States Elections
* Bring Many Party
Turn-Overs
(Continued from Page One)
Democrats ousted Republicans
and took control of Indianapolis,
Fort Wayne and Muncie, Ind.; Al
lentown, Pa., Niagara Falls,
Poughkeepsie and Schenectady,
New York.
Republicans turned out Demo
cratic mayors in Hammond, Ind.,
* Amsterdam, Kingston, Norwich,
Oneida, and Geneva. They won
the city hall in Waterbury, Conn.,
for the first time since 1921.
Democrats reained control of
Cleveland* and Republicans of
Philadelphia.
* Thus there was ammunition for
partisan claims from each major
party, but puzzling inconsistencies
for anyone trying to discover any
trend.
At the White House, Presiden
* tial press secretary Charles G.
Ross first declined comment on
the election results, but gave an
emphatic “No” when asked if the
White House was “unhappy”
about them.
The Mississippi Senate race
shared interest in yesterday’s off
year state and municipal elections
with a return of the Kentucky
governorship to the Democratic
fold after four years of Republi
can rule at Frankfort.
* Democrats swept back into con
trol in this “border” state by easily
electing U. S. Rep. Earle C. Cle
ments as chief executive over Re
publican state attorney general El
don S. Diftnmit and taking over
control of Louisville’s board of al
dermen. Incumbent Gov. Simeon
S. Willis was not eligible to suc
ceed himself.
The Kentucky governorship
was top prize in yesterday’s two
* party scraps. Clements had the
Committee Advises!
Income Tax Cut
WASHINGTON, </P)—A major
ity of a citizens advisory commit
tee on taxation recommended to
day “a reduction in individual in
come tax rates for all, with due re
gard for the cost of living of those
in the lower income groups.
But Matthew Woll, AFL official
and labor members of the 10-man
| group, took exception to the'
recommendations.
The majority of nine and Woll j
filed separate reports with the |
House ways and means committee i
which created the study group, :
headed by Roswell Magill, former
undersecretary of the treasury.
Neither report was immediately
made public in full.
HOME ARTS CLUB
MET TUESDAY EVENING
The Home Arts Club met at the
home of Mrs. Paul Galloway last
evening with Mrs. Ben Hyndman
presenting a very interesting pa
per on period furniture. Plans
were made for a Christmas party
for the meeting next month.
support of organized labor becau e
of his vote against the Taft-Hart
ley labor law. Republicans raised
this as a main issue in the cam
( paign, but Clements soft-pedaled
. .
Democrats will claim this a ma
jor upset, although Republicans,
who have had only five governors
in the state’s history, have never
I elected two in a row.
There were no upsets in three
special Congressional elections to
fill vacancies. Republicans won in
normally Republican districts in
Indiana and Ohio and a Democrat
I took a heavily Democratic district
in Brooklyn.
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Freight Rates Are
“Wolf At The Door
Of Alaska”
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company, interrupted to observe
that "the witness is blaming prac
tices on the steamship companies
that are beyond control of the ship
lines.
Sundborg later submitted his
own compilation of Alaska ship
voyages of all three Seattle com
panies from May 29 to September
30 this year, which he said reveal
ed “over-servicing in a very un
economical way in Alaska ports."
He also charged that asserted
"duplication" of office and termin
al facilities in Alaska ports by
Alaska Steam and Northland
amounted to virtual "feather-bed
ding in the upper brackets of man
agement,” because, he declared,
both are under common owner
ship.
The day s last witness was id. IN. |
Peterson, passenger traffic man-!
ager for Alaska Steamship com- ,
pany. He explained that weather
conditions caused three ships to
be in and around the fisheries port
of. Pelican at approximately the
same time.
i Peterson also testified that pas
j senger ship revenues were cut by
maritime union demands for more
i crew space, which he said, had to
i come out of de-luxe passengti
i quarters.
j Later, under cross-examination
by Ewers and Stanley Lonf. Sund
' borg said his references to “bunch
I ing of ships in certain ports were
based on his own observation and
i newspaper vessel movement re
! ports. He said he did not know
^ which of the vessels were north
bound or southbound, nor amounts
of cargo handled.
Asked by Ewers if he did not
feel the Territory adequately pro
tected by maritime commission
rate regulations, Sundborg said:
“The carriers have never been
prevented by the maritime com
mission from getting pretty nearly
what they wanted in rates from
this trade.”
“During the entire history of the
Territory, steamship freight rates
have been like a wolf at the door
of Alaska, taking a bite out of ev
erything going in or coming out.”
WILLIAM V. PETERSON
WEDS EDNA OTNESS
William V. Peterson of Fair
banks and Edna Otness, teacher at
Igloo, were joined in holy matri
mony October 30, at 4 p.m. in the
Eskimo Lutheran chapel. Tex
Zeigler and Josie Octuck stood as
I witnesses.
The service opened with the
Bridal Chorus from “Lohengrin”
played by Miss Frost. The cere
mony was followed by a song
“Whispering Hope,” sung by the
Eskimo girls’ chorus. The bride
wore an aqua suit, the groom a
brown business suit.
Immediately after the ceremony
Edna Eyuk, young Eskimo girl of
Igloo, presented Mrs. Peterson
with a beaded lapel ornament out
of a small pair of slippers with
LOVE sewn in beads above them.
The wedding supper was served
at the home of Helen Frost as hos
tess. The newlyweds plan to spend
the winter at Igloo.
MRS. DAN JONES JOINS
HUSBAND IN FAIRBANKS
Mrs. Dan Jones left yesterday
for Fairbanks where she will j
make her home for the winter. (
Dan Jones has enrolled in the
University of Alaska where he
will continue his studies which 1
Poland Keeps Tommy
gunners As Policemen
WARSAW, (/P) — The tommy
gunner, Poland’s exponent of law
and order, may someday disap
pear from the villages, towns and
cities, but the day is not yet in
sight.
Khaki-clad tommy-gunners are
everywhere. They are Poland’s
police. They guard government
buildings, they flock to every ■
sports event, they direct traffic
and patrol streets.
Before the war, Poland had
blue uniformed, regular police
armed only with a pistol.
A foreign ministry spokesman
said today’s law enforcers carry
tommy-guns because in this coun
try they still deal with “people j
who carry tommy-guns.”
Swiss Plan $4,700,000
Foreign Charity Fund
BERN, Switzerland, I/P) — The
Swiss federal council’s request for
a $47,000,000 appropriation for in
ternational charity activities has
been submitted to the Swiss par
liament.
The council has tentatively
fixed June, 1948, as the termina
tion of this activity. An autumn
campaign for the collection of
farm commidities for the benefit
of war-devastated peoples was
abandoned when a summer-long
drought reduced agricultural pro
duction.
Tom—My wife talks to herself.
Tim—So does mine, but she does
not realize it—she thinks I’m lis
tening.
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