Murray Cites
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newsprint in the United States by
one-fourth.
He recommended legislation ere
ating a regional Alaska authority
modeled after the Tennessee Val
ley Authority.
Rapid expansion of Alaskan
power through such an authority
would provide “strong roots in th(
Territory for both the newsprint
industy and diversified economic
expansion,” he observed.
Should the Alaskan forests be
used for newsprint, Murray added,
the products should be made avail
able first to those most in need of
it, thus removing from the spot
newsprint market the pressure of
some of the myriad small consum
er.
^ He suggested that some arrange
ment might be made for “really
broad-based financing of one of
the mills by small papers and pa
pers with no alternative sources
of supply.”
Urging that special interest and
“jealous concern with preroga
tive” be set aside, Murray said the
Interior, Agriculture Army and
Navy departments should welcome
immediate action to establish an
Alaskan authority, with “local au
tonomy as broad as possible.”
MRS BEN HYNDEMAN
IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. Ben Hyndeman was taken
to the hospital yesterday for med
ical treatment.
OUR “RED STAR”
' IN KOREA
The 6th or “Red Star” Infantry
Division, now doing occupation
duty in Korea, is one of six Pa
cific divisions just opened to direct
enlistment for three-year volun
teers. This division saw bitter
fighting in Dutch New Guinea, the
Netherlands East Indies and play
ed an important role in the libera
tion of Luzon. In the latter cam
paign, it split Japanese forces on
Luzon in two by reaching the is
land’s east coast after little more
than a month of peak-to-peak
mountain fighting.
Marines To Train
On Kodiak
With Task Force Williwaw,
Adak, Alaska, (A*)—Officers here !
have heard that next month the j
Marine Corps, which has won its
fame in tropical or temperate
climes, is planning experiment
with an amphibious landing in the
far north, on Kodiak Island.
The Marine Corps wants to
learn about operations in areas
near the pole, they hear, just as
the Army has three task forces to
day making tests of men’s endur
ance and the performance ol
equipment under extreme winter
conditions. There is a task force
here studying “cold wet” condi
tions; another one, at Fairbanks,
working in a dry frigid climate, J
and a third at Camp McCoy, Wis
consin, is testing in heavy winter
weather.
The “polar concept” has stirred
the armed forces. This is the the
ory that if there is another war, it
is likely to be fought in the Arc
tic or sub-arctic, because aerial
routes between northern land
masses are so much shorter across
the polar regions than in lower
latitudes.
The report here is that the Ma
rines will use a regiment to make
a landing on Kodiak Island. It
would involve using cold weathe
clothing, equipment and other gear
to which the Corps has been unac
customed.
The Marines’ experience in cold
climates has been limited. They
now have detachments guarding
naval bases at Kodiak and Am
chitka. Early in the war they had
forces on Iceland.
They have fought in compara
tively cold climates in North
China. They worked with the
Coast Guard in 1904-1905 in com
batting seal smuggling operations
in the North Pacific and they had
a barracks in Nome, until 1914.
They won some of their most
spectacular victories in bad wea
ther in France in the first world
war. But they have never tried
their specialty, an amphibious
landing, in a region as far north as
Kodiak.
Marine officers are among the
observers with the army task
force both here and at Fairbanks.
OPEN EVENINGS
POLAR
CURIO
Drop in and see us.
Rep. Mason Wants
Straight 20%
Tax Slash
WASHINGTON, ftf1)—Rep. Ma
son, R.-Ill.) took up the fight today
for a 20 per cent across-the-board
tax slashing bill, and objected vig
orously to proposals to drop mil
lions of small income persons from
the tax rolls.
These millions are becoming
“tax conscious,” and constitute the
greatest bulwark against “federal
squandering,” Mason declared.
Their votes, he continued, were
cast last November “against deficit
spending and for tax reductions.”
Mason prepared his House
speecn after Chairman Knutson
(R.-Minn.) of the Hou^e ways anu
means committee announced he is
standing firm on his measure pro
posing a 20 per cent slash for each
tax payer.
The measure has been under an
attack led by Rep. Engel <R.
Mich.) who told the House last
week it would give small taxpay
ers slight relief, but benefit per
sons with high incomes.
Engel’s own measure proposes
larger benefits for small incomes,
by raising individual exemptions
from $500 to $1,000.
Mason said that Engel proposes
to remove 20,000,000 of the ap
proximately 36,000,000 taxpayers
from the rolls. He pointed out that
the reduction of 1946 erased 12,
000,000 small income persons from
the rolls, and declared:
“I opposed the removal of those
taxpayers’ names from Uncle
Sam’s tax list; and today $ am op
posing the removal of any more
names from the list. I am con
vinced that we must make the
American public tax conscious if
we ever expect to get public ap
proval for the reduction of federal
spending.”
Mason said Engel’s measure
would cause a $5,000,000,000 an
nual loss to the treasury as com
pared to a tax reduction in Knut
son’s bill of $3,500,000,000.
On the other side of the Capitol,
Senator Lucas (D.-Ill.) spearhead
ed a new attack on GOP tax poli
cies with an assertion that Repub
licans plans thus far offer no hope
for the $10 taxpayer to get off the
government rolls.
Lil ienthal Denies
He’s A Communist
WASHINGTON, (/P) — David E.
Lilienthal, nominated by President
Truman to head the new atomic
energy control commission, denied
before Senators today that he is a
Communist.
His denial in testimony before
the Senate atomic committee came
in response to a question from
Senator McKellar (D.-Tenn.) who
has described Lilienthal as “the
head Communist of my state.”
“Are you a Communist?” Mc
Kellar demanded.
“No, Lilienthal replied firmly.
“Are you a Democrat?”
“No.”
“Are you a Republican?”
“No,” Lilienthal said. “I am like
a great many other people, I am
not afiliated with any party. I am
an independent voter.”
Lilienthal now is acting head of
the atomic energy commission, but
cannot continue unless the Senate
approves his selection for the post.
He resigned as head of the Ten
nessee Valley Authority to accept
nomination to the committee.
Be Wise—Nugget Advertise
Government Must
Finance Airports
SEATTLE, (/P)—Alaska now is
a “first line of defense in name
only,” Clyde R. Ellis, Anchorage
attorney and member of the Amer
ican Legion’s national defense
committee, told interviewers here
after he attended a meeting of the
committee in Washington, D. C.
“The Alaska Railroad, which is
vital to the defense of the Terri
tory, is in a bad state of repair,”
Ellis said. “Highways and port fa
cilities are wholly inadequate for
its defense, and a pipeline from
the coast to the interior of Alaska
is sorely needed. And the mer
chant Marine is entirely inade
quate to transport personnel and
supplies for the defense of the
Territory.”
Ellis said the Legion committee
adopted a resolution demanding
that the government improve and
maintain adequate railroads, high
ways, port facilities and the mer-,
chant marine and that a pipeline,
be constructed. It also urged con-'
struction of “adequate airfields” in
Alaska as government projects
without matching funds by Alaska
communities.
“Right at Anchorage,” Ellis said
“we have an example of how bad
ly civil aviation needs federal aid.
Commercial airlines have been
I landing at Elmendorf Field, the
! army base and the army wants
them to discontinue use of the
field. But Anchorage’s civil air
field is wholly inadequate for use
I by such planes.”
Ellis said an adequate airport
would cost $10,000,000, and that
Anchorage was unable to provide |
matching funds. “Because civil :
aviation occupies an important po
sition in national defense,” he
added, “we feel that the govern
Flashes of Life
JINXED JOURNEY
SOUTH BEND, Wash., UP) —
Driving a truck loaded with dyna
mite, Tom Evans ran into a little
trouble. The rear spring broke,
locking the wheels, and the truck
overturned. But nothing blew up.
He reloaded on another truck
and four miles along a defective
steering wheel locked and that
truck turned over. Still nothing
blew up.
But the third try was a success.
That is, he got to his destination
safely.
SUIT SHORTAGE
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. UP)—Mayor
H. D. Allison has trouble finding
suits to fit his five-foot frame.
He ordered a new wardrobe for
the United States conference of
mayors at Washington.
Wednesday the Plymouth Cloth
ing company notified him of re
ceipt of his suit and coat.
That night fire destroyed the
company’s entire stock.
He’ll attend the conference in
his old clothes.
GALLANT FIREMEN
PEORIA, 111. (>P)—Firemen sum
moned to the home of Mrs. Roy
Huston found the house filled with
smoke—the result of a clogged
pipe from the furnace to the chim
ney.
Mrs. Houston said her husband
was in the hospital, and she was
unable to clean the pipe. The fire
men cleaned the pipe for her. Then
the firemen made the supreme ef
fort—they helped scrub the house
of smoke and soot.
ment should finance the building
of the fields.”
PIONEER WATER DELIVERY
Phone Main 94
ERIC NELSON
W atch Repairing Service
Three Day Service
McVICKER’S JEWELRY STORE
WATCHES - DIAMONDS - GIFTS
Box 1336 Anchorage, Alaska
BERING SEA CLUB
Dancing every Saturday and Sunday Night
HYDE’S ORCHESTRA
Bridge Every Tuesday Night
All Bridge Players Invited
NORTHERN
LIGHT & POWER CO.
“BETTER LIGHT - BETTER SIGHT”
G.-E. Mazda Lamps Refrigerators
Electrical Appliances Washing Machines
Wiring Material
Phone MAIN 105