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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27
TAXES OUGHT TO BE REDUCED,
 NOT RAISED.

Very logical Patrick Henry gave utterance to the thought that there is way to foretell what the future holds except from past experience The Legislature ought to bear this in mind when writing the measure In Alaska taxes once raised are not reduced. The revenue laws have produced surpluses in the past but demands for public expenditures rather than reduced taxation have consumed them.
 Aaska's industries are fisheries and mining The fisheries are operating at a loss They are not in condition to stand up under heavier taxation. Many cannery companies have gone to the wall. Others are on the brink of disaster All of them have lost heavily the last year. The welfare of Alaska de- bends very largely upon preserving the fisheries n- dustry That cannot be done for long unless they are operated at a profit.
 If possible while both are absolutely essential to the progress of the Territory, mining is even more important than the fisheries. The mines are usually operated for longer periods each year than the fisheries Often they throughout the year. They bring a larger percentage of permanent resi- dents to the country
 Those mining companies that are operating at a profit most instances anxious to extend their operations and increase employment and population. They need capital for that purpose Many mines are struggling to attain profitable production Most of them need additional capital Hundreds of pros poets in need of capital to make mines of them. There is ample capital for the development of gold mines where the prospects favorable. While it might be argued that the law does not require taxes from mines unless they working at profit and that small profits exempted from taxation, many of the properties will require such large capital to make them profitable that large returns must be forthcoming in order to enable them to pay reason able dividends on the investments
 Two things must be always borne in mind. First, the mines absolutely necessary in order that population may be held and further development IS essential to bring population gain. Second, capital is timd. It must field without obstacles ex- cept those provided by nature It must well coming public sentiment and disposition to help otherwise it will not come. If taxes to be raised everytme emergency in government seems to call for money-and reduced-there is not the proper sort of encouragement
 The taxes the industries of Alaska have been permitted to grow too high already They are not only burdensome the capital employed but they bear down upon the employees and tend to curtail employment. The mines in a developing stage of the world are fostering The fisheries are ;n such rate that it suggests emergency aid rather than heavier taxation.
 Common and good business demand that the Territory get along without many things that would be desirable in order not to raise taxes at this time. The situation is such that taxes really ought to be reduced
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27
LAID TO REST
 IN PARIS TOMB
lnfanta Isabella of Spain, Dies in Exile, Bur-
 led Tn France

PARIS, April 27.-Clothed in the sombre robe of a Sister of the Or der of St. Francis Assist, the body of Infanta Isabella of Spain aged 79, who died in exile last Thursday, was borne to the tomb last Saturday. Three masses were said in the mortuary department of the Ladies Home, where she died. The body was taken to the Pere Lachaise Cemetery where the family vault was opened for it. Exiled King Alfonso and others of the Royal family, and Queen Ma rie of mania, attended the services.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27
Safety for Aviation.
Cincinnati Enquirer.)


 It is absurd to affirm that aviation suffered black eye a serious set-bock, because of the crash of the plane in which Knute Rockne was killed The cause of the catastrophe is suggested, in report made by the Department of Commerce to have been "ice on the wings" Eight men myster- iously died But the fact remains that the tragedy is an additional powerful reason why the Commerce Department should make known all that it is able to find out about this and all other plane crashes It certainly is for the good of aviation that this should be done
 The public is ready and wants to fly. The record of plane service, in fact is phenomenal record insofar as safety of transportation is con- cerned. But the fact that national hero, idol of sportsmen throughout the world became victim of air disaster gives to the incident an importance which easily may be perverted by persons not given to thought and observation
 Close thorough and expert inspection of planes before take-off should be made compulsory knowl- edge of meteorology should be made chief quail fication in the issuance of pilot license The in- ventive genius of the industry may be trusted to provide additional safety devices for planes as rap- idly as experience and circumstance suggest and permit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27
AT THE HOTELS

GaStineau
 MT. and Mrs. M. Thomas, L. s. Coffin, Frank Parrish, J. B. Sapiro, N A. McEachren, M Cartright, &c., attle; MT. and Mrs. G. L. Rich, w. McGee, Ketchikan; Fred F. Schrey, Sitka; Dale Kent, Marys- vile, Calf; Mrs. A. Hamilton, Wrangell.
 Alaskan
 A. Daggett, F. J. Corneluisen, Fred D. Cameron, Seattle; O. SSob- CTS, F. L. Wallace, Martin Kurset, Ketehikan; M Goldberg, J. Mur- phy, Tenakee; Pajo Vucetich, Chi chagof; E. O. Erickson, Morrison, Penn.
 Zynda
 w. Lester Troast, Sitka; Mir. and Mrs. A. Watson, Gustavus, Alaska; Don Macdonald, Los Angeles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27
CAPT. AHUES VISITS
 HERE DURING TODAY

Capt. c. E. Ahues, superintend- ent of canneries in Southeast AL aska for Libby, McNeill and Libby, arrived in Juneau at 5 o'clock this morning. He conferred while here with D. w. Branch, Manager of the Salmon Department of his con- pany, and visited with friends. He sailed at noon for Taku Harbor where he will be for two days be- fore returning to his headquarters at Craig. Mrs. Ahues and other members of his family, well known in Juneau where they frequently visited when they resided at Taku Harbor, are now making their home at Craig.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27
THE ETERNAL CIRCLE.

Perhaps better illustration Of the probability that good times will follow as soon as readjustments are worked out has not been made than the following Newman
 There a million in the United
 States who would like to buy automobiles, if
 they had jobs. And there a good many
 thousands who would like jobs building auto
 mobiles, if somebody would buy them. And
 there good many who would like to
 loan the money to build and to buy the
 automobiles, if the buyers had jobs And
 this condition exists in almost every other
 line. People want the goods-workmen want
 the jobs-lenders want the loans. Yet they
 wait on each other and business stands
 still. Can't somebody suggest method of
 getting them together?
 All the elements for the renewal of prosperity seem to be present except. perhaps overstock Of unsod products. And this overStock in a large degree is hand because trade and industrial chan nels gummed up. There many people who at living wage But the connections between production and consumption are not functoning. However, lower prices and curtailment of production are gradually reducing the surplus products and the time is not distant when the wheels will again begin to turn There is ample capital in the country seeking employment to care for the situation when ever the readjusments are made.
 One thing that would help the country i'm tnensely would be the elimination of the absurdi- ties and narrow but hurtful selfishness from the smootHawley tariff so that foreign countries would
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

to discriminate against the United States. If that discrimination would foreign trade would pick up. The American foreign branch is help full to the stockholders of American concerns but they decrease rather than increase employment in this country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

Too much tariff has similar effect on industry and commerce that too much alcoholic drink has individuals. It stimulates and induces q lot of pep for time, but in the end it ntoxicates and demoralizng reaction sets in.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

Japanese movies are giving free eats with their shows Now might to expect the restaurants to give free shows with the eats they sell?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

Nicaragua refuses to let Honduras's rebellion have the front page all to itself She is putting some additional pep into her continuous per- formance and demanding her share of the spotlight
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

Florida announces that this year it finally got rid of the Mediterranean fruit fly It probably froze to death-(New York Sum-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

The largest grapevine in the world is growing in Carpenteria County, California. It is 105 years old, covers third of and yields 10 tons of grapes from which, it is alleged, few tumblers of jelly made-(Detroit News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

MT. Fess hardly would make a good running mate even though the vets have had him on the run for some time.-(Cincinnati Enqurer)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

Someone suggests fashionable costumes for women prisoners which might seem more logical if we had co-ed penitentiaries-(C Cincinnati Enquirer)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

Each United States Senator costs the American taxpayers $38,876 year. We will permit you to express your indignation in your own way--(Atchi- son, Kan, Glabe)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

However, there is probably no Humpty Dumpty who gets broken to pieces oftener than plan to pare the expenditures of government-Buffalo Courier -Express)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-27

Old papers at the Empire office
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
'EVCTING' CONSTABLEIS
SUED FOR $4,000 BY
MAN HE DISPOSSESSED

! illegal collection of overdue rents
and evictionS.
Smiths suit set out a section of
the state law in which it is pro-
vided that only members of the
state bar can solicit, advise, re-
quest or induce institution or prose-
cution of damage or possession &C
tons.
Smith charged Freeman repre-
sented the real estate company and
evicted Smith from a house at TOT
North West street, March %. The
possession suit was started by Free
man in Justice T. S. Crutcher's
court, it is alleged.
Smith contends that, prior to
the suit, he had submitted $40 to
the company for rental on the house
that would have paid the rent until
April 5. He alleged "the proceed
ings we're instituted as part of a
conspiracy for possession through
irregular proceedings to embarraSs
and damage the plaintiff"
Trial date fcx the damage suit
has not been 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
DEATH TAKES
MOTHER OF
LAFOLLETTES
'WiSeSt, Best Counselor
of Fighting Bob Passes
After Operation.
FUNERAL TO BE FRIDAY
Widow of Statesman Played
Great Part in Careers of
Her Family.

By United Press
WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.-Mrs.
Belle Case La Toilette, "wisest and
best counselor" of the family that
has dominated Wisconsin politics
for quarter century and stamped
its leadership on liberal political
thought of the nation, is dead.
She was the widow of Fighting
Bob La Toilette, who from district
attorney became congressman, Gov
ernor, senator and finally, a year
before his death in 1925. an indie
pendent presidential candidate.
Senator Robert M. La Toilette Jr.
and Governor Philip La Toilette
were at Mrs. La Follette's bedside
when she died at Georgetown hos
pital Tuesday night after an opera
ton. They had arrived earlier in
the day from Wisconsin, the sena-
tor making part of the trip by
airplane.
Services will be held at 2:3O o. m.
Friday at the family home on
the shore of Lake Mendoza at Mad
ison, Wis. Burial will be in Forest
Hill cemetery, NnSide the grave of
her husband.
Mrs. La Toilette was born in a log
cabin in Juneau county, Wis, April
81, 1859.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
BATTLE
CUBAN REBELS
Boat Landing Ammunition
Attacked From Air.
BY X. d. GILMORE
United Press staff Correspondent

HAVANA, Aug. ia battle be-
tween two federal airplanes and a
boat landing rebel troops and NUM-
lions was described today in reports
from Gibara, Oriente province.
Both the planes, which belonged
to the Cuban army, were damaged
when their gasoline tanks were
punctured by bullets, but Captain
Martull, pilot of one of the craft,
said he had been able to destroy
the boat, William II, though not
until after it had unloaded its am
munltion, arms and men.
Cane fields are being burned bv
rebels in Chaparra province other
dispatches said today.
Officials said reports from Tamna.
that the rebel troops had cut COM
municationS between Havana and
President Gerardo NTachado's head
quarters at Santa Clara were "silIv."
since the president could be brought
to Havana by airplane at any time.
Heavy fighting at Gibara. north
eastern Cuba, where guns and re-
Inducements for the rebels have
been landed, was reported in I'M
confirmed dispatches. telegraph
wires between Gibara and Havana
were out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
FORTY BATHERS SWEPT
OUT TO SEA BY FREAK
WAVE; ONE DROWNED

ard Hughes, in charge of life
guards, collected seven guards, in
Guiding Allen Turner, captain of
the Princeton university swimming
team, and started rescue work.
The guards put out a lifeboat
which overturned, splitting the res
cuers into the sea.
DR.. Charles L. BoSsert, chief
surgeon, and DR.. Norman Reeves
of the Atlantic City surgeons force,
joined with the rescuers to form
human chain. One by one the bath
ers, near exhaustion, were pulled
to safety.
The waves, DR.. BoSSert said, were
entirely different from any he had
seen in his twenty-five years ex-
perience at the resort.
1T was some sort of a freak wave"
he said. Il never saw anything like
it."
He said the first wave, about
eight feet high, seemed to engulf
the entire beach, but came to a
spearhead at about the beach CEN
ter. This was followed Immediately
by seven or eight others, some SEEM
ingly greater than the first.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
NAB BANDIT SUSPECT
Wounded Man Is Held in
South Bend Hospital.

A suspect in the $500 gem rob-
berry OF a motoriSt at the Highland
Golf and Country Club Monday
night was held in a South Bend
hospital today.
He gave his name as Miles RYAN
of Hoboken, N. J., telling hospital
attaches and police he was wounded
IN the leg by motorist who shot
him after Ryan had hailed him for
a ride.
South bend officers doubted the
story and communicated with In
dianapolis police. A .38-caliber re-
volver bullet was removed from one
OF the suspects legs.
The robbery took place Monday
night when Frank Murillo 80 of
644 South East street, swung his
car into the country club driveway
A bandit stepped to the running
board and robbed Murillo of an $500
diamond ring, $500 diamond pin and
$50. pa anu
Russell Hickman, greenskeeper
opened fire on the bandit. who stag
gered as if injured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
Husbands Best Counselor
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times STAFF Corresnondent


WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-Robert
M. La Toilette Sr. used to refer to
the days when we were Governor"
That phrase of his explains, bet
ter than anything else could, why
the death of Mrs. Belle Case La
Toilette is front page news today
IN papers in all parts of the country.
Mrs. La Toilette was much more
than the widow of prominent
man. She was for many years an
integral part of that mans career.
She played no inconsiderable part
in the careers of her two sons. And
she was, besides, a person of i'm
portance in her own right.
THE counselor" her famous hus-
band used to call her, or, sometimes,
my wiseSt and best counselor"
Met at University
Belle Case and Robert M. La Fol-
lette met at the University of Wis
consin where they were both stu
dents, both members of pioneer
families, both born in frontier log
cabins. He was a law student, and
so was she-and when she was grad
uated some years later from the
univerSity'S school, she was the first
woman ever to attain that honor.
The two students had more in
common than the study of law. Both
were gifted speakers. Belle Case
was awarded prize for the best
commencement address of her class,
and many times, in later life, she
proved herself a persuasive speaker,
taking part in all her husbands
campaigns.
1t was because he was engaged
to Belle Case that Robert M. La
Toilette began his political career
in 1880. He was penniIeSs and
could not look forward to earning
enough in the practice of law to
marry for several years, but the
Office of county prosecutor in Dane
county, Wisconsin, paid $500 a year,
and La Toilette was determined to
have it. He did have it.
Wrote Winning Brief
1t was while he was county prose-
cutor that one of the cases in which
La Toilette was interested reached
the state supreme court. The young
man presented there a brief which
won him commentator from the
chief justice.
Acknowledging the praise, La Fol-
lette said: THAT brief was written
by an unknown but very able mem
Der of our altogether the brain
lest member of our family-Mrs.
La Toilette wrote that brief from
start to finish"
Belle Case La Toilette never prac-
ticed her profession. Instead she
became assistant and counsellor of
her husband, made his home, and
reared four children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
FORCED
DOWN ON ISLE
Fog CompeIS Landing in
Rocky KuriIe Chain.
By United Press

By United Press
TOXIC, Aug. 19.-The flying
LindberghS found haven today at
Ketoi islet, one of the Rocky Kurile
chain in the fog blanketed Smoky
SEAS" where they made an I'M
scheduled landing at 6:30 p. M,
$3.50 a. m. Central time on their
flight from Siberia to Japan, after
a battle with fog that had enforced
one other stop.
Word Of the safe landing on the
islet opposite Muroton bay came
from the ministry of communica-
tons, after conflicting radio reports
to the OchiiSi station here had
caused concern for the safety of
Colonel Lindbergh and his wife.
The LindberghS took off from
Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka seaport,
at 8:45 a. M, (5:45 p. m. Tuesday,
and had proceeded only Is miles
on their projected 900-mile flight
to Nemuro, Japan, when motor
trouble forced sudden landing at
Avatcha bay. The trouble was
remedied.
At 1925 a. m. Mrs. Lindbergh
radioed that the plane again was
taking the air. Her next message,
two hours later, reported speed of
95 knots, about los miles an hour.
At p. m, almost eight hours
after leaving Petropavlovsk, Mrs.
Lindbergh radioed that heavy storm
clouds ahead had forced them to
turn back about halfway on their
flight and land on Simusir island,
according to the Ochiisi radio re-
port.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
BARE GIANT MERGER
BiIIion-DoIIar Oil Corpora.
ton Headed by Sinclair.
By United Press

By United Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. ia
oilllon-dollar oil corporation oper-
atlng in North, South and Central
America and in Africa has been
formed by the merger of Sinclair
consolidated, Prairie Oil and Gas,
Prairie Pipeline Company and Tide
water Associated, the United Press
learned from reliable sources to-
day.
Harry Sinclair will head the new
organization, which will be known
as the Commonwealth Petroleum
Corporation, the informant said.
Announcement of the consolidation
Is to be made by Thursday night.
Headquarters of the company will
be in Tulsa.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
(Other Details on Page %

Suit charging Charles w. Free
man, horsethief detective and pur-
ported constable, with violation of
state laws in alleged illegal han
ding of eviction cases, and asking
$4,000 damages was filed in circuit
court today.
The o. j. Smith Realty Company
and B. j. Callahan, secretary
treasurer of the realty firm, are
named co-defendants with Freeman
in the case, filed by R. B. H. Smith.
The complaint accuses Freeman
of unlawful actions against persons
who rent property in soliciting
and prosecuting of eviction suits
against tenants for real estate COM
panies and private property own
ers.''
Charges have ben revealed by
The Times that Freeman and other
purported "constables" solicit bust
ness daily, and real estate firms are
silent" partners to their alleged
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
Miracle
Fate Kind to Wheel Chair
Pilot; Cheats Death
in Auto Crash.
ID AIN drummed on the meager

ID AIN drummed on the meager
N top OF a hand-powered in
valid's chair Monday night, as it
made its jerky way along State
Road 81, near Lawrence.
In it was Abraham Applebaum,
%, of New York City, to whom the
chair is his home and his means
Of transportation.
The rain increased. Two tires
on the wheel chair were fiat al
ready. The crippled man decided to
seek the shelter of a tree for the
night. He swung the chair across
the road. That little piece of red
tin that was supposed to reflect
the light of oncoming automo-
bileS was obscured by rain.
Suddenly, brakes screamed in
the night and tires Slithered over
the wet pavement. An auto spun
around, struck the chair and tilted
it, but it did not turn over. The
auto then struck another car be-
fore hurtling into a three-foot
ditch, skidding across a section of
corn field, and striking a bill
board which fell on top of the
auto.
A PPLEBAUM sat quietly in his
L N chair at the side of the road.
There was nothing he could have
done to save himself. He was
thankful for his life. Nothing
else mattered.
Deputy Sheriffs Conrad Weigand
and August Gale found the car
that had skidded was that of Mrs.
Bertha Likemeier, statehouSe an
mex. She and another woman
were returning from Muncie.
Mrs. Likemeier said she saw an
object cross the path of the car,
but Gid not know it was the chair
of paralyzed Abraham Applebaum.
A PPLEBAUM told deputy
"A sheriffs he is going to
Houston, Tex.
Il suppose I could have
'bummed' a ride on train"
Applebaum told them. But, gee,
wanted to see the country. This
is the only way I could do it."
Applebaum spent the night at
a barbecue, where operators of
the place offered him a bed and
food. Today he was to initiate
the fiat tires on his chair and
continue to Houston.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19

BIZ United Press
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. ia
series of tremendous waves struck
the beach at Atlantic City today
and the terrific undertow carried
forty batherS to sea.
One man was drowned and life
guards reported they had rescued
about fifty persons, several injured
seriously.
The drowned man was not iden-
titled Immediately. Guards first
identified him as Frank Carr of
Washington, D. c., but Carr later
reported his safety to authorities.
The series OF waves, starting with
one described as eight feet high,
struck in the center of the beach,
where about sixty persons were
gathered. A strong undertow
gripped at least forty bathers, pull
ing them out into the ocean as
more and more of the heavy comb
erS rolled in.
Screams of the entrapped bathers
attracted crowds. Mothers raced
to the foot of North Carolina ave-
nue.. and shouted for their children.
Captains Alexis Miller and Rich