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President Ends
Vacation In South
KEY WEST, Fla. </P>—President
Truman let it be known Saturday
through one of his closest associ
ates that he believes his adminis
tration can avert another depres
sion.
Representative Sam Rayburn,
speaker-to-be of the House, laid
the administration position on the
line here before flying back to
Texas and a specking engagement
a. Dallas.
“If a major recession or depres
sion should come—which I do not
expect—it will not be justified by
our economic situation, but will be
man-made,” Rayburn told a news
conference after emerging from
talks with the President at the
temporary “Whitehouse” here.
This jibed wi h Mr. Truman’s
position in campaign talks in
which he contended another de
pression could be avoided only by
democratic victory because of his 1
party’s position that the GOP j
would look after the rich and not i
all classes of the economy.
Mr. Truman’s vacation drew to a
close Saturday. He se out for the '1
beach again for a swim and a sun- j
bath—his daily routine since his
a. r;val two weeks ago.
He flew back to Washington
yesterday for a heavy schedule of
conferences highlighted oy his
meeting today with secretary of
state Marshall and roving ECA
amoassador Harriman. Tney will
review the threats to peace in Eu
rope, China and elsewhere.
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Alaska Mayors
Make Resolutions i
At Convention
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SITKA, (yp)—The two-day con
vention of Southeastern Alaska
mayors, ended here Saturday with
the selection of Ke chikan for next
year’s convention city and the
adoption of six resolutions. *
Mayors and city clerks of Jun
eau, Ketchikan, Peter, burg, Doug
las, Wrangell, and Hoonah attend
ed the sessions.
The resolutions urged the next
Territorial legislature to pass the
following legislation:
1. Enabling municipalities to
levy a sales tax.
2. Permitting municipalities to
levy property taxes on land and
improvements outside the munici
palities to levy property taxes on
land and improvements outside the
municipal boundaries.
3. Amending the fuel tax to pro
vide that monies collected be spent
in approximately the same areas
and in the same proportion as col
lected.
5. Reques'ing a review of the
mercantile tax law to improve col
lection and enforcement.
6. Requesting consideration of a
tax on fresh and frozen fish in the
revised mercantile tax on the same
basis as on canned or mild cured
fish.
FIND HOMES FOR
DRAKE CHILDREN
Temporary homes have been
found for the two children of Earl
Drake, former cook at the North
Pole Bakery, who died suddenly
last month. Tommy is being carer!
for by Sgt. and Mrs. Sam Widner,
i and Gladys by Mr. and Mrs. Lester
' Bronson.
Their mother is in the sanatori- '
um receiving treatment for tuber- |
culosis.
New York became a city of
2,000.000 telephones in 1045.
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Navy To Play
Santa Claus
SEATTLE, (&)—'The navy will
carry Chris mas presents and sup
plies to the threshold of Santa
Claus” own domain when the at
tack cargo vessel Sussex sails to
morrow for Kodiak.
The vessel, commanded by Lt.
Cmdr. Edward F. Carl, with Lt.
Dayton A. Smith as cargo officer,
will carry Christmas presents and
supplies for naval personnel in Ko
diak. John Fagin, chief hospital
man, will perform as San"a Claus
when the vessel arrives about De
cember 1.
The Sussex already has made
one Christmas ship voyage north,
carrying presents and supplies to
naval installations in the Aleu
tians.
Nat’l Grange For
Oleo Tax Repeal
PORTLAND, Me. (/P) — The na
tional grange concluded its nation
al convention Saturday after with
drawing support of oleomargarine
‘axes and endorsing compulsory
Suchow “Victory”;
Fighting Continues
NANKING, (/P)—Although gov
ernment dispatches claim that the
ba'tle of Suchow is considered
closed and a “complete victory ’
for nationalist forces, it is eviden!
that fighting is still in progress.
In fact the battle apparently is
continuing on all flanks of the
nor hern Kiangsu bastion and the
, decisive action may be yet to be
fought.
Gen. Ho Ying-Chin. national de
fense minister, reporting to the ex
ecutive Yuan ‘legislature*, said
stiff fighting still in continuing in
the vicinity of Nienchuang, 33
miles east of Suchow, where a ma
tes shm /{tuaaej oojoj pa>j jof
back. Ho said that government
troops south of Suchow, on tht
line to Nanking, will be reinforced.
arbitration of strikes that menace
public welfare.
The farm organization's policy
molders voted after two hours de
bate Friday night to supr>o»**
garine tax repeal “if and when ef
fective means are taken to prevent
deception in its sale in imitation
of butter.’’
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