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Entered as seconu-ciass matter Au
gust 29th, 1923, at the postoflioe at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
aiarch 3. 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, June 11, 1932.
VAN PRESLEY, NEW HEAD
OF ALASKA STEAMSHIP COM
PANY, TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
SEATTLE.—B. Van Presley, who
eame to Seattle from Alaska recently
to assume charge of the Alaska
Steamship Company as general man
■ager, was found dead late yesterday,
the circumstances pointing to suicide.
'The body was found in a patch of
'woods in West Seattle, reclining
against a tree, with a bullet hole
through the head and an automatic
■close beside him.
Presley left his office yesterday
morning, telling his secretary that he
would return in half an hour. When
he failed to return at the end of sev
eral hours a search was started for
im and the clue to his whereabouts
.found when his abandoned car was
■discovered in a sparsely settled dis
trict of the city. The body was soon
located in the nearby woods. The
bullet had entered the mouth and the
face bore the marks of the burning
powder.
Up to a late hour today nothing
had been earned to ndicate the mo
tive for the suicide, but officials of
the company state that he had been
under a great mental strain lately.
A widow and two small children sur
vive him.
B. Van Presley was a pi-ominent
resident of Alaska for many years,
until recently having been in charge
■of the Kennecott Copper Corporation
and of the Copper River & North
western Rairoad. He recently was
promoted to the position of general
manager of the Alaska Steamship
Company.
COOLIDGE SAYS WAR DEBTS
CANNOT BE CANCELED
NEW YORK.—In a discussion of
the international war debt question in
the July issue of Cosmopolitan, Calvin
Cooidge says these obligations “can
not be canceled.” He explains that
the United States borrowed the
money to make loans to European
countries and the money must be col
lected from those countries or from
our own taxpayers.
The former President makes no
specific recommendation for enabling
Europe to make the money with which
to repay the debts, but discusses for
eign trade in that respect.
DISASTER OVERTAKES AVI
ATOR BROWNE IN EFFORT TO
MAKE FLIGHT OVER PACIFIC
SEATTLE.—Disaster rewarded the
efforts of Aviator Browne, who
sought to win the $30,000 offered for
a successful flight across the Pacific
ocean, from Seatte to Tokyo.
Browne hopped off Saturday, but
after flying about seven hous was
competed to return to Seatte, with a
broken oil line and a broken rudder
control. And the second attempt on
Sunday had a much more disastrous
ending, the plane losing its wing
while over Elliott bay and dropping
into the water, compelling Browne
and his mechanic to jump with their
parachutes. The ship was lost, and
Browne emerged with a broken
shoulder.
When Browne first took off, his
ship was so heaviy laden with fuel
that considerable difficulty was ex
perenced in gettin ginto the air. The
plane was only a foot og the ground
when the margin lights were reached
and t was necessary for Browne to
thread his way among the tapes to
escape disaster. Gasoline was dumped
twice to get altitude.
All went wel unti the oi ine broke
when he was cruising northward near
the north end of Vancouver Isand. He
was preparing to turn northwest to
ward the Aleutian when the hot oil
blinded him, almost bringing disaster.
He was flying low at the time and
was barely able to keep out of the
water. The rudder control wire was
broken when the tail assemblage
raked a tree as they were trying to
climb after leaving the airport in the
early morning hours.
After making repairs to his ship
Browne prepared for a second take-off
Sunday, arranging to refuel after
getting into the air. The Lone Star
and the refueler set out finally, and
after an unsuccessful attempt to con
tact while over Queen Anne hill they
; moved out over Elliott bay. The hose
of the refueler appeared to catch in
the stabilizer, carsing the ship to
nose downward and apiost at the
same time the plane burst into flames.
Browne and his refueling aide, Frank
Brooks, bailed out just as ;.he flames
burst out around them, but they were
only up about 1,000 feet at the time
and their escape fronv death was a
narrow one, the parachutes opening
up just as they hit the water.
Browne suffered a dislocated shoulder.
They were rescued by speed boats,
but the plane went down and was
lost.
NEW MAYOR OF SEATTLE
LOSES NO TIME IN TAKING JOB
SEATTLE.—Dore was in such a
hurry to assume duties as the new
mayor that he took the oath of office
one minute past midnight. A throng
of ardent supporters cheered as he
was administered the oath by Su
perior Judge Howard Findley.
Immediately after taking office he
appointed L. L. Norton as chief of
police. “A policeman’s badge should
be the insignia of honor. I expect
you to make it so,” Dore told the for
mer poice captain. He charged Nor
ton with ending graft and demanded
the closing of gambling houses, places
of prostitution and cessation of police
graft. No invasion of homes in search
of liquor will be made unless it is
being sold.
FIRE INSURANCE
Yeu should carry a liberal amount of fire insurance
for the sake of your credit and your peace of mind,
Needless to say this insurance should be of the very
highest quality.
That’* the Kind Written By
Alaska Insurance Agency
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
Inquire ef Koafce Times.
BIG REVENUE MEASURE O KD
BY CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON.—In recbrd time, .
unequaled even during .war days, Con
gressional conferees completed con
sideration of the .billiontdollar Reve
nue bill last night, arriving at their
decision after more than 13 hours of
close and harmonious study of -the
voluminous measure, which carries J
many forms uf new taxes to balance
the national budget.
The measure is designed to raise
$1,115,000,000 in revenue. Almost
$300,000,000 were added to the bill in
j the last hours.
Besides the high income tax rate
i imposed by the revenue bl as passed
^ by the Senate, the followng are some
j of the new levies which may be .ex
i pected to fall directl yon the average
individual:
| Higher postage, beginning with 3
■ cents per letter; excise taxes of-6 per
cent on radios, phonographs, mechan
ical refrigerators; 10 per cent on cos
metics, jewelry, sporting goods; 3 per
j cent on autamobiee; 4 .cents .a gallon
! on lubricating oil; 1 cent .on gasoline;
2 per cent on .-all .admission tickets
costing more than 40 .cents; 10 to-20
cents on telephone .messages costing
more than 50 cents; .6 .per cent on
telegrams; 10 cents an cablegrams; -2
cents on all bank checks; ilO ..per .cent
on safety deposit hox charges; other
charges such as 3 jjer .cent on gross «
! receipts of pubic .utilities.
Income tax rates are 4 .per .cent on
the first $4,000, and .8 per cent .above
that amount, with a graduated.surtax
beginning at 1 per cent above $6,000.
Tbe exemptions are: $2,500 for
married persons and $1,000 for singe
persons, in contrast to the ..present ex- !
emptioms ,of $8,600 and $1,500.
1 JOHN n. ttOCKEFJSLLER ASK«
REPEAL OF VOLSTEAD LAW .
NEW 'YORK,—John D. Rockefeller, >
Jr., lifelong, staunch advocate of ,
temperance and champion afthe .pro
hibition law, issued a statement last
night in which he branded the l&th «
amendment as a failure and urged .
that it he .repealed. He (.oppressed the
earnest hqpe that .a repeal plank, .pro
viding for ratification by State con
ventions, "will he ’incorporated in the
j platforms of both political conven
; tions, “thus taking the question out
of politics.”
In explanation of >his change of
views, Rockefeller .said “when the
amendment was passed, it was jearn
estly hoped by the hosts of temper
ance advocates that the law would be I
generally supported by pubc opinion,
thus hastening the day when the
value to society of men with bodies
free from the undermining effects of
alcohol would be generally realized.
That this has not been the result, 1
have slowly and reluctantly come to
believe.” *
Tho«ctatement directed Attention to
a for metter issued .Sunday by Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University, who announced
that he would urge the Republican
convention to adopt a resolution to
have Congress submit the question of
repeal to non-partisan conventions to
be held in the various States. Rocke
feller indorsed this plan and reierated
his lifelong stand as an advocate of
temperance, adding that the hopes of
benefits from prohibition had not
been realised. Instead, he pointed
out, “drinking generally has increas
ed; the speakeasy has replaced the
saloon, not unit for unit, but prob
ably twofold, if not threefold.”
Rockefeller stated that he and his
father had given $350,000 to the Anti
Saloon League since 1900.
Bride—Boo-hoo—Charlie grumbled
at me for serving the soup last.
Mother—But, dear, I’m sure he
didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.
Bride—I know—boo-hoo—but it
wasn’t soup—it was coffee.
Rimer—Do you think I should put
more fire into my poetry?
Editor—No, quite the. reverse.
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