is a law against drunken and reckless driving and the other the disorderly conduct act under which prosecu- tion can be carried out in cases of drunkenness and boisterous con- duct in public places. The Legislature finally agreed on the Senate's plan for taxing mines, making no special designation of gold. It calls for a graduated tax on net incomes of mining concerns of Interior for education and wel-|ad and starts at three fourths of one per cent on sums from $5,000 to $10,000 and moves. up in various brackets to four per cent on a million dollars or over. It is a big increase for the larger companies over the present law and is esti- mated to bring in around $350,000 in revenue for the Territory. Mine Department Both the mine department bills finally were approved, one creat- ing the Department of Mines and the other calling for a survey with the aim of furthering the industry in the Territory. An appropriation of $22800 was made for the de- partment which will be in charge ot a commissioner appointed by the Governor and approved by the Legislature whose salary will be $5,000 a year. While no direct ap- propriation was made for the sur- vey it was anticipated that if the Territory set up a department the Federal government might become interested in helping with develop- ing of mining in Alaska. Sine Die Adjournment With speed essential, as the Victoria was being held over for the Legislators, the members work- ed rapidly in the closing hours with Gov. John W. Troy staying late in his office to act on the final bills and help the lawmakers catch their boat. The Governor was within the bar of the House as Arthur M. - Chamberlin, youngest member of the House, moved adjournment at 8:55 o'clock and Andrew Nerland, oldest member, seconded. Speaker Joe Hofman put the question and the Twelfth Legislature was end- forever. Two minutes before, 8:53 o'clock, Senator James Campbell moved " ontinued on Page TWOD LOGAL OPTION; . each. Dis S e 4