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THE Communist hammer and
sickle provides the theme Wr
upon which the French artist, '
Maximilian Brandel, bases hie
caricatures of Soviet leaders.
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Carriers Must File
Quarterly Reports
WASHINGTON. ,/P)—1The civ;
aerontuaics board Wedne da;
gave 39 non-scheduled air carri
ers ten days to file quarterly op
erational reports or face suspen
sion.
The non-scheduled operator
are those holding temporary per
mits pending formal determina
tion by the board of their status
The suspension order, to becorm
effective Feb. 13, unless the re
ports are filed, includes these op
erators: Aviation Corporation o
MRS. RICHARD WEBB TAKES
YOUNG DICK TO PORTLAND
Mrs. Richard Webb and tw<
children left for Portland foi
about a month where young Diet
will receive medical attention foi
his eyes.
Seattle, Seattle Wash.; Golden
North Airways, Inc., Fairbanks:
Northern Airlines ,Inc. Seattle:
Pearson-Alaska Inc., Anchorage
Seattle Air Charter, Seattle; Sour
dough Air Transport, Fairbanks:
Totem Air Service, Inc., Seattle:
and Trans-Alaskan Airlines. Inc.
f Anchorage.
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Giant Flattops
Planned for Navy
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — Planes
big enough to carry atomic bombs
may be able to operate from a
giant new American aircraft car
i rier.
The proposed addition of a 60,
000-80,000-ton mammoth flattop
and eight other experimental war
craft to the nation’s arsenal of
new weapons was first hinted at a
month ago by President Truman,
The President proposed in his
budget message to Congress that
$230,000,000 which would have
gone into ships now on the ways
be used instead to build fighting
craft of “advanced design.”
The projected new vessel will
be of the flush-deck type. That is,
the "Island” superstructure famil
iar on all other American carriers
will be missing. This island, jut
ting out arhwart the flight deck
has placed a limit on the wing
span of planes which could take
off and land.
In addition to the new carrier,
Sullivan said the navy intends, ii
Congress approves, to:
Build four submarines capable
of high speed while submerged
and presumably equipped with
German-developed features enab
ling them to remain under watei
for long periods.
. Build a new “hunter-killer” ship
of destroyer-like speed but largoi
and outfitted with improved de
tection gear to locate enemy sub
i marines.
Convert a 27,000-ton Essex clas:
, carrier and two submarines. Wha
I that modernization would includt
( Sullivan did not say.
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End Of Indias
Salt Tax Fails
To Help Poor
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I/P) Newsfeatures
NEW DELHI—Abolition of the
tax on salt, an impost by the for
mer British rulers of India which
this country's patriots fought as a
badge of servitude, has brought
little benefit to the poor m;m, to
whom availability of salt means
life itself.
Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerji.
minister of industry and supply,
told the constituent assembly that
salt production remains 10 per
. cent below the country’s needs,
and the price actually has risen
in some areas since the heavy tax
was removed.
Although partiots sacrificed
| their lives and endured imprison
i ment to fight the salt tax as an
I injustice especially to the poor,
; Mookerji said “in areas where
! supplies are deficient the benefits
of the abolition of the salt tax
have gone solely to the producers
and middlemen.”
The tax represented two thirds
of the retail purchase price, and
its abolition was one of the first
actions of the free Indian govern
ment.
Large quantities of salt must be
eaten by the people to compen
sate for the loss of bodily salt in
India’s heat, and it is an import
ant item in the poor man’s food
budget.
The salt tax was a heritage from
rule by the old East India Com
pany, whose ships arriving in In
dia carried salt as ballast, sold it
to the people who were forbidden
to manufacture their own.
Salt manufacture later became
a British-Indian government mo
nopoly, and people including Ma
hatma Gandhi were imprisoned
for evaporating sea water to ob
tain tax free salt.
Pi •ices Falling On
Grain Market
NEW YORK, f/P/ — Prices of
most grains extended their slide
downward today, but at a slower
pace. At the same time the stock
market showed signs af regaining
its balance.
Opening prices on the exchang
es were little help in answering
whether this week’s precipitate
drop in commodity and stock
prices was a temporary correction
or a permanent change in trend.
But wheat failed for the first
time in three days to drop the al
lowable daily limit at the opening
of the Chicago board of trade. And
September and December oats
contracts even managed slight ad
vances.
Corn again hit its limit decline.
Stocks were no worse than
mixed on New York’s exchange
after losing around $1,500,000,000
in market value in two days.
The commodity markets were
closely watched by those seeking
to determine if the upward spiral
in the cost of living might be at
an end.
i BASKETBALL GAMES
THIS WEEK-END
An exhibition basketball gamt
is scheduled for Saturday evening
i at the base gymnasium with the
321st Air Service group of An
jehorage playing against the Norm
Air Base Fliers.
On Sunday the 375th Weathei
Recon. squadoon of Ladd Fielc
is scheduled to play the Nome An
i Base Fliers.
There is also the possibility m
an Anchorage team coming ol
play the U. S. Mercantile team on
Sunday although no definite an
nouncement has been made.
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CHESTER MILLIGAN ON
TRIP TO KOTZEBUE
Chester Milligan made a busi
ness trip to Kotzebue with V'ien
Airlines yesterday.
Bridges Is A.
Communist Says
Wife At Hearing
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the ground that ‘Hell hath no fury
like a woman scorned,’ he said.”>i
Asked by committee counsel
William Houston if Bridges ever
had told her he was a member of]
the Communist party, Mrs.)
Bridges replied:
“On many occasions.”
“Did they ever hold meetings in 3
your home?”
“Yes, . . . sometimes once a 1
week, sometimes twice,” she re-'
plied. 3
Mrs. Bridges testified that party3
application blanks were kept in'
their bedroom, and that Bridges'
told her to stay in another room
during the meetings.
As Mrs. Bridges took the stand,_
committee chairman Albert Can-«
well announced that during her
testimony the hearing room doors
would be locked and no one per
mitted to enter or leave the room
until she had been safely escorted
from the armony afterwards.
Testimony of Mrs. Bridges came*
as a surprise climax to the hear-"
ing after it was apparently ready
to conclude with the reading of a
52-page statement into the record
; by committee investigator Ernesl
i P. Smith.
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