GUARANTEED CIRCULATION
COVERING
SOUTHEAST ALASKA
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NEWS OF INTEREST
FROM NORTH, EAST & WEST
FOR ALL ALASKANS
VOLUME NO. VII.
NO. 2.
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PETERSBURG, ALASKA,
JULY 29, 1932
Subscription Price $4 per yeaf
Rustgard Rules
On School Tax
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School Tax Collector,
Petersburg, Alaska.
Dear sir:
This office is in receipt oi
yours of 20th instant inquiring
whether or not a person em
ployee in contemplation of our
school tax law.
Your question should be an
swered in the affirmative. The
owner of the boat, through the
Captain, is the employer. The
fact that the men are paid a
shae of the net proceeds does
not make them partners nor
joint adventurers, they are still
employees and the boat owner
the employer. The share of the
net proceeds which each re
ceives is his wages. This is too
well settled to be worthy of any
lengthy argument. Still I shall
quote from a well recognized
legal authority on the subject.
“An employee, under a con
tract giving him a share in the
profits of his employer’s business
as compensation for his ser
\ices, is not a partner of his
employer, nor a joint adventur
er, nor can he hold the em
ployer liable as trustee until, by
the operation of the contract or
otherwise, he secures legal title
to specific property in the pos
session of his employer. An em
ployee who is allowed has mere
ly a right to his compensation,
subject to such powers of dis
missal as the employer may
ave under the contract. He has
not proprietary right in the busi
ness itself, no right to direct its
affairs, not even a right to de
mand that his employer shall
exercise reasonable skin and
diligence in the conduct of his
business, although through his
own negligence he may lose a
share of the profits he would
otherwise be entitled to.”
This is sufficient to show that
an employer on a halibut boat
v'orking on a share of a net
profit is an employee, and the
owner of the boat becomes liable
to the Territory for the school
tax under the statute here in
question.
You wdll find the same ques
tion discussed by this office on
Page 224 of Volume 3 of the
Opinions of the Attorney Gen
eral of Alaska, a copy of which
volume I am sending you.
Yours very truly
JOHN RUSTGARD
Attorney General.
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Wrestlers Ready For
Fast Mix in S. N. Hall
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Roy Anderson of Minneapolis
and Jack Ryan of Chicago are a’l
ret for their wrestling match tc
be held in the Sons of Norwaj
Hall, Saturday July 30th.
The men have been working
cut in the hall during the pasl
week before a crowd of enthusi
asts and are in fit condition fo:
the go.
There will be two fast prelim,
inaries between local men whicl
should be quite inteesting to th<
fans.
Both Ryan and Anderson an
men of wide experience havini
worked out in rings from coas
to coast. When Norwegian meet
an Irishman then there is a ret;
scrap and that is what both mei
promise the fns.
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The Road Commission motor
ship Highway was in port dur
ing the week.
KISSED HIM GOODBYE
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Henry “Red” Johnson, former
• sailor suitor of Betty Gow, the
kidnaped Lindbergh baby’s
nursemaid, is on his way to
London. Before he sailed an un
identified girl kissed him good
, bye.
Wall Street Is
Quite Optimistic
A turn for the better in the
business situation was seen last
week in rising prices for stocks
and bonds and commodities of
all kinds. Leading shares added
one to five points in trading that
v.as the most active since early
in June. Brokers reported the
general public wa sconfident that
I the bottom of the depression
had been reached and was com
ing back into the market.
Wall Street’s spirits were
raised by the following: first the
signing by the President of the
two billion dollar relief bill; se
cond, by an increase in the
country’s gold supply and third,
by better than expected corpor
ation reports. Business news was
on the side of returning confi
dence.
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Hoover No Longer
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Herbert Hoover no longer is a
millionaire president. An article
in the magazine “Fortune” de
clared that Hoover’s personal
fortune has shrunk from four
million at the time of his re
tirement from active business in
1014 to approximately seven
hundred thousand dollars at the
present. Unfortunate invest- j
ments plus generous contribu-|
jtions to relief work caused the
| shrinkage, the article said. What
is left of the President’s once
'large fortune, it was added, ’s
: invested in bonds where it will
i be safe from the vicissitudes
j which have reduced the princi
ple to less than one-fifth the
original total.
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Market Fails
Sound Fisheries
Crews of seventy Tacoma and
Gig Harbor purse seine boats are
facing a crisis at Neah Bay as a
result of the low price of fish
and the light run. In addition,
there are about fifty other purse
seine crews and the crews of
nearly 200 trollers facing diffi
culties. Only two canneries on
Puget Sound are buying fish at
the bay and fishermen not con
nected with those two plants are
without a market for their fish,
according to the fishermen.
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; Judge Harding Loses
Bout With Reporter
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The U. S. Attorney General re
fused to confirm appointment ot
Mrs. Mendoza, sister-in-law oi
Judge Harding as court reportei
and John Newman, whom he fir
ed is to remain on the job, is re
port received here today.
[ Mrs. Mendoza rebently arrive:
from Ohio to surplant Newman
who is a Legionaire and with £
family dependent upon him.
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Cope Mundy came over froir
Wrangell during the week.
Juneau School
Of Commerce
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. Only Business College in
Territory to Open Aug. 29
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To meet the increasing de
mand for a school of modern
business in the Territory, tenta
tive plans are being rapidly
carried out for the establish
ment of a commercial college in
Juneau.
According to information re
ceived, the school, to be known
as the Juneau Business College,
will maintain a high standard
equal to, and in many instances
higher than, business schools in
Washington and Oregon. A re
gular course to prepare the stu
dent for positions in commer
cial fields will be carried out.
Only School In Alaska
Juneau will be the only city in
Alaska having a business college.
Already the faculty has been
selected and several local peo
ple have signified their inten
tions of enrolling in the school
which is slated to open the fall
term August 29th.
The institution will be cen
trally located. The top floor of
the Goldstein Building at Se
cond and Seward is being re
novated and remodeled for
classrooms and offices for the
new Juneau Business College.
Day school will be held five
days a week from nine to five
with one and one-half hours
for lunch. Night school, it is an
nounced, will be hell on Mon
days, Wednesdays, and Fridays
from seven to nine.
In keeping with the times, a
popular priced course in the
following subjects is offered to
those in Juneau and the Terri
tory interested in bettering their
chances of success in modem
business: bookkeeping, and
higher accountancy, stenograph
ic training, shorthand and typ
ing, business administration,
business English and spelling,
penmanship, salesmanship and
self-analysis.
Announcements as to the
names of te faculty and further
information will be given later.
CLAIMS SPEED RECORD
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A new air speed record was
claimed by Vic Hoganson, Var
ney Air Lines pilot. He carried
six passengers seventy miles to
Sacramento in 17 minutes, an
average of 248 miles an hour.
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Red Salmon Pack In
North Is Heavy
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There are a lot of fishermen
in the Bristol Bay district as
well as other Westward ports
and, also, there are plenty of
reds showing up, according to
Capt. Arthur Ryning, master of
the S.S. Starr, who returned
recently, from the first trip of
the season to Bering Sea and
Bristol Bay.
Fishing opened in Bristol Bay
:cn June 25 and, with the ex
ception of the Northwestern
Fisheries, all plants are operat
ing. The Northwestern Fisheries
are, however, leasing their boats
^ out to fishermen.
At False Pass, where fishing
, began May 28, 1,000 cases were
packed in two days by the P. E
Harris plant; this was a test oi
preliminary pack. At Squaw Har
1 tor, the same concern packec
100 cases of reds the first day.
RUSSIA SLAP BACK AGAIN
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Extensive rights to produce
^and sell goods on the old fashion
ed capitalist basis was granted
to private groups of artisans by
government decree considered
to be one of the most significant
moves in recent years to revive
• private profit in the communist
state of Russia.
Recognition Of
Russia By U. S.
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Shifting currents of public
opinion and world affairs were
described to be carrying the
State Department to a more
liberal attitude toward the pro
blem of Russian recognition.
The changed point was outlined
by an informed person coincid
ent with a public plea by House
majority leader Henry Rainey
for recognition or at least com
mercial agreement with the
Soviet Union. Rainey urged re
cognition to bolster American
foreign trade and to win the
fight for the United States.
The inquiry tends to strength
en the belief that obstacles to
diplomatic relations between
Moscow and Washington are re
ceeding.
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Betting Odds
On Roosevelt
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Gamblers give Franklin D.
Roosevelt a better chance to be
come president than they have
given any Democratic candiadte
within 30 years.
Odds against Roosevelt are
7 to 5. In 1916 the mid-summer
odds against Woodrow Wilson
were 5 to 2, according to John
McGovern, betting commissioner.
Four years ago odds were as
high as 4 to 1 against Alfred E.
Smith.
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Seattle Swimming
Champ Defeated
Miss Helene Madison, Ameri
can premier woman free style
swimmer fom Seattle, suffered
her first defeat in a long time
i last Sunday when Ellinor Ger
iatti Sayville, San Francisco, won
by inches in an exhibition SO
yard race before two thousand
persons. The time was 27.3
seconds. Mrs. Sayville, swimming
in a lane at the far side of the
pool from Miss Madison, sur
prised her opponent with a great
final spurt. Miss Josephine Mc
Kim of Los Angeles was third.
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Seattle Doctor Held On
Manslaughter Charge
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Dr. Henry A. Fach, Seattle
optometrist, is being held in
Fairbanks on a charge of caus
ing the death of three-year-old
Jean Almquist. He was arrested
on a warrant charging man
slaughter.
Leslie Almquist, the girl's
father manager of a hardware
store, charged Fach with ad
I ministering a fatal dose of atrc
jpin while examining the child’;
eyes. The girl died the nexl
morning.
Fach is a Seattle optometrist
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Mr. C. Eltman, from Fiv<
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II Finger Island has been in towr
{for a few days.
Boms Leader Is
Under Arrest
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Serious trouble among ele
ments of the bonus army was
averted, last Monday. During a
left wing meeting, when plans
were laid to defy the authorities
and attempt to picket the White
House on Tuesday, a group of
conservative veterans from the
Anacostia camp started out to
break up the session.
Sylvester McKinney of Oak
land, California, radical leader,
had sharply assailed W. W. Wat
ers, the commander of the bon
us army. The radical meeting
had concluded before the con
servative marchers could arrive.
Some of the men insisted on go
ing to the left winger’s head
quarters and “have it out ”
Cooler headed leaders prevailed
upon the men to return to the
c?mp without trouble. About 20n
men said they would join Mc
Kinney in an attempted White
House demonstration. Police will
not allow thi saction.
Meanwhile, evacuation o f
Washington by the bonus army
reached its peak last Monday,
when thousands of men surged
into the railroad yard.; and
caught freight trains for home.
Most of them failed to avail
themselves of the government s
offer to give them tickets to
their destination. It was esti
mated by police that fully ten
thousand of the fifteen thou- '
sand who were here when con
gress adjourned had departed.
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“EVERYTHING FOR
THE BOYS”
Federal officials last Saturday
ordered the bonus expeditionary
forces to evacuate all govern
ment owned property by mid
night Monday. Veteran leaders
said they would counter with
passive resistance to the ouster
order unless other quarters were
provided.
It is now up to the Washing
ton police to carry out the orders
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Oil Companies Now
Declare a Truce
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Temporary peace in the * oil
world with the prospect of
higher prices to consumers was
achieved when an agreement
was signed by the International
Oil Conference. Russia remains
outside the agreement and will
undersell in the world markets,
although the conferees appar
ently decided they could cope
with the Soviet competition. The
agreement deals with the pre
sent export proportions of the
principal American and Anglo
| Dutch groups.
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j Jack Wilson, agent for the sup
pression of liquor among the
I Indians, was a visitor in port
last week. He has made the
swing around the cannery dis
trict at the instance of Governor
Parks to look into the employ
ment of Native and other Alas
ka labor. He reports employment
j conditions worse this year than
ever before with prices of salm
on very low. It is his opinion
that the Territory and perhaps
the Federal Government will
. have quite a problem on hand
■ next winter.
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' Staff-Captain Joseph Acton of
the Salvation Army, is due in
Petersburg today. He plans to
5 undertake the annual drive for
1 funds to carry on the work for
anotherm year.
CLOSED MILLS REOPENING
IN NEW ENGLAND
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Business conditions are look
ing up in the New England
States.
Closed mills are reopening and
laid-off employees are going
back to work.
Sufficient orders are coming
into several industrial plants to
warrant capacity production in
the near future.
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Europe Strikes At
U. S. Trade
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Four great producing domin
ions set the pace for the British
Empire Economic Conference
last Saturday with demands for
concessions from Great Britain
that struck at the trade of the
United States, Argentina, Soviet
Russia, Poland, Denmark and
other world nations. Australia,
South Africa, Canada and New
Zealand asked for consideration
from the British of a preferen
tial tariff for wheat, meat, lum
ber, dairy products, fruits, to
bacco and other commodities.
The meat producting dominions
are expected to bid for a share
of the British meat trade, per
haps by trying to set an arbi
trary limit on the total supply
of Argentine beef.
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Charges R. F. C.
Is Under Pressure
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Charges that the White House
had brought pressure to bear
upon the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation to make loans
to particular corporations were
dumped unceremoniously into
the national political caldron by
Senator Connally, Democrat of
Texas. In a statement issued
through Democratic national
headquarters, the Texas Senat
or who nominated Speaker
Garner for the presidency at
Chicago, added, “The treasury
department in prior years has
made refunds to powerful in
dividuals and corporations who
made generous contributions to
campaign funds. That old habit
will not be overlooked.” He ob
served, however, that there will
be a day of reckoning, as con
gress already has acted to in
vestigate all such loans.
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Federation of Labor
Studies Labor Problem
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A five point relief plan, drawn
up by the executive council of
the American Federation of La
bor, are before the nation’s
leaders as William Green, Fed
eration President, began a drive
for a five day week and six hour
day and unemployment insur
ance. The council, before ad
journing after a two week ses
sion, issued a formal statement,
outlining its relief program and
directed Green to prepare an
unemployment insurance plan.
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GERMANY’S IRON HAND
The big guns of Dictator—
Chancellor Franz Von Papen
found their mark. Showing that
jit is determined to wipe out all
idngerous elements and all pos
sible armed resistance, the gov
ernment launched a campaign
against the Reichsbanner party,
the military socialist organiza
tion which has opposed the in
creased influence of Adolf Hit
tier’s national socialists.