The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1935, Page 1

S3IONA SONGRESST WASHINGTO? “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVI., NO. 7037. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FORMER SHERIFF IS SUICIDE HERE HOOVER MAKES REMARKS THAT LODK LIKE BID Former President Would Like to Be G. O. P. Nominee in 1936 CHICAGO, T, Aug. 12.—Former | President Hoover declared in a statement Sunday that the “Nation has a right to know before this session of Congress ends, what changes this Administration pro- poses in the Constitution.” The Administration’s utterances, since the Supreme Court decision on NRA, have, Hoover said, evidenced a “continuous in- tent to change the Constitution di- rectly so as to authorize concen- tration of power. The time has come when these full purppses should be disclosed.” Hoover, who stopped over here briefly enroute to New ' York on business, passed over the questions of his own political plans and also declined to comment on the Re- publican Congressional victory in Rhode Tsland. INTERPRETATION WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Hoov-| er's Chicago statement on the Con- stitution was quickly interpreted hére, both in Demoecratic and Re- publican quarters, as a 1936 Presi- dential bid. One Democratic Representative, ! Vinson, of Kentucky, said. “No Con- stitutional Amendment has been' submitted and nobody has said one' Senator Nye, of North Dakota, Independent Republican, said Hoo- ver's statement lent emphasis 'to “perfect willingness and desiré to be ' the Republican candidate for President next year.” ROBINSON’S ANSWER WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Amid disagreement whether Herbert Hoover seeks the nomination at the hands of the G. O P, Sen- ator Joseph T. Robinson, Demo- crab of Arkansas, answered Hoov- er's challenge by saying one of the Agministration’s aims is to “over- come the drastic effect of Hoover palicies.” Bome Republicans agreed with Benator Robinson that the state- ment of Hoover meant he was a Legislau:ve Move Hints that Constitution May Be 36 Issue THIRD PARTY TALK COMING By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) Whether 1936 will see “constitu- ;uonalism" made an out-and-out (campaign issue seems now to de- pend the willingness or un- SENATE LEVELS TAX BOOST ON “Very few of the characters in Rex B_c;l—c;t Tells of Characters in Alaskan Novels;Inside Facts | AreGiven by Author in Juneau the river valley. Heney thought SMALLINCOMES Committee Proposes Low- ering Exemptions for my Alaskan books are patterned di- | they were wrong about the harbor's rectly after persons I knew. Most| standing up and decided to go jof them are composites of half-a-|ahead and he risked everything he dozen people. The most that can|had to back his own judgment. He willingness of Mr. Roosevelt to ac- cept such an issue. | The Republicans, the Liberty lea- | guers, and all of the right-wing op- . | position, persistently are thrust- Senator.N.ye Makes Hat,ing the challenge under the nose 'Prechctlon Concem- lof the Administration; almost every |day some spokesman figuratively ing Possibilities \ FORTH AGAIN 'be said for them is that they are! made a preliminary survey, estab- sometimes recognizable by the sit-|lished a terminus at Cordova on uations in which they are cast.” | Prince Willlam Sound, got a gang In this fashion, Rex Beach, well- | together, and went to work. known author of adventure xlov-{ “That fall everything the Gug- els who is now in Juneau for a|genheims had done was carried week’s stay, preparatory to a vaca- away in the storms, and he was tion trip into the Interior, repudi-|left pretty much alone in the field. Married, Single Men WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Going far beyond President Roosevelt's tax program, the Senate Finance com= jmittee has decided to boost taxes on small income tax payers by low= acts and! WASHINGTON, August 12—Third |party talk has revived, following 'the New Deal defeat in Rhode Is- {land, last week, by the question it ‘raised about future Administration policy. Senator Gerald P. Nye, of North Dakota, brought it into the open with the flat prediction that ‘‘there will be a third party next year.” Al- | 50, some of the leading Repiiblican regulars, who have been mentioned | for Presidential nomination, indi- cated in private conversations that they had by no means dismissed the possibility. They seemingly hop- ed it would happen, evidently on the theory that Roosevelt’s ticket !would be the sufferer. Diverse reactions of both parties to Rhode Island results accounted for part of the speculation whereon some conservative Democrats in- terpreted the overturn of the House as a demand that the Administra- tion shift the fight. Republicans from farm areas showed little sympathy with col- leagues who hailed it as a harbinger of death for the AAA. They regard it more as an indication of politi- cal unrest than anything else. DIRECT THREAT MADE T0 JEWS | dares the White House to come out | plainly for a Constitutional Amned- ment to enlarge the powers of the Federal government, Many politicians thought the President was quite ready to pro- | pose such a change immediately af- jter the NRA decision. He said in |effect it would be impossible to do {the things he considers necessary |if . federal authority must be held { within the limits laid down by the supreme court. Whether, because of the reaction or not, Administration men soon |afterward disavowed any intent to | espouse an amendment. Now, how- ever, the tendency again is toward doing so. The President's Advice ering the existing exemptions and raising the surtaxes in the lower brackets. The committee also offi- cially announced it had abandoned or of increases in existing estate itaxes. All the changes are esti- ! mated to boost the total revenue by 'more than four hundred million in- stead ‘of a quarter of a milliou up- |ward as in the House measure. The new surtax schedule reduces the present exemption for married men from $2,500 to $2,000 and for !single men from $1,000 to $800. It also would start existing sur- taxes at $3,000 net income instead of $4,000. At present the proposed raise in rates ranges from four to 59 percent and the new scale the House inheritance levies in fav- "' The course of the Roosevelt leg-|would be four to 75 percent, the islative strategy is one indicator. |{last to apply to net incomes over With an adverse Supreme Court five million. It is estimated $220;~ ated the many legends that have grown up concerning the originals of his famous characters. “But I like having people claim recognition of my characters,” he added. "It is complimentary in that it proves I have accomplished my aim in writing—to be photographic, and to establish my romances Bgainst a background of authen- ticity. And of course many of my| characters have been motivated in part by people I knew. It might be | The wildcat onterprises | hire his crew away. | Dr. Whiting Mentioned “An interesting thing happened in connection with that. Heney had a doctor on his staff who had been with him in Skagway, a man nam- ed F. D. Whiting, who is now liv- ing in Seattle. He was a big, robust man, six feet three, vigorous, and tried to had working for them were all im- ported from the south and were truer to say that I have used thc;gemng fed up on the lousy climate. ! history of certain characters, rath-|One of the railroad companies lo-' er than those characters them- selves. That is, I have taken the situations in which I found cer- tain people and projected into that problem a composite figure of my | own imagination and then let him work the problem out in his own| |cated around Valdez, where the climate was better, got the whole crew to strike, and the town of Cordova was flooded with several hundred men looking for a boat out, “Heney was in the states on busi- % fashion. ruling on AAA generally expected,' 000,000 in added revenue would re- the President advised Congress not sult from the new income surtaxes to let any doubt as to constitu-|as compared to $45,000,000 under tionality, “however reasonable,”|the House surtax schedule which stand in the way of enactment of applies to increases only on in« the Guffey coal bill. jcomes over $50,000 yearly. Rightly or wrongly, the Roosevelt' The Iron Trail “For instance, there was the story of “The Tron Trail” This was & story of the Copper River Railroad and the main character in it was | patterned after a man named M. J. Heney, known around Alaska as followers in Congress have regarded | (Continued oL Page Seven) —————— LICENSES NOW AVAILABLE FOR DEADLOCK MAY RESULT BY PRES. HITLER HUNTING SEASON House Cleaning of Enemies Resident P ermit Required of State Has Just in First Judicial Division 'has broken, especially in the House | |the ‘Irish Prince’ Heney was an WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Some extraordinarily interesting fellow, :'ugis]awrs predicted today that if never fazed by obstacles; liked to’ the Senate votes to bring the Jittig/ flo the thing that seemed impossi- fellow’s pocketbook within the scope Ble; Wwould risk anything fo- of the new tax bill, a Senate and his own judgment. He decided to {House deadlock may result and take a try at the railroad enterprise force the Administration to scrap at Copper River. There were three the tax bill for this session. | railroads here, one of them financed There is already an open split by the Guggenheim interests, and between two noted Senatorial in- one or two which were wildcat en- dependents, Borah and La Follette, terprises starting from Valdez. It over the amendment making tax-|was generally understood that the payers out of the small income first man to get a railroad through men, which it is said, would lower would be in control of the whole the standard of living. situation. Elsewhere it is evident the storm ‘“The Guggenheim interests decid- ed to start their railroad from Ka- the Started —Costs One Dollar | BERLIN, Aug. 12— President Adolf Hitler came forth as a back- candidate for another term but Representative Treadway, of Mas- sdchusetts, commented that the “Roosevelt objectives have been clear from the beginning to the end, that is to overcome the dras- tic effects of the policies of Hoov- er” Roosevelt Endorsed Representative Treadway, Repub- lican, further said that one of the Roosevelt policies was to “improve permanently the living conditions and opportunities for the people generally.” Representative Knutson, Repub- lican, of Minnesota, said he is backing Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr, of New York, for the Republican = Presidential nomina- tion. Representative Knutson furth- er said: “Hoover can render no greater service to the country than to announce he is not a candi- MRS. STEPHANUS IS PASSENGER TO TYEE Mrs. 'H. A, Stephanus, wite of the vice-presidenit of -the Sebastian- Stuart Fish Company, arrived at the firm’s cannery at Tyee aboard the steamer Victoria from Seattle Saturday. /She joined her husband, who is also cannery superintendent for the remainder of the salmon packing séason. .Nation’s Income Shows Tremendous Increase Last Year WASHINGTON, August 12— The Government estinated the Nation’s 1934 incume at forty- nine billion four hundred for- ty-four millions of dollars which is 3 five billion dollar jump over the 1933 income. Labor is reported to have re- ceived a larger percentage of " extending back to 1929, “even i work relief payments are ex- cluded,” the Department of La- bor sald. er of the house cleaning of state enemies, Hitler broke his self-imposed si- lence at a speech made at Rose-| heim in which he declared the Nazi party will smash its opponents and other leaders and added to the dis- quiet of Jews with threats of fu- Resident hunting licenses, required in the First Division, are now avail- able, it s announced by the Alaska Game Commission. They can be ob- tained here at the Juneau-Young and Thomas Hardware. The fol- lowing statement was issued today by the commission in connection with the regulations: about Senate’s proposal on talla ,where they thought the har- |taxing the lower brackets. (bor would hold up, and work up ! —— e | Italy Must Do Her Harvesting by Hand ROME, Aug. 12—Italy's forthcom- ing wheat harvest must be gathered entirely by hand, says an order !from the agricultural section of the FOR SLAYING ARREST NEGRO [FOREST FIRES A forward step in game conser- miscist corporative organization. It's ture stricture by saying that “by | Vation takes place this fall season ap effort to provide jobs for 150,- fighting we conquered Germany In the Alaska Game Law's regula- | and by fighting we shall preserve tion which requires every resident shall not decieve themselves about|Mmals to have a $1.00 Resident Hunt- us |ing License. The new clause is ef- Hitler said the Berlin Police Pres- | fective only in the First Judicial Di- SEATTLE MAN |Longshoreman Is Said to SALfith IN| Have Confessed Shoot- ing Frank Carbary ident, Count von Hellford, said the| Jewish jestion was slowly but surely gotten rid of as the Nazi program foresees. — e —— AIR BASE BILL SIGNED BY F.D.R. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Back from his weekend fishing trip, Pres- ident Roosevelt today signed the Wilcox bill authorizing a chain of | military and aviation bases. ————r Three Ceremonies to Cinch Marriage — ATLANTA, Ga,; Aug. 12— Fred Hodgson, Atlanta, married Janet Glume, Chicago, three times in the same day. The marriages took place ‘n Yokohoma, Japan. The first was merely a civil ceremony before a Japanese justice of the peace. The second took place in the offices of the American consul, and the third was performed by a Protestant min- ister. Versailles to Have An American Street it. Those standing up against us hunter of game birds and ‘“““ vison of the Terrtory where numer- ous summer workers and other transients strongly indicated the need of some method of checking in the field and where the residents have already gone on record in fa- vor of the new license. These Hunting Licenses may be procured from the regular licensing officers of the Commission in all the larger: towns while applications |for those living in outlying locali- ties will be available at the near- ‘est Post Office or United States | Commissioner’s Office. A note of warning to the effect that these Resident Hunting Licens- es do not entitle the holder thercof to take black bear or any other fur- bearing animal is sounded. If a resident wishes to trap or shoot any of the furbearers, among which ani- mals is included the black bear, he should apply for a $2.00 Resident ‘Trapping License, which is really a combination license permitting the ‘holder thereof to hunt game as well as to trap furbearers. The kinds of game that may be taken under the $1.00 resident hunting license in Southeast Alaska includes largze brown and grizzly bears, deer, mountain goat, grouse, ptarmigan, | ducks, geese and snipe. For migratory game birds such as ducks, geese and snipe, it is also necessary that the hunter possess a $1.00 Duck Stamp, procurable at VERSAILLES, France, Aug. 12.— ‘The street on which fronts the li- brary where England and the in- fant republic of the United States Postoffices. Effort is being made by the Com- mission to have the proceeds from sales of these Resident Hunting Li- | s 0“ TH E A s T Is @m August 12.—Detective Captain Ernest Yoris, said that SETTING REcnR Edward Johnson, aged 62, a negro PR | man. P ! Johnson, who was arrested - Eastern, Wrangell and Ket- urday, said he had “been drinking longshoreman, has confessed to fat- ally shooting Frank Carbary, sales- chikan Districts Exceed- ng Banner Year, 1934 |parlor and when one of the wom- With the exception of Icy Strait. man, Johnson objected. A customer of 1934, according to L. G. Win- other man threatened him. He then gard, Alaska Agent for the Bureau shot Carbary. of Pisheries, who returned at the Carbary has succumbed to his week end after a trip over the area. wounds received on August 2, while Icy Strait was poor and the standing in front of the downtown Western district has not been mak- beer parlor Before his death he told ing much of a showing, Wingard officers that he had been hit by a reported, although some improve- bullet intended for someone else. ment is noted in the latter. The He is survived by a widow and three Icy Strait district closed last week. children. The Eastern, Wrangell and Ket- chikan districts are running ahead of last season, he said, and oot s 5 ) KIDNAPED, THEN HANGED year of record. This week will end the season in' the Eastern and Western districts, the closing set! for next Sunday. | Wingard is leaving again in the VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Aug. 12.— A group of armed men attacked the town of San Jose Mahiatland, kid- Eosa naped the President of the Muni- J. F. Austin, manager of & cipal Government and his secretary ————— morning for another trip over the Southeast fishing district. FROM SPOKANI flower growers' association in Spo- and hanged them to a:tree on a|nery, Retriever, was a passenger signed the peace treaty of 1783, is|censes diverted to help increase the|kane, Wash,, is a round-trip tour- hearby mountainside. Three rebels|for Sitka on the North Sea from 1 " with two white women” in hisjed |apartment. They went to a beer |Washington and Oregon. en started .to leave with another|ing guard along the fire lines. Western and West Coast districts, knoecked him down and others kick- threatened over the week-end but the salmon run in Southeast Alas- ed him. He went outside, in an an-ithe fire was controlled one mile ka is far ahead of the banner year gry mood, where Carbary and an-|from that town, |ness; the only man in charge was Dr. Whiting. Doc was up against it. 1f the men got away, they would {lose half their precious summer season, and several thousand dol- {lars to bot. He had no legal au- | thority to hold the men. But he had a hospital—and in that hos- i pital he had one patient. I Inside History got through with him. He rubbed him with croton oil, which caused him to break out in red splotches, Then doc took him out on a little |boat in the water, announced it looked like smallpox, and quaran- tined the camp. This meant noth- ing to the men until it slowly leave; then they went wild. They wouldn't believe the fellow really had smallpox. To prove it, Doc took a delegation of them out to the (Continued on Page Seven) THREATENING, Miles—First: Life Is Taken SOKANE, Wash, Aug. 12—For- est fires in the Pacific Northwesl: have taken the first life of the| season. | Carl Carlson, CCC worker, was| fatally injured by & falling tree! limb in central Idaho. | The forest fire front has extend-| %ow to 600. miles across Idaho, Several thousand men are stand- | Chinook, in ‘Waskjington, was | POST, ROGERS VISIT CREEKS Wiley Post and Will Rogers en- joyed last Saturdey at Dawson, ac- cording to advices received by The | Empire and also in visiting the various gold creeks. It was re- ported at Dawson the fliers might make a hop to Aklavik, Northwest Territories, where Soviet Agent Bokoloff is waiting to give weather data to the polar flights enroute from Moscow to San Francisco. ————— WRIGHT TO SITKA Don Wright, son of Frank Wright, connected with the floating can- Fall Busiriess Increase Is Indicated Now WASHINGTON, August 12— In one of the first official gov- crnment business predictions, the Department of Commerce says reports from 33 cities in- dicated “expectations for a con- viderable increase in the fall business. While these reports ex- pressed optimism in many seg- ments of trade and industry as to the immediate future, they do not indicate how far the up- swing may carry beyond season- al demands.” ITALIANS SEE LITTLE GHANGE | TO AVERT WAR enormous to look at. Thé men they Have Little. Fflith in Paris . | Conference — Selassie TEY AT GF —— f POLICE SPIKE MURDER THEORY IN MAN'S DEATH Jack Nix, 36, Dies from Gunshot ‘Wound in Forehead Today APARTMENT FOUND LOCKED ON INSIDE Acquaintance Here Says Deceased Had “Many Enemies” Jack Nix, 36-year-old itinerant logger, miner and one-time deputy sheriff in the States, is dead, ap- parently a suicide. An investigation by city police and United States Marshals in the Gastineau Apart- ments, where the man was found, effectively spiked a murder theory Sees World Conflict | PARIS, Aug, 12—Itallan officials here today doubted the tripartite conversations in Paris would ac- complish an Ethiopian settlement. They scorned the concessions and said they should include an offer for Territory for a sea port or fi- nancial aid by the Ethiopian Em- peror, FEAR WORLD CLASH ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Aug. 12. —While Ethiopia continues to pin| its faith on the League of Nations, Emperor Haile Selassie saild he | “I've forgotten what was the matter with the fellow at the r,ime. —hbut™ ‘Wag . plenty. whén- Doc| dawned on them that they couldn't! PACIFICN. . | foresaw the ‘‘danger of a World War again” in the Ethioplan situa- tion. 1 LABOR PROTESTS | LONDON, Aug. 12—The Johams ynesburg Labor Council has protest- ed to Great Britain against supply- (ing the Italian troops with meat. which had been advanced earlier by friends. Nix died shortly after 5:30 o'clock this morning from a bullet wound in the forehead. Near his body was a new .22 caliber rifle which he had | purchased last week. City Patrolman George Gilbert- son was the first peace officer on the scene. He was called tc apart- | ment Number 7 at 5:28 o'clock this morning by Frank Bandi, another resident of the Gastineau Apart- ments, who had noticed blood ooz~ ing from underneath Nix's door. Break Attempts to rouse anyone in the room . failed, so Gilbertson broke through the locked door. e He found Nix lying in a poel of blood on the floor. He was alive. Dr. W. W. Council, City Health aftér the physician arrived, Nix died. Then Gilbertson called Dep- uty United States Marshal Walter Hellan, ITALIANS MOBILIZE ROME, Aug. 12.—Bringing the to- tal army strength to about one mil- lion men, orders issued today indi- cated the mobilization of Italian |forces of a half a million for war !maneuvers August 24. The orders failed to state the date when the men could return to their homes. Strike of Seiners Is Ended Now Columbia River Fishermen Front Said to Extend 600, " Accept Offer Made by Packers After 11 Days ASTORIA, Oregon, Aug. 12.—The 11-day strike of approximately 2,- 300 Columbia River seiners ended last night when the strikers voted to accept the packers' offer of six cents a pound for fish delivered to the canneries until August 17. The strike began August 1 when the fishermen asked for eight cents a pound for their fish until August 15 and six cents thereafter until the close of the seasgn, August 25. After August 17, under the new agreement, the price for fish for the remainder of the season is yet to be fixed. The vote on accepting the six cents a pound to August 17 was not announced. HIGH OFFICIAL JAPAN, KILLED Director of Military Affairs Dies as Result of Sword Wounds TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 12.—Lieu- tenant General Tetsuzan. Direc General of Japanese Military Afe fairs, died as the result of sword wounds, the War Office announces, The statement from the War Of- fice futher said the wounds were inflicted by ILieupenar|: Colonel Aizawa and the fight was outgrowth of the recent transfer of army officers. Gen. Senjuro Hayasi, Minister of to be renamed “the street of Amer-|bounties paid on wolves and coy-4ist on the present voyage of the have been captured and charged Juneau. He will join his wife at ican Independence.” otes. North Bea from Seattle. with the crime. the Goddard Hot Srpings. . the | An investigation by the officers showed that the door had been locked from the inside, with the key turned in the lock. All other possible entrances were closed, in- cluding a skylight. This, officers said, disproved a possible murder theory, advanced by K. Tamura, a recent hospital roummate of Nix. Roommate Talks Tamura told The Empire that Nix had been at St. Ann’s hospital for several days, recovering from an injury sustained in a fall. Ta- mura had been receiving treatment at the same time for an injured left hand, hurt at the Libby, Mc-. Neill and Libby Company at Taku Harbor. 4 Tamura said that Nix had told him that he had “many enemies” and reported that Nix had “been afraid to cross the street downtown alone.” The 22 rifle, Tamura reported, had been ‘purchased by Nix last week and the man said he intend- ed to do some rifle shooting at ‘tha new rifle range at Mendenhall Gla« cier. Seen Last Night The cannery worker said he had last seen Nix after a motion pic~ ture show last night. He said he passed him at Triangle Corner. Police reported that there were several empty bottles in the dead man’s room, indicating that Nix had been drinking. Nix was born in Aspen, Colo., of (Continued on Page Three): CLUB LEADER COMING HERE FOR.CONFERENCE ON T. B. SEAL SALE land, Vice President of the General Federation ‘of Women'’s clubs, Presi- dent of the National Conference of ficial of the Oregon tuberculosis as- coclation, 1is scheduled to arrive here on the Aleutian tonight, for conference relative to the sale of tuberculosis seals in the Territory, The tentative schedule is for her to stay over here only until the ar- rival of the Yukon tomorrow and then continue to theé Westward. et e World Business Is Showing Improvement NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—An almost general improvement in War, sald he has prepared his resignation as the result of the tragedy. the world during the last few menths is shewn in carreat’ vt ridg 5 Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar of Porte' Tubreculosis Secretaries and an of- business conditions throughout