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NEWS IN BRIEF
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MIAMI, Flu. </P>—Joe Walcott
had an eye cocked, today toward
Joe Louis and the world heavy-.
weight boxing crown. Tne veteran
Jersey puncher scored a 10-round
decision over Elmer 'Violet' Ray
last night in the first all-Negro
fight card ever held in the Orange
Bowl. A crowd of 8,077 saw the
Jersey jolter knock Ray down in
the first, third and fourth rounds1
and successfully shoulder aside a
last-round flurry by the Hastings,
Fla., slugger.
CARACAS, Venezuela, l/Pj—The
New York Yankees spotted the
Brooklyn Dodgers four runs in
three innings last night and then
swarmed all over the bases to
chalk up a 17-6 triumph in an ex-,
hibition baseball game. Playing
before 10,000 fans, the Yanks
staged their heaviest offensive of
the spring training season with
pitchers Rex Barney, John Van
Cuyk and Erving Palica of the
Brooks taking the pounding.
NEW YORK, (/P)—Business as
usual was resumed today in quiet,,
orderly dealings on the New York
cotton exchange, reopened after a
one-day strike of clerical workers.
Exchange officials and Local 205
of the office employees interna
tional union <AFL> reached a wage
agreement shortly before midnight
boosting weekly salaries S6 to S25
and giving clerical workers a
bonus when daily trading exceeds
250,000 bales.
DETROIT, (/P)—The ordeal of
being in the public eye was too
much for Nakomis, a sensitive ser
pent owned by an Indian woman.
Mrs. Matilda Milton, who was
charged by Detroit police with dis
turbing the peace when she tried,
to take six-foot Nakomis shopping
recently, said today that her pet
king snake went into a decline af
ter upsetting court appearances;
and die. “Strangers staring at her,1
camera bulbs flashing in her face,
made her a different snake in one
day’s time,” Mrs. Milton said. Na
komis will be buried in “the good
soil of her birth, Toledo,” her
owner concluded.
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OTTAWA, (/P)—Israel Halperin,
former Queen’s university mathe
matics professor, was acquitted
yesterday of charges of conspiring,
to communicate confidential in
formation to Russia. Halperin, 36,
was the 17th defendant to stand
trial since the espionage probe was
started here a year ago. So far 7
defendants have been acquitted, 10
have been sentenced. Two have
vanished and one—Dr# Raymond
Boyer of McGill university—is
awaiting trial.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (/Pi
President Hugh Bryson of the CIO
marine cooks and stewards said to
day a six per cent wage advance
awarded by Paul Kleinsorge, west
coast arbitrator, was “only a token
increase.” The boost also was
awarded to the American Com
munications association and the in
dependent marine firemen’s union.
The unions had asked a 25 per
cent increase.
Cl POPCORN FEAST — American soldiers enjoy a feast of piping-hot popcorn at the
American Red Cross club in Mulhouse. France. The chief corn popper, Red Cross worker Jane Shaw
from Indianapolis, Ind., dishes it out to (I. to r.): C'pl. Fred B. Isral, Indianapolis; CpI. Oliver R. Dodd,
Winchester, Ind., and Sgt. Eswin Drury, Cincinnati, O.
Seeing The
Legislature From
The Gallery
(By Mildred Hermann)
Three new tax measures, repre
senting in the aggregate an excel
lent financial program for the Ter
ritory were introduced today under
the authorship of Senators Victor
Rivers and Norman R. Walker.
Rivers is chairman of the taxation
committee in the Senate and Wal
ker is member cl the same com
mittee.
This is the first concrete attempt
made ai thi.> session to evolve a
program, that would meet all the
Territory's needs. The three mea
sures cover a property tax, a net
income tax and a uniform trade li
cense act. These three measures
would raise an estimated revenue
of S4,300,000 in the next biennium.
Rivers issued the following
statement coincident with the in
troduction of the bills:
“If the Territory is to fulfill its
obligations within the next bienni
um additional revenues must be
raised. Costs of schools, hospitals,
airfields, roads, old age pensions,
teacher salary increases, etc., must
be met. These revenue measures
are general in nature, moderate
and non-discriminatory, and will
spread the tax burden uniformly
qver all in proportion to the wealth
they control and their ability to
pay.
“While there is every indication
that these measures will have
strong opposition by reactionary
obstacle blocks in both the Senate
and the House, I am firmly con
vinced that if such a program does
not pass it will be necessary to call
an extraordinary session before
the next year is out to raise rev
enue to meet the Territori’s press
ing needs.
“All citizens who desire the Ter
ritory to remain solvent and to ful
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Death Foil Rises
In India Riots
LAHORE. India, (A*i—Sikhs and
Hindus fought Moslems in the old
walled section of this capital city
of the Punjab again today and the
two-day death toll mounted to at
least 25.
Troops helped Lai1 ore police,
who fired on the rioters several
times, in efforts to restore order.
Shops were set afire in the Lahore
bullion market. Rioters and the
police were reported to have ex
changed fire in another sector. A
bank in the oid city was reported
unofficially to have been looted.
Hohe secretary A. A. MacDon
ald, said police picked up 12 bod
ies by mid-afternoon, in addition
to the 13 found yesterday.
Master Tara Singh, a Sikh lead
er, appealed to a meeting of 4,000
Sikhs to adhere to non-violence.
“We haven’t got arms for the
moment,” he said. “If the situation
demands it, we will have to change
our tactics.”
The streets were deserted and
shops were closed. Heavy police
patrols moved through the quiet
streets armed with rifles and with
bayonets fixed.
British Navy To Be
Greatly Reduced
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LONDON, (/P)—Britain will re
duce the Royal navy 60 per cent
this year.
The Admiralty announced to
day, in its budget estimates for
1947-48, that the total number of
naval officers, seamen, boys and
royal marines would be reduced
from the 1946-47 maximum of
492,800 to 192,000 during the 12
months beginning April 1.
As a result of the manpower
slash Britain’s annual bill for the
navy will be reduced from $786,
000,000 to $274,400,000.
Radar To Be Used
To Chart Weather
In Arctic Regions
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(3y Ellon C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, (A3)—The unin
habited rim of the Nortu Ameri
can continent, a vast blind spot for
weathermen and military strate
g.sts, soon will be manned by
watchers of the United Slates and
Canada.
The project, officially disclosed
in Ottawa and Washington in
volves the'joint establishment of,
nine new weather stations in Ca
nadian territory.
It is part of the recently an
nounced plan to continue the war
time collaboration of the two na
tions by exchanging information,
personnel and facilities for “peace
time joint security purposes.”
At least two of the new stations
will be in the far north, one on
Ellsmere Island, 600 miles from
the North Pole, another to the,
westward on Melville Island.
These, with the other outposts
in the chain to the southward, will
fill in a blank area between wea
ther stations maintained by the
United States in Alaska and one at
Thule, in Greenland.
The Ellsmere and Melville Is
land stations are expected to be
completed and manned this sum
mer.
Officials of the two governments
confined their public announce
ment yesterday to the advantages!
of improving the weather report
ing system. But strategists noted
the pre-eminent military value of
constantly manned installations
athwart the air routes over the
polar cap.
It was recalled that United
States army and navy weather ex
perts some months ago instituted
a system of using radar for spot
ting and tracking storm areas. Ra
dar’s most common use is in the
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LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, March 4. i/P> — The
House passes the following own
bills: To regulate insurance busi
ness rates; to prohibit felons from
carry ng concealed weapons; to
extend the jurisdiction of the high
way patrol; to transfer the man
agement of the Seldovia hospital
to the council; to amend the com
pensation laws to include boatmen;
House joint memorial to repair
roads, trails and cabins in the Sec
ond Divis on; asking an investiga'
tion of the fishery resources in the
Bering Sea. House memorial ask
ing retention of Bensin as agrono
mist at the University Experiment
Station.
Senate joint memorial asking
Alaskan veterans be given 25 per
cent differential on all benefits re
ceived from the federal govern
ment. Senate joint memorial ask
ing veterans hospitals be desig
nated commitment of insane Alas
ka veterans; Asking construction
of five mile extension of forest
roads to Point Wheathead on Orca
Inlet; asking the government to
aid the airport at Anchorage; urg
ing construction of a crossing for
Turnagin Arm.
Rep. Steve McCutcheon 'D.-3rd>
introduced a bill to provide a 20
per cent tax on the gross amounts
received in raffles, pools or lotter
ies. Also by McCutcheon a bill to
provide a one cent tax for each
ten cents on all admissions, except
those exclusively foi i benefit
of religious, educational or char
itable institutions, societies or or
ganizations.
The Senate in a day ari l night
session, the latter the first of the
present legislature, passed Senate
bills providing for a biennial audit
of Territorial offices, to appropri
ate $20,000.
Repealing the obsolete law of
the establishment and maintenance
of carrier pigeon lofts, also many
bills by Sen. O. D. Cochran (D.
2nd> clarifying present laws.
A Senate joint memorial urging
the appointment of bona fide Alas
kans to federal posts.
That the army rehabilitate por
tions of the Seward peninsula rail
road.
The Senate defeated Sen. Frank.
Peratrovitch's iD.-lst> bill to in
crease the maximum allowance for
assistance to dependent children.
Sen. N. R. Walker’s (D.-lst) to
create a library commission was
indefinitely postponed.
Prospectors aid bill was tabled.
Bill to increase the maximum
benefits for old age assistance.
A Senate joint memorial intro
duced by Sen. Edward D. Coffey,
<D.-3rd> urging a road from Nak
nek to Hot Creek airport; also by
Sen. Coffey, urging the landing
strip at Dillingham be lengthened
and widened at a cost of $20,000.
Memorial by Sen. Frank Perat
rovitch (D.-lst> urging the federal
government to extend Glacier
Highway north from Eagle River
to Skagway.
Three bills introduced in •y a
Alaska Senate this morn"* pools,
Sens. V. C. Rivers (D.-*e finally
R. Walker iD.-lst) 'e amendments
(Continued **nd four rejected.
calls were taken and
.linued on Page Five)