The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1941, Page 2

North Sea Now Juneau Bound | WOMAN DEPUTY MARSHAL Mrs. Gertrude Nayler started work today in the United s tempo: vior is also a Deput; Marshal - “Lucky” to Be Bride oir. and Mrs. John Benedito Lucky to be alive, Mary T. Esch- hach, airline stewardess, is now a bride. M chbach, who was aboard the A airliner which crashed at St. Louis two weeks ago, killing two persons and in- juring 11 others including herself, is shown with her new husband, John Benedito, son of a Pitts- wurgh hotel manager. The two were married in New York, - CHEATS DAVY JONES AGAIN Six times the steam schooner Bandon (center) has been wrecked, but She is shown at Marshfield, Ore., decks awash, being towed into port after being diasbled by heavy seas. each time has been saved from going to the bottom of the sea. HOUSE MEMBERS JANGLE ABOUT COLONY PROBE Rep. Almer Peferson Ac- cused of Trying Cases in Legislature Members of the House of Repre- sentatives debated heatedly and ac- rimoniously again teday, this time over Rep. Almer Peterson's me- merial a Congress investi gate the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation Rep. Charles Herbert of Fairbank. who tangled with Petreson only ye: terday on the subject of liquor ta started discussion today by de- claring the memorial to be not a to declare itself upon. He said he would be very imp: € but doubt this was a of the Third Division Re- 1 Club instead of the Terri- Legislature,” Herbert declared. meeting Tense Mement Peterscn, one of the two Republi- f the House, arose to 121l rt's st ats, de- rouncing them with such heat and 1aking h at the Fairbank- an to threateningly that Speaker H. H. McCutcheon had to remind him to address his remarks to the chair. on said the memorial was {uced for his personal bene- nd said it ot any more ridiculous than. many memorials’ which had been passed in the House. d every word of the charg- the ARRC in it to be true. " he charged, “has been in this Legislature every trying to stop this memorial.”” He rined the gallery and said the ; fin J THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, FEB. 2I TEETH FOR MINE_ [INCOME TAX "waorssursn, PASSAGE I8 POSSIBILITY Sullivan Ag‘a'infsi Entertain- Could Be Enacted af This ment Fund of $2,000 for Delegate e Session, Says Harsch as Hearing Opens A bill to put teeth in the mining ax law was intrcduced in the Senate his meorning by Senator € H. (Ala- am) LaBoyteaux of Fairbanks The bill provides that all minirg taxes are payable De % 1 of the year for which they ai lue and that after January 31 enalty of 10 percent would be add- »d. The Territorial Treasurer wou'd have the right to extend th nent date to March 15 on a s f reascn for doing so, with pe o be 15 percent after March 15. ] axes and penalties would draw legal interest. The bill also provides that es, penalties and interest woul constitute a p: lien against min- ng property. In its brief session teday, the £ ite heard Senator Leroy Sul Ncme declare his intention to s e o i against. the, bill for,a $3,000 enter-| THETSCE wis the only witness call -;;inm(’nt fund for the Del ito testify up until 3cjclafk this af-| ternoon. He was questioned by Sen- | at by Representatives and just plain citizens in the galleries. | Resident Question | Most of the,early discussion dealt with the Territory’s right to dis-| tinguish between residents and non- residents i, the matter or amount of exemption allowed, as the bill | provides. Harsch admitted that a similar provision in a New York law | _|was held invalid by the U. S. Su—‘ |preme Court but that he believed lobby did not happen to be present | there is very good reason to believe | at the moment. the Court would not so hold on the | Rep. Howard Lyng who was As-| Alaska law, for the reason that (1) sistant Manager of the ARRC when! Alaska is a Territory and not al it was first set up asked Peterson if gtate, (2) there are more reasonable (he thought it proper “to your cases in this Legislature.” Peterson is attorney for a number of the Mat- anuska colonists at odds with the | ARRC | Pete Worr 1t is perfectly possible for membiers |of the Ter torial Legislature to de- termine what is in the income tax bill, to make up their minds on its principles and to pass it at this ses- sion, Prof. Albert Harsch, who draft- ed the bill, testified this afternoon before a jam-packed public hearing in the Senate Chamber on Senate Bill No. 10. Asked whether he thought the 96- page bill was in a shape in which it uld be passed without further con- sideration or amendment, Harsch said he did not believe it should be passed that way. “‘because that is |not the way the legislative process " | should work.” icense up an undesirable precedent The Federal Government ts are of the expenses of the office of | Delegate at the present time d. The bill was finally continued in third reading at the request of Sen- ator Norman R. Walker. The Senate adjourned c’clock Monday. until 11 tinction here, and (3) “I have naticed in the past few years an inclination | con the part of the U S Supreme Court™ to give considerably greater support to slative enactments than it did previously Senator O. D. Cochran, Nome at- ney. observed it seemed to him very improbable that the Supreme Court would reverse itself” in this case. Lyng didn’t ha investigation touch- ing him dministration at the time of his A tant Manazership, was the best the ARRC had ever had The memorial finally passed 12 to 4. The House adjourned until 11 Truitt Heard o'cleck Mcnday. But Attorney General James S. Truitt said “there is no question in my mind, if we can find a reasonable - D I_UN(HEON FOR classification of residents and non- | residents, that our law will stand ElKS BOW[ERS up.” Truitt said it has been de- termined that the Territory can dis- I ¢ criminate between residents and non- grounds for making such a dis-at cne point in his testimony. ] , 1941, posed law wasn't “too big for w !Harsch replied that only those per- sons paying or sabject to paying | | Federal income taxes would pay this | tax and said that the Yukon Ter- | ritory, with a population smaller | and more widely dispersed than | ours, has had an income tax law for | a number of years. | The number of Federal income tax | payers in Alaska this year he esti- | | mated at 8,000. | The Professor said, whe qut-snon-’ ticned bv Karl Drager of Anchorage, that the bill would destroy the regu-»f latory effect of license laws wmch‘ it would appeal, but that he had attemped to leave out of the repeal | section any laws which seemed to | have regulatory features. Drager quetioned him with special reference to the non-resident junk dealers li- | cense and the license on collection | and employment agencies. Cochran Dubious | | Senator Cochran declared that he | | had no understanding of the provis- | |ions of the bill at the present time and that if he didn't understand | them all clearly when the bill comes | up for passage he would “take the safe side and vote against it.” | Rep. Allen Shattuck suggested that ito get away from heavy administra- tive costs the Legislature might pass an income tax law “tacked to the | Pederal income tax law,” to provide | that the payment would be based di- | rectly upon the Federal returns. He suggested that such a tax should be tacked” to the 1940 Federal law as it is believed the Federal tax will go up very materially as long as the defense efforts last | Harsch said with reference to this suggestion that such a scheme was exactly what he had in mind in drawing his bill and that in 90 per- | cent, of the cases the only difference | between the Federal and Territorial taxes would be the computation of ‘amount of tax due. He said there! were special cases in which this | process could not be followed. Follews Federal Law “This bill follows the Federal law | very, very closely, as closely as it is | possible to follow it,’ Harsch declared Opening the hearing, Senator Don | Carlos Brownell, of S8eward, who pre- | sides over the Committ??-of-the-i Whole sessicn, declared the bill in| question to be “cne of the most im- | portant matters that could come be- | fore the Legislature in this session | or any other.” He criticized a “tendency on the part of opponents to belittle the| motives of those proposing the bill” | and declared the bill to be “the re- | sult of careful study and long con- sideration by people who have no in- 1 terest in seeing it passed.” | Brownell said the bill was pro- posed as a measure to benefit Alas- | | ka. | ol PR, A | | THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT NF CON MERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinily, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Feb. 21: Fair tonight and Saturday with little temperature change tonight and Saturday; gentle to moderate easterly to northeasterly win except moderate to fresh northerly in Lynn Canal Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Fair; little temperature chan:> tonight and Saturday; gentle to :noderate easterly to northeasterly winds, except moderate to fresh northerly in Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska- Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Gentle to moderate easterly to southeasterly winds; fair; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Gentle to moderate variable winds but mostly easterly to northeas:- erly near Cape Spencer; fair; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Gentle southerly to southeasterly winds; fair; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Gentle to moderate southerly to southeasterly winds partly cloucy. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.28 33 26 NE 15 4:30 am. today 30.28 28 N 8 Noon today 30.; 28 NE 8 RADIO REPORTS Weather Clear Clear 36 Clear TODAY 4:30 am. Precip. 4:30a.m temp. 24 hours Weather -16 13 18 Max. tempt. last 24 hours | Lowest temp. ~16 1 -16 Station. Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage Bethel St. Paul Dutch Harbor ‘Wosnesenski Kanatak Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George . Seattle Portland San Francisco CPoocoe 9 ®o Cloudy Clea Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Fogay Fogg Cloud < P 36 35 | 55 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Relatively cold dry continental air prevailed over most of Alaska this morning, and clear skies werz reported except partly cloudy to overcast with local rain areas from the Alaska Peninsula to the Al- eutian Islands. Rain had fallen during the previous 24 hours at only a few. stations from Kodiak to Du.ch Harbor. The greatest amount of precipitation was .22 inch which was recorded at Dutch Harbo The lowest temperature this morning was minus 16 degrees, which was reported at Barrow. Clear sk es and good visibilities prevailed over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morning and local moderate to fresh northerly to northeasterly winds were reported over the ex- treme north portion of southeast Alaska, The Friday morning weather chart indicated a low pressure cen- ter of 980 millibars (2894 inches) was located at 45 degrees and 159 degrees west and a seconi center of $96 millibars (20.41 inches) located at 35 degree; north and 129 degrees west. A high pressure center of 1021 millisars (30.15 inches) was located 34 degrees north and 147 degrees wst, and the pressure w: relatively high over all of Alaska with a h center to the east of i and another high center above 105! millibars (31.12 inches) to the north of Barrow, and still ajother high center of 1024 mill (30.24 inches) centered at 55 degrees north and 140 degrees wes Juneau, Feb. 22 — Sunrise 8:1! a.m., unset 6:10 p.m. Soccoocooesc 52 north 'Exhibition of Indian Aris and Craiis Opens New Road for American Styles ¥ Top, left: Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt and Miss Nellie Star Boy Buffalo Chief, a Sioux weaver. Below, left, a willow basket woven by Papago Indians in Soi i is Pawnee ribbon work, applied to an evening gown, and a small mythological figure in silver, n silver, a silver button from Santo Domingo Pueblo, and turquoise from Zuni Pueblo. shown at the exhibition. “In dealing with Indian art of the United States, we find that its sources reach far beyond our borders, both to the north and the south. Hemispheric inter- change of ideas is as old as man on this continent. Long before Columbus, tribes now settled in Arizona brought traditions to this country that were formed in Alaska and Canada; Indian traders from the foot of the |Rocky Mountains exchanged | goods and ideas with the great civilizationg two thousand miles south of tne Rio Grande. Re- cultures of foreign|lated thoughts and forms that me of which are no |are truly of America are found ailable as sources, the |from the Andes to the, Missis- of purely American | sippi Valley. We must acknowl- and development. Four |edge a cultural debt not only to all of whom had con- | the Indians of the United States, naterial to the show, but to the Indians of both Americas.” The purpose of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, according to the Bureau of In- dian Affairs, is to widen inter- est in Inalan arts and crafts and to help develop the market- ing of Indian products. The exhibition includes loans from museums in the United | States and Canada as well as and active patroness of Indian |from private collections, and arts and crafts, and her wide |traces the art of the Indians knowledge of Indian arts was|from prehistoric times to the evident in a statement she|present. It is divided into three New York’s sophisticated and ultra-modern Museum of Mod- ern Art is the scene of an un- usual exhibjtion these days—a show made up of Indian arts and crafts, with articles ranging in age from 15,000 vears to a ths—sione and wood potte metalwork, , jewelry, painting and The exhibition has proved to be one of the | ular yet shown in the and ‘is sponsored by d States Department terior. of drawing on the guests of honor at the | opening, and Mrs. Franklin D.‘ Roosevelt spent considerable time with them when she vi ited the show. The guests were Ambrose Roan Horse, Navajo silversmith; Fred Kabotie, Hopi painter; Nellie Star Boy Buffalo f and Elsie r, Sioux were the Roosevelt is an interested made, commenting on the works | parts: “Prehistoric Art,” “The | shell and turquoise and a dragon fiy in silver, shell uthern Arizona. The dress at pins, left to right and down from a Zuni pueblo; a bird the Living Traditions,” and “Indian Art in Modern Living.” While the show was intended to pro- vide a comprehensive picture of Indian arts themselves, rather than to show the forms of dress and design they may inspire, there is a collection of women's fashions showing Indian mate- rials and products as they fit into modern apparel. These ex- hibits have been the center of interest for the fashion authori- ties of New York, and one may expect Spring and Summer fash- ions to reflect the influence of | the Indians in decoration and ! more particularly in the pins, | buttons - and dress decorations at present so popular with American girls and women. Fantastic masks, pipes made of stone in figures of men, ani- | mals and birds. painted pottery and Indian paintings—some of them of the higiiest artistic merit even according to present world standards—dolls in many shapes and many varieties, war gods carved of wood and stone, blankets woven in varied and colorful patterns, beaded belts and hoods, moccasins, boots and | clothing with porcupine-quill | embroidery and painted and woven birch bark, war clubs and tomahawks, toys and eating implements all indicate the care and artistic merit of the Indian craftsmen and women. An informal luncheen in the Iris noen in honer of the visiting Elks' bowlers from Ketchikan. | Juneau Elks bowlers and members jof the Elks Lo are invited to tend. | ?Sfudefilfi Borrowers Making Good Risks ANN ARBOR, Mich, Feb. 21.— Student borrowers make good risks, the University of Michigan reports. During a - 43-year period, only three-fourths of one per cent of money loaned by the student fund was charged off as a Joss. The majority of final failures to pay were due to death or to permanent dis- abling-illness, the president’s 1939-40 report says. Since the fund was established at the university in 1897, a total of $1,- 811,271 has been loade to students. RETURNING HERE Mrs. John McCormick, wife of Representative MoCormick of Ju- neau, is returning home on the steamer North Sea after an extend- Gunnar Blomzren, of Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren, is returning here |on the North Sea after a vacation | trip to the states Kidnaper Sentenced Jesse W. Miller | Jesse W. Milier, 42, of Shermah, | Texas, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison after a court | at Texarkana, Ark., convicted him of kidnaping his 19-year-old step- | daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Crawford | Garner, and enslaving her on a ! Texas cottop farm. {room of the Baranof Hotel has been {ayranged for tomorrow at 12 o'clock _ exemption to single residents, a $2,-] residents in matters relating to fish, fur and game. Whether it can in oth- er matters is a subject which has . never been passed on by a court of | last resort, he said. | The bill, as drawn, allows a $1,000 | IN THE SENATE INTRODUCED—S. B. 20, by La-| Boyteaux, requiring mining taxre- turns and providing penalties for | non-payment. } INTRODUCED—S. B. 21, by Walker, to appropriate $10,000 to| assist Craig in enlarging its school. | INTRODUCED—S. B. 22, by| | Walker, to reimburse the Ketchi- | kan General Hospital $2,397.50 for service rendered indigents. | PASSED — Hs B. 23, by Lander,| reimbursing Joseph Picotte of| | Fairbanks $50 for an unused tim-| ber cutting permit, | 000 exemption to married residenis and no exemption to non-resident:. | Residents are defined as nersons| lving seven months or more of the year in Alaska. Harsch said that no State at pres- ent denies exemptions to non- dents while granting them to resi-| dents, but he said a number of States qualify the right of non-residents to exemptions. Stumped by Question Asked by Senator Cochran what the loss in revenue would be if the same exemptions were allowed both | residents and non-residents, Harsch said it would be extremely difficult to say, but that he would attempt to compute an estimate. Senator Edward Coffey of Anchor- age, who did most of the question- ing, declared that it is “an acknow- ledged fact that we are not capable in Alaska of supplying all the people needed in our industries.” | Senator Henry Roden of Juneau, | ed out of the Territory our industries |could not operate a single season, | |but. on the other hand if all those | {required to work in our industries| INTRODUCED — H. B. 5l | should remain in the North as resi- | Shattuck, making the time with- |dents, they'd starve to death. in which lien claims must be -filed Harsch said the difference in ex- (120 days, instead of 60 and 90 as emptions allowed residents and non- | it appears variously at present. | residents is justified by the fact that | the non-residents do not spend their | Rogge, asking Congress to remove; Alaska earnings in Alaska where | the Richardson Highway toll anrl‘l [they will have a turnover creating | to reduce rates of the Alaska Rail-| better business conditions and more | read. | taxes, but in most cases take them | PASSED—H. J. M. 9, by Peter-, Outside where the Territory never | son, asking a Congressional investi- | derives any revenue from the spend- | gaticn of the Alaska Rural Rehu- | ing. ;bimutlon Corporation. Tailings from Gold Dredges Used for $750,000 Collection The Professor said anticipated gross colections under the income {tax law were $350,000 in personal net income taxes and $400,000 inf jcorporation net income taxes an- | nually. He said these figures did not | allow for credits to be deducted, 7or | S l " Fie!d | the ccst of administration or losses U a(e' ome through repeal of license tax see- ticns which the bill would provide. | Following the completion of a sub- Net anticipated revenue annuaily, | arctic survey, M. C. Hoppin, Super- atfer all deductions and cost; nave | intendent of CAA Airways announc- been figured. would be $441,000, ed in Nome recently that work will Harsch »stimated. soon begin on the Nome airfield as Administration of the act should |part of the $3,000,000 project T not cost more than 10 percent of |major airfields in Alaska. collections, Harsch said, citing this| Three 3,500-foot runways surfaced | as a maximum figure. He said the | with tailings from gold dredges are cost during the first year would be | among the immediate plans for ihe much higher than in later years. |Nome field. More than 40 States, Hawaii, Puer- ‘ Superintendent Hoppin described to Rico and Alaska’s nexghbormg“he construction of northern air- provinces of British Columbia and ! fields as a particularly diffieult task | Yukon Territory now have income |OWwing to the tundra covered frozen tax laws in force, Harsch said. He | 2round. In Kotzebue a long sand spit seid the Hawaii net income tax,|was tentativelv selected while nt which has been in effect for several | Nome the problem was simplified by years, is in general outline similar | the availability of unlimited tailings to the proposed Alaska law. from dredges operating cldse at Asked by Coffey whether the pro- hand. INTRODUCED—H. J. M. 12, by _ Jap EnVO); Ifinspre_cts?U. S. Arm; n ‘he newly appointed Japanese ambassador extraordinary and pleni rotentiary to the United States, Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, re- ently arrived, witnesses a review of U. S. infantry at the Presidio of 3an Francisco. Left to right: I. Kawasak, acting consul at San Fran- :isco; Nomura; General De Witt, commander of the Fourth U. S. Army; and Brig. Gen. A. W. Lane. Missing at His Own Birth 5 Mrs. Grace Armstrong, 35, is shown in Park Falls, Wisc., hospital as nurse Mary Besaw holds her baby boy. The expectant mother was being taken to a hospital for confinement when the car went into a snow ditch, At the hospital it was discoversd the child had been born but wad disappeared. Search found the child in the snow drift where the car had skidded. The infant was nicknamed “Snowball.”