Congress Worked
, Overtime Saturday
WASHINGTON, — (/P) —Tax,
tariff, farm and social security
legislation had Congress working
overtime today in its drive for
adjournment one week from to
night.
The lawmakers want to clear
the decks for final action next
week on a draft bill, a housing
measure and a wide assortment
of odds and ends threatening a
last minute jam that might force
their return after political con
ventions.
The House set aside an un
usual Saturday session to de
bate, and pass if possible, bills
dealing with taxation, farm prices
and social security.
The Senate was expected to
spend all day Saturday debating
a House-passed bill to extend the
reciprocal trade act until June
30, 1949. The administration has
asked a three-year extension of
the tariff law that expires at
■ midnight Saturday.
Another measure facing renew
al deadline in the House would
continue the present farm price
Senate Favors
Interior Approp’ns
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get estimates.
The bill will be considered by
the Senate this week.
The committee provided for
speeding up road construction in
Alaska and rehabilitation of the
Alaska railroad, giving added cash
and added contract authorization.
Included in the contract auth
orizations is $12,000,000 for ac
celerating the program of rehab
ilitation of the Alaska railroad
from a five year to a three year
program. The House allowed $6,
700,000. The committee increased
cash for the railroad from $15,
000,000 to $17,000,000.
For roads, bridges and trails in
Alaska the committee allowed
$10,442,400 cash, increasing the
i House amount by $1,942,000. It
j increased the contract authoriza
i tion for roads from $5,000,000 to
! $13,904,000. In both cases the
Senate committee considered sup
| lemental estimates not considered
; by the House.
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until June 30, 1950.
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Truce Violations \
Charged By Both
Arabs and Jews
CAIRO, — </P) —Charges of
violations by both sides threat
ened to blow up Palestine’s pow
der keg truce Saturday.
The Arab government’s reserve,
the right of quick action in reply
to criminal Zionist attacks,” an
Arab League note to the United
Nations mediator, Count Folke
Bernadotte, warned. An Arab
League representative routed the
mediator out of his bed before
dawn to give him the message.
The Jews also warned that vio
lations would provoke Jewish
counterattacks, and they charged
the truce, now in its second day,
had been broken in several Pal
estine sectors.
Bernadotte and his aides left
Cairo by plane early Saturday
for the Greek island of Rhodes,
by way of Trans-Jordan and Je
rusalem, to begin preparations
for peace talks.
Krug Oks Plan For
Worlds Tallest Dam
WASHINGTON, — (IP) —Plans
for the tallest dam in the world—
a $443,660,000 structure 740 feet
high in the Snake River canyon—
have secretary of the interior
Krug’s official stamp of approval.
Known as the Hell’s Canyon
project, the proposed dam would
be built along the Idaho-Orego.i
border midway between Weiser
and Lewiston, Idaho.
It would be a reservoir 93 miles
long to within 11 miles of Weiser,
and impound 4,400,000 acre feet
of water.
Krug oked the project Friday,
and forwarded the reclamation
bureau’s report on the dam to
the governors of the Pacific North
west states and to state and feder
al agencies.
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Court Injunction
Restrai Strike
Maritime Workers
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Union, said that if an injunction
is directed against the union, the
union will comply. The union has
contended that the injunction
would not apply to Alaska be
cause a competing barge line
would keep the Territory from
being an emergency hardship
area.
Henry Benson, labor commis
sioner for Alaska, left Seattle for
Washington, D.C., after confer
ring with union officials and rep
resentatives of steamship com
panies in separate meetings.
“We didn’t get to first base
while Benson was here,” Gettings
said.
Gettings said the union had
reached an agreement with some
Alaska transportation operators
but was deadlocked with the “big
three” the Alaska Steamship Co.,
Northland Transportation Co., and
Alaska Transportation Company.
Senate Urges
Rail Extension
To Alaska
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negotiations with the Canadian
government.
Magnuson and Butler said the
defense and development of Al
aska justified the building of a
transcontinental railroad to the
Territory.
A similar resolution was intro
duced in the House by Rep. Jones
(R-Wash).
The Bremerton Congressman
said that existing transpartation
must be extended to bring fuller
utilization of the Territory’s min
eral, timber and other resources
so vital to its defense.
‘The defense of Alaska is es
sential to the security of the Unit
ed States,” he said
Alaska ports that would be ef
fected by an I.L.W.U. strike would
be Seward, Juneau, Ketchikan,
Petersburg, Sitka, Wrangell and
Cordova.
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