CAB Investigates
Plane Crash Wliieh
Killed 14 Students
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wers to these questions:
Who was at the controls of the
ill-fated plane? Did the pilot dis
regard warnings from the control
tower? Had proper preenu ions
been taken to clear ice from the
wings? Was the plane overloaded?
Did the engines fail?
Leon D. Cuddeback, CAB re
^ gional director, said his first steD
will be a study of CAA working
records and a wire recording o'"
control tower instructions to va
rious planes on the field.
From them he expects to learn
the truth of CAA charges that the
pilot ignored advice from the
tower on “below minimum” wea
ther conditions. Company officials
contend take-off clearance was
given.
REP. THOMAS GETS
* DELAY IN TRIAL
WASHINGTON. CP) — Rep. J.
Parnell Thomas <R.-N. J.) was in
Walter Reed hospital yesterday
after winning a seven-day post
ponement of his trial 01 f aud
charges.
Disrtict Judge Schweinh a u 1
Monday granted postponement to
j Jan. 17.
* Counsel for the former chair
man of the House Un-American
Activities committee pleaded that
Thomas’ life might be endangered
by a “nervous or mental disturb
ance” at this time.
Fairbanks Jinx To
Concert Series
Performerss
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FAIRBANKS, </P) — Fairbanks
concert goers, a little dazed after
Sunday’s final incident in a season
of untoward surprises, plan to
continue their pursuit of culture
regardless.
Monday’s final attraction was
the appearance of Amparo Iturbi,
pianist sister of piano-master Jose
Iturbi.
During the first part of her con
cer , M ss Iturbi said she found
the piano flown here specially for
her use was “uneven in action.’’
As many in the aduience watch
ed open-mou hed, 10 o^the largest
men present went out during in
termission in 30 below zero wea
ther and lugged a second piano
across the street from a music
store. The concert was finished
uninterrupted.
But before this, famed Negro
contralto Carol Brice became wea
ther-bound in Juneau and had to
pos pone her trip here for two
months.
Then came Metropolitan stars
Lansing Hatfield and Marita Far
ell. Hatfield became indisposed
early in their program and sud
denly walked off stage to leave the
a-!on:shed Miss Farell to finish
he* concert alone.
Despi e all this the Fairbanks
concert association is going ahead
with plans for a 1949-50 season—
convinced it can’t happen again.
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Truman Asks For
Gigantic New Tax
Ami Much Power
those of 1948.
With his own party in control
any many of its new Senators and
representatives regarded as “new
dealers” the President’s advisers
| feel that prospcts are now favor
able for enactment of many of the
proposals the GOP-dominated 80th
Congress rejected last year.
Mr. Truman himself told Con
gress today: “In the months ahead
I know that I shall be able to co
j operate with this Congress.”
1 The President recommended
that the new taxes be levied prin
cipally against corporations, with
out specifying what he had ini
mind. He also asked higher estate
and gift taxes and consideration
of increased personal income taxes
“in the middle and upper brack
ets.”
' The tax proposal was part ot a
series of proposed anti-inflation
ary measures including standby
power to impose wage and price
controls, passage of a strengthened
l rent control extension, continued
j control of consumer credit and
- enlarged powers “to control bank
credit.”
1 And he coupled recommenda
! tions covering a series of New
Deal proposals with a call upon
i business to plan for “steady, vig
orous expansion—seeking always
j to increase its output, lower its
prices and avoid the vices of mo
nopoly and restriction.”
“So long as business does this,”
Mr. Truman said in a personal ap
i pcarance before a joint session of
the two Houses, “it will be con
tributing to continued prosperity,
and i: will have the help and en
couragement of government.”
Mr. Truman laid before the new
j 81st Congress virtually every
! recommendation he made in the
351 speeches of his 31,500 miles of
, campaigning for the Presidency.
Included were cal’s for farm
price supports and adequate stor
age spree for wheat and other
| crops—two items he hammered
! hard n winning farm states which
! usually go Republican.
He asked, too, for repeal of the
Tuft-Hartley labor law, wh'ch he
blasted across the country as un
fair to working men. He proposed
re-enactment of the old Wagner
act with, however, prohibitions
again-t ‘'jurisdictional strikes and
unjustifiable secondary boycotts.”
He upped off a message sure to
stir controversy in and out of
(Congress with a new call for en
i ac.ment of the entire slate of civil
’ rights proposals he advocated last
i year.
Then, they not only failed of
passage, but brought a cleavage
that cos him four southern states.
“I stand squarely behind those
proposals,” he said.
Asserting “the heart of our for
eign policy is peace,” the Presi
dent requested that the hands of
the country’s diplomats and of the
United Nations be strengthened
by pas-age of a universal training
law. He said its enactment “is es
sential to the security of the
United States.”
Until a system of world secur
ity is established “upon which we
can safely rely,” he said, “wo can
not escape lie burden of creating
nd mahit lining armed forces suf
ficient to deter aggression.”
M \ Truman said “the state of
:hc union is good,” but that pros
perity is threatened” at a number
of critical points in the economy.” |
He proposed his anti-inflation
program to put him in a position
to take effective action “at these
Arctic Training
Planes Get
Sample Of Weather
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FAIRBANKS, f/Pt—Five B-50’s j
from Oavis-Monthan air base, i,
Tucson, Ariz., already have had a j
sample of what they flew north
for—cold weather.
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Temperatures eased above the: <
zero mark Monday for the first '
time since the big four-engined
bombers of the 43rd groups 65th
squadron landed at Eielson Air
Force Base last week. They will
be stationed there temporarily for | ]
! Arctic training. ,
When they arrived the mercury ,
i was snuggled down to nearly 40
j below’ zero. More of the real Arc
I tic “McCoy” is on its way, the ;
'weatherman said; despite the sud
[ den rise.
French Govt.
Investigates Graft
PARIS, </P) — The French gov
ernment began today an investi
gation of spending by several gov
ernment ministries after au 'o
alleged misuse of funds.
The auditors' report for
said several billion francs wert
spent to no definite purpose or on
furnishings or food.
The government said military
requisitions had been made 10/
wines, liquors and civilian cloth
ing. It said the number 01 auto
mobiles in use by government
departments had been greatly ir
creased. It alleged special job.4
were created for no useful pui
pose, and funds were allotted f< >
fictitious operations.
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danger spots.”
The President recommended a i
minimum wage of at least 75 cents
an hour <it is now 40 cents), a mil
lion new low-rent public housing
units over the next seven years,
expanded social security coverage
' and other social measures,
j In support of his tax recommen
; dations, the President said ‘‘it is
; essential not only that the federal
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audget be balanced, but also that
there be a substantial surplus t<
•educe inflationary pressure-, and
permit a sizeable reduction m the
nation debt, which now stands at
5252,000,000,000.”
He did not specify the nature of
the "additional corporate taxes”
be wants imposed or how much o?
the four billion he would ra.se by
this levy.
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