The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1937, Page 1

VOL. XLIX., NO. 7446. JUNEAU, A > DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 'HOUSE PASSES SC LASKA, WEDNESDAY , MARCH 31, 1937. ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BOOST IN FISH TAX PASSED BY ALASKA SENATE Brunelle Bill Would Jump Levy to $3 Per Thousand Without Exemption Estimated to raise $250,000 during the biennium, the Territorial Sen- ate by a vote of five to three, this afternoon passed a bill introduced this morning by Senator M. E. S. Brunelle of the Third Division, pro- | viding for a tax of three dollars a | thousand on trap caught fish and eliminating the present exception of 100,000 fish. As originally presented by Sena- tor Brunelle, the measure would have raised the tax on hand driven traps from $50 to $75 and on pile | driven or floating from $200 to $350 and left the fish tax at two dollars per thousand fish in excess of 100,~ 000 as existing law provides. On the basis of the 1935 pack, a tax of three dollars with no exemp- tion would raise approximately a quarter of a million in two years. The revenue probably would be much more on a year like 1936 when ap- proximately 8,000,000 cases were packed, it is estimated. With increase of the tax levy on the fishing industry popping into the special session so suddenly after receiving no action in the regular session, a stir was caused 'today among the members and it was un- derstood substitute were being prepared in the House, aimed to lower the proposed new levy. Authored by Harry Race of the First Division, a joint resolution was to be introduced in the House late today by the Ways and Means com- mittee providing for the creation of & committee consisting of ‘the Gov- ernor, Treasurer and Auditor to em- ploy a tax expert to make a survey of the Territory’s entire system of taxation and report the result to | the next Legislature with '\ recom- | mendations for establishing an “equitable” system of taxation. ! RS P BIG MEASURES PLACED BEFORE . COM. OF HOUSE Farm Tenancy Discussed— Senate Passes Crop Insurance Bill WASHINGTON, March 31.—The House Agricultural Committee to-| day tried to agree on the $195,000,- 000 Farm Tenancy after President Roosevelt advised guarding against huge expenditures. The committee will also study the $100,000,000 crop insurance bill which passed the Senate yesterday. The insurance measure would es- tablish a corporation to insure wheat farmers after this year against loss of crops. The plan| may be extended to other crops. CORPORATIONS GIVEN SCORING BY SEN. WAGNER Says Sitdown Strikers Pro- voked by Ruthless Tactics Employed WASHINGTON, March 31.—Sen- ator Robert F. Wagner told the Senate today that sitdown strikes were “provoked by the long stand- ing and ruthless tactics of a few great corporations.” The Senator, author of the Labor Relations Act now before the Su- preme Court, said the “root of the cause of the present economic wel- fare situation has flared up in the General Motors and Chrysler strikes because of the lack of power of the Federal Government to enforce the Wagner Act.” — e — EVERETT, Wash, March 31, — The trial of Mrs. Mable Fain, 30, of Index, on a charge of second| degree murder, shooting her hus- band last February 8 over another woman, opened here today. Japan Plunged Into Another Political Crisis; House of Representatives Is Dissolved TOKYO, March 31. — Renewed eral Senjuro Hayashi. conflict between the Army and The Government announced the Navy on one side and the major general election will be held on political parties on the other, has| April 10 when the new Hourr of 466 led to the dissolution of the House members will be chosen. of Representatives by Emperor Hor-| The Army and Navy charge the ohito. His action has plunged Ja- political parties with obstructing pan into a new political crisis. |bills considered vital for national The Emperor’s decree was handed defense, such as steel industry con- down on the advice of Premier Gen- |trol and the national fuel bills. Sen. Robinson Makes Attack On Critics of President’s Court Reorganization Plan PERCY'S WILL CIVE JUNEAU MODERN CAFE Enlarged .Juneau Ice Cream WASHINGTON, March 31.—Unit- ed States Senator Joseph T. Robin- son, Democratic leader, has let oose with a caustic attack on the Roosevelt’s court legislation. Senator Robinson asserted that Associate Justice McReynolds stands “condemned, by his own test, as a poor sportsman.” The Senator upbraided Senator William E. Borah, Republican of Idaho, with charges of inconsis- ARE ATTACKED - BY INSUREE Government Makes Stron; Protest, Demands Full: Explanation LONDON, March 31.—The Brit- ish Government, in & strong protest, has demanded that the Insurgents on British merchantnten by Insurs gent warships. The demand also wants assurancs es that the incidents will not be ré- peated. ¥ The British note says an armed insurgent trawler halted the Brib- {ish freighter Springwear on March | 7 and forced the vessel to procegd| |to Gibraltar and unload the cargo, | Another armed trawler fired across the bows of the liner Menin Ridge to halt and be searched. The liner sengers aboard. The trawler diss {on patrol duty off the Spanish coas |steamed up and the vessel was thent 'allowed to proceed. | On the same day an insurgent |warship halted and searched the BRITISH SHIPS | in Spain explain three attacks made| Eon March 23 and enforced an order| three principal critics of President| had a cargo of coal and many pas=} appeared when a French de.stroyer,: Parlor Will Open To- morrow Morning When Percy’s Juneau Ice Cream Parlor reopens at 10 o'clock tomor- bills already [Fow morning—‘never to be closed termination that the court lezisla-l again night or day"—it will bring to and soda fountain of which any metropolitan community might well be proud. Percy Reynolds, owner of the Ju- neau Ice Cream Parlors, that has been Tfavorite rendezvous of Ju- neauites young and old for many |years, has doubled the seating ca- pacity of the restaurant, lunch room and fountain. Two rows of commodious mahogany booths, add- ed to the long lunch counter wiil| afford plenty of seating place dur- ing breakfast, noon-hour, dinner and after theatre rushes. With the additional space provided by the private banquet room, the Juneau Ice Cream Parlors will be able to| accommodate 160 at least — and! more when there is a special “set- up” for banquets. Private Banquet Room The banquet room is really some- thing to be proud of and it will be used only for private parties, Mr. Reynolds said. Walls of natural knotty cedar,| modern lighting fixtures, a hard- wood dance floor, especially-built small tables that can be put to- gether for special occasions, and a good piano make it such an at- tractive room in which to give a party that to see it is enough to make. one wish -he could give a party there. Though it is an inside room, con- verted from the storeroom of the old Piggly Wiggly, it is equipped with noiseless ventilation that will provide air conditiining at all times. In addition to music afforded by the piano, new records on the latest Wourtilitzer phonograph, played in the restaurant can be brought to 1Glass with using “vitrolic and ex- corted her to Gibraltar although her Juneau men, women and childrenw a modern restaurant, lunch roomigc.iq the “President has | first woman witness of the Judiciary tency and accused Senator Carter| British steamer Stanholm and es- travagant language.” | papers were orderly. Senator Robinson made it clear’ SR G S o tne o v et 2o MATTSON CASE SUSPECT STILL diminished the Administration’s de- | tion must be enacted. | In conclusion, Senator Robinson, based h(s‘ |reorganization program on the pro-| {mise of social and economic needs | of the present and this program/| can be adequately dealt with by a bl inte tati f the Y e w2 Federal Agent, Apparently | Interested in Questioning, | Goes to New Mexico FIRSA WOMAN APPEARS WASHINGTON, March 31.—Dor-| |othy Thompson, newspaper colum- nist and wife of Sinclair Lewis, also ‘March 31.—Interest in the status lof Vern Charlton, 34, Seattle man, hearing on the court bill, drew a|peld in connection with the Matt- parallel between the bill and thel‘son kidnaping and slaying case, moves that lead to Dictatorship like | quickened today when it was learn- in Germany and Italy, and warned eq that M. C. Faulkner, Federal Ag-| the Committee that “The outstand- ent at El Paso, Texas, has arrived. ing fact of our times is the decline|The authorities, however, refused and fall of constitutional Demo-|to make any comment. cracy.” She appeared after Prot‘w Edwin Borchard of Yale denounced the measure as a ‘“dangerous pro- posal to enlarge the court whole sale and get certain rigged opin-‘ ions.” CASE DROPPED TUCUMCARI, March 31. — Late| this afternon it was announced that| the Federal authorities have! dropped the case against Charlton held since last Saturday for ques- tioning. Sheriff Fred White said Federal Agents Alex Street and Faulkner| advised him to- release Charlton. The Sheriff said he informed Charl- ton that he could go but the man wanted to stay in jail for a shave and also his supper. SITDOWNERS ARE GREAT DANGER Representative Urging In- ———e———— 3 QUESTIONED INMYSTERIOUS CITY SLAYING Estranged Husband of Strangled Woman, Mod- | el's Mother, Quizzed NEW YORK, March 31.—Joseph private dining room by loud speak- vestigation Says Gangsters Gedeon, scrawny father of Veronica Gedeon, model, and estranged hus- BEING QUIZZED TUCUMCARI, New Mexico,l er. Modern Kitchen Open to Public |0 of Mary Gedeon, who were Since a restaurant is never any|r,y;g strangled in their apartment better than its kitchen, Mr. Rey- last Sunday morning, was brought nolds has seen to it that his culin- (i~ ¢ further questioning by po- ary department will be the best he|y.. today, along with three other could provide. Furthermore, joined principal characters in the strange to the lunch room by a large arch- way, it will always be open to the public. The new stove, c>dered through Juneau Young Hardware, was es- pecially made for the Juneau Ice Cream Parlors by the Lange Range Company of Seattle. “And Lange's claim that it is the best they have ever made,” Mr. Reynolds said. A stainless steel steam table, new tile floor, the remodeled Piggy Wig- gly cold storage plant that provides more refrigeration, probably, than that in any other restaurant in Ju- neau, help to make the kitchen one to be envied. The pantry for service of salads and light lunches, sandwiches, ice cream and coffee, provides ample space for their preparation. No Change in Policy “We aren’t changing the policy of the Juneau Ice Cream Parlors in any way,” Mr. Reynolds said. “We are only enlarging it and making it a more attractive place in whichi its regular patrons may have a good meal or enjoy an ice cream soda.| Wp will continue our regular 40- cent lunches. Dinners, however. will | (Continued on Page Three.) murder drama. District Attorney William Dodge is taking active charge of the ques- tioning. In a fresh burst of police activ- ity, detectives brought in Robert Fowler, who married the artist model when she was only sixteen and Jean Carp, 20, also a model and closest friend of Veronica’s, for questioning. They are also ques- tioning again George Gueret, for- mer roomer intheapartment where Veronica and her mother were found strangled. Deputy Inspector 'Kear said: “There are some points about Ged- eon’s story I want him’to clear up.” Dodge later announced po- lice have a “definite suspect.” Have Part in Them WASHINGTON, March 31.—Rep- resentative Martin Dies, Texas, told the House Rules Committee today that sitdown strikes “constitute the greatest danger to the founda- tions of our country in many a day.” He urged a fair and impartial investigation of the situation. The Committee deferred action until further testimony had been receiv- ed, probably tomorrow. Representative Dies asserted that he’ had information from reliable sources that Chicago and New York gangsters were playing a prominent part in the sitdown strikes that have spread through industrial centers throughout the nation. TEAR GAS USED Thirteer S thin five miles of its goal, an a of a2 mountain in the fashionable Pittsburgh suburb of Mount Lebanon. Plane were instantly killed. Photo shows all that remains of the once trim liner, the plane must have crashed with a tervific force for the bodies were mangled beyond recognition, MAXIMUM WAGE SKED IN HOUSE Tolbert Scott Wants Re- Miners Arrested for Home- Annual Report Indicates. moval of $200 Per Month Barrier, Public Employees Echoes of the Territorial Legisla- ture of 1935 were heard in the ex- traordinary ion of the 13th Leg- islature today when Representative Tolbert Scott of the Second Divis- ion introduced a bill asking repeal of the law passed two years ago prohibiting Territorial officials or employees making $200 a month or more from engaging in any outside work for compensation. The law, which was a controver- sial issue two years ago, is claimed by its opponents to work a hard-| ship on persons who aré engaged only part of the year on public pa roll, such as schoal officials dra ing salaries in the higher bracke Under the act they can not accept employment in the summer months | for pay. EXECUTIVE OF BOY SCOUTS IS KIDNAPED, AL Story Is Told by Robert Miller After Being Re- leased on Desert BULLETIN—El Paso, March 31L—Sheriff Chris Fox, this af- (4 K{"(’d . infiAirli l;or VC"rash b to the ¢ All thirteen persons aboard the Rescue workers naid Gud Is Stolen KENNEGOTT IS | AW REPEAL IS as Underworld ONLY 600D FOR | Plot, §gys Agent 2M0§YEARS‘ stake Mine Gold Theft Are “Small Fry” Also Railroad DENVER, Colo, March 31. — SEATTLE, March 31—The an-| Fabulous stories of gold stolen from nual report of the Copper River the world’s largest mine, the Home- and Northwestern Railroad, at Cor- stake at Lead, 8. D., led today to dova, disclosed that the Kennecott underworld plots and counterplots Copper mines are facing perma- |to obtain the loot Rowland God- nent discontinuance within the' dard, secret service man said in next two years and consequent dis-' (announcing that five men had tried continuance of the Copper River {unsuccessfully to obtain the stolen and Northwestern Railroad. ‘gold, “the group of men having The report says that “explora- |made arrangements for contacts tion has been carried on without Closing of Mine— SEATTLE, March 31—The sign- ing of an‘agreement on wages and ternoon said Miller admitted the kidnap story is a hoax. With tears in his eyes, Miller told the sheriff he framed the story so he could return to without embarassment. He said he hitch-hiked to El Paso after abandoning his car. He had been missing since a week ago to- day. [with the actual thieves.” disclosing any new bodies of cop-| The declared that they had per ore or favorable indications schemed to buy the gold and run of ore. It is the present expec-| it across the Mexican border in tation that operations of the Al-| specially constructed automobiles aska properties will cease, not to' camouflaged as ordinary cars, then exceed two years. The Alaska to return to the United States and Steamship Company made a rea- sell the loot as newly mined gold. sonable profit last year from the “But while plotting as a group, mines but experienced many handi- lindividuals ‘planned to hi-jack the caps due to the maritime strike.” proposed - shipments. A S N | While men are not yet arreste & they are available at all times,” |Goddard said, adding that charge: Agreeme"t SIgned lof violating the 1930 gold act would be filed. the three miners arrested in Dead- |wood last week on grand larceny charges were “small fry” in the Alaska 0 eratnrs Homestake high-grading scheme. | S eee - | T HND ARSENAL Workers on Cannery Ten- | @, . | ders Sign Articles— IN FARMH“"SE | Wages, Conditions | IR, FREE STATE Wave of Excitement s Sent i Over Country—One | Arrest Made ‘ DUBLIN, March 31.—The police | | announce the discovery of a secret | EL PASO, Tex., March 31—Rob-|arsenal containing 12 machine guns ert Miller, missing Safford, Ari-|and 12,000 rounds of ammunition | zona, Boy Scout Executive, this|in a farm house near Waterstown, | morning walked into the El Paso| County of Kildare, Natural Gas Company Control sta-| The disclosure, coming on the| tion, north of here, and said kid- heels of the Baster disturbance, napers freed him last night. marking the twenty-first anniver- Miller said he was kidnaped while |sary of Ireland's Easter Rebellion, on his way to Globe, Arizona. working conditions between the Al- aska Fishermans’ union and the op- erators of canneries in the Western Alaska waters, is announced today by the local officers of the union. The union officials said the agree- ment affects approximately 300 men working on cannery tenders, most of them from Seattle and Belling- ham. The terms of the agreement have |not been announced. OFFICIALS RETURN FROM WESTWARD Mrs. Martha Refsland, Associate Supervisor in the Bureau of Indian PRICE TEN CENTS SENATE ACCEPTS BILL; CONSIDERS AN AMENOMENT $65,000 Item May Be Tak- en Out of Needy and Indigent Fund, Report UNANIMOUS APPROVAL ]lS GIVEN IN HOUSE | Additional 52300 for Gov- ernor’s Office Endors- edby Representatives Rolling through the House this {morning without a dissenting vote, the school transportation bill, pro- viding for an appropriation of $65,« 000 to pay transportation of school children outside of incorporated school districts, was accepted in the Territorial Senate this afternoon |and referred to the Finance Com- mittee, headed by Senator James Patterson of the Third Division. Report was that the committee |was considering an amendment so0 that the amount could be taken out of the $198,000 which was approp- riated at the regular session for relief of needy and indigent. The latter appropriation approximately is four times the amount set aside for the same purpose two years ago. Unanimous Vote Despite the long arguments that prevailed in the House over the school transportation question, when the vote was iaken this morning all of the 16 members supported the bill and there was no objection in the Senate to its acceptance al- though that body had.set up & bar- | rier. requiring a. % accept a bill which deals with sub=- ject matter other than Social Se« curity. The transportation bill was or- iginally sponsored by James V. Da= vis and Harry Race of the First. The House this morning also un= animously approved a bill introduc- ed by George Laiblin of the Second which would appropriate $2,000 for the Governor for official entertain- ment purposes. It, too, was accept- ed in the Senate and sent to the Finance committee. The item orig- inally had been in the General ap- propriation bill for the Governor's office at the regular session but was deleted by the Seuate. 0. K. Sanitation Code Two other measures were passed by the House today and sent on their way to the Senate for action. One was the widely-heralded Sani- tation code of the regular session which has been whittled down to a mere three pages from its vol- uminous proportions when it was under controversy at the regular session. In its present form it pro- vides for promotion of the general health through inspection and ex- amination of places handling food and drink and establishments such as barber and beauty shops. It is tied in with the Public Health Ser- vice program under provisions of the Social Security Act. The other is a law revision bill to make the existing law relative to juveniles conform with the pro- posed Soclal Security legislation. The Senate this morning passed the long unemployment compensa- tion bill and sent it to the House where the latter this afternoon was going through the lengthy measure. The upper house also passed its own measure for the relief of des- titution in connection with the So- cial Security program, indefinitely postponing the House bill dealing with the same subject. J, 0. RUMMENS | DIES, SEATTLE Heart Troul;Te_Fatal to Man Defeated at Novem- ber Election SEATTLE, March 31.—J. Orville He | sent a wave of excitement over the | Affairs, and Miss Bertha Tiber, Sup- |Rummens, pioneer state official, is ON 300 PICKETS, HAYWARD, Cal, March 31.—Po- U. S., JAPAN NET STARS WILL PLAY, said men in an automobile on a crossroad stopped him. A man lay on the front seat apparently injured. He was asked to give aidy then two Irish Free State. | Dominic Collins, in whose house |the arms were found, has been | taken state prisoner. ervisor of Nurses, returned to Ju-|dead at the home of his brother, neau on the Victoria after visiting|George Rummens as the result of Indian stations in the Westward. heart trouble which he suffered at Mrs. Refsland was in the Kuskok-|the November election when he was DAVIS CUP SERIES SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, March 31. —The United States and Japanese inter-zone Davis Cup tennis series will be played here on April 30, May 1 and May 2, lice and deputy sheriffs, using tear gas and nightsticks, routed 300 pickets at the California Conserv- ing Plant late yesterday afternoon. The police said the pickets at- tempted to stone three busloads of workers leaving the plant where 75 'next thing he knew when he awoke, {he was in their car. men, hiding in the car, leaped up and knocked him on the head. The e TOM STROEBE LEAVES Tom Stroebe sailed for Seattle wim area, going out as far as Quill- | ingok, and reported the Indians get- ting along well in all the communi- ties. Miss Tiber visited Bethel, defeated for Insurance Commis- sioner. Rummens was born in Klickitat County in 1888. He served as pri- Miller said he was finally pushed 'from Juneau last night aboard the Mountain Village, Kanakanak, Ek-|vate secretary to former Gov. E. out of the car last night while it|steamer Princess Norah for an in- lutna, Kodiak, Cordova and Chit-|M. Hay and was deputy Insurince workers struck yesterday. was traveling on the desert. ‘:m-nmu: stay in the States. | ina in connection with her work. Commissioner for 20 years. 00L BUS MEASURE ¥