The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1935, Page 4

Dail?y Alaska. Em pire ROBERT W. BENDER day by the every hd and Main RE PRI\TI\‘ Hosets, Juncau. A as Second Class Entered in the P matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 month. t llowing rat nths, ¢ will promptly or irregularity | Subscriber notify the Busir in the de Teleph ess Office ss Oftice EMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ¥ s exclusively entitled to the hes credited to in this paper and also the 374, The use for republicatior it or not otherwise cr local news published lited ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER P BE LARGER 8 TRAVEL REFLECTS BUSINESS GAIN. Definite indication of how ment wind blows is found in the Alaska tourist report for this season, announced last week by M. S. Whittier, Assistant Collector of Customs. The cus- toms official reveals that virtually 30.000 travelers visited the Territory during the regular tourist sea- son and probably that figure will be surpassed by the end of the year. It promises to be the best year since 1930 when the mark of 30,231 was reached With some, such as big game parties, leaving thousands of dollars in the Territory, and all spend- ing something, if only a small amount for souvenirs aside from the actual cost of steamer tickets, great benefit to business in Alaska can be readily seen. Together with the transportation companies,! hotels, restaurants, stores, specialty shops, even the! newsboys profit as a result of this mammoth tour-| ist travel to the North. But what is more significant in the report is the gain in tourist travel in face of the cries from some sources that business is not improving. The increase clearly refutes the theory that the nation is tobog- ganing rather than going ahead. It costs money to travel, and the crowded steamers certainly stress the point that people do have money. People from virtually every walk of life were encountered among the tourist throng right here in that better conditions are not confined to any single | industry or business but must be universally im-| proved to allow employers and employees alike tO per cent on the first $10,000 and range up to 50% | thvee 1a8 spend hard-earned cash for travel. There is in the Customs report not only satis- Editor and Manager the business improve-| Juneau, showing Co-operation of every house and building owner should be given the City Council now in carrying out the building number ordinance. Numbers -are to be made avallable at cost, a few cents. Full sup~ port is due the Council which has shown the way | around in. Hugh Johnson seems to have tagged the Liberty | League when he says it is “just an excuse for |Democrats to vote Republican.” any bright boy in the class remember whether Italy |has a King, and if so, who? Of course, looking on the front page of Saturday’s Empire. WHAT CONGRESS DID, 1935. The longest session of Congress since 1922 has come to a close and a wide range of important legislation was enacted into law. In an effort to give a more thorough in- sight into the various measures adopted, The Empire is presenting a series of summaries of the major bills passed into law. THE M'KELLAR-MEAD 40-HOUR MAIL ACT Provides a forty-hour week for 123,000 postal employees, effective October 1, 1935. Affects supervisors, clerks, special clerks, carriers, rural delivery men, mail equipment shop workers, laborers in first and second class post offices, clean- ers, janitors, telephone operators and elevator con- ductors. Extends the benefits of the act to railway postal clerks by providing that the service of such clerks assigned to road duty shall be based on an average | not to exceed six hours and forty minutes daily for 306 days annually and that railway postal clerks required to perform over six hours and forty min-| | Eutes' service daily shall be paid in cash at tue an-| nual rate of pay or granted compensatory time, M, their option, for such overtime. THE REVENUE ACT OF 1935 | Amend the existing revenue laws so as to yield| |an estimated additional revenue of $250,000,000 rrom‘ Ithe following changes in tax rates: 1 | ESTATE TAXES—Increases the Tates of the pres- | ’enc estate taxes, beginning the impest at 2 per cent| on net estates of $10,000 and ranging upward to 67 1000,000 and $20,000,000, 69 per cent on that part be- tween $20,000,000 to $50,000,000, and to a maximum of | {70 per cent on all above $50,000,000. In addition the specific exemption is lowered from $50,000 (in exist- With Italy and Mussolini being synonymous, can | without | | HAPPY ——BIRTHDAY)| for making Juneau a more intelligent place to get/ | The Empire extends covwratuza-‘ “The stars incline Horoscope but do not compel” tions and best wishes today, ttpeir‘ | birthday anniversary, to the /ouow- ling: SEPTEMBER 23 Homer Gorman Art Carison Mrs. J. S. Triutt H. E. Simmons Helene W. Orloff Estyr Jackson | 20 YEARS AGO | From The Empire 5 SEPTEMBER 23, 1915 Borrowing commissioners of Eng- land and France met for a l4-hour session with a number of Ameri- Veiled threats that General Pan- cho Villa will stop at nothing if the United States fails to recog- /nize him were in circulation in | Washington. President Wilson accepted the in- vitation of the Grand Army of the | Republic to lay the cornerstone of | the new amphitheatre in Arlington | National Cemetery across the Po- bomac River. Mrs. W. E. Polley, who had been in the Presbyterian Hospital at Haines for several weeks and had been reported in a critical condi- tion, was reported recovering. President. Willis E. Nowell, of the the | |per cent on that part of the estate between $10,- | Juneau Steamship Company, re- turned from a business trip to Sit- ka. Harley J. Turner of the Behrends |ing law) to $40,000 thereby providing for a thorough- ly upward revision affecting every estate tax bracket. (This section of the new act is a complete substi-| tute for the inheritance tax as requested by the| President and as adopted by the House but rejected | in conference.) Under existing law estate taxes begin | at 1 per cent on the first $10,000 and range up to '60 per cent on that part of the estate over $10,-| 000,000. The new estate tax provision is effective | as to decedents who die after the enactment of the | Revenue Act of 1935. | GIFT TAXBS—Revises the existing gift taxes| so as to make them three-fourths of the new estate itax schedule. The new gift tax rates begin at 1% | 'per cent on $10,000,000 to $20,000,000, 51% per cent! \on $20,000,000 to $50,000,000 and 52% per cent on| company, returned from a short va- cation to Seattle. Among those drawn to serve on the grand and petit juries were: R. G. Day, Wallis George, H. T. Tripp, J. V. Davis, George Burford, J. H. Gilpatrick, John T. Spickett, B. R. Lievers. Dr. Robert Simpson and Dr. { White, of White and Jenne, re- urned from a hunting trip on Ad- miralty Island. They brought in ge deer. N. G. Nelson, Front Street mer- faction for Alaskans in the season just ending but|8ifts of more than $50,000,000. The gift tax €XemD- | chant, leased from H. Shattuck there is an optimistic outlook for the season ahead as a result of the gradual but persistent rise in the husiness barometer. ANSW, LR]‘\(. THE C! RITI( S. Much of the criticism dercled against President Roosevelt during the last Congress centered around the tax program, primarily because taxes always are unpopular and virtually any unfavorable tation meets a ready response. In his recent reply, to Publisher Roy Howard in response to a query on the criticisms of the New Deal, the Chief Execu- tive gave the following fair and clear picture o the tax controversy: The tax program of which you speak is based upon a broad and just social and economic purpose. Such a purpose, it goes without saying, is not to destroy wealth, but to create a broader range of opportunity, to restrain the growth of unwholesome ac- cumulations and to lay the burdens of gov- ernment where they can best be carried. This law affects only those individual people who have incomes over $50,000 a year and- individual estates of decedents who leave over $40,000. Moreover, it gives recognition to the gen- erally accepted fact that larger corporations enjoying the advantages of size over smaller corporations possess relatively greater capac- ity to pay. Consequently the act changes the rate of tax on net earnings from a flat 13% % to a differential ranging from 12%% to 15%. No reasonable person thinks that this is going to destroy competent corporations or impair business as a whole. Taxes on 95% of our corporations are actually reduced by the new tax law. . . . Congress declined to broaden the tax base because it was recognized that the tax base had already been broadened to a very con- siderable extent during the past,five years. I am aware of the sound arguments ad- vanced in favor of making every citizen pay an income tax, however small his income. England is cited as an example. But it should be recalled that, despite complaints about higher taxes, our interest payments on all public debts, including local govern- ments, require only 3% of our national in- come as compared with 7% in England. The broadening of our tax base in the past few years has been very real. What is known as consumers’ taxes, namely, the invisible taxes paid by people in every walk of life, fall relatively much more heavily upon the poor man than on the rich man. In 1929 consumers’ taxes represented only 30% of the national revenue. Today they #re 60%, and even with the passage of the recent Tax Bill the proportion of these con- sumers’ taxes will drop only 5% This Administration came into power pledged to a very considerable legislative program. . . . It seemed to Congress and to me better to achieve these objectives as expeditiously as possible in order that not only business, but the public generally might know those modifications in the conditions and rules of economic enterprise which were involved in our program. f A new Coast Guard cutter carrying a seaplane i a possibility for Alaskan waters in the s0. It would fit in nicely the commercial air developm program with military and in interpre- | next year or the Ter- tion also is reduced from $50,000 to $40,000. The new gift taxes are effective as to gifts in the calendar| |year 1936 and thereafter. Under the existing law \the first bracket rate is % of 1 per cent on the first $10,000, ranging upward to 45 per cent upon | net gifts in excess of $10,000,000. INDIVIDUAL INCOME SURTAXES — Increases the surtaxes on individual incomes, beginning with @ surtax of 31 per cent in the bracket for net in- comes between $50,000 and $56,000, graduating up- ward through the brackets to 73 per cent on net| incomes between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, 74 per‘ |cents on $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 and 75 per cent on | lover $5,000,000. The new individual surtaxes are to| become effective for the first taxable year ending‘ (after December 31, 1935. Under existing law the individual income surtaxes begin' with a tax of 30 per cent in the bracket for incomes between $50,000 | and $56,000 and range upward to 59 per cent on m-} |come in excess of $1,000,000. GRADUATED INCOME TAX ON CORPORA-‘ TIONS—Imposes a new graduated income tax on |corporations, to be levied as follows: 12'2 per cent lon net corporation income up to $2,000, 13 per cent | on $2,000 to $15,000, 14 per cent on $15000 to $40,- 000 and 15 per cent on net corporation income in excess of $40,000. The tax is to become effective| for the first taxable year ending after December 31, 1935. Under existing law the corporation income tax is a flat rate of 13% per cent and there is no graduation of the rate. CAPITAL STOCK TAX — Increases the capital |stock tax, levied under existing law at the rate of $1 per $1,000 on the declared value of corporation | Istock, to a new rate of $1.40 per $1,000. A new |declaration of value is also' allowed with respect l,o“ \Lhe capital stock tax. The new tax takes effect| |beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936. | | EXCESS PROFITS TAX—Levies a graduated tBJh |on excess profits of corporations as follows: 6 per cent on profits exceeding 10 per cent and not over 15 per cent, and 12 per cent on profits exoeedmgl 15 per cent of the declared value of corpotauon stock. The new excess profits tax takes effect with |the first income taxable year that ends after June 30, 1936. Under existing law there is a flat rate of 5 per cent on porfits exceeding 12 per cent. } INTERCORPORATE DIVIDENDS TAX — Under‘, |existing law intercorporate dividends of domestic | corporations are deducted entirely, from gross m-} come, in computing net income subject to tax. Under | the new Revenue Act 90 per cent of such dividends are deductible, leaving 10 per cent taxable at the! |new graduated corporation tax rate. This provision {takes effect the first taxable year beginning an.er December 31, 1935. PERSONAL HOLDING COMPANY TAX — In- |creases the rates of tax on undivided profits of per- |sonal holding companies to make them conform to the higher surtaxes. Existing law provided for a surtax on undistributed adjusted net income of per- sonal holding companies at the rate of 30 per cent of the amount of such $100,000, and 40 per cent on incomes in excess of {8100,00. Under | and not over $100,000, plus 40 per cent of the| {amount thereof over $100,000 and not over $500,000, | |plus 50 per cent on the amount thereof over $500,- 000 and not over $1,000,000, plus 60 per cent of the| amount thereof over $1,000,000. This provision takes effect the first taxable year beginning after De-| cember 31, 1935. Some words are derived from Latin, some de-| {rived from Greek and others from hitting the thumb with a hammer.—(Salina Journal.) The Laupue of Nations appears in the Italo-| Ethiopian drama in the role of the innocent by-! stander —(Detroit Free Press.) income not in excess o[‘ the Revenue Act of 1935 the tax| is to be 20 per cent on such income not over $2,000,! plus 30 per cent of the amount thereof over $2,000 | the space formerly occupied by the G. K. Gilbert plumbing shop on | S8hattuck Row. Two new Ford autos, to be used | by the Goldstein delivery service, arrived on the Humboldt form Se- attle. With them was a Ford for J. M. Giovanetti, also delivery purposes. Weather: Maximum, 62; mum, 26; clear. 'LUDWIG FLIES HERE FROM NOME ON WAY TO WASHINGTON U, A. S. Ludwig, mechanical engin- eer for the Hamon Consolidated minj-, | Gold Fields at Nome, arrived Sun- day aboard the PAA Lockheed Electra. Ludwig is enroute to Se- |attle to complete an engineering course at the University of Wash- ington. He is registered at the Gastineau Hotel and will sail on the Alaska tomorrow. He has been at Nome for more than a year and will return there next spring. e BRINGS PRISONERS Deputy Marshal W. G. Hellan re- turned from Sitka on the North Sea, bringing three prisoners to the Federal jail here. They are Herbert Richardson and Kenneth Anderson, charged with grand larceny, and Lee Eaton, charged with a statq- tory offense. Anderson, who is only 16, is reported to have confessed to | stealing some money from Martin Strand, a herring fisherman. e NOT:CE All accounts due the Economy | Furniture Co., are payable to P. O. Box 984, Juneau. —adv. can financiers, including J. Pierpont | | Morgan, in the Biltmore Hotel. to be used for| TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1935 | wnhile this is read as an unim- { portant day in planetary direction Ithere are adverse aspects active |and for this reason all impulsive | decisions and actions should be | avoided. It is an inauspicious sway for be- ginnings, especially in the opening ‘|of shops or the starting of factor- jes. Strange foreign events are to | alter trade, the seers forecast. Labor continues under a sinister lomen. Tt is prophesied that bitter contests between employers and em. ployees will mark the coming weeks. Farmers are to have cause for discontent and again astrologers prognosticate organizations that es- tablish new methods of Work and cooperation. Agriculture in the fu- |ture is to be conducted on strict business lines. This is a lucky rule for advertis- ing and for all forms of publicity. Changes in newspaper management are foretold and two leading pub- lishérs will close their careers before the new year opens, it is indicated. Changes in the Cabinet will cause | conjecture in Washington. The Ad- ministration is to institute many new startling and far-reaching re- forms. A new political party in England | will be more successful than a, third party in the United States, where old organizations will ke strangely scrambled next year. After a summer of near-nudizm at the beaches American girls arc to assume Victorian modesty in dress and manners, if the stars are rightly read. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of cuc- cess that will inspire them to su-' preme efforts in whatever work in- | terests them. | | ELLIS MAKES TRIP HAS 3 PASSENGERS The PAA Lockheed Vega piloted by Bob Ellis with flight mechanic Eric Schutte, arrived here yester- day afternoon. Passengers aboard the plane were: Edward White- head from Seattle; Bernard Lind- erberger from Ketchikan to Craig,| | and Oscar Olson from Ketchikan to Klawock. PR e TO PETERSBURG RODEN Henry Roden sailed for Peters- burg on the North Sea. e e ZORIC DRY CLEANING | | | | | | ALASKA LAUNDRY PHONE 15 i | I PHYSIOTHERAPY i fassage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastic 807 Goldsteir Building Phone Office, 21¢ s Sl | Helene W_ L. Albrecht DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. o DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | i | | | | RSV ¥{ B et Dr. C. P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 | ] | 3% o — DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building Phone 431 DENTIST Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. SEWARD RUILDING Offi>e Pnone 469 Kohert S;mpson Opt. D. Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology [ Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES' — MISSES’ | READY-TO-WEAR | Bewarda Street Near Third | | Children born on this day prob-| . ably will be difficult to direct. Sub-‘ jects of this sign usually lead in-} stead of follow. Thuy are sagacious | and far-seeing and generally reacn} | success. | John Marshall, jurist and states- | man, was born on this day 17531 Others who have celebrated it as a! birthday include Mark A. Hanna,| politician and Senator, 1837; Zach-| ary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, 1784. (Copyright,' 1935) METZGAR DINNER GUESTS SHOWN - HUBBARD FILMS The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, 8. J., Glacier Priest, who has been visiting in Juneau this summer, | was the dinner guest last evening ,of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Metzgar | !in their Seventh and Gold Streets residence. After the dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Metzgar and other dinner guests were entertained by the showing of | several reels of Father Hubbard's Alaskan films and an explanatory | talk. 'EMPIRE REPORTER ON | | WAY SOUTH TO WED | 1! ¥ | { Walt Woodward, Empire reporter, left Juneau on the steamer North Sea for Seattle. His marriage to High School teacher, is planned for Friday. The couple will return to Juneau on the steamer North ! Sea leaving Seattle Monday, Sep-! tember 30, ———————— WAKEHAM IS BACK AT ALASKA MEAT COMPANY William Wakeham is back again on the staff of the Alaska Meat Company and will be primarily lemployed in the sausage depart- ment. ———,e— ATTENTION MASONS Stated communication of Mt. Ju- pm. Work in the W.M. Degree, J. W. LEIVERS, Secretary. ————— WARRACK FROM SITKA J. B. Warrack of the Warrack Construction Company, arrived yesterday from Sitka on the North —adv. P ——— The B. M. Bank | Juneau, Behrends , Alaska | J. B. Burford & Co. | Miss Mildred Logg, former Juneau|% neau Lodge this evening at 7:30 - JUNEAU-YOUNG | Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Shelf and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammunition - TYPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per month “Qur doorstép is worn by watisfied customers” G G e e g LUDWIG NELSON || JE'VELER | Watch Repairing | Philco—Genera! Electric Agency | FRONT ETREET R P T OTEM Grocery James Ramsay & Son FRESH FRUITS and VEGZTABLES FRESH MEATS Phone 182 FreeDelivery B e | 1 | | { i i MUSICIANS LOCAL NO. 1 Meets Second and Fourth Sun- days Every Month—3 P. M. Secretary ‘Watch and Jewelry Repairing at very reasonable rates PAUL BLOEDHORN FRONT STREET AMMUNITION Guns for rent, bought sold and exchanged—Always Open SEE BIG VAN Lower Front Street Cigars Cigarettes Candy Cards The enjoys the distinetion of being one of the best known institu- tions in the Territory and in terms of facilities, resources, contacts and scope of service is qualified to efficiently care for the financial needs of its customers. New Arctic Pabst Famous Draught Beer On Tap Sa e D Dr. A. W. Sica.art Glasses Fitted Lenses Grornd | — " Dr. Richard lelums I | BRI --—4}‘ it OSTEOPATH Uomsultation and examination Free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to 8:30 and by appointment. Office Grand Apts., near Gas- tineau Hotel. Phone 177 —_— ! THE BEST TAP BEER | IN TOWN! [ ] THE MINERS' Recreation Parlors and Liguor Store BILL DOUSLAS L........_ Guy Smith DRUGS PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- FULLY COMPOUNDED Front St. PHONE 97—Free Delivery Next Coliseum TR. H. VANCE [ S—— H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” Home of Hart Schaffner and Marx PAIN1-~CILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDARE Thomas Hardware Co. HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Room ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. B IDEAL PAINT SHOP | I It’s Paint We Have It! WENDT & GARSTER PHONE 548 Harry Race DRUGGIST “The Squibb Siore” FOSS CONSTRUCTION CO. Phone 107 - b Juneau “JIMMY* CARLSON SHOP IN JUNEAU! " Fraternal Societies ot | Gastittecu 'Cha B. P .0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 P. M. Visiting bothers welcome, M. E. MONAGLE, Ex- alted Ruler. M. H, SIDES, Secretary. KNIGHTS or COLUMPUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at< 7:30 p. m. Transient 3% brotcers urged to at- tend, Cowne Cham- bers. Fifth St. JOHN F. MULLEN, |G. R, H J. TURNER, -Secretary g SOl R A SRR | MOCNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 143 “Second and Fourth ! g ( beginning at 7 HOWARD D. STABLER, Mon. day: of e;‘ch month -é Scottish Eite gmpl Worshipful Master; J..MES. W, | LEIVERS, Secretary. fOE DOUGLAS \ \\ ” AERIE 1i7, F. O. E. Meets first and third Mondays. L] p.m., Eagles’ Hall, Douglas, Visiting brothers welcome. ~J. B. Martin w. P, T. N. Cashen, Secretary, —R . i Our t.ucks go any place any | time. A tank for Dicsel Oil ) and a tank for crude oil save | burner trouble. ] \[ "\ ReLiaBLe TRANSFER [ B FHONE 149; NIGHT 148 It i e B g R Commercial Adjust- | ment & Rating Bureau Coperating/ with White Serve ice Bureau Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. ‘We have 5,000 local ratings on file n | |82 JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Ezpensive” Lingerie, McCAUL MOTOR COMPANY ) Dodge and Plymouth Dealers | ' FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES GAS—OILS JUNEAU MOTORS Foot of Main Street A PHONE 36 For very prompt LIQUOR DELIVERY Juneau Ice &m Parlors Pountain Oandy