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c Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, April 12, 1950
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c THE AX IN TAXATION
c (By Dr. Alfred P. Haake, Ph. D.)
An astute politician, who loved power more than his
r country, once remarked that the way to stay in office
is to “tax, spend and elect.”
He was right. If business is blamed for the high prices
which are loaded with unseen taxes, if the people can be
made to believe that taxes will be paid by the rich, and
if there is plenty of spending for people who think that
i it costs them nothing—even a people as enlightened as
the people of the United are likely to elect and then re
elect the spenders.
Sensible people, both Democrats and Republicans,
• are frightened by the terrible length to which this Ad
* ministration has already gone in adding to the national
debt, and taxing productive wealth to spend wastefully
on political measures and programs.
England, taking 40' l of the people’s income to pay its
cost of government, is moving swiftly toward destruc
tion. But for our loans and gifts her socialistic govern
ment would have fallen months ago.
We are already taking about 30' ( of the people’s in
come to pay our cost of government. Our taxes will go
still higher if the spending and deficits continue. Don’t
kid yourself that the rich will pay them. YOU will pay
them.
It was recently discovered we have already taxed
away so much from the people who normally furnish
the capital for expansion, new jobs and higher standards
of living, that 84', of additional taxes will have to come
from people with incomes under $5,000 a year.
The AX in taxes is reaching for YOUR neck, and it
won’t be long before it collects your head, if you don’t
wake up and make Congress stop the wasteful political
spending and taxation.
A poet once warned us about “vice.” Change his
words just a little and his verse is a true warning on
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‘TU be glad when Pm married, so 1 can forget my figure
and have all the sodas 1 want!”
U. S. Will Seek To
Revoke Bridges’
Citizenship
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at the citizenship hearing.
The government move to ask
revocation of citizenship, sched
uled for court hearing yesterday,
was bused on the contention that
the devocation was mandatory un
der the statute governing Bridges'
indictment.
The man to decide that is the
trial judge. George B. Harris, who
said as he passed sentence:
“By lying, cheating and do
| frauding the United States Gov- 1
ernment, Mr. Harry Bridges was
granted a certificate of natural- ;
ization. He was aided and abetted '
by two co-defendants . . . and
had bestowed upon him the price- I
less benefit of citizenship.
“Mr. Bridges’ conduct cannot
i evoke either sympathy or consid- j
eration on my part.”
Bridges, 48, key figure in par
alyzing port strikes on the west |
coast and Hawaii and twice vic
tor against previous government
efforts to deport him, listened in
glum silence to the proceedings.
He had no comment afterward, in
contrast with his charge of “im
migration frameup” at the end of
his stormy, 81day trial.
His attorneys, both of whom
were sentenced for contempt dur
ing the bitterly waged trial, said
they would vigorously oppose any
move to revoke Bridges’ citizen
ship. They also said they would
carry appeals to the Supreme
Court, if necessary, contending
that the trial was conducted on a
“political” and even a “patriotic”
basis.
Judge Harris, in rejecting a mo
1 tion for a new trial, denied that
! “the verdict was the result of hys
teria" or that the trial was “an ob
lique attack on militant trade un
ions.”
Bridges was convicted of per
jury and conspiracy with his two
aides to commit perjury. He was
given five years for perjury, two
: for conspiracy, with both terms to
run concurrently.
All three were released on bail,
! but it was increased. Bridges’ was
fixed at $25,000 and the other two
man at $10,000 apiece. Previously
i each of the three had been under
$5,000 bail.
A technical dispute over bail
bond papers prevented the gov
ernment from proceeding with its
move toward citizenship revoca
tion Monday.
Defense attorney Vincent Halli
nan, under six months’ sentence
for contempt, and his colleague,
James Maclnnis, unde rthree
I months’ sentence, made more
! charges of bias against Judge Har
ris Monday while striving to ar
rest judgment and gain a new
—
F. I). R. Passed On
Five Years A«*o
HYDE PARK, N. Y., (/P)—Five
years have passed since Franklin
D. Roosevelt’s death, but as many
as 3,000 persons daily still visit
his grave.
Today—the aniiversary of the
late President’s death—the events
of his life were recalled once
more in a special memorial serv
ice at the grave.
The Rev. Gordon L. Kidd, rec
tor of St. James Episcopal church
here, which Mr. Roosevelt at
tended during his lifetime, con
ducted the service.
The service was open to the
public. The smalL fee ordinarily
charged to look through the
Roosevelt home and library will
not be in effect for the day.
The occasion focused attention
on this landscaped burial spot be
side the Hudson River—which
has drawn an average of half a
million visitors a year since the
President’s death.
“During the tourist season, we
often show the Franklin D. Roose
velt National Historic site to more
than 3,000 in one day,’’ says
George A. Palmer, park superin
tendent.
He says it is “surprising how
little people knew’’ about Mr.
Roosevelt personally.
JUNEAU (/P)—Kenneth Kadow,
chairman of an Alaska field com
mittee, said yesterday that agen
cies of the interior department
are making a coordinated effort
, to establish a building materials
I industry in Alaska.
Kadow, who just returned from
a seven weeks trip to Washington,
D. C., said production now is
planned for birch lumber, brick,
tile, concrete, and plaster ingre
dients.
CAT AND DOG LIVES
GO ON AND ON
j WAYNESVILLE, 111. (>P) — As
I the ages of animals go, Twag, a
fox terrier, and Fluff, a tomcat,
are in the Methuselah class. Their
owner, Dr. Annie L. Borger, says
each is 24 years old. ♦
i trial. When Maclnnis referred to
“the indescribable bitterness and
hatred in this case,” Judge Harris
interrupted.
“When you ascribe any hatred
to this court,” he said, “for the
record I would like to say that I
have felt no bitterness, hatred or
ill will in this case.”
Before passing sentence, the
judge observed:
“I say that the verdicts are fair
and just. The verdicts will stand
as a courageous decision on the
part of an intelligent jury . . .
They will serve as a lasting me
morial that the integrity of the
naturalization laws of these United
States must be upheld.”
; taxes. Here it is:
“Tax is a monster of so frightful mein,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with his face,
We first endure, then accept, then embrace.”
You can say “debt” instead of “tax” and the verse is
just as good. Let’s cut down the political spending and
take some of the ax out of taxes. After all, it’s YOUR
1 neck the spender is chopping, not his own.
Charge I I. S.-Russia
Planes Fire Ai
Faeh Other
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when it disappeared on a round
trip flight from Copenhagen, Den
mark, to Wiesbaden, Germany.
Called the Privateer, it had four
engines like the 11-29. U. S. planes
have been searching for it since
Saturday.
The official Soviet news agency
Tasss aid foreign minister Andrei
Vishinsky called in Ambassadoi
Alan Kirk yesterday morning and
handed him a formal note of pro
test.
Tass said the incident occurred
21 kilometers—about 13 miles—
inside Russia territory near Lep
aya in Latvia, on the Baltic Sea.
Tass gave the text of the pro
test note as follows:
“The government of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republias
deems it necessary to state to the
government of the United States
| of America the following:
“According to verified data, on
April 8 of this year, at 17 hours
39 minutes, south of Lepaya, a
! four-engined military plane of the
B-29 type, a Flying Fortress, bear
! ing American identification marks
was sighted.
“The plane penetrated the Ter
ritory of the Soviet Union to a
distance of 21 kilometers.
“Owing to the fact that the
American plane continued to pen
etrate into Soviet territory, a
flight of Soviet fighters took off
! from a nearby aerodrome and de
manded that the American plane
follow it and land at the aero
drome.
“The American plane not only
failed to comply with this demand
but opened fire on the Soviet
planes.
j “Owing to this, an advanced
Soviet fighter was forced to open
fire in reply, after which the
American plane turned towards
the sea and disappeared.
“The Soviet government an
nounces its resolute protest to the
government of the United States
against this gross violation of the
Soviet frontier by an American
military plane, which at the same
time constitutes an unheard of vi
olatio nof the elementary rules of
international law.”
Mr. and Mrs. John Kanari, Kou
garokers, who have been enjoying
their first winter in the States for
many years returned home this
morning and are leaving soon for
the north.
. —
Jack Molyneux, vetersn manu
facturer’s representative, who has
covered this part of the Territory
for many years, arrived this
morning and stated that he now
is a resident of Alaska, havingr
bought a home in Juneau where
his family is located, any enjoys
I being a real Alaskan.
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clean of sulfuric acid traces after
manufacture or it will decompose.
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