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“Federal OfficialsCannot Lawfully be Appointed to any territorial Oftice. ’
__ —Attorney General of Alaska John Rustgard.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 11. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1032. PRICE TEN CENTS
!
TAX EVERYTHING
OUT THE AIR. IS THE
NEARLY 2,000,000 NEW TAXPAY
ERS ARE EXPECTED *TO
“KICK IN”
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.
i/P)—Taxes this year are expected
to bring in 1,700,000 individuals,
making a total of Federal taxpayers
of 3,600,000 who are expected to
pay an additional $83,000,000 the
last half of the current fiscal year
and $185,000,000 next year.
The proposed plan reveals many j
miscellaneous taxes, including an j
increase of 1.60 per cent on present
rates on tobacco manufacturers ex- '
cept cigars; tax on admissions of
10 cents or more; tax for manufac- j
turers and sales of cars, trucks and
accessories of five, three and two
and one-half per cent, respectively.
A stamp tax for conveyance of
realty of 50 cents for each $500
value in excess of $100; a five per
cent tax on manufacturers and
sales of radios, phonographs and
equipment; a stamp tax of two
cents each on check drafts, and a
tax of five cents for telephone, tele
graph, radio and cable messages. ;
MOSCOW. Jan. 14. (/P) — Addi
tional details of the tragic train
mishap in which 50 persons were
killed and many others injured as !
the result of a rear-end train col- •
lision northwest of Moscow have
been learned.
The heavy casualty list resulted
m part from the fact that the in
jured were placed by rescuers along
a parallel track to await the ar
rival of medical crews from Mos
cow. A freight train came along
and before the enginemen could
stop it, the locomotive and several j
oox cars had plowed through them.;
Government and railways offi-!
cials attempted to suppress all j
news of the disaster so there were I
no official figures on the total cas
oalties. Some estimates were that
several hundred were killed.
Two six-car local trains, both
packed with passengers, were in
* volved in the collision. One of them
nad halted at a switch head pre
paratory to taking a siding along a
stretch of double track. The other
crashed into its rear, scattering
bodies and debris along the right
of-way and plowing through its en
tire length.
GUILTY
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 14. (/P)
—A grand jury returned a verdict
finding Charles Bischoff guilty of
first degree murder for the slaying
of six-year old Marian McLean.
Police officials report the finding
* of bones under the floor of Bis
choff’s home and they are investi
gating to determine if he is guilty
of other atrocities.
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UNREASONABLE AND IRRESPONSIBLE
The people of the Territory of Alaska are unreason
able and irresponsible.
Now please do not get angry over this statement for
we can prove it by no less an authority than !the Alaska
Road Commission.
Section 29 of the Compiled Laws, an Act of Congress
passed May 14, 1906, provides in part: “The said board
(Alaska Road Commission) shall prepare maps, plans
and specifications of every road or trail they may locate
and lay out, and whenever more than $20,000 in the ag
gregate, shall have to be expended in the actual construc
tion of any road or section of road designed to be perma
ment, contract for the work shall be let by them to the
lowest responsible bidder, upon sealed bids, after due no
tice, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the
Secretary of War. The board may reject any bid if they
find they deem the same unreasonably high or if they
find that there is a combination among bidders. In case
no responsible and reasonable bid can be secured, then
the work may be carried on with material and men pro
cured and hired by the board . .. The same rules as to the
manner in which the work of repair shall be done, wheth
er by contract or otherwise, shall govern as in case of or
iginal construction of the road or trail.”
Under the Act of Congress creating the Alaska Fund
the Alaska Road Commission has received from license
taxes derived from the Territory $3,770,000; it has also
received from the Territorial Legislature, under the so
called cooperative agreement, $1,700,000 and from the
Federal government $11,750,000, a total of SEVENTEEN
MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO
THOUSAND DOLLARS.
We are unable to find any record of a contract ever
being let for the construction of any road by the Alaska
Road Commission nor can we find any trace of bids ever
being called for.
It is therefore, quite evident that the Alaska Road
Commission finds the people of Alaska either unreason
able or irresponsible.
Experience has taught the value of competition in
the construction of public works. All buildings, even in
Alaska, are constructed upon competitive bids; the Bur
eau of Public Roads functions satisfactorily under the
same system; every state or municipal road building ac
tivity in the Union works on this basis; Congress by the
law quoted above, attempted to extend the same princi
ple to Alaska, but the Alaska Road Commission calmly
disregards the clear provision of the statute, builds up
its own machine and does as it pleases.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14. (JP)—Need foi
a million and a half dollar wax
chest, if the Democratic party h
to hold its increase and gains made
since 1928, was stressed by Jouett
Shouse, national executive com
mittee chairman at a luncheon foi
the party’s Illinois “victory com
mittee.”
He said these remarkable results
had been achieved through Raskob
The defiit for the last ampaigr
was about $445,000.
MANY SNOWBOUND
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14. <^)—
Tractor crews were working des
perately to break through heavj
snowdrifts on the Benton Monc
Lake highway and rescue more
than 400 persons marooned in Monc
Basin. The rescue parties had made
rapid progress and success was be
lieved to be near.
JAPAN PENETRATES INTO
CHI ANOTHER POINT
• TOKYO, Jan. 14. (/P) — A report
here says that the armed forces of
Japan have made another entry
into Chinese territory and this time
at a place removed from their first
entry at Shanhaikwan, near Tien
tsin.
The Japanese are said to have
landed their forces on the Chinese
side of the Gulf of Pchii in cruisers
and from there the forces penetrat
ed into the city of Tsingchau.
BECOMES PRESIDENT
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. (/P)—F. E.
Williamson became president of the
New York Central Railroad System,
succeeding P. Crowley, who re
signed last month. Crowley remains
wtih the company as director and
I advisor. Williamson formerly was
| president of the Chicago, Burling
jton and Qunicy Railroad.
MANY RECOMMENDED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.»
(IP)—If President Hoover selects a
Democrat to succeed Justice Oliver
Holmes, Senators Walsh and Brat
I ton are mentioned as possible se
! lections. They were recommended
I by Senators Moses and Watson,
: Republicans. The names of Circuit
Court Judges McDermott, of To
peka, Kans., and Van Valkenburgh,
of Kansas City, are also mentioned.
ATTEMPT OF REBELS !
TO SEIZE PROVINCE
| FAILS: THREE KILLED
I OFFICIALS MYSTTFED CONCERN
ING ULTIMATE AIMS OF
REVOLUTIONISTS
_
i BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 14. i/P)—£n
I attempt by a small force of revo
! lutionists to seize possession of the i
Entre Rios province failed when
rebel leaders fled from the town
of La Paz on the appearance of
Federal forces.
Fifty rebels and a quantity of
arms and ammunition were taken
by the Federals. The rebels cap
tured La Paz early in the morning
after a brisk fight with a loyal
police force in which three persons
were killed and seven wounded.
An attempt to seize the import
ant city of Concordio failed, how
| ever. After distributing warning
1 pamphlets to the inhabitants of
j La Pax by airplane, government
| troops marched into the town, re
| taining it without a struggle.
The movement was confined en
I tirely to Entre Rios province and
: Minister of Interior Pico said the
| government was mystified concern
I mg the ultimate aims of the revo
! lutionists who apparently were not
| connected with any organized anti
! administration group.
WILBUR GETS OEPiT
I HONOLULU 1FF1
i HONOLULU, Jan. 14. (IP)— Gover
" nor Judd expected to complete and
forward to Secretary of the Interior
Wulbur a detailed report of the sit
uation which resulted in the as
sault of Mrs. Thomas Massie.
Publicity after tl}e murder of Jos
eph Kahahawai, one of the youths
charged with the assault, resulted
in the cancellation of some winter
tourist bookings.
A committee from the Chamber
of Commerce has an appointment
to call on the judge and demand a
change in the police department.
MAI BE REORGANIZED
MOSCOW, Jan. 13. (IP)—Rumors
of an impending reorganization of
the supreme economic council con
trolling the body of Soviet indus
try into three separate branches
to push forward the five-year plan
were current here.
TRAWLER WRECKED
MARSHFIELD, Ore., Jan. 13. (IP)
—Three men were drowned Sunday
when the fishing trawler Comet
was wrecked off the coast.
REORGANIZATION PLANNED FOR
POLICE DEPARTMENT OF
HONOLULU
HONOLULU, Jan. 14. (/P)—After
calling a special session of the Ter -
ritorial Legislature to consider the
crime situation, Governor Judd
turned to defending himself against
Congressional blame for partial re
sponsibility cf the present state of
affairs.
A new case of attempted assault
has attracted attention and Philan -
der Gray, 31, a Texan, has been ar
rested. Officers said that he vad
struggled with a 21-year-old
guese woman; she preferred
charges against him.
The Legislature is called to-meet
in an extraordinary session Mon
day for the primary consideration
cf the proposal to change the law
permitting reorganization of Hono
lulu’s police department which lias
been widely criticized as inefficient.
new sMIsseT
NORTH STSH WILL BE
SEATTLE, Jan. 14. (/P)—The MS
North Star, the name of the new
$400,000 Arctic supply ship for the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, will be
launched Monday.
The sponsor for the craft has not
yet been selected. The name was
taken from 30 submitted by Alaska
residents and sent to Washington
by J. R. Ummel, Department of the
Interior purchasing agent.
Immediately after launching the
vessel will be towed to the Salmon
Bay terminals where fuel oil tanks,
cargo winch and anchor windlass
will be installed.
ENTEHTAINMENT FOR
WIVES OF PUBLISHERS,
NEEDLESS EXPENSE
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14. (&)—
Claiming he was dismissed as the
outgrowth of differences with Fox
Studios and an efficiency man,
which began with a disagreement
over an entertainment given for
Mrs. Dolly Gann, the vice presi
dent’s sistej, Joseph Johnson, for
mer official of the studios, filed a
suit against the studio for $49,000.
Hostilities resulted over a $3,200
expenditure for entertainment of
wives of members of the National
Publishers Association.
Johnson said the efficiency man,
D. E. Mclntire, declared the ex
penditure unnecessary, remarking:
“As far as the publishers are con
cerned, they are a lot of —!!—!!—
who go out to pan —*M—!—
everything we do.”
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