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VOL. XLIX. No. 83NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1947 PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
TACOMA, (/P) —Twenty Ta
coma business men will leave here
by plane Sunday for Alaska,
where they will visit at five cities
on a chamber of commerce spon
sored good will tour.
The business men will stop at
Ketchikan, Juneau, Fairbanks,
Nome and Anchorage, returning
to Tacoma July 19.
SEATTLE, (>P)—Richard Wood
ward, 14, of Fairbanks, went out
to Woodland Park to see a polar
bear—the second he had ever
glmpsed. And admitted he’d much
rather see a baseball game.
Richard is bound for Paris and
the Boy Scout jamboree. Seattle
had no baseball to offer, but he
had hopes of seeing a major
league game in the east.
As for Ellen the bear, she was
no more impressed by Richard
than he by her. She waved one
languid paw and went to sleep.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Cruises for
naval reservists this year will
take them to Prince Rupert, B. C.,
and Sitka, Victoria and San Fran
cisco, the 13th naval district said
yesterday.
The report also said applica
tions for the cruises should be
made to the training staging divi
sion at the nearest naval reserve
armory, instead of to headquar
quarters. There are armories at
Portland, Gray’s Harbor, Belling
ham, Everett, Seattle, Spokane
and Tacoma.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. UP)—State
safety commissioner Lynn Bomar
announced today John T. (Tuck)
Hurn, for whom a week's search
had been made in Nickajack cave
at Shellmound, Tenn., had been
located in New York City and that
Hum’s reported disappearance in
the cavern was “a hoax from be
ginning to end.”
ANCHORAGE, OP) — Delegate
Bartlett advised Hugh Doherty by
telegram yesterday hearings on a
proposed $8,000,000 airport for
Anchorage would be held Wednes
day in Washington.
Members of the House intra
state foreign commerce committee
* have planned tentatively to visit
Alaska Aug. 4. The chamber of
commerce has called a meeting to
discuss the feasibility of sending
a delegation to the Washington
hearings.
LAKE SUCCESS, (JP) — Egypt
demanded formally today that the
United Nations security council
order “immediate and total” with
drawal of all British troops from
Egypt and the Sudan.
At the same time the council
was asked to terminate the pres
ent British “regime” in the Sudan,
which long has been a source of
friction between Egypt and Bri
tain.
MARION, O. (yP)—Sheriff Leroy
Retterer said today two brothers
found the nearly nude and rope
trussed body of a 25-year-old di
vorcee in a rural churchyard near
here early today.
Sheriff Retterer identified the
Truman Expresses
Views In General
Conference
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i WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman gave advance notice yes
! terday that he intends to veto the
new Republican-backed bill to cut
; income taxes $4,000,000,000 annu
I ally effective January 1.
He told a news conference that
he sees no reason to change his at
; tude on tax reduction if Congress
! sends him the same bill he vetoed
several weeks ago.
The new measure, which has
cleared the House and is now be
fore the Senate, is a carbon copy
of the previous bill except that the
effective date for the tax-cutting
is six months later.
On other domestic matters Mr.
: Truman said:
1. He has no though at this time
of calling Congress back into spe
cial session this fall to consider
; European aid legislation. He add
ed, however, that if the necessity
| arises he will take whatever steps
, are necessary.
i 2. He has no intention of send
ing a special message to Congress
I on secretary of state Marshall’s
plan for European economic re
! covery. He said he can not make
i recommendations until after the
\ Paris conference on the “self
i help” proposal.
3. He has no plans now for a
cross country trip this fall, as
urged by officers of the Democrat
ic national committee. Moreover,
he added, he has no plans for a
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Less Meat Is
Forecast For 1948
WASHINGTON, UP) — The na
tion faces the prospect today of
possibly 10 per cent less meat by
early 1948.
Such a reduction would be ac-1
companied by higher prices if
consumer demand continues
strong.
These possibilities are based on |
an agriculture department crop |
report yesterday forecasting a j
sharp drop in the corn crop as a
result of one of the worst planting
seasons on record.
The corn crop—which is the ba
sic raw material for meat, dairy
and poultry products— was fore
cast at 2,612,809,000 bushels. This
compares with last year’s record
of of 3,287,927,000, the govern
ment’s goal of 3,000,000,000 bush
els and a ten-year average of
2,639,927,000.
victim as Mrs. Zora Gerbes of
Marion, mother of three children
who was divorced four years ago.
BATAVIA, Java. (/P) — Gover
nor general Hubertus J. Van Mook
demanded today that the Indone
sian republic accept in full all the
proposals of the Netherlands for
establishing an interim govern
ment for a United States of Indo
nesia. <
“The time for decision has
come,” the governor general said
in a radio address. •*
Alaska Has Only
$8,000 In Treasury
JUNEAU, (/P)—Sharply critical
of governmental costs, the Terri
torial Board of Administration to
day advised heads of all depart
ments, commissions and institu
tions that, as of July 3, Alaska
had but $8,000 cash in its treasury
In a letter signed by Atty. Gen.
Ralph Rivers, secretary, the board
said it was essential to “tighten
our belts and keep administrative
expense to the minimum for the
time being.”
Although all payrolls for June
plus $100,000 in vouchers have
been met, the letter explained
that the only remaining tax in
come expectable before January
is an estimated $220,000 receiv
able this month from accrued li
j quor excise taxes.
Current obligations include a
$70,000 monthly summer payroll,
$196,000 due incorporated cities in
! school refunds, and tuition pay
ment of more than $38,000.
The board said it is taking steps
to obtain the transfer of $350,000
previously loaned the veterans’
fund to get it under way.
Monthly pay rolls and old age
pensions will be met, the board
assured, but all other payments
will be held up.
Military Supplies
Enroute To Greece
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Dwight
Griswold, chief of the American
aid mission to Greece, said today
military supplies valued at $35,
000,000 already are en route to
equip) the Greek army and navy
on an “anti-bandit” basis.
Griswold told a news confer
ence that the equipment now mov
ing to U. S. ports for shipment is
largely from United States army
and navy surplus. It includes light
mountain pack artillery, mules,
food for troops, ammunition, and
some trucks and jeeps.
Shipments of military supplies,
scheduled to comprise half the
$300,000,000 aid program, probab
ly will continue into the fall, Gris
wold said.
Japs Ask For
Huge Budget
TOKYO, (/P) — The Japanese
government indeed staggered
the Diet (Parliament) today with
a request for 100,000,000,000 yen
($2,000,000,000) in special appro
priations — virtually duplicating
the size of the present budget.
Officials agreed to prune the
total but insisted the rising spiral
of governments costs and other
expenditures necessitated what
would be an all-time record outlay
in Japan.
The Diet is talking now of
granting 60,000,000,000 yen ($1,
200,000,000) of the special appro
priations, which the government
says it can balance by heavy'tax
ation on new fortunes and increas
ed revenues from state monopo
lies.
Big-City Doctors
Will Work For A
Month In Alaska
(By Vern Haughland)
VV A S H I N GTON, UP) — The
American Medical association is
about to give hand-picked big
city physicians a taste of country
doctoring in such places as Alas
ka, Puerto Rico and the western
Indian reservations .
The first group—five top staff
men from the Cook County hospi
tal at Chicago—will take off from
Minneapolis July 19 for Alaska.
The specialists, taking with
them facilities for a portable hos
pital, will spend a month in the
Territory. They will diagnose,
prescribe and treat as many sick
Eskimoes, Indians and Aleuts as
1 possible.
Next fall, other carefully-chosen
physicians will visit Indian reser
| vations of the west, starting prob
: ably with the Arizona Navajo
! tribes in September.
Dr. William A. Morgan, promin
| ent Washington physician, ex
plained to a reporter:
I “A great many of these sick
| people never see a doctor, live in
areas with no medical facilities
whatever.
“The medical association groups
| will go in, work with the public
health offices where they are
available, and will attempt to do
something concrete about medical
and surgical attention for these
underprivileged groups.
“We will send outstanding men
from our best hospitals. The teams
that visit the reservations, for ex
ample, may be chosen from San
Francisco, Ann Arbor, Mich., or
the Mayo Clinic at Rochester,
Minn.
“This is planned as a continuous
project—the only kind that can be,
really useful.. More teams will be ,
sent out next year.”
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Princess Elizabeth
Shows Off Fiance
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LONDON, </P)—Princess Eliza- i
beth proudly displayed her tall
and handsome fiance, Lt. Philip
Mountbatten, to 6,000 British so-j
ciety leaders in a damp garden
party at Buckingham Palace yes
terday.
It was the first public appear
ance of the future queen and con
sort since the midnight announce- j
ment of their engagement.
King George VI, Queen Eliza
beth and the younger sister, Prin
cess Margaret Rose, beamed in
the background in apparent de
light while Elizabeth and Philip
attracted practically the entire in- j
terest. Guests swished through
wet grass to see the young couple.
Bowing to garden party eti
quette, Elizabeth wore gloves
which hid her engagement ring of
three diamonds set in platinum
which the former Greek prince
placed on her third finger.
Earlier, crowds broke through
police barriers at Westminster Ab
bey to cheer the 21-year-old prin
cess. Best wishes came from all
over the world.
Bartlett Blasts At
“Unjust Increase"
In Shipping Rates
(By Charles D. Watkins)
MA3) Spacial Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Delegate
Bartlett says the maritime Com
mission has authorized Seattle
shipping companies operating the
Alaskan service an “unjust in
crease 'in rates* made legal by an
edict of a United States govern
mental agency."
“Living in an area where mari
time rates have always been high
er than elsewhere,” Bartlett said
in a statement in the Congression
al Record, “Alaskans had pretty
well adjusted themselves to a
condition of legalized plunder.
“Since man is always hopeful
and optimistic they had hoped and
expected that which was bad
would eventually become better
as population increased and as
Alaskans became more able to
raise their voices effectively.
“In this hope and this expecta
tion they simply did not compre
hend the strength and the ruth
lessness of their masters, the Seat
tle operators of^ the steamship
lines which serve the Territory.”
The Delegate reviewed the gov
ernment’s action in arranging an
interim steamship service to Alas
ka with rates which he said were
increased 60 per cent after the
Seattle steamship lines refused to
operate the service without the
raise.
He said:
“After making- incredible war
time profits—incredible compared
with prewar earnings and incredi
ble compared to their insignifi
cant investments in ships afloat,
three Alaska carriers decided to
try to perpetuate those earning
levels by crying . . . that they
needed the stupendous increase of
118 per cent over and above their
prewar rates for postwar carrying
between Seattle and Alaska.”
He recited that this plea was re
jected by the maritime commis
sion and then Congress approved
the interim plan which permitted
the maritime commission to fur
nish ships at charter of $1 a year
to the, companies, pay the insur
ance and recapture 75 per cent of
the profit after taxes. 10 per cent
on capital, and insurance costs
are deducted. He described a pro
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Alaska Also Has
“Flying Saucers”
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — “Flying
saucers’ continued to soar over
Alaska Wednesday, three Anchor
age school girls reporting they
sighted a disc over Elmendorf
field.
The trio—Judy Kerr, 14; Vicky
Novack, 15; and Nancy Green—
said they were familiar with
weather balloons and ray wind ob
jects, and that the object they
saw was not the same.
The girls said the object had a
white body with an orange
streak protruding at the rear. It
appeared smaller than a fighter
plane, they said.