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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 238. , SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER, 31,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SECRETARY MELLON
', SUGGESTS LIMITING
TAX REDUCTION
ADMINISTRATION CONTEMPLAT
ES NO FURTHER REDUCTION
NORMAL INCOME TAX
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WASHINGTON, Oct 31. "(^—Secre
tary of the Treasury Mellon at the
opening of the tax hearings by the
House Ways and Means Committee
recommended limitation of the pro
spective tax reductions to approxi
mately $225,000,000 a lower figure than
he had previously estimated.
He submitted the following reduc
tion program;
First—Reduction of the corporation
tax from 13 and 1-2 percent to 12 per
cent.
Second—Extending permission to
corporations with a net income of
$25,000 or dess and with not more than
10 stockholders to file returns and pay
tax as a partnership or corporations
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at their option.
Third—Revision of the'surtax rates
applying on individual incomes be
tween $16,000 and $90,000.
Four—Repeal of the estate tax.
Fifth—Exemption from taxation of
income derived from American bank
ers acceptances held by foreign cen
tral banks of issue.
Contrary to expectations Secretary
Mellons opposed any change whatever
in the remaining wartime excise mis
cellaneous taxes and argued at length
for retention of the present three per
cent levy on automobiles and 10 per
cent tax on admissions applying to
tickets selling for more than 75 cents
on the ground that these duties and
the excise tax on tobacco should be
"in the interest of a well balanced tax
system unless we are to rely almost
exclusively on direct taxes paid by a
few and are prepared to see our Nat
ional Government supported not by
the entire body of our citizens but by
a limited class. There are many other
kinds of taxes which should be return
ed.”
The administration program con
templated no further reduction in the
normal income rates applying to in
dividuals nor any further increase
in exemptions allowed individuals
which have beenn the battle grounds
in past revenue legislative fights.
4 NEW TAXIES FOR WARSAW
WARSAW, Oct. 31. (yP)—Permits
/ are being issued liere for taxicabs
only of the laundelet type, which
have the passenger compartment
eeperate from that of the driver. The1
older styles are being discarded.
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THE STRAPHANGERS REVENGE
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 31. (£>)—
Alleging he Vas carried j>eyond his
stop, J. B. Zuher has filed suit
against the Birmingham Street Rail
way company, seeking $10,000 dam
ages for “loss of tim« and the physi
cal and mental anguish” incurred
when forced to wait 20’minutes for
a returning car.
MOTHER DIVIDEND IS
DECLMED DEFUNCT BUNK
SCINDINM-tMEDIGIN
OLYMPIA, Oct. 31. (JP)—Five per
cent of the final dividends will be
mailed on November 15 to some 22,000
depositors of the Scandinavian-Ameri
can Bank which closed Its doors in
Seattle in 1921. This brings the total
up to 85 percent upon approximately
$12,000,000 assets or a loss of 15 per
cent to the depositors.
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CIRCUIT COURT REVERSES DECI
; - SION RENDERED BY THE DIS
TRICT COURT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. (£>)—Dr.
'Frederick A. Cook, Arctic explorer,
was granted a Supreme court review
of the decision of the Court of Ap
peals holding that the District court
which convicted him of the charge of
using the mails to defraud had no
authority to release him on probation.
Dr. Cook, in November 1923, was
sentenced to serve 14 years and nine
months in the Leavenworth peniten
tiary. Later, the court issued an
order, placing him on probation for
five years holding that the probation
did not empower a trial in court to
grant a probation after the term of
court at which sentence was imposed
had expired. The Circuit Court of Ap
peals reversed the decision of the Dis
trict Court.
FOUR IE KILLED
IN TUNE CRASH
IN NEW JERSEY
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FIVE-PASSENGER CABIN PLANE
WENT INTO TAILSPIN BUT 200
FEET UP
SOUTH PLANESFIELD, N. J., Oct.
31. (JP)—Four persons, including pilot
Leroy Thompson, 28, his fiance, Eliza
beth McGowan, a school teacher, were
killed when the five-passenger Fair
child cabin airplane fell at New Mar
ket a little more-than a mile from the
place of the plane crash in which
seven were killed on September 17.
Thompson was a pilot for the Colonial
Air Transport Co., and was taking
friends on a sightseeing flight when
the plane apparently went into a tail
spin at an altitude of 200 feet.
TO FLY ACROS8 ALASKA
BENDER-ABBAS, Persia, Oct. 81.
(jP)—Otto Koennecke, hopped off for
Karachi, India, 700 aniles away, on his
flight to America via Alaska.
VIOLENTLY OPPOSED TO THE
FORMER KAISER; EXPOSED
COURT SCANDALS
BERLIN, Oct. 31. OP)—Maximilian
Harden, noted-' German editor who
founded “Die Zukunft”, died suddenly
at Montana Vermala, Switzerland.
Maximilian Harden caused more un
many and men yho occupied political
easiness to the former royalty of Ger- j
positions' during the regime of the
former kaiser than any other man or
agency in German. He hated the .form
er war lord more and feared him
less than any other German subject; i
was violently opposed to the former
kaiser, and never permitted to pass an
opportunity to criticise and attack the j
ruler and those associated with him j
in the government.
People bought * his newspaper, not
because they were in sympathy with
his policies, but merely to see what
j he had to say on the questions of the
day. However, Die Zukunft was wide
ly quoted throughout Germany and it
was not long before newspapers
abroad sought the publication for the
purpose of getting the editor’s views
on German questions.
It was Harden who brought to light
In 1907 the court scandal of Prince
Philip zu Eulenburg and his compan
ions, which has been recorded as one
*of Germany’s greatest sensations.
Harden charged that the then Em
peror William was surrounded by a
Scarmarilla which exerted great and in
jurious influence on his decisions in
political matters. He charged
Prince Eulenburg, who had been Ger
man Ambassador to Australia; Gener
al Count Kuno von Mdltke and Gener
al Count Wilhelm von Hohenau with
being men of abnormally vicious ten
dencies and practices. The result was
jthe dismissal of several titled -persons
| from court circles and a number of
lawsuits, in one of which Harden was
fined $150 for libelling von Moltke.
During the World War Harden was
particularly active in his newspaper
and on the lecture platform in oppos
ing German policies. He charged
Germany with responsibilitity for the
war and held that the kaiser, jwhile
not personally responsible for the con
flict, was the tool of the militarists.
He declared that the Kaiser had the
help of satan, not God. The German
authorities he accused of cowardice
and hypocrisy in trying to excuse their
motives instead of frankly Stating
that they had long been prepared for
conquest and seized upon the murder
of the Austrian archduke as an excuse
to put their plans into execution.
Shortly after the assassination of
Walter Rathenau, foreign minister, in
1922, an attempt was made upon the
life of Harden by several young radi
cals. Xhey attacked the editor on his
way home one night and stabbed and
blackjacked him. Altho seriously
wounded, he recovered.
Washington, 61; Whitman, 7.
Oregon State 13; Stanford, 19.
Washington State, fr; Oregon, 0.
Yale, 19; Dartmouth, 0.
Nebraska, 21; Syracuse, 0.
Navy, 12; Pennsylvania, 6.
Harvard, 26; Indiana, 0.
Princeton, 36; Cornell, 0.
William and Mary, 7; Columbia, 0.
Army, 34; Bucknell, 0.
Illinois, 14; Michigan, 0.
Minnesota, 3; Wisconsin, 7.
Purdue, 39; Montana State, 7.
Norte Dame, 26; Georgia, Tech, 7.
Southern California, 13; California,
0.
PRESIDENT GREECE
SHOT 11 SEVERELY
WOUNDED BY WHITER
EXPECTED TO RECOVER; WAITER
OUT OF WORK FIGURED STATE
GAVE NO SUPPORT
ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 31. (IP)—A
25 year old waiter shot and severely
wounded President Paul Kundouiotis.
The waiter, Zafioios Goussioe, fired
two shots as the President was enter
ing an automobile from the Municipal
Building. One bullet passed thru the
windshield and struck him in the head.
The President is expected to recover.
The waiter’s luggage contained com
munist literature. He declared he had
ihad been long uunemployed and as the
State gave him no support he wanted
to kill the head of the State.
RED CROSS DRIVE TO
START RRMISTIGE DAY
| The receipts from the local and sur
rounding districts 1926 Annual Roll
Call of the American Red Cross
amounted to $680.91, announced Gen
eral Chairman T. R. McEwen today,
but it is hoped that this year’s re
sponse will he even greater. Armis
tice Day, November 11, Is the day set
for the local Drive.
Disbursements in 1926 were as fol
lows:
A. R. Cross allotment $234; Kodiak
relief $75;- Mississippi flood relief
$400; local relief work $223.35; post
age, cables and sundry expenses
$15.22. At the present time, there Is
a deficit of $336.66 from 1026.
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SEALING SEASON GOOD
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 31. (JP)
—Nearly 3,000 more skins were ob
tained this year than last during the
summer sealing season in Alaskan
waters. St. Paul Island produced
18,507 fur-seal skins and St. George
Island 5’679 mbre for,a total of 24,
186 against 21,303 in 1926. Moat of
them were shipped to a St. Louis
fur company. .
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“DAWN'S" FLIGHT
IS POSTPONED TO
EARLY IN SPRING
PILOT RESIGNS SAYING “GOOD
HOP FOR SOMEONE BIJT NOT
FOR THIS BOY”
CURTIS FIELD, N. Y., Oc^. 31. <JP)
—The amphibian plane "Dawn*' in,
which Mrs. Frances Graysons hoped
to fly from Old Orchard, Me., to Co*
penhagen, Denmark, has returned to
New York.
The expedition has been postponed
until next spring. Pilot Wilmer Stultz
in resigning as a member of the expe
dition said “its a good flight for some
one else but not for me.”
DISAPPOINTED TODAY
OLD ORCHARD, Me., Oct. 31. (iP)~
Mrs. Grayson announced the return
of her plane “Dawn” to New York
Sunday with the words “in my disap
pointment of today I can only strive
for bigger and greater success for to
morrow."
She made known her decision in a
dramatic way at the flying camp she
been long unemployed and as the
maintained for three weeks. Appear
ed probable return to New York elimi
nated the ‘Dawn” from any trans-At
lantic flight before next spring.
LUMBER EXPORTS GAIN
SEATTLE, Oct. 31. (jP)—Lumber
exports from the Pacific Coast dur
ing July were nearly 41,000,000 feet
greater than i in July, 1926. Austra
lia-bought six times as much, Japan
nearly 25 per cent more and the
United Kingdom and Europe gener
ally about twice as much.
^STUDIES AIR CURRENTS
LURAY, Va., Oct. 31. (£>)—Air cur
rents which delicate instruments
have shown to move in seven differ
ent ^directions in the same moment
at Crescent Rock, atop the Blue
Ridge mountains, are the subject of
scientific study W5r Prof. Paul Lay
man of Minnesota. ■"*
COLLEGE COURSE FOR COPS
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 31. {JF)—A
course in “Police-Problems” has been
inaugurated by the extension depart
ment of the University of Wisconsin,
for blue coats who desire to have
sociologists tell them how they may
in prove their, methods.
TAXPAYERS' UTOPIA
STOUT, Iowa, Oct. 31. (>P)—The
village of Stout has so much money
tha tthere are ho town taxes. The
catch is that in 1925 a clerk wrote
3.2 mills 32 mills, and it had been
formally entered before the mistake
could be rectified. The treasury to
bulging from the unusual levy.