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COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
DAILY AND WEEKLY
Gateway
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 223.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
TAX REDUCTIOli
$190,000,000 MAY BE KEPT ON
HAND WITHOUT FINAN
CIAL DIFFICULTY
WASHINGTON, Sept., 24, (/P)—
Substantial reduction in taxes
is favored by President Hoover
and will be recommended at the
regular session cf Congress by
the Treasury to become effective
next March 15.
But what form the reduction
will take is thus far undeterm
meu. it was learned at the Treas
ury department that the govern
ment financial • condition in
ment’s for the coming year’s
appropriations is regarded as
warranting such a reduction
and with this view experts will
start within a week to deter
mine how much of a cut should
be made and how it is to be dis
tributed.
Financial officials pointed to
the continued prosperity and the
large income tax collections as
a base upon which a reduction
could be made.
Since July 1 the government
income was $921,237,506 wihle
income tax collections up to Sep
tember 20 have totalled $1,800,000
000 an increase over the same
period of a year ago of $271,000
000.
With continued business pros
perity experts feel income taxes
will keep on mounting and equa
if not pass those of last year
They also feel a smaller margir
safely be kept on hand withoui
than the usual $100,000,000 maj
be carried without complicat
ing government finances.
CHARLES T. HATTEN REAP
POINTED SUPERINTEN
DENT J. L. H.
SPOKANE, Sept., 24, (JP)—Bish
op Titus Rowe, at the Northwes
Methodist Episcopal conference
announced the list of appoint
ments for 300 Methodist minis
lers for Washington, Northeri
Idaho and Alaska.
Those for the Alaska distric
are Henry Young, Juneau dis
trict superintendent; Hyder, l
R. Cross; Jesse Lee Home at Sew
ard, Charles T. Hatten; Juneai
Henry Young; Seward, E. I
Reisner; Unalaska, A. J. Arm
strong.
LOSE BEACH LANDS
PALM BEACH. Sept., 24, ffl—Be
cause Richard Croker, late Tam
many chieftan, had failed to ef
tablish domicile in Palm Beach, a
tho he lived and owned valuah
property there, his children, led fc
Howard and Richard Croker Ji
have lost their suit to recover va
liable beach lands from Mrs. Crok<
his widow.
S, 5, 1101 SIS
i FROM IMF RICH CHICO
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NOME, Sept., 24, (/P)—'The
i sailing yesterday for Seattle of
: the steamer Victoria was mark
's ed by the large listing and car
; go. The vessel carried 125 pas
sengers, 500 barrels of Golovin
herring, a large shipment of
furs, more than half a million
in gold bullion for Seattle banks,
j and the reindeer shipment was
: treble the amount ever shipped
before.
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: FRENCH PL! TO
■ VACATED ENGLAND
OCCUPATION GERMAN TER
RITORY BY FRENCH BE
SEVERE BLOW
WIESBADEN, Germany, Sept,, 24
(IP)—The arrival of several French
; general staff officers here gave rise
i to the report that the French gov
! ernment has decided to occupy
| this area fallen British troops
1 leave.
The populace displayed consid
jerable uneasiness over the move
fearing if French troops came
in force, it would mean a severe
blow to the 1930 season of the
! Weisbaden Spa.
Lieut Gen. Sir William Thwaites
> commander of the British tioop?
L! in the Rhineland, is reported to be
. preparing to go to London fo ’ a
t j special report to British minis
; try of war on the situation.
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SPORT CHAMPIONS HIT THE SKIDS;
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DAZZV
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stopping the champs the challengers battlecry, produced staggering
losses among the sports monarchs this year. The under-dogs are rich with
trophies, having bagged the crowns of Bobby Jones, the \ankees, John
ny Farrell, Dazzy Vance, the California crew and others.
By MESSENGER
SUBSTITUTE MESSENGER AL
MOST THREW PARCEL
AWAY
NEW YORK, Sept., 24, (/P)—
Police recovered from an unad
' dressed package deposited in a
mail package box all but $50,000
j of the $512,000 in securities
stolen from R. V. Hiscoe & Co.,
brokers, by Milton Alter, mes
senger.
Police Commissioner Whalen
announced recovery by a sub
stitute carrier who found the
| package/ resembling waste paper,
and almost threw it; away. The
; parcel contained the messenger’s
brief case bearing the Hiscoe
company name which Milton Al
, ter had scratched in two sep
i arate places.
PI SCOIT SIGHS
DOWN HlfTl
; NEW YORK, Sept., 24, (/Pi— Af
| ter being knocked down and al
most out in the first rounc
Phil Scott, British heavyweighi
champion, staged a comebacl
to win over Victorio Mario Cam
polo, the giant Argentine. Scoti
j carried off a close decision af
! ter 10-rounds of a bruising
j fight.
HARTFORD, Conn., Sept., 24,
(TP)— Christopher Battalino, a
Italian boy 21 years of age, won
the featherweight crown by de
feating Andre Routis, French
veteran holder of the title for
only a year, winning all the 15
rounds.
Battalino fought with the gen
eralship of a man twice his age.
I ALASKA AIRWAYS MAY DIS
PATCH PLANE FOR O.
SWENSON, GIRL
NOME, Alaska Sept., 24, (JP)
The crew of the wreckec
| schooner Elisif, of the Swen
j son Trading company, sailet
gbuth on the S. S. Victoria. On
j other trading ship, the Nanuk
! is now reported locked fast ii
the ice near North Cape, Si
beria with not a chance to es
cape before next summer.
. j The Russian supply ship Stav
t! atol is also caught in the ice.
;: The Alaska Airways may sen
: a plane to the Nanuk to brin
; back Olaf Swenson and hi
, [ daughter who are aboard th
. Nanuk; and also, make othe
; trips this coming winter for th
1 furs aboard the ships.
PLANE ACCIDENTS
I WORST TRAGEDY OCCURRED
IN CANADA, MONOPLANE
CRASHED
TORONTO, Sept., 23, (/P)—Ten
'persons were killed within the
i space of a few hours in four air
plane accidents which occurred at
widely separated points.
The worst tragedy tok place in
I Canada when a Travelare Cabin
monoplane belonging to the Sky
ways Ldt., of Toronto, crashed into
ja field between Merriton and Thor
old, Ontario.
The plane caught fire after the
crash and six occupants were burn
ied beyond recognition. Two men
jwere killed at Berkeley, Calif.,
I when their plane went into a tail
spin, caught fire and crashed into
jthe residence of C. E. Gillman. The
remaining two victims were killed
-i when their parachutes failed to
l! open. One of these was Helen Wil
- ! liams 18 years old, who died in
i jdemonstrating a safety parachute.
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KILLING ATTORNEY
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r
e
WAITING IN NEARBY VACANT
BUILDING; TURNED PISTOL
ON HUSBAND
1 BORGER, Tex., Sept., 23, (/P)—
‘ The arrest of a suspect in the as
sassination of District Attorney
;John A. Holmes, was in prospect as
Jthe first definite move emerging
from the welter of clues and mo
itives seen by scores of northwest
Texas officers investigating with
anger, the ambush killing.
Mrs. Holmes, the widow, who
turned from the door of her home
to see her husband fall in front of
his garage, with three bullet
wounds, told Texas rangers she be
lieved she knew who was sulking in
a nearby vacant building and had
turned a pistol on Holmes as he
emerged from his garage after put
ting his car up.
CARDINAL DUBOIS
PASSES III PARIS
PARIS, Sept.. 24, 6*P)—Louis
Ernese .Dubois, Cardinal Arch
bishop of Paris, 73 years of age,
died here yesterday. He was rec
ognized as the man who had
done more to reconcile the Cath
olic church to the lay republic
to end the long conflict which
had torn France since separa
tion of church and state.
ALL CORNED UP
A New York labratory takes plain
cornstalks, puts them thru a spec
ial process and in 15 minutes they
| come out stiff as a board. By use of
i certain other corn products one
jean attain the same results.