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VOL. LIV No. 24 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1952 Per Copy—log
New Fax Ceiling
Viewed as Sock the
Poor, Help the Rich
By JACK RUTLEDGE.
WASHINGTON, (JF) — Present
tax loopholes and a proposed
peace-time tax ceiling were under
congressional fire today for what
some lawmakers viewed as a
tendency to sock the poor and
help the rich.
Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn) said
existing tax loopholes cost the
government more than \Vi bil
lion dollars a year, and benefit
almost entirely those with in
comes above $10,000 annually.
Staffs of two congressional
committees said a proposed 25
per cent peacetime federal in
come tax ceiling, already en
dorsed by some states and under
study by Congress, would “tend
to shift the individual tax burden
from the rich to the poor.”
Humphrey said “enormous
handouts” go to “high income
recipients,” and out-lined what he
said were the six principal loop
holes—and the amounts they cost
the treasury—in the present tax
laws. Two of the major “loop
holes” were income splitting and
percentage depletion allowances,
he said. Income splitting was en
acted in 1948 to benefit married
couples, but Humphrey said only
3 per cent of the benefits went
to couples with annual incomes
below $5,000.
F-94 Jet Slices
Piper Cub In Two
Over Cook Inlet
ANCHORAGE, </P)—Two mili
tary men whose light plane was
sliced in two at 1,200 feet by
a jet fighter were feared dead
Saturday.
Air Force spokesmen said the
jet F-94, piloted by Maj. Warren
Patterson, was approaching El
mendorf Air Force Base under
regular landing procedure Thurs
day when it struck the Piper Cub
plane over Cook Inlet west of
Anchorage.
Major Batterson, veteran of the
Korean and second World Wars,
landed the jet plane safely de
spite damage in the collision.
Aboard the light plane were
two military men, a student pilot
and a passenger, who had rented
it for an afternoon flight.
A pilot for United Airmotive,
owner of the rented plane, said
appearance of the wreckage in
dicated there was virtually no
chance the occupants could have
survived.
"GWTW" STILL POPULAR
TEL AVIV, (iP) —“Gone With
the Wind” is still blowing strong
in Israel. In one of the biggest
Tel Aviv theaters, the good old
Clark Gable-Vivian Leigh epic is
daily drawing record crowds since
it began its second run two
months ago.
Another Jerusalem hit is Cecil
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de Mille’s “Sampson and Delilah.”
But when the Jewish youngsters
there spotted several deviations
from the Bible tale, they critc
A. Polet Reports More
Tourist Flights To Nome
Scheduled This Summer
A. Polet returned from a trip
to Fairbanks where he attended
a meeting of the AVA and an
nounced that Ed Coffee of An
chorage was elected president of
the organization.
Henry Cuffel of Anchorage was
named first vice-president and
James Whaley, second vice-presi
dent. Other members of the board
■are Robert Ellis, Fred Dunn, Rus
sell Swank, Charles West, A.
Polet, Vic Brown, and Paul Grie
mann.
Most interesting to Nome, said
Mr. Polet, was the announcement
by the Alaska Travel Service that
there would be four flights every
week from Anchorage with. tour
ists who would be staying over
night. There would also be over
night stops from Fairbanks daily.
The main problem in Nome is
to provide housing for the in
creased number of persons who
will remain overnight, as well
as an organized program for the
entertainment of the tourists such
as was executed last summer un
der the sponsorship of the Cham
ber of Commerce.
Norway Big
Winner At
Olympic Games
By BEN PHLEGAR
OSLO, (&)—The city of Oslo
wrapped up the 1952 winter
Olympic games today but there
was a lot of trouble getting the
final knot tied.
The United States played Can
ada to -a furious 3-3 draw and
picked up second place to the
Canadian’s championship in the
hockey tournament last night for
runnerup honors to Norway in the
final standings for the 10 days of
competition.
That hockey game was sup
posed to have been the final com
petition in these king-sized games
which drew a record entry of
1,178 athletics from 30 nations.
Monday was reserved for the
colorful formal closing spectacle
and the awarding of medals under
the floodlights in Bislett stadium.
But the organizing committee
found itself with two hockey
games to be played. They will
affect third, fourth and sixth
places in the tournament stand
ings.
The over-all point total of 89V£
was the best for any winter Olym
pics in Europe that the U.S. has
ever won. The second place hock
ey finish also equalled the best
American have ever done.
The host Norwegians, far and
away the biggest point scorers,
won their customary first and
second places in the ski jumping
Sunday before 150,000 onlookers
—the largest crowd ever to see
a winter Olympic event. Norway’s
total score was 125Vfe, the United
States was second, followed by
Finland with 72 and Austria with
60.
Dick But on of Englewood, N.J.
won the men’s figure skating
competition. He was the only one
Scientists Record
Three Minutes
Of Total Eclipse
KHARTOUM, Sudan, (/P) —
While devout Moslems prayed
and pregnant Hindu women hid
in their homes in fear, the moon
blacked out the sun for three
minutes today. Scientists were
jubilant over near-perfect wea
ther for recording the total eclipse
here.
For the three precious minutes,
70 scientists from 10 countries
worked feverishly at the great
mass of complicated astronomical,
photographic and electronic equip
ment they had assembled in this
capital of the Sudan. If an as
tronomer is lucky, he may see an
hour of total eclipse in his entire
lifetime.
The scientists hope to' find
more information about what is
around and behind the sun, fur
ther checks on Einstein’s theory of
relativity, and to make corrections
in the world’s maps. This will
come after calculations and re
search based on Monday’s obser
vations.
For three minutes starting at
11:09 a.m. this part of the world
saw the day turn into a bright
moonlight night. The total eclipse
could be observed along a 9,000
mile route 76 miles wide and
curving from somewhere in the
Atlantic between Brazil and Af
rica, across Africa and the Arab
ian and Persian Gilfs to the Irk
utsk region of Soviet Siberia.
Korea War Enters
21st Month Today
By MILO FARNETI
SEOUL, Korea, {/P)—The Ko
rean war ground into its 21st
month today. There was virtual
ly no fighting to mark the date.
Heavy clouds and snow ground
ed most Allied warplanes. Only a
few fighter bombers went out on
rail cutting missions.
Fifth Air Force planes flew
only 180 sorties Monday, far un
der the daily average.
Reports from scattered points
along the 155-mile front indicated
the usual pattern of recent fight
ing—probes, patrols and a few
brief clashes.
For the first time in eight days
there were no air battles be
tween Communist and Allied jets
Sunday.
The battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin
returned to the northeast Korea
coast and laid 16-inch shells on
Red troops installations.
Wife of Alaska Fisherman
Loses Purse Containing
$1200 Jewelry, $3500 Cash
SEATTLE, (IP) — The elderly
wife of a commercial fisherman
reported to police Sunday she had
lost a purse containing jewelry
worth more than $1,200 and the
$3,500 in cash her husband earned
in Alaska last season.
Mrs. Charles T. Bates, 70, said
she was not sure how she lost
the purse, but believed she may
have dropped it on a street.
The distraught woman told po
lice she and her husband had just
returned from Alaska and had not
had time to deposit the money in
Alaska Steam Announces
Tentative Bering Sea
Schedule For 1952
Alaska Steamship Co. has an
nounced the summer schedule of
Bering Sea route for 1952.
The tentative schedule includes
the following:
June 4—for Nome, St. Michael,
Unalakleet, Golovin.
July 9—Nome, Teller, Kotzebue.
August 20—Nome, St. Michael,
Golovin.
September 24 — St. Michael,
Nome, Teller.
Other ports will be added if
there is sufficient business to
warrant.
Freight rates will advance as
of March 1, 1952.
Taft Confident
Gen. MacArthur
Will Back Hio
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(By the Associated Press)
Senator Taft of Ohio told col
leagues he is confident Gen. Mac
Arthur will give him solid sup
port for the Republiclan presi
dential nomination when the chips
are (Jown at the Chicago conven
tion.
Evidence of Taft’s confidence in
MacArthur was seen Sunday
when he said on a television pro
gram he favored the general ad
dressing the convention. If he
does, Taft, added, he probably
would be the keynote speaker.
Taft supporters regard as sig
nificant that MacArthur did not
deny News-Week magazine’s ar
ticle last week that he was a
Taft backer. On the other hand,
in commenting on the same article
MacArthur made it clear he is not
supporting Eisenhower because he
did not know how he stood on
many grave issues.
The nation’s new price boss,
former Gov. Ellis Amall of Geor
gia, said in a radio interview he
didn’t believe any Republican—
not even Eisenhower—could carry
a single Southern state ill the
election.
President Truman’s friends
were reported looking around for
a way to beat off what some of
them now regard as a threat of
victory by Sen. Kefauver of Ten
nessee in the* March 11 New
Hampshire primary.
One close friend is reported to
be “deeply concerned” over the
outcome, and hopes something
can be done to buck things up for
Mr. Truman there.
Pilot of United Airlines
Plane Dies At Controls
2 Hours Out of Honolulu
HONOLULU, (/P)—The pilot of
a United Airlines Stratocruiser
collapsed at the controls and died
two hours after the plane left
Honolulu for Los Angeles Sunday
night.
The first officer flew the plane
back to Honolulu without mishap.
The 43 passengers didn’t learn the
pilot was dead until they were
safely on the ground.
Capt. L.C. Brown, 46, of Los
Angeles, apparently suffered a
heart attack.
The first officer is W. A. Man
Statehood Backers
Long On Hope,
Short On Vote
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Advo
cates of Alaska statehood faced
an uphill fight today in their
effort to bring the northern terri
tory into the union.
With only two days remaining
before the Senate votes on a
Southern bid to return the bill
to committee, supporters of the
statehood legislation were admit
tedly “long on hope, short on
vote.”
The vote is scheduled Wednes
day on the motion by Senator
Smathers (D-Fla) to send the bill
back for additional committee
hearings.
Senator Douglas (D-Ill) verbally
invaded the apposition camp yes
terday with a plea that South
ern senators “place the national
interest above prevailing regional
concerns.”
In an interview carried over a
network of 15 Illinois radio sta
tions, Douglas charged that op
position to Alaska and Hawaii
statehood is prompted by fear that
their admission would upset the
Senate balance by which the
Southerners have been able to
block passage of Civil Rights leg
islation.
Senator Stennis (D-Miss) de
clared in a speech last week that
the “real prize” sought by state
hood advocates was not freedom
for the territorial residents so
much as “two seats on the floor
of this senate.”
Cost-of-Living
Bonuses Will Be
Continued
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Govern
ment employes living in the terri
tories and US. possessions appar
ently will continue to receive
cost-of-living bonuses in addition
to salary.
Delegate Bartlett told a report
er Saturday he has been advised
by. opponents of the bonus pay
ment that they do not plan to
renew their fight this year.
Government employes working
and living in the territories and
possessions now receive payments
up to 25 per cent of their salary
to offset additional living costs.
Several efforts were made last
year to amend the appropriations
bills to prohibit such payments.
Objections centered primarily
in payments to workers in Puerto
Rico. Opponents declared that
many clerks and other office help
recruited in the islands, were re
ceiving a government salary
higher than that received by
bankers and other Puerto Rico
professional men.
They argued that cost-of-living
payments were justified only for
government employes recruited
in the States and sent to the terri
tories and possessions.
Territorial representatives crit
icized this stand on several
grounds, principally that it would
discriminate against territorial
residents by paying them less
than a non-resident for the same