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being discharged to bring the
army down to its projected
strength of 1,070,000 by July 1.
The war department later an
nounced details.
All commanders in this country
and overseas, the department said,
have been ordered to start release
of eligible men.
The army’s strength on Feb. 14
was 1,126,422.
The department’s schedule calls
for the discharge of all eligible
men in the United States by May
15.
Overseas commanders were
given an additional two months to
make the releases because of ship
ping and other problems. They
must, however, return eligible men
to this country for completion of
terminal leave and discharge not
later than June 30.
Exceptions will be made in cases
of men awaiting trial or held as a
result of trial; those held on cer
tificates of disability; or those who
voluntarily submit to further med
ical care. They may be retained
beyond the deadlines set for oth
ers.
ROBERT TRAVIS CELEBRATES
NINTH BIRTHDAY
Robert Travis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Don Travis of the Alaska Air
lines celebrated his ninth birthday
with a theater party last Friday
evening for his young friends.
Rep. DirskenScoffs
At Rehabilitation
WASHINGTON </P»—Rep. Dirk
sen <R.-Ill.># declared today an
“economic heresy persists that we
can rehabilitate the world.”
"It is the arithmetic of folly to
suppose," he declared, during a
House foreign affairs and spending
debate, "that 60,000,000 American'
producers can carry the burdens
of the whole world.
“Certainly we can suppyl some
food and medicine to alleviate
hunger and suffering. But the
economic heresy persists that wc
can rehabilitate the world.”
Rep. Morrow (R.-N.H.) referred
to Greece as “the only hope of
Democracy in the Balkan area.’
But Rej. Hoffman <H.-Michd, cau
tioned that America should devote
more .attention to its domestic
business.
“The next thing,”* Hoffman add
ed, "United States youths will be
sent abroad to settle these troubles
in Greece, the Balkans and
China.”
Rep. Buffett <R.-Nebd told the
House a proposed loan to Greece
raises a question whether the
United States “is continuing to
play into the hands of Stalin”
through economic commitments.
HITTING* THE HOT SPOTS
NEW YORK, UP)—Anyone lost
a pink-eyed albino frog?
A motorist found one on Broad
way last night. He gave it to po
lice who turned it over to the
S.P.C.A.
THE FIXIT SHOP
DIVISION AND FIRST AVENUES
Call Main 115
J. E. McAlee
WE HAVE
Gold Filled Framed
R AY B A N and
WILLSONITE
SUN and SNOW
GLASSES
also
NEW INDIVIDUAL GIFTS
* and
INEXPENSIVE LADIES WATCHES
at
THE NEW REMODELED
POLAR CURIO
SHOP
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
i
U'ontimieri trnm Pag? One'
T ie bill t i aboli.h he Develop-'
ment Board failed to pass t ie
House late Friday by a vote of 11 •
to 13. bu. final action was post
poned until Saturday when Rep
Robe't Hoopes 'D.-4th' gave no
tice he intended to ask for recon
sideration.
Sundoorg again on the stand ad-,
mi Re 1 his salary wa.-> $12,000 per
year, and told of what the board
had accomplished. Johnson said
the recent report was entirely in
generalities. Rep. Steve D. Mc
C utcheon »D.-3rd> read a long list i
of organizations supporting the
board. Rep. Harry E. Newell* D.
!st>, declared the approval of the
organizations was not by the full
membership. Rep. Gerrit Snider
<R.-3rd> said the money was
needed for schools and hospitals
and said he hoped Sunborg would
accept the job which he said had
been offered him.
JUNEAU, Mar. 1, (A3)—'The re
peal of the Alaska Development
Board lost by 12 to 12 vote taken
i in the House Saturday forenoon.
What may prove to be a de
bated measure was introduced by
Sen. E. B. Collins <R.-4th) and Sen.
O. D. Cochran <D.-2nd>, providing
for a referendum at the next gen
eral election on whether to pro
hibit the closed shop in Alaska.
Tne Senate passed the bill for
the erection of a pioneer statue at
S.tka, also a memorial urging the
federal government to take imme
diate legislation for the research
and enforcement of the fishing in
dustry; Also a memorial urging
the development of agriculture in
the Second Division.
It defeated a bill for a railroad
from Prince George to to Interior,
then to Fairbanks'and to Nome.
New bills in the House: Rep.
Mrs. Elton Engstrom* R.-lst» ask
ing for fifty per cent of the federal
income tax collected from Alaska
be returned to the Territory until
such t.me as it becomes a State.
By Rep. Robert Hoopes <D.-4lh'
a request that the office of the
governor be declared vacant, Wal
ker be named to fill.
By Rep. C. A. Pollard (3rd* to
provide a tax on coin operated
amusement and gaming devices.
Laid on the table: to buy medals
for Alaska Guard.
Passed: memorial asking Con-,
gress to extend social security ben
efits to Territorial municipal em
ployees.
Passed bill to provide beer and
wine license fees at $200, and bond
of $1,000.
Passed bill to set up procedure
for the collection of wage claims
through the commissioner of labor.
JUNEAU, Mar. 3, (JP)—The Sen
ate passes a bill increasing the mo
tor fuel tax from one to two cents
per gallon. The original bill was
for an increase to three cents.
A bill introduced in the House
for a referendum on the Alaska
Development Hoard, also miking
an appropriation of $80,000 for the
board.
EAST LONDON, South Africa.
(/P)—Princess Elizabeth opened to
day a new $10,000,000 dry dock
bearing her name. It was the first
official act in South Africa of the
heiress-apparent to the British
throne, visiting this youngest do
minion with her parents and sis
ter. The dry dock marked an im
portant development of a strategic
base in East London, the Union’s
only river port.
Washington Kettle
Simmers On
Domestic Issues
'Continued F;om Page one
gress for the welfare of the na
tion, the lawmakers said there hud
been a “desultory f>ut eongen.ul"
conference on the s*atc of the
Union. Everything of a contro\er
sial nature was avoide 1 a. the fir^t
meeting on January 1G, those who
attended reported.
Mr. Truman left Washington
Sunday for Mexico and later a
Caribbean cruise and may be away
when Congressional committees
have completed dralt.ng lauor u.s
pute.s bills. Most legislators think
these bills will offer the first big
test on cooperation.
'Chairman Taft <R.-Ohio> of the
Senate labor committee already
has said he wants to meet with the
President when a bill is ready to
determine whether Mr. Truman
has any specific objections.
If the President and top GOP
Congress members reach any gen
eral agreement, it would be hailed
as a demonstration that the two
branches can work together de
spite their control by opposite
parties.
The feeling in Congress, how
ever, is that the possibility of any
such agreement is slim because
Democratic party leaders gener
ally are regarded as courting the
organized labor vote for the 1948
Presidential campaign. Union lead
ers have opposed virtually all of
the major suggestions thus far
made for changes in the laws.
On another important front—
government spending—neither the
President nor Congress has offered
any of the kind of cooperation Mr.
Truman said he was talking about
before Congress met.
Strike Leader Is
Badly Beaten
j
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (TP) —
Sheriff’s officers reported early to
day that movie strike leader Her
bert K. Sorrell, president of the
conference of studio unions, had
been found badly beaten and
bound hand and foot on a high
way.
Kern county sheriff’s deputies,
said Sorrell told them he was kid
naped Sunday night on a treet in
San Farnando by three men in a
black sedan. All three, officers
quoted him, were armed, ‘ and one
ot them wore a police onirer’s uni
form and a los Angeles police of
ficer’s badge.
Sorrell told the authorities he
was handcuffed, bound witn tope,
and driven to a spot 90 miles north
and east of Bakersfield, then
thrown out as his assailants drove
on.
In Los Angeles, Mrs. Frieda Sor
rel said her husband told her he
was expecting a visit from rome
men with whom he planned to
transact some business.
Sorrel, was taken to Ridgecrest
Hospital where hospital attendants
said he had a gash in his head,
that his jaw was swollen, and that
he had been placed unde * a seda
t ve. They said x-rays would be
taken today to determine the lull
entent of his injuries.
TOKYO (TP)—Japanese whalers,
operating in the Antarctic for the
first time since the end of the war,
have realized more than 37,000
tons of meat, oil and by-products,
reports received by Allied head
quarters’ natural resources section
said today.
One of the tw’o fleets is en route
home after catching 486 whales.
The second fleet will sail foi Japan
March 15.
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