Labor Will Revolt
Unless Taxes
Are Reduced
LONDON, (A5)—A trade union
leader threatened the labor gov
ernment Saturday with a “revolt”
unless taxes on beer and cigar
ettes are cut.
“It should be clearly under
stood,” said general secretary E.
J. Hill in his monthly report to
the boilermaker’s union, “that the
workers in heavy industry do not
intend to give up beer drinking
and smoking and the sooner the
tax on them is reduced the better.
Otherwise they will revolt, and
their profound loyalty to the la
bor government will turn to hos
tility.”
The government increased the
tobacco tax drastically last spring
in an effort to compell a reduc
tion in consumption which would
save dollars for other imports. A
cigarette shortage has resulted.
The price has risen to 70 cents
for a package of 20.
NOME HOSPITAL BUILDING
GOING UP FAST
The new hospital building un
der construction on North “B” St.
is getting along ahead of schedule,
according to William Flanagan,
U. S. Public Health Service rep
resentative from San Francisco,
in checking over building and the
plans during his stay in Nome the
past week.
The workmanship, he stated, is
excellent and in every way up to
the specifications called for in
such hospital contracts in which
the government participates.
Nome will have a fine hospital.
Robert E. Long, engineer for
the U. S . Smelting Company is
the resident engineer who will in
spect the building from time to
time to make certain the building
is properly constructed, and Frank
Love is representing the archi
tects, Foss and Malcolm of Jun
eau.
Ed Bomerscheim, construction
superintendent states he will be
pleased to have interested parties
(look over the building now under
construction.
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Start Mailing Draft
Questionnaires
On Sept. 7
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman told selective service
board Saturday to start mailing |
c 1 assification questionnaires to
single non-veteran draft regis
trants by Sept. 7.
The order was in a 30-page set1
of regulations laying down the
detailed provisions for putting
thousands of young men 19
through 25 into uniform under the
new peacetime draft act.
Under the order, as provided
by the act, deferments will be
given to men with dependents, to
almost all veterans, to men in
necessary jobs, including farm
work, conscientious objectors and
some other classes of registrants.
Generally, the classes are pattern
ed after those used in the war
time draft setup.
Single non-veteran men will be
the first to get their question
naies, which the boards will use
to determine whether a registrant
should be called for induction or
deferred.
The questionnaires, which must
be returned in 10 days, will go
out in the order of birth dates—
with the oldest first.
Beginning Sept. 30, the board are
to start mailing questionnaires to
o'.her registrants in the same fash
ion. Thereafter, the questionnaires
will be mailed to each registrant
as soon as he reaches the age of
19. Registration begins Aug. 30
for men born after Aug. 30, 1922,
and continues through Sept. 17
for younger men.
The 25-year-old will be the first
inducted. The army expects to
make its first call for about 15,000 j
men this w«ek and have them in
uniform sometime in November.
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Red Soldiers Still
Invade And Arrest
I
In Western Sector
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BERLIN, (/P)—Russian soldiers
kidnaped four more western sec
tor German policemen Saturday—
two with violence—in a continua
tion of raids which Americans
fear may grow into a serious in- j
ternational incident.
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The Soviet forces struck again
after the Americans had announc
ed they would seek face-to-face
talks with the Russians to try for
a truce in the conflict involving!
Berlin’s divided police force.
Headquarters of the western
sector police announcfrd a large |
party of Russian soldiers halted
two German plain clothes men
from the American zone near the
sector border, stabbed one, beat j
the other with a rifle butt, and
carried them into the Soviet zone 1
bodily after they refused to cross !
the line.
Two German policemen of the
British sector were the others l
kidnaped. One escaped later and
the British are demanding return
of the second.
The Russians Friday seized five
policemen from the American
zone. Two of them have escaped.
The Americans have asked return
of the others but received no re
ply. Thus, of the nine policemen
I taken ,the Russians still hold six.
Tension mounted hourly in this
divided four-power city. Russian
soldiers, tommyguns at ready, pa
trolled their side of the sector |
border. A short distance away,
British Object To
Israel In U. N.
LAKE SUCCESS, (A3)—A Brit
ish spokesman said Saturday his
government can not approve Is
rael’s admission to the United Na
tions under present conditions.
His comment followed an ap
peal from the new Jewish state to
the 11 members of the security
council for votes. In sending the
memorandum to the council, Is
raeli delegate Aubrey S. Eban ex
plained that a formal membership
application will be filed soon—
probably at the opening of the
general assembly in Paris Sept. 21.
under the Russians’ cold stares,
British and American patrols
were on the alert.
Western sector police ordered
motorized reserves to stand by,
ready to speed to the boundaries
at a sign of trouble.
The Russians have made a ser
ies of lightning raids into the
| western sectors, ostensibly against
! black marketeers.
Communists Clash
In Philippines
MANILA, </P) — A dispatch to
the Manila Times tonight said
that 28 Hukbalahaps were killed
and 24 wounded in a two hour
clash with Philippine constabu
lary units in Pampanga province.
The clash took place about 60
miles north of Manile yesterday.
The armed peasant commander,
the dispatch said, escaped leaving
behind a quantity of communist
pamphlets and firearms in his
headquarters.
KETTLE FALLS, (JP) —A sol
dier identified as Jack A. Walker,
21, stationed at the Spokane air
base, was fatally injured when
his motorcycle overturned near
here Saturday night.
SEATTLE, </P)—'The four-day
50th anniversary convention of
the Fraternal Order of Eagles
wound up here this weekend. De
troit was named for the 1949
meeting. This lodge was founded
50 years ago in Seattle.
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