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Truman Appoints
Western Men To
Responsible Jobs
WASHINGTON, June 8—</P»—
President Truman called on World
War II four star General Bradley
to look after the affairs of the
veterans of all wars. By so doing
he accented once more his inclina
f tion to pick Westerners for key
jobs in the administraiton.
Bradley, 52, commander of the
mammoth Twelfth Army group in
Europe is from Moberly, Mo. He
succeeded Brig. Gen. Frank Hines
who is resigning to take another
but undisclosed post offered to
him by the President.
The West and Mid-West retain
ed their share of other Presiden
tial appointments made public
yesterday in another of President
Truman’s “hot copy” news con
ferences. They included John B.
Hutson, Kentucky, as Undersec
► retary of Agriculture; W. Stuart
Symington St. Louis, as Chairman
of the Surplus Property Board.
Hutson, now assistant to Wan
Mobilizer Vinson, has been named
to succeed Grover Hill, Texas,
*■ who resigned. Symington is presi- j
dent of the Emerson Elegoric |
Company to succeed former Sena
tor Gillette, who has been asked
to step out July 15.
President Truman also named
Paul Herzog, 38, naval lieutenant,
as new chairman of the National
Labor Relations Board. CIO Pres
ident Murray would not comment
* on the appointment. Green, head
of the AFL said “I’m very hopeful
it will be an improvement over
what has been.” Retiring chair
man Harry Millis, 70, said he was
► leaving because of ill health.
Gen. Patton Hopes
He Is On Way To
Fight Japs
BOSTON, June 8—<£■)—General
Patton is hoping he is on his way!
to “fight the Japanese.” He flew
k from Bedford airport to Los An
*geles. Taking off before almost a
million people who gave his a he
ro’s welcome yesterday as they
left homes and work.
EN ROUTE TO IE SHIMA — 77th division troop.; crowd the top deck of a Coast Guard
manned LST moving in toward Ic S- ' ; land oiT the c—* of Okinawa.
Meat Producer
Must Stop If Army
Takes 55 Percent
FAIRBANKS, June 8 — (/P) —
Waechter Brothers, major meat
source for Interior Alaska must
soon close its stores unless exemp
ted from the regulation setting
aside fifty-five percent of its meat
for military use.
Henry Waechter explained his
firm is not a packing business and
the cost of producing beef on his
Yakina ranch and paying the
packer prohibits selling over half
his meat at the government’s ceil
ing price.
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DENVER—{/P)—Lend-lease has
requested 6,000,000 pounds of
white peas this summer for Great
Britain. Samples of Colorado peas
have been submitted to the Brit
ish and were approved. j
The general was accompanied j
by Mrs. Patton. Patton said it was
hard for him to talk about the
Third Army, “because when I
start out on the Third Army I get
incoherent.”
Paratroopers
Reach Valley Of
Shangri La
HOLLANDIA, Dutch New Gui
nea, June 5 (Delayed)—(JP)— A
wartime air tragedy has been un
locked in dramatic fashion in the
mysterious “hidden valley of
Shangri La.”
Paratroopers, the first men of
the outside world to invade the
isolated home of the six-foot
spear-wielding tribesmen, are
building a glider field in the val
ley, one hundred fifty miles south
west of Hollandia to rescue 30
year old WAC and two army air
men.
A dispatch today, June 8, from
Associated Press correspondent
Degn Schedler, said the rescue
still has not been effected but the
survivors are “safe and living
comfortably.” The trio are the
Bond Sales
Nome Quota .$45,000
May Sales . 6,225
June Sales (to 7th). 1,200 |
only survivors among the twenty
four army personnel on a trans
port plane which crashed in a four
by twenty-five mile jungle-sur
rounded valley and orange moun
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 8—(^>
—The small nation acceptance of
the Big Five veto voting formula
for the world security council ap
peared certain. The successful end
of the United Nations conference
is in sight with Russia’s dramatic
acceptance of the statement
that the big power veto couldn’t
be used to block discussion of any
case presented to the council
broke the week-long dadlock late
yesterday and put the conference
over the hill.
Ten days to two weeks more
committee work and speech mak
ing remain to get the United Na
tions charter in final shape for
signing, but no more major issues
are on the horizon.
It took the combined efforts of
Harry Hopkins, then in Moscow,
and Stettinius who acted for Tru
man to get the approval to end the
deadlock. Hopkins on instruction
from Stettinius asked Stalin to re
consider the Soviet insistence that
any of the Big Five could veto
even discussion in a peace en
forcement council of international
dispute. The other four major
powers didn’t want a single veto
to be able to block roundtable
talk. Stalin reversed the Soviet
position. Acting accordingly his
spokesman here, in interest of
unanimity speeded the conference
toward a success.
Lucky Icc Pool Winners? Oh Yeah!
Poor After Uncle Sam Gets Through
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ANCHORAGE, June 8 — (tf*) —
Tom Ringen and Rita Harding of
Anchorage received $105,000 from
Nenana, representing the prize in
the Alaska great ice classic. They
were very happy, but here’s what
happened; they visited the intern
al revenue collectro, who whacked
of $60,642 income tax, leaving
thm only $44,358 to share be
tween them.
Actually here is how it worked
for each of them. First they split
the hundred five thousand so each
of them had fifty-two thousand
five hundred dollars.
When they said hello to Uncle
Sam, after ringen added his other
income for the first five months of
the year, his personal income tax
totalled 31,152. He came out with
only $21,348.
Miss Harding’s tax was $29,429.
She came out with $23,010. Imme
diately after this official visit
with Uncle Sam the two felt hard
up.
Ringen said: *'I don’t know if I
can afford to go to Norway. He
had planned a visit to his mother
to help restore property lost to
the Nazis.” Maybe I had better just
send her some money,” Ringen
concluded.
Meanwhile Miss Harding said
she could still buy “a few acres”
for her mother who resides in
Oakland.
To top it all off Ringen discov
ered that the income tax law vir
tually forbids him from working
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