The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1939, Page 2

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SHRINE DANCE ANNUAL WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY BALL (INVITATIONAL) BLENDED FOR BETTER TASTE MASONIC TEMPLE Tuesday Evening February 21 MUSIC BY WESLEY BARRETT'S ROYAL ALASKANS 9:30 0°CLOCK TRANSPORTATION WITH TAXATION MINE PROBLEMS Charles Murray; Alaska Mining Assn. Delegate for Lower Schedule in Juneau is Charles Murray, Gen- eral Manager of the Boundary Min- ing Company of the Fortymile and Good Pasture Districts in the Inter- jor, here as a delegate for the Al- aska Mining Association to the re- cent gold tax hearing. The gold tax question has excited much interest in Int‘e;ior Alaska and is y closely interwined with the welfare of that section. ing of a tax on gold mines of the Territory, is that the assesment should be equitable. Many mining firms now operate ground which un- der the three per cent present tax is unprofitable,” said Mr. Murray. Statihg that companies working rich ground can stand a 3 per cent levy, “many smaller operators forced unto low grade ground can hardly | make a go of it,” he declared. A tax to be fair on all mining| firms should be laid against their| earnings rather than against their | Among the prominent mining men | Speaking on the subject, Mr. Mur- | ray said, “Main factor in the levy- ___THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 21, 1939. € ‘BUND DEFENDS CON Wilhelm Kunze (right), national gross output, | Difference in money making abil- ity of many companies lies in the E ibi. shipping centers. | “Transportation costs are worse than | he asserted, “it costs my firm $80 a ton to haul freight from Daw- | |son, 71 miles to our dredge site on | Canyon Creek in the Fortymile dis- | |trict. Ordinary diesel fuel oil down {on our land costs 59 cents per gal-| {lon.” | | Adding the cost of transportation | to tax outlay, Mr, Murray asserts that much low grade ground in the Territory is now unworked as a con- | sequence. | For Int. Highway Solution of the transportation an- gle lies in early commencement of | work on the Alaskan end of the projected International Highway.| “While waiting for Canada to begin | work on her stretch of the new road, Alaska should be actively engaged in construction of the tie up stretch between the Richardson System and | Canadian Boundary,” he said. “The | link between the Richardson mad‘ and Fortymile is approximately 200 | miles and if the area in here was tapped with thoroughfares many | | fine quartz properties would now | be well under developmen! “The road,” Mr. Murray said, “will |be closed for all but 90 days of the creek southward; while towards the Richardson Highway junction pas- | sage would be available some seven ‘months of the year. This country is a lowland section and not hit by win- | ter as is that to the South.” Awaits Tax Issue The Boundary Mining Company operates one dredge in the Fortymile section and have dragline equip- ment ordered for expanded opera- tions in the area. “We have held back on the installation of this dragline equipment until such a time as the tax issue is determined.” Acting as the sole representative for the Alaska Mining Association, Mr. Murray believes that the inter- ests of the Territory are being well taken care of by the present legisla- | ture. He is confident that no mea- sure detrimental to the mining in- dustry will pass this session. Mr. Murray is an old time Alaskan having come here 32 years ago and living at Nome until the World War when he enlisted in the United States Army. At one time or another he has lived and done business in every section of the Territory and feels that there are many problems which | confront legsilators which are diffi- cult of ready comprehension due to great differences.in’ makeup in the | various Judicial Divisions, | He served ‘as Representative for | the Third Division in 1935 Session of the Territorial Legislature. He is registered at the Gastineau Hotel waiting for passage on PAA to Fairbanks. .- SMITH TO APPEAL ~ IN COOKIE CASE | 4 ! The Smith triangle “salad dress- ing” and “cookie jar’ case came to {life again today when it was re- vealed Paul ,Danaig, at ey, for the defense, filed notice of appeal on the decision of a . jury which brought Forrest B, Smith.a sentence of 20 years.in prison for. second degree murder . in the death of Thomas B. Colling, allegedly inti- mate with Smith’s wife. The appeal was granted by Judge George F. Alexander. Grounds were that testimony of Robert Light was not admitted, and that the court ordered attorneys for defense al- though Smith chose to defend him- self, - Appeal will be, to the Ninth Cir- cuit Court of Appeals in San Fran- cisco. e — NASI CALLED SOUTH — : Called south by, the, unexpected illness of his mother, Karrio Nasi, Director of Public Health Eng) ing, sailed last night on the North- g 'land for San Diego, Cal. MDIAN LOUR BILL REPORTED OUT IN SENATE Natives 0m$e LaBoy-} teaux Measure in Eve- | ning Open Hearing | S i Senator C. H. rLaBoyteux's biil to prohibit sale of liquor to Alaska | Natives was reported out of Com- | mittee, today without recommenda- tion, following a Judiciary Com- mittee hearing last night at which half a dozen Juneau Indians tes- | tified. Fervent pleas not to enact dis- criminatory legislation were voiced by Jake Cropley, Stanley Sutton Mrs. Margaret Flesher, William L. Paul and Sandy Stevens. | Most of the Senators, in addi- | [tion to Mrs. Ella D. Smith and | |Arthur Eide spoke in favor of en-| | year between the head of Jack Wade}aqtlng some such bill to keep liquor | | from Natives. ; | , Cropley, first speaker, contended that as long as white people ha |liquor, the Indian would be able |to get it, the only effect of the bill being to increase cost of liquor to the Native. Mrs. Flesher pleaded that Legis- lators give the Natives a chance to work the problem out for them- |selves, saying “it took you twenty- {five or fifty thousand years to come from the stone age; it's taken us one hundred years.” Prohibition Favored thing to do would be to enact a prohibition law which would apply in support of his contention that| such legislation as that embodied in Senate Bill No. 17 is unconsti- tutional. Mrs. Smith said the law was |not discriminatory, but protective { |saying she believed it would pro- tect little Native children who we being neglected while their parent: drank. Concluding the Indian argument, Stevens declared, “the Indians don’t know how to add any more only how to subtract, you whites have taken so many things away from us.” B Norwomen Dinner Will Be Thursday Reservations are now belng made for the Norwomen dinner by calling Red 410, and must be in by tomor- made today. The monthly affair will take place Thursday, evening at 6 o'clock in the Parlors of the Northern Light ‘Presbyterian Church, with dinner ‘arrangements in charge of Mrs. Vena rone. _Main feature of the evening will be the colored movies which are to be shown by Mrs. F. K. Ordway. - wu i SURVEY OF TAX SITUATION MADE BY JOE GREEN A survey of the tax situation in the Territory by Joe Green, Tax Collector in the Treasurer's office, was received by the Senate today from the office of the Governor. Green's conclusions are that about 10 percent of the people favor a general real and personal property tax and another 10 percent would like to see a gasoline tax enacted. Eighty percent believe a net tax on gold is’ unjustified, Green:declares. German-American bund, at a Los Angeles meeting. He further described the group as a defender of “{rue democrac man Schwinn (left), Pacific coast bund leader, charg of aliens in Hollywood” with persecuting the bund in Los Angeles. Paul said that the only sensible | to everyone. He spoke at length | - GETS OKEH IN HOUSE TODAY Appropriation for Territor-| ial Building Is Called "Guinea Pig Money’ The House this afternoon passed | | Representative Ed Caoffey’s bill to| require a resident fisherman to be in the T tory for six months of | :Y year succeeding his initial| qualification as a resident fishe -1 man in order to escape the non- | resident tax. Coffey said pa we will increase the number of resident fishermen and give the]| Territory added revenue in case non-resident fi y the tax age of the meas o | Ye where srmen are ed thi térnoon by 3 oclock, were five unimportant | measures. ‘ | House Bill 70 was passed. further ning prosecution of license tions in relation to fishermen, adding a clause to the books that makes the suits in such' cases in | the name of the Territory and the | 4 fines to go to the Treasurer and STITUTION' declared General Fund public relations director for the House Bill 88 directs the Terri- torial Road Commissioners’ to spend | $1.000 each on landing fields at| Noorvik, Noatak, Haycock and Sela- | wik; House Bill 89 directs the com- | missioners to spend $1,750 on the Kotzebue airfield; House - Bill 90, $5,000 for roads in the Candle area and $500 for airfield improvemants there. These bills are a Second Division and Her ed a “bunch T0 RAISE GOLD method of getting assurance that 'I’AX EXEMP"ON roads and trails allotments for their division will be put to work on _— the projects desired. Roden Measure Would Fix House Bill 93 was passed, giving Felix Andrea $195 for the burial of Taxable O-U'pu’ a' Sam Callahon on Lonesome River in 1932, involving 10 days of dog Over SZS 000 team travel | ’ House Bill 92, asking $17,976 for et g maintenance and repairs to the A bill to liberahze the three per- | Territori Building, slipped into cent gross gold tax law to allow ex-'deep wat when the accusation emption on operations up to $25000 was made by some Représentatives | was introduced in the Senate loday that “it's a lot of money for a by Senator Henry Roden of Juneau.|guinea pig farm.” The measure goes The present exemption is $10,600. on the calendar for third read- Senator Roden’s bill, one of 16 |jne | measures introduced today in the e Senate, is the only gold tax bill now pending before the legislature. It JUDGE MORISON 'S would cover gold, platinum, osmium irridium and other metals be g- IN JUNEAU 0" wAY ing to the platinum or palladium group TO COURT AT NOME Two bills dealing with insurance also were introduced today by Sen- ator Roden. Senate bill No. 77 would | Judge J. H. Morison of the fix the on fire District Court Nome, Second insurance 1 written | Division, arrived in Juneau yester- or renewed I that the|day even on the Princess Norah insurance compan have the|from the States. | option of rebuilding a damaged Judge Morison is awaiting trans- building, pay v able rental portation to Nome. He plans to go ! to the insured curing the time the by PAA plane, but will take the building is being put in shape Baranof to the Westward if no Insurance Agents plane is able to get away by the Senate bill No. 80, amends the| time of sailing, | insurance laws to make agents’ lic- | > > es renewable June 30 instead of | SHORT FIRE RUN December 31 and reduces the lic-| An oil burner fire took the Fire | ense of resident agents from $25|pepartment to the Perelle Apart- | to $5, requiring, however, that the|ments on Seventh Avenue, at 1:40 zent have eve a separate license for|gciock this afternoon, cmopany represented | The trouble was under control in tor LeRoy Sullivan of Nome|gp minytes and the laddies re-| iced a blil today providing|yymeq to the Station at 2 o'clock. ! dependent, n ted and de-|ppore s no d linquent, children may be committed | % { |by a U. S. Commissioner to the De- | ‘ |partment. of Public Welfare, which | JAIL OR FINE | | would become legal guardian of wr:h} Because Felix Ballo, Filipino, was | i“""““’" and have the right to give ! put in jail for breaking windows ix” them in adoption just as if the par- the City Cafe with his hands, U. S. lents were dead. | Commissioner Felix Gray sentenced | 1t | tha | A higher rate of pay for employ-| him to 50 days in jail or $100 fine. | ees of the custodi. ice in charg - - of Federal buildings in Alaska is| JURY TRIAL | Mike Vaggi is being tried on a| sorderly conduct charge before a jury in U. S. Commissioner Felix | court today. f , sitting on the case this : i noon at 3:30 o'clock were: t above what is paid for “““';John Wilson, Agnes Manning, * work in Seattle is suggested. | pgner Bavard, Gyda Samuelsen,| Places EXSHUHon Aeked |J. R. Lovett, Myrtle Turner, Grant Only measure passed today by the | ga1qyin, Bruce Smith, Archie Jones, | | Senate was Senate joint memorial § % y, n No. 9, asking that the placer gold fim’é‘;"n Cive M wesion, and Gl | mining industry be exempted from | provisions of the wages and hours act, A number of bills were in second reading in the Senate this after- noon, the women’s minimum wage |bill (S. B. 52) coming through the ordeal with but one minor amend- ment, that to require that the mini- mum part time pay of 45 cents an| hour apply only to women 18 years | of age or older. Rep. Harvey Smith’s memorial | asking immediate abolition of all fish traps came into the Senate to- |day from the Fouse and was re- ferred to the Committee on Fish- eries, Game and Agriculture. Licuor Bill Out ed in a memorial introduced by Senator Roden and addressed to gj | Postmaster General Farley, A mini- | | mum of $125 per month is present salaries being as little $96.50 a month. A differential 25|,¢iqy Juro; LICENSE | Leota Harris and Louis Puzey, both of Juneau, took out a license sioner Felix Gray's court. | RESDENT LAW | to marry today in U. S. (:cmm‘m-‘I Out of the Judiciary Committee without recommendation came Sen- | ator C. H. LaBoyteaux’s bill pro- hibiting sale of liquor to Indians. Unfavorable committee reports were atfached to Speaker Howard Lyng’s three bills dealing with avia- tion when they emerged for placing jon the Senate calendar today. The | two- radio bill, House Bill No. 122, was in the “do not pass” trio | N ) along with House Bills Nos. 23 and |’ - 24, promulgating other aviation reg- ulations. CEECHS IR Treating the soil with lead arse- nate is the most effective control over the Japanese beetle, but is too expensive for use in large areas. | " DEFENSEAND TRADE will probably be discussed when Osvvaldo Aranha (above), Brazil foreign minister, arrives soon in Waskiagton, D. C., to talk with /) U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weidther Bureau) Forecast for Juneéau and vicinily, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Feb, 21:4 Rain tonight and Wednesday, moderate southerly winds. Weather forecast for Soutbeast Alaska: Rain tonight and Wed: nesday, except snow over northern and northeastern Alaska-Canadi- an border, moderate southerly winds, except fresh over Dixon En- trance, Chatham Strait and Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh southeast winds tonight from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook, increasing Wednesday, becoming fresh to strong. LOCAL DATA <« Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather 0 p.m. yest'y 30.36 38 67 SE & iy Cloudy o 30 a.m. today 30. 34 95 SE 9 Lt. Snow Noon today 30.35 36 93 S 4 Lt. Rain RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4a.m. 4am. Precip. 4am. Station 1ast 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Atka 36 | 30 0 06 Cloudy Anchorage 32 24 4 T Clear Barrow 6 0 6 04 Pt.cla¥ Nomic 32 28 20 01 Lt.Snow Bethel 34 26 % T _Ppt.cdy Fairbanks 28 10 4 0 Pt.Cldy Dawson 10 -16 6 0 Clear St. Paul 36 30 8 0 lear Dutch Harbor 30 16 31 Vy.Rn. Kodiak 34 4 1.02 Clear Cordova 34 8 19 Lt Rain Junean 34 9 05 Lt.Snow Sitka | 34 g ™" 35 Ketchikan 3 34 36 4 T Cloudy ¢ Prince Rupert ..... 40 [ 36 36 4 0 Cloudy Edmonton -2 -16 6 08 Cleag, Seattle 38 4 0 Clear Portland 50 40 40 4 0 Cloudy san Francisco 62 46 46 4 0 Clear New York 66 36 36 14 T Cloudy Washington 2 50 50 6 o Pt. Cldy WEATIER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure prevailed this morning over the north- castern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, the storm area being centered at latitude 48 degrees and longitude 170 degrees, where a* pressure of 28.80 inches prevailed. High barometric pressure prevailed over the eastern and southeastern portions of Alaska and eastwar to the Mackenzie Valley and southward to California, the crest being 30.68 inches over the southern portion of Saskatchewan. This general pressure distribution has been attended by precipitasion along the coastal regions from the Aleutian Islands southeastward to Dixon Entrance, also over the Seward Peninsula and over the interior of Alaska and by fair weather over the lower Matanuska Valley and the Pac Coast State: It was warmer last night ov: Alaska. * the interior and northern portions of Feb. 22.—Sunrise, 7:16 a.m.; Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbia Coom HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 21.—Hollywood has a way. . . . There was Henry Fonda, some years back. If ever a young fellow wanted neither part nor parcel of the movies, it was Hank. Why should be have? His days of starvation were over. He'd gone through that phase of his acting career on Broadway. He had lived through lean periods by eating rice—a nickel's worth swells up so fillingly when boiled. At last he had a contract, an informal agreement with a New York producer giving him $100 a week—and he was acting in plays here and there, in stock, and in general on top of the world. That was when Leland Hayward, the agent, came to Holly- wood. Hayward Jooked around and decided that Hank Fonda ought to come too. He wrote and telegraphed, but Hank said no. He said finally to come on out, all expenses paid, and look around. Fonda came. “I'll stop 'em cold,” said Hank. a week. That'll slay 'em.” So Hayward, Fonda, and Walter Wanger got together in Wang- er's offices here, and Hayward and Fonda and Wanger talked for hours—and still Hank wasn't interested. At last he was ready to drop his bombshell, his salary demand. He got up to go, “I wouldn't come unless I —" he began. “We'd start you at a thousand a week,” said Wanger. At that point Mr. Henry Fonda, late of Broadway, went into something like a coma. When he came out he remembered noth- ing except that he had said “Yes.” Juneau “I'll ask 'em for 350 smackers There were no pictures for him right away, so he was loaned to Broadway for “The Farmer Takes a Wife.” When Fox bought the play, they borrowed Fonda for it too—and that was when Hank learned about Dolly. He found her in his script—a character who said nothing, a highspotinyowrday... That's luncheon time at PERCY’S. That big plate lunch served there daily for only forty cents is just the ticket to send you back to your work with a new zest. It's at——— PERCY’S apparently, but was nearly always around, and with him. The seript said so. “Dolly with him.” “Who,” he asked Director Henry King one day, “is this Dolly?? She has an important part, and yet she says nothing and I don’t remember any character like that in the stage play.” Hank to this day hasn't forgoiten it. He hasn't been allowed to forget. (“Dolly” is the truck the camera rides on for a moving, or “dolly” shot.) He is wiser now in the ways of Hollywood, even though he is not much a part of it. Goes home after working hours, lives apart from usual stream of movie night life. Mrs. Fonda is a non-pro socialite. His earlier marriage—to Margaret Sullavan—ended in divorée before he came here. (She’s now Mrs. Leland Hayward.) His role of Frank James in “Jesse James” has ignited a career that had heen “hot” for some time—especially after his “Slim"— but had never caught fire. Now he is doing Thomas Watson, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant, in the film of Bell’s life, and then he. goes into “The Young Mr. Lincoln,” a real starring vehicle. The Bell picture, for the present at least, is more exciting to him. He ‘worked, his last two high school years, as a trouble- shooter, and he went to the University of Minnesota, rather than to his native Nebraska’s State school, to be near the Bel lab- oratories there. To top it off, he wrote his final college thesis on the subject of communications. The theme seems to follow him right through the movies. “Slim,” his previous assignment, was a saga of the high-tension wires. )