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said. •
The 450-mile hop from Shemya
to Adak sent the tiny aircraft into
“rain, sleet, snow and about ev
erything else,” while the long
trans-Pacific flight from Hokkai
do airport, Japan, to Shemya com
pared with the Newfoundland-Ice
land leg as the toughest of their
entire trip, Truman declared.
“The way I feel right now, I
probably wouldn’t want to try
another world flight,” he added,
“but we may feel differently
* about it after successfully com
pleting our world flight.”
COLD BAY, Alaska, (iP)—Geo.
Truman and Clifford Evans, first
fliers ever to cross both the Atlan
• tic and Pacific Oceans in a cub
plane, waited on the windy tip of
the Aleskan Peninsula today
ready to take off on a flight to
Anchorage.
The two former army fliers,
whose leisurely round-the-world
cruise began Aug. 1 in Teterboro,
N. J., landed at the Fort Randall
army air base here yesterday at
5:02 p.m. (PST) after a four hours
and 25 minute flight from Adak.
# From Anchorage, they are
scheduled to fly to Annette Is
land and then non-stop to Los An
geles which they expect to reach
next Sunday. They plan to com
plete their global flight a week
Separate Peace
With Germany
If Necessary
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (/P)—Sen.
Vandenberg (R.-Mich.) today ad
vocated a separate peace with
Germany if the council of foreign
ministers remains deadlo eked
through this winter.
While granting qualified en
dorsement of the Marshall plan,
the Senate president protem main
tained that “Germany’s restora
tion to autonomy is at the core of
Europe’s rehabilitation.
“It is infinitely preferable for
the council of foreign ministers to
come to United Terms,” Vanden
berg said in an address prepared
for delivery at a university of
Michigan convocation marking
the centennial of Dutch coloniza
tion in Michigan.
“But I am saying that disagree
ment—here or elsewhere—cannot
be allowed to postpone peace, re
habilitation and self-government
forever,” he said. “Peace must
have priority.”
later in New York.
An army B-17 and a navy PB\
plane accompanied them on the
flight up the Aleutians Island
' chain. Included in the crew list of
1 the companion planes were S/Sgt.
! Harry J. Pelk of Spokane, 1st Lt.
Roy H. Short, Portland, Ore., both
on the B-17; and AMM/1C Cuth
bert Parins, Leaverworth, Wash.,
and ACRM H. B. Donaldson, Med
i ford Ore., on the navy craft.
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Railroad To Alaska
Just “Same Old
Story” Says P.-I.
SEATTLE, <;P)—'The Post-Intel
ligencer said Saturday that a Wash
ington, D. C., report that a group
of American capitalists have
banded together to purchase the
provincially-owned Pacific Great
Eastern railway in British Colum
bia and extend it to Alaska was an
“old story.”
The paper said that “substan
tially the same Alaska and British
Columbia development ‘plan’ ”
had been made public in its col
umns two year sago and again last
March 11 “when the group was
curtly refused an option on the
railway property by the British
Columbia government.”
The Washington. D. C., report
Friday quoted Marshall Ramsey
Diggs, Washington attorney for
the group, as saying that he hoped
within 30 days to “announce def
inite plans, along with the names
of his backers.”
The Post-Intelligencer said that J
the group it referred to was a,
Delaware corporation called the
'Canadian-American Railroad and'
, Development company, and that (
' it had for several years been put
ting out “feelers” and making ten- j
| tative approaches to the British i
; Columbia government.
Their plan, the paper said, con
templates expenditure of $200,
000,000 for extension of the rail
road to the Peace River country
in northeastern British Columbia,
i and later to Alaska, and for devel-!
opment of coal and agricultural j
lands in the Peace River country.
“The company has never been
1 able to persuade the British Co- j
lumbia cabinet, and particularly |
Premier John Hart, that it is fi- i
nancially able to do the things it i
1 says it can do,” the Post-Intelli
gencer said.
“The attitude of the Provincial
government lias also consistently
been that Canada ought to be de- j
veloped by Canadians.”
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Fairbanks Plane
.
Crash Victims
—
FAIRBANKS. (/P)—A helicopter
crew messaged Friday they had
located and removed the bodies of
1 the pilot and three passengers
: from the wreckage of a plane
| which crashed on a mountain
! slope 65 miles northeast of here a
i week ago Saturday.
Lt. Charles Weir, the pilot, and
i Don Gretzer, CAA inspector, flew
the helicopter.
They reported finding the aod
ies of Ernest Patty, Jr., and Merle
and Lloyd Edumundson and Jack
Warren, mine company employ
ees. They were flown to the near
by Palmer Creek mining camp
where Ernest Patty, Sr., promin
ent mining man, met the plane.
... ...
AMERICAN LEGION INSTALL
ING NEW CLUB HOUSE
The American Legibn moved a
sixty foot building to town yester
day, which is being placed on the
Odd Fellow lot on 3rd Ave., and
when completed, a club room and
meeting place for the organiza
tion.
Those who participated yester
day stated that there is still a lot
of work ahead before the project
is completed and they urged all
members to turn out and give a
GOP For Tax Slash
Despite President
Truman’s Plea
(By Francis M. Lemay)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Brushing
aside a recommendation, by Pres
ident Truman’s economic council
that taxes be held where they are
to help Europe, Rep. Knutson <R
Minn.) announced today a four
billion tax slashing bill will be
ready “at high noon November
17.”
That is the day Congress recon
venes at Mr. Truman’s call to con
sider assistance abroad and infla
tion curbs at home.
Knutson, chairman of the House
ways and means committee and
Republican manager of the legis
lation, voiced the hope the tax cut
will be passed ahead of any aid
to-Europe measure.
“I’m afraid the President’s ad
visory committee is as badly con
fused as he is,” the lawmaker said.
Mr. Truman's economic council
reported Saturday that, with pres
ent tax rates and partial readop
tion of wartime inflation controls,
the Urfited States can help Europe
and at the same time reduce the
national debt.
Said Knutson:
“The council’s recommendation,
to the contrary notwithstanding,
will in no way deter us from going
ahead in our fight to give the
harassed taxpayer relief.”
The new bill will be a “two
phase tax cut,” Knutson said, em
bodying nationwide application of
the community property principle
along with percentage cuts in the
various income brackets.
Mr. Truman twice used his veto
States Elections
Will Not Show
Trend Of 1948
<By The Associated Press)
Voters tomorrow will elect a
Mississippi senator, a Kentucky
governor, representatives for In
diana, Ohio, and New York dis
tricts, and mayors for several
score cities, including Philadel
phia, San Francisco, Cleveland
and Detroit.
The off-year state and munici
pal elections are largely local in
character and politicians foresee
few “trends” that will stand as
guideposts for 1948.
From a national viewpoint, the
Kentucky gubernatorial race holds
I top interest because of Democratic
I efforts to unseat the present Re
publican administration. The can
. didates are U. S. Rep. Earle C.
Clements, Democrat, and state at
; torney general Eldon S. Dummit,
! Republican. Simeon S. Willis, the
GOP incumbent, is ineligible to
succeed himself.
In Mississippi six candidates
are vying for the senate seat of
the late Theodore G. Bilbo. These
include two U .S. Representatives,
William M. Colmer and John E.
Rankin.
A magic carpet is one that
looks the price.
earlier this year to kill a Repub
lican-backed $4,000,000,000 tax
cut. These measures would have
| eased income levies by 30 per cent
' in the lowest brackets, 20 per cent
for middle incomes and 10.5 per
I cent for any income over $302,000.
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