The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 1, 1937, Page 8

T ——T——e . e TAXATIO TAKE SPOTLIGHT IN LEGISLATURE Vigorous Protests Being Entered Against More Levy on Industry (Continued from Page One) 2t 50,000 and let the proposed levy stand sted the original Brun- jollar for an increase in the tax on stake traps from $50 to $75 per year and from $200 to $350 on floating traps, Jeaving the tax at two dollars on trap-caught fish as at present with the 100,000 exemption. Still another 1 was to levy a cent apiece on king red salmon and a half a cent per 1 on pinks. The proposal to increase t\ levy on the traps themselves and let the fish tax stand appeared to be meet- ing with considerable favor and it was suggested by officials that it would raise all the money required. It is argued that boosting the levy generally on trap-caught fish would work a hardship on some and might have a tendency to deter activity in the pink salmon industry. While the major war was on fish, ther tax plan was offered by or M. E. 8. Brunelle in the Senate this morning but it went to an early death. The Senator pro- posed raising the school tax from five dollars a year to $7.50, making the age exemption limit of 60 in- s ead of 50 and including women nfully occupied. The bill won le support, only the author and Senator Walker voting for it. In the meantime, the House had passed the Race bill providing for N, FISH Another ¢ urer and Auditor to appoint ‘exper a committee of the Governor, Trea- an to make a survey of the Ter- FIRE DEPT, WILL ritory’s tax structure with the aim of getting recommendations before next Legislature which the les tem and sent it to the Senate. PRESBYTERIAL OF S.E. ALASKA WILL MEET APRIL 8-10 The Presbyterial of Southeast Al- aska will meet at the Salvation Army Hall on April 8, 9, and 10, Delegates will be p ent from various Southeast Alaska towns, Among the speakers. will be Dr. nia Chicfetz, acting’ director of the maternal and child health pro- rtment, and Mrs. William Paul, ident of the Business and Pro- 1 Women's Club, and teach- he Government School erial is the women's missio! 3 ization of the Pre: byterian Church of Southeast Al- «ska - i YELLOW CABS IN NEW FRONT ST. QUARTERS Wwith a bright yeilow sign on the office window, James Hickey and his Yellow Cab Company are to- day occupying new premises in the west end of the former Alaska Flectric Light and Power Company building, on Front Street, across the street from their former location in the old First National Bank Build- ing Besides the office, opening on the street, the new location of the cab company includes a large garage ce toward the rear of the build- nd approached by a driveway the street. The garage will allow the company to keep its cars always on hand for immediate use, yet under cover for protection from the elements. from PLATFORM: PROGRESS WITH ECONOMY Serving the Best Interests of All the People We are making we cannot fulfil, on the record of no promises we and are standing Four Years of Progress and and Performance With Economy VOTE FOR L. GOLDSTEIN for MAYOR FOR COUNCILMEN— A.F. McKINNON W.J.RECK HANS BERG Vote the People’s Ticket Straight! ead to a more equitable tax sys- ll < ELEGT OFFICERS, BASEBALL HEADS Meeting Tonight Will In- augurate Newly Con- structed Banquet Room Election of officers of the Juneau Volu! Fire Department for 1937 and ) electicn of officers for the Gastir Channel Baseball League for the coming season, will occupy the time of the Firemen tonight when they hold their monthly meet- ing in the banquet room of the new- ly reconstructed Reynolds Juneah Ice Cream Pariors; the first event to be held in the room. Election of officers for the De- pertment will be but a formality, as 1 incumbents are the sole nomi- for their respective posts. Of- s to be selected for the baseball are President, Vice Presi- and Secretary, which dent, were filled by William A. Holzheim- er, J. E. Pegues and Fire Chief V. W. Mulvihill, respectively, last year. Another important matter to be acted upon at the meeting tonight will be plans for re-construction of the ball park. Other, routine, mat- ters will also be discusse Effnrfifilfiu Repeal Maximum Wage Law of '35 House Approves Bill to Make Public Employees Prove Citizenship Effort to repeal the 1935 law which prohibits public employees getting $200 or more per month from taking outside jobs for compensa- tion failed today when the Tolbert Scott bill to that end was indefin- itely postponed. But by a 9 to 7 vote, the House did pass another bill dealing with public officials and employees. The measure provides that anyone ap- plying for a public post must pre- sent proof of citizenship. The pres- ent law provides that public employ- ees must be citizens, but the new bill which has now passed the House 'provides that they must prove it if they expect to get a job. Andrew Nerland of the Fourth at- tempted to amend it so that the ap- | plicant would have to prove he was not a Communist, Fascist or a mem- ber of Germany's widely heralded Nazi party, but the House thought the amendment a bit humorous and | it failed to win much support. b -oo - | | STOCK QUOTATICNS | | NEW YORK, April 1.—Closing |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ’swck today is 14%, American Can 108, American Light and Powerl2, Anaconda 63 Bethlehem Steel 97%, Calumet and Hecla 17, Com- monwealth and Southern 3%, Cur- |tiss Wrighi 7, General Motors 61%, Interrational Harvester 104%, Ken- necott 63%, New York Central 50%, Southern Pacific 60%, United States jSteel 118%, United Corporation 6%, | Cities Service 4%, Bremner bid 8 asked 10, Republic Steel 44%, Lima | Locomotive 72%, Cerro de Pasco 179%, American Zinc, Lead and Sil- f\’vr 16, Pure Oil 20%, Holly Sugar 34'¢, Interlake Iron 26, Pound 1$4.89%. | DOW, JOisk» AVERAGES l The following are today's Dow, | Jones averages: irails 61.09, utilities 31.74. TRINITY GUILD WILL MEET | IN CHURCH TCMORROWN } Mrs. Mary Crewson gnd Mrs. My- ira B. Pulver will be hostesses for | Trinity Cathedral Guild at its meet- [TITITITTY ing in Trinity Hall Friday afternoon tat 2:30 o'plock. # casex T o il : - MEN’S ALLIGATOR RAIN COATS TWO CHILDREN'S $4.50 ALLIGATOR RAINCOATS LEFT IN STOCK LEADER DEPARTMENT STORE GEORGE BROTHERS In Connection with PAY'N TAKIT PHONE 454 posts | SIMMONS DOES Alaska Museum HEAVY BIT OF Preparing Now ; AIR 'B_USINESS for Tour Travel | | AAT Pilot Has Two nigh‘s The Alaska Museum is now pre- 3 ared for the tourist travel for the to Sitka and One to ‘l:)ro.wnl year. | b Josephine White, who has been Icy Shalts assistant curator for several years, began her duties today, and with curator A. P. Kashevaroff started preparing for the throngs expected |during the season and ready to “keep open” during all reasonable hours if steamers are in port. | Many additional exhibits have jhmu received at the museum since |the last tourist season closed and| | these have been given places on the shelves or in show cases. AT [ 3 With a full load of six passengers aboard the Alaska Air- Transport Lockheed Vega seaplane, Pilot Shel- don Simmeons took the air from Ju- neau for Sitka this morning at9:30 o'clock and returned to Juneau with two passengers at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon, A half hour later Simmons took off again for Kimshan Cove and Sitka with four passengers in the Nugget, and was to return to Juneau | SURVEYORS TO SITKA at 4 o'clock this afternoon with one Their purpose being to assist En- passenger from Sitka and four from gineer Eugene J. White in the run-) Cmcmf“' Ry |ning of grades on the section of | Mtha wdgh‘ was scheduled for |) o yay being constructed through Simmons today. At 4:30 o'clock this )¢ National Forest area near Sitka, | afternoon he was to make & char- |y, cc surveyors for the U, 8. Bu-| s hop with five passengers in the ., of public Roads flew from Ju- | ockheed to Gull Cove, on Icy neqy to Sitka today by AAT plane. ! Straits, and return, The three were: Glen Neitzert, Ro- Passengers leaving Juneau for Sit- | ..t D. Walkley, and John Harsh- | ka this morning with Simmons barger. 3 were: Howard D. Stabler, Glen Neit- o zert, Bob D. Walkley, James D. PIONEERS TO HOME Mecce, George C. Reynolds, Charles| pound for the Pioneers’ Home at | W. Olson. Returning to Juneau with | gjiky, three Alaska pioncers, who ' Simmons from Sitka on his first|arived in Juneau by steamer this| flight were: H. B. Foss and Lisle | yeek, flew from here to Sitka this| e e AR N Hebert. a . 4 morning with Pilot Sheldon Sim-| v “‘;sgc""‘? rhghtwsnlfa, Sim- ;0ns. The three pioneers were: | mons had as passengers: John jymes Mecce, George C. Reynolds | |and Charles W. Olson. i PTR80S USRS A baby girl, weighmg eight pounds ’ |and thirteen ounces was born last |evening at 8 o'clock at St. Ann’s Hand Belske, for Hirst-Chichagof. | Hospital to Mrs. O. H. Hatch, and both mother and child were today BUILDING BOOM IS REPORTED BY ~=snixi = ™ Harshbarger, for Sitka, and Walter McGitchen, E. R. Johnson, and THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937. ——st THIRD ANNUAL FAIR OPENED TODAY, NOME Eleven Racing Teams Leave cratch Line in Face of Cold Wind in Derby NOME, April 1.—~The third an- nual Fair opened here today with a raw, biting wind blowing down from the north. Eleven racing teams left the seratch line this morning on the first day’s lap of the 26-mile, three- day dog derby, with Miss Alaska flagging the speedy teams ‘out. Several hundred rersons cheered them on as the tedms pulled out into the face of the cold wind. More than half of the teams came from out-lying camps, including Teller, Shishmaref, Golovin White Mountain and Igloo. It is estimated the running time of the dog derby will be slowed to over two hours due to the wind. Several hundred exhibits and booths in the fair building were spected this afternoon by the public, when the doors opened at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The fair will be officially opened tonight when an address of wel- come will be given by President C. M. Allyn. The exhibits cover all industries of northwest Alaska schools and missions of Eskimo art and clothing, vehicles, etc. ELLIS FLIES HERE YESTERDAY; BACK TO KETCHIKAN Flying here from ms Ketchikan base, with W. C. Arnold as passen- ger in his Ellis Air Transport red ‘Waco seaplane, Pilot Bob Ellis land- industrials 185.19, | | With Mrs. William Strong, George |ed here at the Alaska Air Transport |Robbins, and Frank Willlams as|float at about 4 o'clocR yesterday af- | passengers, Pilot L. F. Barr took off | ternooi: 1rrom his airport here yesterday af-| Staying here overnight, Ellis took ternoon at 5 o'clock to fly to Tul-loff at 2 o'clock this afternoon on General Manager of Colum- | seauan. I:im rxamrr was also carry- |his return flight to Ketchikan, with . 3 |ing supplies for the Polaris-Taku|A. Van Mavern as passenger to bia Lumb‘el’ S_ays Indus- [Mine aboard his North Canada Air|Petersburg, and two other passen- try Can’t Fill Orders |Exvress Pilgrim plane. He expected gers for Hydaburg. to return to Juneau as soon as ————————— Reporting that the lumber indus- | Veather conditions would permit. | LS Ui .. SPEAKER e “Alaska” by Lester D. Henderson.|a later flight today. Elderly Suicide Has @ny Heirs SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 1. — Willis Lawrence, 81-year-old cripple who shot himself to death in a small room here Monday night, left $25,- 250 to 41 relatives and friends from Coast to Coast. His will revealed that his heirs included cousins in Seattle and Pasadena. Bequests ranged from $250 to $1,500. Friends said that he had made his money prospecting in the’ Ari- | 2onid gold fields. USE “FORCE” ORDER GIVEN PARIS, April 1.—The Navy Min- istry announced late today that French warships have been ordered to use force if necessary to prevent the stopping and searching of French ships by Spanish warships on the high seas. Auto-Trailer Wife Is Sued for Divorce LOS ANGELES, April 1. — In the first action of its kind, Ben M. Lefner today had on file a suit for divorce against Margaret Lef- aer, charging she “positively re- fused to live anywhere except in an auto-trailer.” e — FOSS RETURNS Returning to Juneau today with Pilot Sheldon Simmons aboard the AAT plane was Harold B. Foss, Ju- neau architect, whe sailed from here for Sitka Tuesday aboard the stea- mer North Sea, on a hurried busi- ness trip. ————.——— STABLER TO SITKA Howard D. Stabler, Juneau attor- ney, was a passenger flying to Sitka from here this morning by AAT plane. Mr. Stabler is making a short business trip and planned to return to Juneau with Simmons on ESTES FUNERAL WILL BE FRIDAY AT CARTER'S Pioneer of Alaska Will Be Buried in Pioneers’ Sec- tion of Evergreen Cem. Funeral services for James E. Estes, 81, pioneer Alaskan who died in Sitka Monday, will be held in the chapel ‘of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, Friday afterjoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. 0. L. Kendall of the Me- tropolitan Methodist church will of- ficiate. Interment will be in the Pioneers’ section of Evergreen Cem- etery. | Mr. Estes was born May 13, 1855, at Lenoir, North Carolina. He came to Alaska in 1904 and has lived here since that time. For several years during the administrations of Presi- |dent Wilson he was a guard at the Federal Jail. It was almost twenty years ago when, in the position of guard, he was one of those locked |up by Edward Krause, one of Al- aska's most notorious criminals, when Krause escaped from jail where he was being held for hang- ing after conviction for murder and a series of other crimes. Mrs. Fannie Estes, wife of the deceased, who survives him, is ill lat St. Ann’s hospital. Other surviv- \ors are his three sisters, Mrs. Nar- mesia Hammett, Mrs. Emma Killian and Mrs. Rosa Rheim, all of Los Angeles. A son, Guy W, Estes, died in Ju- neau May 4, 1934, while here on a visit to his parents and was bur- ied in Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Estes was a member of Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska. ESTEBETH LEAVES ON SCHEDULED RUN TO ISLAND POINTS Among the . passengers leaving Juneau for nearby island ports last evening at 6 o'clock aboard the Da- vis Transportation Company motor- ship Estebeth, Capt. G. Gustafson, were Daniel C. Sullivan and Mrs. J. Schoonover. That vessel is on her regular weekly mail, passenger, and freight run to Sitka and way ports. try is on the boom in Oregon and | . Washington, Floyd Volk, of Seat- | itle, General Manager of the Co-| [lumbia Lumber Company, told the | meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce this noon in the Term-| |inal Cafe that orders are pouring {in at such a rate to the lumbermen | ithat théy are unable to keep up‘ Leslie Howard %e.. says Luckies are “tops” with jone full shift daily now, he said,| |and there is a pronounced boom | in building. Seattle, he reported,| is experiencing more building than | it has enjoyed in 10 years and the| {situation is comparable throughout | |the country, according to general’ reports received by the lumber in- dustry. Mr. Volk said he was impressed | with the amount o building in Ju- | neau and forecast at least threeq years of unusual prosperity for the {building and lumber industry. Norman Banfield reported for the Local Industries Committee that investigation was being made of the movement on the part of hali- buters to go to Petersburg for high- er prices. He szid the committee was informed that when the first boats came in here it was on a Saturday and there was no boat south until the following Wednes- day to ship the fish, thus the buy- ers didn’t care whether they bought or not. The committee learned, he reported, that the same companies | who buy here and in Petersburg held to the same prices in both | places, although there were some actual differences in prices during the fore part of the season. The committee is making a further investigation and -will report” in! two weeks again. | A letter was read from the Spo- kane Chamber of Commerce which | told of that Chamber's efforts in | behalf of the Alaska aviation pro- | gram. | SEVEN HALIBUTERS SELL FISH, SEATTLE SEATTLE, April 1—Seven hali- buters sold their catches here today as follows: From the western banks—Akutan 33,000 pounds, Kodiak 33,000 pounds, both selling for 8 and 6 cents; Le- viathan 27,000 pounds, 8% and 6 cents. From the local banks—Nordic 12,- 000 pounds, Swift No. Two 12,000 pounds, both selling for 9% and 6 cents; Eleanora 3,000 pounds, Mar- iner 9,000 pounds, both selling for 9 and 6 cents a pound. personally prefer a light smoke. * | Schilling Baking ~Powder ,G\\“‘\ biscuits N L4 Eese An independent survey was made recently among professional men and women—lawyers, doctors, lecturers, scientists, etc. Of those who said they smoke cigarettes, more than 87% stated they Mr. Howard verifies the wisdom of this pref- erence, and so do other leading artists of the radio, stage, screen and opera. Their voices are their fortunes. That's why so many of them smoke Luckies. You, too, can have the throat pro- tection of Luckies—a light smoke, free of certain harsh irritants removed by the exclusive process | *“It’s Toasted”. Luckies are gentle on the throat. 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