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NEWS IN BRIEF
mp SEATTLE, (/P)—Alaska Steam
ship company announced s that
Capt. Ludwig Jacobson will be
master of the SS. Abigail Adams,
Liberty ship taken under charter
by the line last week. The Adams
is scheduled to sail January 15
for Whittier and Seward.
WASHINGTON, </P) — Among
first day bills introduced in the
81st Congress were two by Rep.
Angell (R.-Ore.) proposing state
hood for Alaska and Hawaii.
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WIESBADEN, Germany, (JP) —
Charles A. Lindberg arrived un
announced in Germany Monday,
to be a special adviser on techni
cal affairs to the chief of staff of
the U. S'. Air Forces.
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MILAN, Italy i/P)—Karel Trpak
has resigned as Czechoslovak con
y sul in Milan rather than obey or
ders to return to Prague. He was
the fourth diplomat of Commun
ist-dominated countries to quit un
der similar conditions within
about a year.
Trpak did not say why he does
not want to go back to Prague.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador,
(/P)—Strong earth shocks were felt
here Monday night at 7 o’clock
and again at midnight. There were
no immediate reports of damage or
A casualties.
LONDON, UP) — Ailing King
George VI left Buckingham Pal
ace yesterday for the first time
since Nov. 11. He went for a short
autmobile drive with the queen
before lunch.
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FRANKFURT, Germany, </P) —
^ A baby with two heads and three
legs was born in a nearby hospital i
last night. The child died after,'
one hour.
Doctors said the body was an
arrested case of Siamese twins.
The 27-year-old German mother!
was reported recovering.
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SEATTLE UP)—A baby girl was
born at the Marine hospital yes
terday to Mrs. Robert Doyle,
v Ketchikan, Alaska.
SEATTLE OP)—Harry H. Lewis
federal labor conciliator, will J
leave Saturday for Sitka, where
he will address the convention of |
the Alaska Territorial Federation
of Labor (A.F.L.) Monday.
Lewis also will go to Juneau to
confer with the Territorial com-1
missioner of labor and ot Ketchi
I
kan to meet with officials of the
I department of interior on labor
matters.
PARIS, (/P)—The public health
ministry said today a wave of
grippe in France has reached “epi
demic proportions. No deaths have
been reported, but one person in
five in Paris was said to be sick. In
Metz there were 20,000 sick out of
80,000 population.
SEATTLE, UP) — The trolling
boat Julie Lu, reported Monday
as missing with two men aboard,
has been in Seattle since Dec. 8,
the coast guard reported today.
The missing report was made to
the U. S. commissioner at Sitka
Truman Asks For
Gigantic New Tax
And Much Power
(Bv Ernest B. Vaccaro'
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman today asked the new
Democratic Congress for four bil
lion dollars in new taxes, sweep
ing authority to impose economic
controls and a broad program of
social legislation.
Mr. Truman ranged far, calling
for Taft-Hartley law repeal, aid
to farmers, civil rights laws, uni
versal training, broader social se
curity, and federal programs in
the fields of education and pre
paid medical insurance, plus one
million new public housing units
in the next seven years.
He made his recommendations
in the annual state of the union
message befort a joint session of
Senate and House under circum
stances vastly different from
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CAB Investigates
Plane Crash Which
Killed 14 Students
SEATTLE, (/P)—Somewhere in
the charred wreckage of a DC-3 or
by individual questioning, gov
ernment investigators hoped to
find the answer to a crash in
which 14 persons died Sunday
night.
The “holiday special” chartered
by 27 Washington and Oregon stu
dents returning to Yale university
became a flaming pyre for 11 of
the youths and three crew mem
bers.
After a long wait at Boeing
Field in freezing fog the twin-en
gined transport roared down the
icy runway. Moments later it was
a shattered, burning hulk at the
foot of a nearth revetment beside
a hangar.
Airport workers braved the
gasoline-fed fire to rescue 12 of
ihe students. Four others crawled
out unassisted. For 14 there was
no escape.
To track down the reason for
the crash, crews from the CAB
and the CAA are seeking the ans
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QUEEN MARY AGAIN
DELAYS SAILING
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., (A>) —
Sailing of the damaged liner
Queen Mary for New York was
postponed yesterday for another
24 hours.
A Cunard line official said the
decision not to sail was mad^ be
cause a 120-ton temporary con
crete patch deep in the hull of the
81,235-ton vessel had not hard
ened sufficiently.
More than 200 workmen had la
bored all night to put in the repair
job in an area of strained and
loosened rivets, damaged when the
giant ship ran aground at Cher
bourg Saturday.
where the vessel left Nov. 25 for
Port Orchard, Wash.
The troller was operated by
Olayton Harris who was accom
panied by Nicholas Anderson.
Truman Asks Many
Things In Message
To Congress
WASHINGTON, i/P) — These,
briefly, are President Truman’s
major recommendations to Con
gress today in his State of the Un
ion messages, in the order in
which he listed them:
INFLATION
Enlarge the government’s con
trol over bank credit and continue
'ts power over consumer credit,
exports and transportation a 1 Voca
tions. Ex’end and strengthen rent
control. Grant authority to <a> reg
ulate commodity speculation, <b>
allocate scarce key materials, and
(c) control wages and certain
prices, if necessary. Authorize a
study of critical shortages—like
steel—with permission for the
government to construct produc
, tion facilities itself if industry
can’t do what’s needed.
TAXES
Raise 84.000,000,000 additional
revenue for the government, main
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GOP Battles Denis
Over Foreign Re
lations Committee
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(By Marvin L. Arrowsmith)
WASHINGTON </P)—A decision
, by Senate Democrats to take a
1 three-vote edge in the foreign re
lations committee stirred a storm
, of Republican protest today. GOP
Senators called it a threat to the
bi-partisan foreign policy.
The Senate Democratic steering
committee agreed late yesterday to
i assign eight party members to the
i important foreign relations unit,
j and the give the Republicans only
| five places. In the last Congress,
| controlled by the GOP, the divi
sion was seven Republicans to six
Democrats.
In an obvious move to ease the
way for President Truman’s legis
lative program, the Democratic
leadership also decided on an
eight to five division in seven
other strategic committees: labor,
banking, agriculture, judiciary, j
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Dutch Give “Cease
Fire” Order
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BATAVIA, Java, (/P>—1The for
mal phase of the Dutch military
campaign to regain control of the
Republic of Indonesia ended to
day.
Lt. Gen. Simon Spoor, com
mander of Dutch forces in Indo
nesia, ordered a cease fire on Su
matra at noon. ,
He told his troops in an order
of the day that their task hereaf
ter would “be confined to action
against roaming gropus and ganfs
or individuals who try to cause
disturbances.”
The same terms were used in
Spoor’s order announcing that for
mal hostilities on Java had ended
at midnight, New Year’s Eve.
Tornadoes And
Blizzards Blast
States; Many Dead
• By The Associated Press'
Storms in all forms—paced by
a series of tornadoes and a bliz
zard—left a broad section of the
nation from Wyoming to Louisi
ana reeling yesterday.
Some 45 persons were dead.
Hundreds were injured. Other
hundreds were homeless and thou
sands were marooned in the bliz
zard area. Property damage
mounted into the millions.
The heaviest toll of lives and
property damage was from the
tornadoes which struck in Arkan
sas, Louisiana and Kansas. The
lumber mill town of Warren, Ark.,
90 miles south of Little Rock, was
; the target of the most devastating
I blow. At least 41 were killed and
i between 250 and 400 injured in
the community of 7,500. Search
was made for additional bodies.
; An early January blizzard—
; centering in northeast Nebraska—
swept across the plains sta es, dip
| ped into the Texas Panhandle and
i howled into northwestern Minne
| sota.
Temperatures plunged to as low
! as 23 below zero in Butte, Mont
j Winds ranging in velocity from 4C
' to 60 miles an hour swirled heav>
falling snow into huge drifts over
the blizzard belt of the Dakotas,
western Nebraska, western Kan
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U. S. Demands
To Know Fate Of
Red-Held Prisoners
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WASHINGTON, (£>)—The west
ern powers have never had any
word on the fate of about half of
the 890,532 German prisoners of
war Russia acknowledged early in
1947 that she was holding.
This was disclosed yesterday
when the state department made
public the text of a note to Mos
cow demanding an exact count of
the prisoners still held. The fact
the note had been sent had been
announced 24 hours earlier.
In sharp language, the note re
minded that Russia agreed with
the western powers early in 1947
that all German prisoners of war
would be discharged by the end
of 1948. It said Soviet failure to
comply with the agreement” can
only be interpreted by world opin
ion as a breach of faith.”
Statistically, the note set out
this picture: early in 1947, the
Soviets said they had 890,532 Ger
man war prisoners. Between Mar.
1, 1947 and Mar. 1, 1948, they re
ported 252,395 returned to all four
German occupation zones. Since
the latter date, the western pow
ers know only of 194,972 sent into
the three western zones.
Will Sell Farm
If Taxes Go Up
Says Farmer
FAIRBANKS, i/P)—Four Fourth
Division legisaltors have express
ed support of main points in a new
taxation program to meet Alaska’s
financial emergency.
Only a few days in advance of
the special session opening at Jun
eau Thursday, they endorsed at a
meeting here:
1. A business tax, including
firms with headquarters in the
States;
2. A general income tax, prob
ably based on 10 per cent of a per
son’s or firm’s federal income tax;
3. A general property tax up to
two per cent, which would bring
revenue from property outside of
incorporated towns and cities;
4. A scaled tax on motor fuels,
with cities and towns to get a
share for streets and roads.
The tax proposals appear more
' and more likely to form the basic
foundation of the new revenue
program to be presented at the
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'Propose Govt.
| Run States To
Alaska Steamers
—
(By Charles D. Walking)
<i/P> Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON </P)—A plan for
government operation of steam
ship transportation to Alaska was
suggested yesterday by Rep. Jack
son <D.-Wash.>
He said that unless the private
i operators can provide efficient
service the government should op
erate shipping between the Terri
tory and Seattle just as it does
from New York to the Canal Zone.
The latter service is operated by
the Panama Railroad.
“I am going to suggest,” Jack
son told a reporter,” that the inte
rior department call a conference
here of business, government and
labor representatives in Alaska
and Seattle for immediate devel
opment of a program that will
furnish a continuous service to the
Territory at a cost that is consist
ent with the needs and develop
ment of the Territory.
“We are at a point where if pri
vate operators fail to do the job
there is no other alternative ex
cept to provide the service by the
I government, just as it does be
tween New York and the Canal
Zone.
“The constant interruptions in
the privately operated service to
the Territory are wrecking its
i economy.”
Jackson said the interior de
partment or some independent
agency to be set up for the pur
pose could operate government
service such as he proposes.
“MEET THE PRESIDENT”
A dramatic four-part cartoon story of the life
of Harry S. Truman, who will be inaugurated as
President January 20, begins in The Nugget today.