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Nome, Alaska, Monday, July 2, 1951
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PELLY ADDRESS ON INFLATION
, The address on inflation by Thomas M. Pelly,
president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, to the
King County Republican Club on June 4 has resulted
in a flood of favorable comment, and many requests
for copies of the speech 'have been received.
Excerpts from Pelly’s speech follow:
“In 1929 we spent less than four billion dollars to
operate all functions of the federal government.
In this fiscal year we will probably spend eighteen
or twenty times as much. A large increase is due to
the Korean war, but hidden in it is a bigger increase
for non-war items.
“If every life-insurance policyholder in the United
States cashed in all of his life insurance, the total
would amount to 45 billion. That would not be enough
to run our government one year now, excluding the
cost of increased national defense.
“If every home owner in the entire country dis
posed of his home the total would amount to an esti
mated 35 billion. That would not have run our gov
ernment for seven months last year.
If every farmer sold his farm, and all the equip
ment on it, including the livestock, it wouldn’t last
six months. And if the working capital of all industry
were converted into cash, that 40 billion would still be
only a drop in the bucket.”
“Inflation means disaster on two counts,” Pelly
saiid. “It demoralizes family security—the background
of all that decent men hold dear. It results in dictator
ship. And the American people don’t want either of
those.
“Our Seattle Chamber of Commerce and other
similar organizations throughout the country realize
this danger. That is why we have been urging govern
ment economy—curtailment of government spending
to reduce the increase in money going into circulation.
Balanced budgets are essential to prevent further infla
tion.
Lindsay C. Warren, U. S. Comptroller-General:
“Everyone wants economy to apply to the other fellow
2>ut never to himself.”
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Kidnapper of Girl
Sought in Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON, Search for
a man accused of kidnapping and
raping a 17-year-old Washington
girl shifted to Warrington, Bucks
County, Pa., today.
Police reported the fugitive, who
still had the girl with him, broke
into the home of George Brewer
in Warrington and spent last night
there.
Then he and the girl, Carolyn
Barker, left in Brewers 1960 green
Oldsmobile sedan.
The Federal Bureau of Investi
gation has identified the man as
Warren Lee Irwin, already sought
on charges of murder and kid
napping in previous episodes.
He is accused of killing Mrs.
Adeline Shagena, near Oxford,
Mich., June 8, and kidnapping a
woman June 19 at Detroit.
The police report said Irwin
pawned an engagement ring stolen
wrom the Washington girl here
yesterday. It said he also pawned
a wrist watch taken from the girl’s'
fiance, who had just presented
her with the engagement ring.
Police said Carolyn Barker’s
fiance told them yesterday a gun
man forced him to drive with the
girl to nearby Falls Church, Va.,
Thursday evening. There, he told
the police he lay helplessly bound
while his intended bride was raped
nearby.
The fiance, a 19-year-old filling
station attendant named Law
rence Gilbert, later picked Irwin’s
picture out of PBI files as the
kidnapper. i
STOP-GAP LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman has until midnight to de
cide whether he will accept a
temporary, watered-down price
control extension or abandon for
at least a month his emergency
powers over the nation’s econ
omy.
Congress left him n<y other
choice when it passed yesterday
a stop-gap bill which would ex
tend the Defense Production Act
for the month of July and ban
price rollbacks and additional
price ceilings during that period.
Although Mr. Truman was ex
pected to sign the measure ter
prevent complete collapse of the
controls program, it represents a
sharp setback for his adminis
tration.
He had fought hard—and is
expected to continue fighting—
for a two-year extension erf the
law plus increased powers he
deems essential to halt infla
tion and help the defense effort:
The month-long extension Con
gress voted apparently bans roll
backs of the price of shoes, cloth
ing, textiles and a long list of
manufactured goods the Office of
Price Administration (OPS) had
ordered to go into effect Monday.
Price Stabilizer Michael V. Di
Salle had estimated these roll
backs alone would clip about $2,
700,000,000 a year off costs to the
consuming public.
Five billion dollars in price cuts
will be lost to consumers over a
years time, DiSalle estimated, if
the ncf-rollback decision stands.
TEHRAN, Iran, {JP) — Britain
warned Iran in a note today that
Iranian insistence on seizing con
trol of British-owned oil installa
tions might lead to the “gravest
consequences.”
The new British move in the
struggle for control of oil in Iran
came as the International Court of
Justice at The Hague opened hear
ings on a British demand for an
injunction against Iran’s oil na
tionalization attempts.
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General Van Fleet
In Helicopter Accident
U. S. Army Headquarters, Ko
rea, (/P)—*Lt. Gen. James A. Van
Fleet, Eighth Army commander,
narrowly missed injury to-d’ay in
a helicopter accident.
The Navy helicopter in which
he was riding was caught by a
gust of wind as it was landing on
the cruiser Los Angeles off the
Korean east coast. The ’copter
turned turtle on the ship’s deck.
No one was injured.
Van Fleet, Rear Adm. Arleigh
(‘^31 Knot”) Burke and the pilot
climbed from the ’copter unhurt.
Burke, a World War II hero, is
commander of Cruiser Division
Five.
“The general took it quietly,”
an aide said.
Van Fleet returned to shore in
a motor launch and’ inspected
United Nations troops on the
eastern front.
Army Private Shot
On Alaska Highway
ANCHORAGE, .(/P)—U.S. Army
officials said Saturday they are
holding Pfc. Chester D. Pitts, 27,
of Tarrall, Texas, for manslaugh
ter in connection with the fatal
shooting of Pvt. Herbert A. Brown,
19, of Denver, Colo., an June 12.
The provost marshal’s office at
Army headquarters here said the
shooting took place on the Alaska
Highway in the Big Delta coun
try. Pitts, investigators said, was
with two other soldiers when their
automobile 'broke down on the
highway. A truck in which Brown
was riding passed the stalled trio.
The investigator reported Pitts
took a rifle from the car and fired
three shots.
One bullel entered the cab of
the truck and was deflected into
Brown’s head, killing him out
right. ..
Alaska Salmon Industry
Refuses Agreement With
Striking Resident Workers
DILLINGHAM, Alaska, </P) —
Alaska Salmon Industry leaders
were reported Saturday to have
flatly refused to sign an agree
ment with striking Bristol pay
resident cannery workers unless
they would agree to end tneir
walkout. V
At the same time, a new issie
was injected into the complicated
Bristol Bay salmon fishing tie-upl
Both the cannery workers and a\
second striking union accused the \
AiFL machinists of ignoring picket '
lines. Only yesterday, the resident
CIG cannery workers union and
the independent Bering Sea fish
ermen’s union announced they
had voted to affiliate with the
AiFL Seafarers International Un
ion.
SEATTLE, (JP) — A spokesman
for the Alaska Salmon Industry,
Inc., denied a Saturday report
from Dillingham that a labor dis
| pute had tied up fishing boats at
Koggiung and Pederson Point, on
Bristol Bay.
The report came from the strike
committee of Local 46, Bristol
Bay Resident Cannery Workers*
Union, which announced a switch
last week from the CIO to the
Seafarers’ International <AFL>. It
is picketing canneries and boats in
the complicated Bristol Rak dis
pute. \
The industry spokesman ysaid
36 fishing boats went out onVhe
tide for Saturday fishing from l|pe
Libby plant at Koggiung and ap
boats were operating at Peders^c 1
Point, where the Bristol Ba|
Packing Co., has a plant.
Brazil’s Woman Flyer,
Miss Ada Rogato,
Enroute Fairbanks
PORTLAND, Ore., (^—Brazil’s
famed woman flier, Miss Ada Ro
gato, 26, of Sao Paulo, was here
Saturday on a flight to Fairbanks,
Alaska.
Miss Rogato, who holds Brazil’s
unlimited parachute jumping title,
was flying a single engine Cessna
140, presented to her by the Braz- •
ilian government. She started from
Oakland, Calif., yesterday.
She was to stop at Seattle and
Vancouver, B.C., before heading
for Fairbanks. She was worried
whether she would be permitted
to fly into Alaska as she was told
the Territory requires two-way
radio, which she doesn’t have.
Miss Rogato, first woman to
fly across the Andes in a light
plane, left Sao Paulo April 5, flew
to Rio De Janeiro, across South
America to the west coast and up
Mexico to Oakland.
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