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HIGHLIGHTS
FAIRBANKS, Mar. 13. f/P) —
Representatives of veterans grouns
from Fairbanks, Anch o r a g e , |
f Nome, and Kotzebue today re- j
quested postponement of the final
consideration of Senate Bill Nine,
providing for veterans benefits,
until receipt of a copy of an |
amended bill, endorsed by their
organizations.
A telegram pointing out that
the groups vehemently protested
certain provisions of the present
bill requested the chairman of
Senate veterans committee to de
lay a second reading of the bill.
The provisions that are protest
ed are the sales tax and the pres
ent bonus-loan provisions. Favor
ed are Congressional approval of
the Territorial bond issue to fi
nance veterans benefits, and a flat
$10 per month service bonus for
0 bona fide Alaskan residents at the
start of the draft; loans for veter
ans who have resided in the Ter
ritory for two years. Also request
ed is election of the veterans
board instead of appointment.
JUNEAU, Mar. 14, (TP)—A splen
did race is taking place in legis
lature while the Senate is debat
ing many amendments to the vet
erans bill. The House introduces
its own measure, minus the con
troversial sales tax provision, in
an attempt to rush through and
\ probably pass and send to the
Senate Thursday morning. The
Senate is expected to pass its own
measure, possibly at the morning
session Thursday, although the
final passage may be blocked if
the House passes the bill designed
to place all tax collections in the
hands of the tax commissioner.
The House education committee
introduces a bill to provide mini
mum salaries for teachers.
A House joint memorial by Mc
Cutcheon and Warran would in
clude residents of Cook inlet and
surrounding areas within the pro
visions of the fishing rights.
A House joint memorial by
Vukovich and Peterson would
prohibit otter or beam trawling
anywhere along the Alaska coast
line.
JUNEAU, Mar. 14, (fl) — The
Senate by a vote of twelve to four
passed the veterans bill, while the
House was making amendments
to their own bill. The Senators
voting against the passage of the
bill were: Brownell, Gordon, Lyng
and Nerland. The principal change
from the original bill raises the
appropriation to $350,000.
JUNEAU, Mar. 14, (/P) — The
veterans act by the House passed
this afternoon by twenty-two to
one, differs slightly from the Sen
ate-passed act. It eliminates the
sales tax and calls for an appro
priation of three and a half mil
lion dollars, it also requires there
be a year prewar residence in the
Territory for the collection of
benefits, but includes veterans
honorably discharged for disabil
ity or injury after less than one
WINTER CARNIVAL. Sculptured In ice, Indian Chief Sachem returns in a jeep* to
adorn the campus during the Dartmouth winter carnival at Hanover, N. H. Waving are students
Charlotte Johnson (left) and Charlana Taylor, both of Washington, D. C.
N.W.A. CHAMBER TO
MEET CLARK
The members of the N.W.A.
Chamber of Commerce will hold
a soecial luncheon meeting at the
Nevada Lounge at noon Saturday,
March 16, to meet and hear Mr.
Henry Clark, manager of the
Alaska Development Board.
Mr. Clark, an Alaskan, is mak
ing a trip over the entire Terri
tory to familiarize himself with
its problems and possibilities. The
luncheon meeting tomorrow will
provide a good opportunity for
constructive suggestions, both to
Mr. Clark and those attending, for
the betterment of this section of
Alaska.
year’s service, among beneficiar
ies.
JUNEAU, Mar. 14, UP)—Action
to abolish the Territorial Guards
was started by the introduction in
the Senate by Coffey, a bill not
only to abolish the Guards, but to
return all extended money to the
treasury.
A bill by Coffey and Collins
would appropriate $50,000 for the
construction of airfields at Dil
lingham and Naknek.
In the House Shattuck intro
duces two bills clarifying the pro
visions for levying excise taxes on
liquor, including consigned ship
ments, also for refund of taxes
paid under protest.
Warren and Taylor are co-au
thors of a bill creating the Terri
torial Industrial Accident Com
mission for the benefit of em
ployees injured, or defendants of
employees killed in hazardous em
ployment. It was understood
this was the bill that was not to
be introduced if labor desired the
Green and Shattuck measure,
which has been approved.
STRIKES
At A Glance .
Continuing labor disputes keep
about 675,000 workers idle. This
includes 275,000 workers of Gen
eral Electric and General Motors,
who are expected to go back to
work next week. The major de
velopments:
Coal—Bituminous coal opera
tors complain that Lewis is delay
ing the start of actual bargaining
negotiations for a new contract
for 400,000 miners, as AFL United
Mine Workers president presents
arguments in support of the gen
eral demands, including higher
pay, a shorter work week and
, improved working conditions. Re
conversion Director Snyder hopes
, for an early amicable setlement
for the coal industry.
Automotive—CIO UAW Gener
; al Motors Council meets in Detroit
for a vote on the settlement of the
113-day General Motor strike in
volving 175,000 workers. Quick
approval of the 18Vz cent hourly
wage hike and other contract
agreements are expected.
Electrical—Negotiations on the
wage dispute involving 75,000 CIO
electrical workers for Westing
house Electric Corp., adjourned
without agreement.
“White” races are not really
white. According to the Encyclo
paedia Britannica, the skin-color
is actually a combination of yel
low and black pigments, creamy
white tissues and red tints from
the blood circulating through the
skins. In albinos, the black pig
ment is missing and only a small
proportion of the yellow pigment
is present.
Soviets Did Not
Reply To U. S.
Iranian Notes
_____
WASHINGTON, Mar. 15, (/P)—
The Russian communication de
livered to Secretary Byrnes by
Soviet Charge d’Affaires Novikov
dealt with economic and commer
cial matters and had nothing
whatever to do with the Ameri- j
| can notes about Iran and Man
churia, the State Department said.
Reporters were told the note
had “a bearing” on the recent
U. S. offer to discuss the Soviet
request for a billion dollar loan.
There are three U. S. notes await
ing Soviet replies prior to the
Novikov visit. Two concerned
Soviet actions in Iran and the
third protested the reported Rus
I sian withdrawal of Jap industrial
equipment from Manchuria.
This development came in the
wake of President Truman’s com
ment he doesn’t consider the cur
rent international situation as
fraught with danger as many peo
ple believe. “I’m not alarmed by
it,” he declared, giving his per
mission for the direct quotation.
“I’m sure we’ll work it out.”
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INCOME TAX
DEADLINE TODAY
Internal Department—Extractors
Supreme.
A title fitting the Internal Rev
enue Department for its relativity
with the IDES of March, and the
method of, no-so-painless, extrac
tion. Today, March 15, the Ides of
March, or in Other words, the
day upon which the filing of in
come tax reports has become an
institution, is the last day upon
which, without penalty, citizens
may mail their returns.
NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON, Mar. 15, pp)—Prime
Minister Attlee told Commons
f India chooses full independence
rom Britain, “in our view, she
las the right to do so.” It will be
or us to help make the transition
is free and easy as possible. He
ieclared during debate that a mis
sion of three Cabinet members
vill go to India shortly to take up
igain the problem of self govern
nent for India.
LON ANGELES, Mar. 14, (fP)—
\ slight quake jarred southern
California. No damage was re
ported. The first shock was felt
at 5:30 a.m., and the second about
twenty minutes later.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 15, (&y—
Fifty-five boats, badly needed for
Alaska’s fishing and freighting in
dustries, have been declared sur
plus in Alaskan waters by the
Army, Navy and Coast Guard, the
Interior Department announced
many other craft soon will be de
clared surplus in the Territory.
The surplus vessels range from
small cargo ships which cost the
government more than $500,000,
to thirty foot boats costing $5,000.
ATLANTIC CITY, Mar. 15, UFJ
Dr. Charles Sheard, of Mayo Clin
ic, told biologists that smoking
two standard cigarettes interfere*
with seeing well in the dark. Cig
arettes cause a fifteen to thirty
minute delay in the time the eye*
require to adjust themselves in
dim light.
PORT ANGELES, Wash., Mar.
15, OP)—The storm-wrecked Rus
sian tanker Donbass, which reach
ed the shelter of Puget Sound was
ripped from the towlines by a
forty-mile gale between here and
Seattle. Two additional tugs and
the Coast Guard cutter Northwind
were sent to her aid.
Canadian Professor
Gave Soviets
Atomic Secrets
OTTAWA, Mar. 15, (/P) — The
Royal Commission said its investi
gation of the Canadian spy case
disclosed that Dr. Raym ond
Boyer, assistant professor of
chemistry at McGill university,
transmitted to the Soviet Union
full information regarding his se
cret work with the explosives.
The commission also said three
other scientific workers, engaged
in secret research for the govern
ment during the war, had given
the Soviet Union highly confiden
tial data.
Fred Rose, known as the only
and first Communist ever elected
to the Canadian Parliament, was
taken into custody last night. He
was not named by the Royal Com
mission, but Superintendent Bru
net, of the Royal Canadian Moun
ted Police, said at Montreal, that
Rose would be arraigned on
charges “most definitely" con
nected with the espionage case.