doubling of the taxation depart
ment allotment to $440,000. The
increase was voted in view of the
department’s increased load of col
lecting the new property, income
and other levies. The bill usually
takes from several days to a week
in each House.
Observers believe the bill will
have rougher going in the Senate.
One target, they believe, will be
the development board appropria
tion, hacked by the House to $150,
000, less than half the requested
sum.
The Senate, meanwhile, passed
the House-approved bill to estab
lish a department of fisheries to
cooperate with federal agencies
and prepare to take over fisheries
with statehood. The vote was 12
to 4. The bill carrying a $250,000
appropriation, now goes back to
the House for action on these
amendments:
A change in makeup of the
board to include a representative
of industry, and a provision for a
fisherman representative from
each of the south, central and
western areas, instead of only the
First and Third Divisions.
Wrangling on the floor over
f contents of the appropriation bill
was eliminated by agreement in
the ways and means committee,
i which consists of a majority of
House members. The committee
has been working several weeks
on the bill.
Democrats C. Carlson, Essie R.
Dale, Glen D. Franklin and Al
fred A. Owen, Jr., and Republican
George Miscovich and Frank G.
Johnson voting against it.
The fisheries department bill,
by Representative Owen was op
posed by Senators E. B. Collins,
Charlie Jones, William Munz and
L. P. Dawes.
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The House had excluded indus
try representatives from the
board.
Collins and Jones argued the
department would be ineffective
as long as federal control- remain
; ed and the Territory wouldn’t get
i its money’s worth.
The Senate also passed unani
mously a bill codifying board au
thorities of the health department.
The Senate gave unanimous ap
proval to a lengthy pure food and
drug act which required three
times as long to read as it did to
pass.
U. S. Charges
Russia Broke
Six Promises
(Contined from Page One)
government with actual events.”
The American note cites six
specific occasions when, it says,
the Russians made these promises
in Berlin.
The commitments, by top-rank
ing Soviet officers, are listed as
having been made between July
5, 1947 and Jan. 2, 1948, in ses
sions of allied occupation agen
cies.
State department officials said
the exact number of Germans
still held by the Russians is un
known.
According to figures furnished
by the Russians in Moscow in
April of 1947, 443,165 still were in
Russian hands at that time.
American officials believe there
t are at least several hundred thou
sand more still in Soviet camps,
j The state department said the
French and British sent similar
notes to the Soviet foreign office
at about the same time.
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Recover Body Of
Truck Driver On
Steese Highway
FAIRBANKS, {&) — The Ladd
Field search and rescue squadron
recovered the body of Dick Zehn
der yesterday.
The 38-year-old trucking oper
ator, whose parents live in Sum
ner, Wash., was crushed in the
cab of a tractor when the machine
rolled over an icy shoulder of the
treacherous, glaciated Steese high
| way 52 miles north of here.
I Word of the accident reached
; here only after a rugged 13-mile
J snowshoe trek to a telepohne by
Joe Rejes, who also was driving a
; tractor in the three-tractor cara
van. They towed the third.
A helicopter was sent from
Ladd Field after efforts by trucks,
snow jeeps and a smaller tractor
to reach the spot were turned
back by snow and ice.
Rejes reported trouble beset the
whole expedition. He said it took
1 one week to get Zehnder’s tractor
■ started in the winter cold, and
! that they had several near acci
dents on the iced road.
Zehnder is survived by his wi
dow, Bette, and daughter, Robin,
i three and a half years old, in Fair
banks. It was understood here his
widow was queen of the Puyallup
Fair about 1940.
Wabash Railroad
Employees Strike
ST. LOUIS, UP)—Operating em
ployees of the Wabash Railroad
went on strike yesterday at 6 ajn.
The walkout was ordered after
a breakdown in negotiations con
ducted by a federal mediator.
A total of 3,500 to 4,000 em
ployees are affected. The railroad
operates over 2,500 miles of track
in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan.
Jack Donnelly, vice president
of the brotherhood of engineers
and spokesman for the other bro
therhoods, said the strike resulted
“from a long standing dispute in
volving time claims, working con
ditions and other things—but not
wages.” ,
NEW CAB REGULATIONS
READY SOON
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The Civil
Aeronautics Board expects to is
sue new and stricter rules for ir
regular or non-scheduled air car
riers within two weeks.
An official, who asked not to be
named, said today the board is
starting final work on the revised
regulations after a conference
with the Senate commerce com
mittee yesterday.
The board official said it is un
; likely there will be any important
i changes.
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\ and Fish \
) Eastern Scallops - Fillet of Sole <
| Kippered Salmon |
; \ ALSO SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY \
\\ Fresh Red King Salmon \
|- Spiced Herring--Olympia Oysters >
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Sure ’nd be jabers, yure
invoked to be prisint on
March 17th at the big
gest St. Patrick’s Day
Party of all. Ther’ll be
dancin’ and gabbin' and
fun fer everyone. Don't
fergit to be on hand!!
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I MARCH 17th
( SHAMROLLICKING
( STARTS AT
8:00 P.M.
Pioneer Hall
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