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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 10. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1932. PRICE TEN CENTS
MELLON CONCEIVES
Jl NEW TAX PLAN TO
SOAK" THE PUBLIC
Ik
AGED BILLIONAIRE SECRETARY
OF U. S. TREASURY OUT
LINES NEW IDEA
WASHINGTON, B. C„ Jan. 13, (IP)—
The outline of the Administration
to increase a plan to provide $390,
000,000 this year and $920,000,000
next, was presented to the House
by Secretary Mellon.
Corporation taxes would be in
creased to 12V2 per cent to net
$27,000,000 for the current fiscal
year and $60,000,000 in 1933.
Individual income taxes have
normal rates of 2. 4 and 6 per
cent with surtaxes beginning with
one per cent on incomes over $10.
000 graduated up to $30,000; seven
per cent on those between $100.
000 and $200,000; 40 per cent on
those above $500,000 as compared
with the present maximum of 20
per cent on incomes in excess of
$100,000.
Personal exemptions would be
lowered to $1,000 for single per
sons and $2,500 for one having de
pendents with credit of $400 for
each dependent.
MORE RIOTING
BOMBAY. India, Jan. 13. —
Further rioting occurred in this
city and also in Calcutta when po
lice clashed with a group of Nat
ionalisst who were holding a mass
meeting in protest of the British
rule in India. Many were injured
in the fighting which ensued and
all those arrested. 30. were women.
A Calcutta dispatch said seven ar
rests had been made there during
disorders.
CHICAGO. Jan. 13. (^—Federal
Judge James Wilkerson, the former
school teacher who helped to crush !
the most notorious gang in the
United States, was rewarded by
President Hoover in announcing his
advancement to the Circuit Court
;>f Appeals for the Seventh District.
Hoover said it was a part of the
recognition due to Federal officers
ior breaking up the Capone gang’s j
activities. Judge Wilkerson said I
nothing except that gained a repu- j
"ation from legal decisions alone.
LONDON, Jan. 13. (/P)—The firm
stand taken by the United States
with regard to enforcing the terms
of the Nine-Power Treaty and the
Kellogg Peace Pact has completely
absorbed the diplomatic circles of
London.
The action of the United States
s warmly supported and there is
much discussion here as to whether
there will be any material results
from the forthcoming disarmament
conference as long as the Manchu
rian conflict remains unsettled or
whether the conference will be de
ayed.
GENERAL BAD WEATHER
(By Associated Press)
A tornado killed a Mexican wo-!
man and her baby on a plantation
at Eagle Lake, Texas. Nine per
sons, were injured by a tornado and
heavy rains caused earth slides on
highways and railways in Idaho, j
Washington and British Columbia.
Chinook winds melted snow in
! Idaho and Montana.
OREGON LEMS NATION
LAUNCHING ROOSEVELT
FOR PRESIDENT DRIVE'
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 13. (/P)— |
Oregon led the nation in formally i
launching the candidacy of Frank- j
lin Roosevelt for the Democratic;
Presidential nomination at Chica- j
go at the convention in June.
George F. Alexander, president
of the Roosevelt - for - President
League of Oregon, filed with the!
Secretary of State petitions to place !
Roosevelt’^name on the Democratic |
Presinedtial primary ballot.
FACES LIQUOR CHARGE
SEATTLE. Jan. 13. (/Pi—A charge ,
of possession of liquor was filed
against Ahira Pierce. His bond was |
placed at $500. Pierce’s home was
raided this week when authorities i
said several varieties of liquors
were found and seized.
ini mm in
CITY OF BELFAST FOR
MURDER OF 1001
BELFAST. Jan. 13. (JP) — Eddie j
Cullen, young naturalized U. S. I
citizen, was hanged for the slaying
of Achment Musa, a Turk, fulfill
ing the death sentence imposed af- !
ter his conviction December 10.
Musa, a promoter and companion
' of Zaro Agha, who claims to be the
j oldest man in the world, was found
; slain in a field near Carrick Fergus, j
Cullen was arrested and convict- j
i ed of the crime. An Ulster cabinet
considered the case. Governor Duke
: AbercGrn said he saw no reason
why a reprieve should be granted.
Cullen was in good spirits and
regaled the warden with stories of
Hollywood and New York where he
once worked as a film projectionist.
KEEPS HIS LEAD
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13. (A3)—
MacDonald Smith, twice winner of
the Los Angeles Open Gold tourna
ment, kept his lead in the $7,500
match here, when he made a 68
in the second round for a total of
137.
UNITED FRONT
WARSAW, Jan. 13. (JP)—A united \
front by France, Poland and Ru- 1
mania at the Geneva World Dis-(
armament Conference was fore-!
seen with the arrival of Rene Mas
sigli, French arms expert, to confer
with Polish authorities and the Ru
manian Foreign Minister, Prince
Dimitri Ghika. The three countries j
are military allies.
BULGARIA CAN’T PAY
BELGRADE, Bulgaria, Jan. 13, (A5)
—Bulgaria has joined her voice to
tha tof Germany in saying that
she cannot pay her war debts.
Will MEN
WILL NOT STIC
VIOUT1 WOMEN
RACE FEELING CONTINUES TO
RUN HIGH IN CITY OF
HONOLULU
HONOLULU, Jan. (Jp)—Devel
opments in the kidnapping and
slaying of Joseph Kahahawai, a i
young Hawaiian, accused of having !
participated in an attack on Mrs.1
Thomas Massie, 20-year-old daugh- 1
ter of Mrs. Grace Fortescue and
wife of Lieut. Thomas H. Massie
of the United States Navy, which
has caused demands for a Congres
sional invesitgation into the gov
ernment of the Hawaiian Islands,
are still continuing to mount up.
Kahahawai was one of five men
accused of criminally attacking
Mrs. Massie last September, and he
was lured from a court room into
the street .seized and carried off
in an auto. The body was later
discovered in an auto in which Mrs.
Fortescue was riding with Lieut.
Massie and E. J. Lord, an enlisted
man of the Navy. Kahahawai had
been shot through the heart. His
body had been stripped of its cloth
ing and wrapped in a sheet,
Kahahawai and his four compan- j
ions had previously been brought
to trial on assault charges and the
jury failed to agree. This out
come of the case precipitated ill
feeling in Naval circles and caused
Rear Admiral George Pettengill,
commander of the minecraft of the !
14th Naval District, to warn mem- i
bers of the Pacific fleet that Hono
lulu was an unsafe place for the
wives of Naval officers. A second
attack on a white woman, a little;
over a week ago, intensified public
feeling and caused Governor Judd
to instruct the Hawaiian National
Guard to cooperate with the police
in cleaning up the city.
Support for Lieut, Massie, the
youthful submarine officer, who is
: charged with the murder of the
young Hawaiian, was seen in a
| strongly worded statement from
the Chief of Naval Operations at
Washington. The Navy Department
announced that the Pacific fleet
would not visit during the annual
maneuvers next month of Hawaii.
“American men will not stand for
the violation of their women under
any circumstances,” Admiral Wil
liam V. Pratt said, “for this crime.
They have taken the matter into
their own hands repeatedly when
(they have felt that the law has
Tailed to do justice.”
Admiral Pratt instructed the
Commander-in-Chief of the fleet,
Admiral Schofield, stationed at San
Diego, to carry out the winter train
ing exercises off Hawaii as planned
but to deny liberty to the ship’s
crew on Oahu Island.
At Honolulu, a heavy Marine
guard was established on the U. S.
warship Altoon to prevent Honolulu
civil authorities from boarding the
vessel to question Mrs. Grace For
tesque, Lieut. Massie and E. J. Lord,
regarding the kidnapping and mur
der. Efforts of the civil author
ities to board the Altoona were re
buffed repeatedly and Navy officers
said that the three defendants
would remain on the ship until it
was determined whether civil au
thorities would try them on charges
of murdering Kahahawai.
One Navy officer said that no
BODY IS FOUND
CANNES, France, Jan. 13. (JP)—
The body of Thomas Clark, 67, New
York, was recovered from the har- i
bor under circumstances which!
sent the police on the trail of an
unidentified woman in black, who
was seen with Clark before his dis- i
appearance. Clark’s body showed
no indication of violence, but hisi
jewelry and identification papers I
were missing.
RESPONSIBLE FORM OF
GOVERNMENT PLEOGEO
FOR BURMA OY BRITAIN
I
LONDON, Jan. 13. (/P)—Premier )
Ramsay MacDonald, at the con-!
elusion of a session of the Burmese j
Round Table Conference, pledged j
Burma a responsible form of gov- ;
ernment by evolutionary process if
Burma decides at a national elec- j
tion to separate from India.
Great Britain will grant her a.j
constitution providing for a Legis-,
lature and a Governor, The latter j
| is to be appointed by the British
Crown and who will exercise wide
and reserved powers in dealing with
foreign affairs, defense and fi-(
nance motters.
MacDonald also warned Burmese j
delegates that Great Britain, when i
challenged as in India today, ‘'can j
never abrogate its duty to govern.”
LEARNED JUDGE IS |
FORGED TO RESIGN
OWING ADVANCED AGE;
| WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 13.1
!</P)—Oliver Wendell Holmes’ resig- j
| nation from the Supreme Court of
j Justice was accepted by President j
j Hoover.
| Justice Holmes said in his, letter j
to the President that the condition j
of his health necessitated his ac- j
tion. “The time has come when I;
must bow to the inevitable.”
Justice Holmes will be 91 on:
March 8. His strength has been
markedly lessening in late months
and he frequently needed the
help of court pages or fellow
justices to take his seat or rise after
a session was ovef.
Justice Holmes was named to the
bench by President Roosevelt on
December 4, 1902. His son, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, is a noted author.
STRONG WIND
BOULDER CITY, Nev. Jan 13. (/P)
—Temporary houses eredted by
workers employed in the construc
tion of the big Boulder Dam have
been badly wrecked by a 75-mile
gale which swept through here. One
carpenter is reported missing. Las
Vegas also reports that she suffer
ed somewhat from the strong gale.
chances were being taken for pos
sible reprisals on shore where race
feeling is running high. Meanwhile
a first degree murder charge was
filed against A1 Jones of Pearl Har
bor, an enlisted man, who illegedly
stood guard at the Massie home
while Kahahawai was being killed.
Later attorneys for the Navy
men said that they would waive
rights for a Naval court-martial
and would appear in civil court for
trial.
IS LESS THAN HAD A YEAR AGO;
8160,000 ADDED TO FUND
ON JANUARY 2
Although the Territory’s cash^re -
[sources at the end of 1931 showed
; a sharp shrinkage from a year
| previous, there was still a siezable
i fund in the toe of its old sock on
January 1, this year, and more had
l been added to it on the following
iday, it was revealed at Juneau by
| the financial statement issued cov -
ering the month of December by
W. G. Smith, Treasurer.
The gross cash balance was shown
to be $298,920.92 on December 31.
There were outstanding warrants
in the sum of $33,557.08, leaving
a net balance of $265,363.84.
Of the latter sum, $47,870.26 was
in special funds and could only be
applied for specific uses. In the
general and public school current
funds there was $217,493.58.
On January 2, according to a
memorandum furnished by the
[Treasurer to the Governor’s office,
approximately $160,000 was added
to the net balance. This money
comprised $80,000 from the Alaska
Packers Association for payment on
its taxes for last year which are
estimated at $107,000, and fish trap
license taxes and minor accounts
from other sources.
All cannery and salmon pack tax
es become due on January 15, and
are required to be paid on or be
fore March 15.
JAPANESE ALIKE WITH
TOKYO, Jan., 13, (/Pi—A Mukden
dispatch hints of an alliance be
tween the Japanese and White
Russians, who are under the lead
ership of General Seminoff. who
many years ago was ousted from
Russia by the Reds.
Seminoff, who is reported to be
heading the movement, is at pre
sent in Mongolia and is inciting
Mongolian leaders to attempt to
pry loose from China.
Another message from the Man
churian war front tells of the am
bush of a detachment of Japan
ese cavalry by Chinese irregulars
in which 32 Japanese were killed
and the survivors nearly all wound
ed.
IS. HIM WILL
NOT SEEK REFLECTION
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 13. (#)
j—In an election held to fill the
| unexpired term of the late Senator
Caraway, the State Attorney Gen
ral considered the selection of the
widow, Hattie, as assured.
Women all over the State cam
paigned for her. Governor Par
nell is regarded as the probable
candidate at the regular election
next fall.
Mrs. Caraway is not expected to
seek reelection.