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the European recovery program.
Senator Connally fD.-Tex.».
chairman of the Senate foreign re-1
lations committee and floor man
ager of the bill, said opponents
want to “embarrass the adminis
tration” by holding up action on
the measure.
“But they won’t succeed,” he
said.
The bill being debated in the
Senate would authorize continua
tion of tfie Marshall Plan for a
second year. The committee has
recommended that $5,580,000,000
be spent. The actual cash will be
provided later by another bill.
T!ie controversy has centered
around the amount to be spent,
not whether the Marshall plan
should be carried on.
Senators Taft ( R.-Ohio> and
Russell <D.-Ga.) want to cut the
total down to $5,037,000,000. But
debate has delayed a vote on then
amendment.
On the other side of Capitol
Hill, the fight over repeal of fed
eral taxes on oleomargarine con
tinued.
The House rules committee dog
gedly went ahead with hearings
before taking a vote on when to
clear the administration labor bill
for floor action.
The bill has been apprpved by
the labor committee but the rules
group, a sort of legislative traffic
cop. has to give the go-ahead sig
nal before the measure is brought
up before the House itself.
Some Congressmen backing the
administration plan to kill the
Taft-Hartley act say privately
that two recent developments
have dampened their original con
fidence in victory.
One development was the two
week walkout in the coal mines
ordered by John L. Lewis. They
fear the walkout has emphasized
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trying to reach the consignee to
get them off his hands.
Lieut. Col. F. A. Imaz, assistant
Argentine military attache, clear
ed up some of the difficulty yes
terday. He said the consignee, Col.
Herman Pujato, is an Argentine
officer recently returned from
Alaska where he underwent train
ing with American troops using
the Huskies.
Pujato is to take the animals
home for trials to see whether
they are better than the dogs Ar
gentine forces now are using in
the snows of Mendoza province.
Railway express is supposed to
ship the dogs to Pujato at Phil
adelphia because of an express
tieup in New York. But everybody
is trying to locate Pujato, so the
dogs are remaining in the plane
here.
Meanwhile they’re cut to one
quarter their ordinary working
rations. Usually on the trail,
Whitmire said, the dogs get a
whole dried fish. But being cooped
up, they’ve been fed only a guar
ter-fish per day. and a little wa
ter.
the need for government powed to
end such strikes—a power the
new bill doesn’t provide for.
Second, they fear the coalition
of southern Democrats and Re
publicans which routed adminis
tration forces in the battle over
the Senate rules. Dixie lawmak
ers, aided by Republicans, waged
a successful filibuster. Some be
lieve it is possible that the south
erners. lukewarm or openly op
posed to the new law anyway,
may return the favor and vote
“no” on it.
NEED LARGER QUARTERS
FOR GRUENING HEARING
WASHINGTON. (/P)—The Sen
ate interior committee moved to
day from its oversized committee
room to the huge Senate caucus
chamber to hear testimony for
and against confirmation of Gov.
Ernest Gruening of Alaska for
another term.
Chairman O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.)
said he hoped the opposing wit
ness would appreciate the courtesy
of the committee in twice postpon
ing action on the nomination to
give them a chance to appear, and
give their testimony as speedily as
possible.
NOTED GERMAN
CHEMIST DIES
BUENOS AIRES, (/P). Dr. Freid
rich Bergius, world famous Ger
man scientist and winner of the
Nobel prize for chemistry in 1931,
died here Wednesday. He was 65.
His Nobel prize was awarded
for discovering a process to pro
duce gasoline from coal and sugar
from wood.
One of Germany’s leading chem
ists, little was known of his activ
ities during World War II. In
1946 he was credited with discov
ering a process by which synthetic
meat could be manufactured from
wood.
"NO COMMENT" FROM
ROYALL ON QUITTING
WASHINGTON. f/P)—Secretary
i of the army Royall conferred with
! President Truman today without
j clearing up reports that he is
about to resign.
Top White House aides, unquot
able by name, say Royall is ex
pected to leave his post soon.
Royall was asked about publish
ed reports that he is to quit.
“I haven’t seen but about 1800
such reports,” Royall said with a
smile.
He wouldn’t discuss his
with the President.
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standby price and wage control
powers and o‘hcr steps has been
the main reason for the temporary
heading off of inflation.
He added that those powers are
just as necessary now as when, he
made the recommendation. Exist
ing powers have been used in the
public interest and the new ones
would be used the same way, he
added.
The President said he certainly
will recommend extension of in
stallment buying curbs beyond
June. He made this statement in
reply to a question whether the
' federal reserve board is conside -
■ ing further relaxation of present
regulations.
Mr. Truman emphatically op
posed any cut in the $5,580,000,000
the administration wants to carry
on Marshall Plan aid to Eurooc.
Asked about the 10 per cent re
duction urged by Senators Taft
<R.-Ohio> and Rus-el! 'D.-Ga.1. he
said the sum should not be cut at
all. He added the to‘al requested
was based on the be t possible in
formation and is needed to run
the plan through the next fiscal
year.
Mr. Truman also predicted the
Senate would ratify the North At
lantic defense pact. A reporter
quoted a report that Taft is op
posed to it and thinks a majority
of the Senate will be. The Presi
dent said he had no way of tolling
WALRUS CLUB
WALRUS CLUB PLANS
FREE CHILDREN'S MATINEE
At a meeting of the Walrus Club
Thursday night in the City Hall
it was decided to have a free Sat
urday matinee one day each
month for the children of Nome. A
committee was appointed to make
arrangements with the Dream
Theater management.
A letter received from Fred Ur
ban of Tacoma, winner of last
week’s milk fund prize $50, con
tained the prize check which he
returned to the fund.
A letter from Jack Reed of Mc
Grath enclosed greetings to ‘he
club, membership flues and a do
nation of $2.00 to the milk fund.
The summer carnival commit
tee reported that judges of the
“name'’ contest had chosen “Nome
Golden Anniversary” as the win
ning title. The entry was sent in
by Sgt. Bill Shephard of the Nome
base.
Judges of the contest were Mrs.
Arvo Saario, Mrs. Joe Hunt,
James McLean, Joe Hunt, and W.
A. Boucher.
The $50 milk fund prize this
week was won by Pfc. Duncan,
who is in the Second Section on
the Nome base. A second drawing
was made for a $10 prize to be
given to some lucky member who
was present at the meeting. After
drawing some 20 numbers out of
the box, the winning member
present wa.- T. A. McAllister.
what Taft think-, but he believes
the Senator is wrong.
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