The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 12, 1937, Page 1

T HE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LI., NO. 7638. JUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY, NOVI—MBER 121937, MEMBLR ASSOCIATI D PRESS SKA EMPIRE PRICE TI:N CENTS WHANGPOO NOW SAFE FOR NAVIGATION Kidnaper Under Arrest; Victim Released MINISTER IS ABDUCTED ON NOVEMBER 1 Taken on Alleged Errand| for Cashing Check, Put in Hideout FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE CASE; SPEEDY RESULTS Two Others—‘ll;plicted Are Still at Large—Hoover Makes Statement BULLETIN — HUNTING- TON, West Virginia, Nov. 12. — Federal Agents this afternoon charged Booth with extortion and kidnaping. Kidnap charges will also be preferred against At- Kins and Travis. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—J. Ed- gar Hoover announces that Federal Agents have arrested Arnett Booth, | of Huntington, West Virginia, on/ charges of demanding $50,000 for the release of Dr. James Seder, former minister, kidnaped from home on November 1. The Director of the FBI said found yesterday near an abnndoned coal mine, seven miles outside of | Wayne, West Virginia. He is today recovering in a hospital. . Hoover said Booth admitted he participated in the abduction and the writing of the $50,000 ransom letter on No- vember 6. Confession Implicates Boothe'’s confession, Hoover implicated Orville Atkins and John Travis, both at large. Hoover said Seder was kidnaped by three men when he agreed to atcompany them and assist in cash- ing a check. He was found only| after a resident near a farm where, he was held captive for 11 dayfi heard cries for help. Seder was covered with scmtchefl and bruises after being forced to| climb a steep 30-féot ravine to a| farm house where he was held pris- oner. Hoover sald Booth, who was a tenant of Seders, took the minister to a farm hideout instead of going to cash a check. NEWAIRLINE TOWESTWARD | IS ANNOUNCED I Airbase to Be Established| in Kuskokwim Valley with Feeder Lines ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 12— The Star Airways, one of Alaska’s largest operating air lines, has been sold for an undisclosed amount to| a new company to be known as the| Star Airlines. Negotiations were completed be- tween Pilot Don Goodman and W.| E. Dunkle, retiring President. ! Goodman will be Secretary-Man- ager of the new airlines and he said| capital will be added for an addi- | tion of three new planes and en- largement of the hangar and shops here. An air base will be established! in the Kuskokwim Valley and ground radio stations will also be| established at Goodnews Bay Flat, Bethel, Ophir and Folger. Goodman said two large planes will be used between Anchorage and the proposed Kuskokwim base where\ air travel will be transferred to| smaller ships serving points along the Kustkokwim. DIES IN CHAIR FOR SLAYING 2 EDDYVILLE, Kentucky, Nov. 12.| —Perry Marion, 28, died in Ken- tucky's electric chair this morning| for slaying a woman and a2 man in a store robbery mear Corbin, a year ago. 79, | his‘ | Social Postmaster Gets | | | Farley signs autograpll SE-[ When Postmaster General James A. Farley visited Eugene, Ore., on | der was physically exhausted when| his western trip, he was welcomed by pretty Lorraine Barker, Oregon co-ed, and asked for his autograph by little Tommy Hawn, who is already collecting famous signatures at '.he age of two. Royal Welcome UAPAN TURNS - DOWN SECOND PEACE INVITE Will Not Participate in Con- ference Being Held at Brussels 'STILL LOOK TO U. S. TO MAKE FIRST MOVE American Ambassadors| Grew, Nelson Can Ap- proach F.O. Anytime | TOKYO, Nov. formally refused, for the second time, an invitation to participate in |the Brussels conference but the note said however that “Japan would 12, — Japan has' be glad if the powers should con-| tribute to stabilization in Eastern {Asia in a manner consonant with realities of the situation.” LOOK TO BRUSSELS, Nov. 12 itative Japanese source declares that the United States, acting for itself, is still the “ticket entry” to dls— cuss Far Eastern peace. Japan, desnite Tokyo's refusal to lattend the Brussels Lomnrenc(- on mediation, still lcoks to the States to start real peace pll)pos- als. Congressional Confusion; Just What Does It Mean? said, ‘ —_— TAX BASE MAY ' BE BROADENED, IS REPORT NOW Persons w1th Small In- comes, Probably to Be Nicked More By PRESTON GROVER ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—Peo-| ple who talk glibly about “broaden- ing the tax base” could well be re- iminded that more than a year ago the tax base was broadened with one quick gesture to nick a billion dollars from the incomes of per- sons once described flippantly as of “no particular importance.’ It was accomplished through the Security tax. The income from that going into the old age and unemployment funds is esti- |mated by treasury sources to be about a billion a year at its pres- ent level. If the law is not amend- ed the one per cent levy now in ef- fect climbs on up ultimately to three per cent. At preseént the employer and the employe each pay a sum to the government equal to one per cent of the employe's salary. So in ef- fect an item equal to two per cent of each employe’s salary pours in- to the treasury month by month. The top limit of the tax at present is $30 a year, or $60 a year when the employer's share is included. The reason for that is that even if you make over $3,000 a year, you can not accumulate benefits based on more than $3,000 pay. Yet even so, this $30 a year tax is decided more than the average wage earner has been paying to the government through the income tax. Of course if your income is $1,200 a year the Social Security tax is not $20, but is $12. come is $2,000 a year the tax is {s20. . HIS TAX SMALL But we’ll stick to the $3,000 a year man, for several reasons. This $3,000 man likely enough never has paid any appreciable amount of income tax, particularly if he is married and his wife is not work- ing. Being married, he gets an exemption of $2,500 a year outright Then the government allows him a . . | further deduction of 10 per cent of his net earned income, which would (Continued on Page Six) | Commercial Interests | 'The Japanese source said that United States Ambassador Grew, in ToRyo, can always approach the Japanese Foreign Office and dis- ‘cu\s the Chinese-Japanese conflict | Three men were killed when a Southern Pacific pass nger ¢ Turleck, Cal. Flames from the guflnline pl‘(’dd half a mile on the rl‘h! of -way. FIRST ALASKA More Dmglhlas in cellided with a gas Two men in the truck and the fireman were killed while the engineer was seriously injured. Tr(un Truck Cras h Talws Thrvv Lives -laden truck near '31 SALMON PACK ' STAMPS GIVEN | May Be Built by ESTIMATE WORTH | 10 GUVERNUR Navylleparlmem OVER $24,000, 000 = Ifrom the standpoint of heavy Amer- [, W. Gnflm Acting Chief Possibility of Future Light- Complete Repult Shows 6,- By MORGAN M. BEATTY |{ican interests involved. e _ | This statement bore out, in a gen- AP Feature Service Writer eral way, the attitude of Japan and WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. — Withljt was disclosed before the confer- {a special term of Congress in the'ence opened several days ago |offing, all is confusion. | Japan still insists that the Brus- Congress plans to balance the sels conference might develop ways budgct. vet the deficit is mountaing and means for peace but that the every day. |United States, through Ambassa- The Administration wants o dors Grew to Japan, and Nelson, to er-than-Air Craft in Balance \ ‘Executive, Presented with First Sheet Printed | The first sheet stamps printed by the Postoffice Department were presented this morning to Acting Gov. E. W. Grif- fin as the official opening of the of 40 Alaska| WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Indica- tions are that the Navy may ask Congress next year to supply funds for the onstruction of the first giant airship since the dirigible Ma- | velt landslide. Gone was the depres- | And if the in-{ avoxd new taxes on the eve of next year’s election campaigns, yet treasury experts debate a scheme to increase income taxes for people who make between $5, 000 and $50,000 a year. Retail business continues bright, but the stock market is jumpmg‘ around like a skeleton on a | roof. A long-awaited permanent re-l lief program for the farmer is about to be sprung, but it would‘ cost a couple hundred millions more than the present soil conser- vation program. Another law to protect labor| against exploitation is ready ror a| vote in Congress, but some labor leaders doubt that it will give work~ ers a free hand to bargain collec-| tively. ‘What does it all mean? P January Headlines Primarily, it means that events| have conspired to put Congress on| an uncomfortable spot—more un-| comfortable, perhaps, than any i'.\ has known since it had to face the‘ prohibition issue 17 years ago. And all these puzzling events have occurred in a scant nine months. Last January the lawmakers met | in the rosy after-glow of a Roose-| sion, and the first frenzy of the New Deal to stop the disaster and care for the destitute. Government | had settled down to a more or less steady undertone, the orderly con- fusion of any big business. The three big headlines of the month tell the serene story: 1. Depression Fades; Boom Sight. 2. President Predicts Budget. 3. Democrats Organize Huge Ma- jority. Then what? On February 5, the President pro- posed to extend the New Deal by| enlarging the supreme court; in- come taxes failed to reach the op- timistic estimates of the treasury, and the budget went out of kilter in April; Senate Leader Joe T. Ro- binson died in July, and the Presi- dent’s own Democrats sabotaged his court plan; and to top it all o(f,; the stock market nose-dived in Oc- tober. 3 Now look what’s happened to the In Bigger three big headlines of January: " (Continued on Page Five) |ests China, ‘because of American inter- in both Japan and China, should make the first move a commercial standpoint. Neither Greal Britain nor other| amba.ssadur: BOB BARTLETT RESIGNS FROM PLANNING GROUP Chau'man of Une Unemployment | [ Commission Can’t Find Time for Two Positions Announcement was made today | by Acting Gov. E. W. Griffin that| he had received the resignation of | E. L. “Bob” Bartlett, Secretary of the Alaska Planning Commission, | with the request that the resigna- tion become effective November 9.| Due to the absence of a quorum of {the Planning Commission from the city, action on the resignation will | be held in abeyance, the Chief Ex- ecutive said. B. Frank Heintzleman, Chairman of the Planning Commission, is now | {in Portland meeting with planning |authorities for purpose of drawing up the Alaska plan to be presented | | the President for submission to ‘Congress and is leaving that city | tonight for Washington, | the request of the Alaska Commis- D. C, at sion, for further work there in con- nection with the plan. He will re- turn to Portland December 7 for another meeting with planning au- thorities and drawing up of the final draft which must be in the hands of the President by January 1 Mr. Bartlett also is Chairman of the Unemployment Corapensation | Commission which is now in session here. He said he was tendering his resignation as Secretary of the planning group due to the fact that he could not find time for both po- sitions and that his mining inter- ests in the Interior would not per- mit his giving full time to a Terri- torial position. Appointment of a successor to Mr. Bartlett probably will not be under- from | Alaska stamp sale in Juneau, which (at noon had seen approximately 500,000 of the new stamps sold. | The stamps were brought here (from Washington by O. L. Rogers, | [nations are entertained as peace|Philatelic Agent of the Postoffice Department, at the request of Post- lmaswr General James A. Farley| |for presentation to Gov. John W.| Troy. In the absence of Governor |Troy in the States, the presentation was made by Mr. Rogers to Acr.lngl Gov. Griffin. The sheet bore the following in- |scription: ! “The first sheet of the Alaska stamp printed. Presented to Hon.| |Edward W. Griffin, Acting Gover-! nor of the Territory of Alaska, by | |otto L. Rogers, Philatelic Agent of | the U. 8. Postoffice Department, 1 INovember 12, 1937,” and signed bv I, Rogers. | Envelopes bearing the seal of AI- aska and one of the new Ala stamps were being mailed to Pre: |dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary |of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Sec- |retary of State Cordell Hull, Dr. Er- |nest Gruening, Director of the Di-! {vision of Territories and Island Pos- | sessions, and other high officials to- (day by Acting Gov. Griffin. Post- |master Albert Wile also was send- {ing “covers” to the President, Post- [master General Farley and other| notable officials. The Postmaster estimated at noon |that about 500,000 stamps had been |sold, collectors taking a large num- |ber during the half hour sale at midnight and many other stamp |buyers showing up this marnmg Be- |tween 200,000 and 300,000 “covers |will be postmarked today, the fir |day of the sale, the Postmaster said, |as more than 200,000 envelopes have |been received from “Outside” to be | umped by the Postoffice. | | | " | i | taken until the return of Mr. Heint- zleman and a meeting of the Plan-| |ning Commission can be held wuh( ,411 members present. - e - Negro Shots White Woman, then Sulcldes; MT. LLLMENI Ml(h. Nov. 12‘ Chief of Pilece Arthur Rosso id today ihat Willlam Hathaway, | 46, a negro, shot and killed himself after seriously wounding Miss Lil- lion Willig, 26, a white woman. con crashed off the California coast in 1935. Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief of the Naval Aeronautics Commission recommended that the Navy decide soon whether to build more big airships or not. Assistant Secretary Charles Edi- |son said: “No one knows what diri- gibles can do. The only way to find out is to try them." ROOSEVELT IS T0 TALK WITH UTILITY HEADS May Ask Power Magnates to Bring Down Elec- tric Rates WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt said he will talk with power and utility representatives next week presumably in an effort to get them to lower their property |valuations with a view of bringing down electric rates. The President told a press confer- ence delegation that he did not know whether he would take up the need of construction in the util- ity field or not but a lag in such construction was mentioned in re- cent presidential conferences The President also said attention is to be given to get capital to go |more extensively into the housing field with the objective of low in- terest and low building costs as the prime factors He emphasized that the entire undertaking is however, much in the study e. GENERAL DIES, BULLET WOUND BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. — Gen. Wojislaw Tonic, Assistant Regent Commandant of Belgrade, !died last night from a bullet “wound 12 which the authorities claim was _ self-inflicted. | Ketchikan <. 28,777; 598,393 Cases Packed in Alaska Summer and Fall The Alaska salmon pack reached a total of 363 cases during the 1537 season, including about 100,- 000 from the fall pack, according to figures released today by the U. S. Bureau of Pisheries. This is 1,690,413 cases less than 1936, the banner , when the pack went to 8,288,796 cases At prevailing prices, the past sea- son’s pack is estimated to be val- ued at between §24,000,000 and $25,- 000.000. Bristol Bay led the various dis- tricts with a total pack of 1,434,388 | cases and the Kosak-Afognak dis-| trict was second with 897,882 cases, district in the South-| east being third with 889,894 case: Complete pack figures by with comparative totals against the previous years are as follows: 23545; kings, chums, 65,613; 468,134; 1936 068; cohos, total, season, y Ketf lchlk an-—Red 1‘002, pinks, 671,257, chums, 508; cohos, 16,096; total, 889,894; 1936 season, 1,507,936 cases. Icy St Reds, 39,640; kings, 405; pinks, 208448; chums, 56,621; cohos, 6,906; total, 312,020; son, 360,567 cases. Eastern District kings, 8,257; pinks, 65,931; cohos, 6,905; 1936 season, 438,878 ca Western District—Reds, 18477; kings, 24; pinks, 194,675; chums, 90,052; cohos, 5,616; total, 308,845; 1936 season, 431486 (ns Wrangell-Petersburg— 067; kings, 1 pink: chums, 61,189; f‘nh'». E 4900,708; 1936 sea Yakutat—Reds, ; pinks, 7.853 total 36031; kings, — Reds, 323,556, total, 8,923; chums, 413,571; Reds, 22.- 383,115; 78; total, 626 cases. Kings, 1,- 383; cohos, 1936 season, chum ding 1,984 chums n Copper River--Reds, 77,550; kings 3,846; pinks, 17; cohos, 5357; total, 86,770: 1936 season, 76,731 cases. Cook Inlet—Reds, 108,728, Kings, 24,983; pinks, 24,200; chums, 12,374; cohos, 1144§: total, 181,730; 1936 season. 311,349 ca Kodiak-Afornak — kings. pinks, cohos 1936 season, 654,6 Chignik—Reds pinks, 57,614; chums, Reds, 34,709; 120,232; chums, t 297,882; 27; kings, 9,881 153, cohos, (Continued on Pnge‘slx)' 165,- | 1936 sea- | LINERS MAY ~ AGAIN MOVE T0 SHANGHAI Chinese Army Retreats to New Defense Line 50 Miles West | | | | \ | |AIR RAIDS MADE ON INTERIOR SECTIONS American C_h;ch and Mis- | sion Bombed by Nip- ! pon War Planes | | SHANGHAI, Nov. iz-—Japanese |Naval authorities announced this |morning that the Whangpoo River |1s now safe for passenger and freight |ships ewing to the retreat of the lchlnebe troops from the Shanghal |area as no further battling is nee- | essary. | The liner President Doumer is.the ;l“‘ht vessel to enter Shanghai Hars |bor since the Whangpon River was |declared unsafe last August. The steamer came up the river this af- ernoon. Officials of the Dollar Line said |they are still uncertain when ships {will resume calling at Shanghai. CHINESE FALL BACK SHANGHAI, Nov. 12. — China's Shanghai armies, about 400,000 sol- ‘dxer« strong, have (lllon back to the | "Chineseé-Hiridenburg line” more han 50 miles west of here and the panese troops, numbering 200,000 have occupied the Shanghai mt‘a and also forced Chinese from towns and trenches in the nearby sectors. Air Raids Are Made Nippon's war planes have raided into the interior. One flight bombed jan American church and mission hospital at Wusth, 80 miles west of Nanking, killing two Chinese staff members. Five Americans escaped injury. AMBASSADORS, “SOVIET UNION, ~ ORDERED HOME | Two, Accordmg to Unco@, firmed Rumors, Are % Under Arrest | MOSCOW, Nov. 12.—Russia’s Am- bassadors to Germany, Turkey and |Poland are reported in diplomatic circles to have been recalled. Unconfirmed rumors are that two |have been arrested. The same sources said Rudolf |Sommer German Consul General in }Lenmxrad. has been recalled by the |Berlin Government, at Moscow's request. The same rumoers are that Am- |bassador Yurenieff in Berlin, and Ambassador Karski, in Turfkey, are the two under arrest and their names are linked with the Govern- ment’s purge of suspected enen#d, It is officially said 400 Germans have been arrested throughout the Soviet Union within recent months as spy buspects Dredge Uuarales At Goodnews Bay FOODNEWS BAY, Alaska, Nov. 12.-A new platinum dredge ~has been installed and is bein: operat- on three 8- hour shifts. Billy Rose fo Marry Eleanor DENVER, Col., Nov. 12. — Billy Rose, show producer, announces that he and Eleanor Holm Jarrett, former Olympic swimming star, are to marry as soon as she is divorced from her present mate, Arthur Jar- [rett, orchestra leader and singer.