Movie Morals
W ill e Aired
WASHINGTON, (A*)—The Sen
ate commerce committee set the
stage today for a mid-April airing
of Hollywood filmland morals. Its
angry chairman, Edwin C. John
son <D.-Colo.\ was in the direc
tor’s chair.
Johnson, who erupted in the
Senate yesterday about the Ingrid
Bargman-Roberto Rossellini ro
mance, told a reporter the motion
picture industry is going to be
called on the carpet to explain
why the morals of some of its
stars aren’t better.
“I’m not a prude or a Puritan,
Johnson said. “But it seems to me
the industry is getting to the point
where all an actor has to do is
get arrested for something or get
messed up in some immoral affair
and stardom is guaranteed.”
The motion picture producers
association fired back in a state
ment saying that Hollvood has no
more than its share of people who
violate the moral code. It said
further that Johnson’s proposed
method of attacking the situation
would menace American freedoms
and was “a police state bill.”
Johnson proposed crack-down
legislation under which every
American actor and produ c e r
would have to be licensed by a
commerce department bureau and
a $10,000 permit obtained for in
terstate shipment of every motion
picture.
Actors and producers could be
denied licenses if they had been
convicted on morals charges or ad
mittetd acts “constituting the es
sential elements of a crime involv
ing moral turpitude.”
U. S. Warships To |
Visit Inclo-dhina
SAIGON, Indocina, (/P) — War
1 ships and carrier planes of the U.
; S. Seventh Fleet will visit Indo
China tomorrow. This is consid
| ered a declaration of American
interest in Southeast Asia and a
gesture of support for the new
1 French-supported state of Viet
j nam.
American official quarters said
1 this naval demonstration will
serve a warning to Russia and
communist China of the United
States concern over the future of
Southeast Asia, and will ease
somewhat Vietnamese concern
over the presence of Chinese com
munist armies on Vietnam’s north
ern frontier.
The naval visit is intended to
bolster the “face” of Bao Dai’s
Vietnamese government in its
| struggle to attract Nationalist sup
' porters away from the communist
led Vietnam forces.
An American mission to survey
the economic needs of Southeast
Asia which arrived here on March
I sixth also worked in this direc
tion. The mission, headed by R. A.
Griffin, California publisher,
plans to telegraph its recommen
dations on OIndo-China to Wash
ington tomorrow.
The two American destroyers
Stickwell and Anderson were
slated to enter the mouth of Sai
i gon River adjacent Cap Saint
Jacques early tomorrow morning.
The aircraft carrier Boxer will
remain about 60 miles off Cap
| Saint Jacques with its two de
stroyer escorts Buck and Thoma
j son and will put on air chows to
morrow adn Friday.
NORTHERN GRILL
at Scotty’s
Come Eat, Drink
and Have Your Fill !
Just Two Weeks More of Alaskagrams
ALASKAGRAM Ao. 63
CLUE: You may sew up the contest if you can lo
cate this cannery community in the Third
Division.
Sews Khaki ..
(Place) (Extra Letter)
Your Name.
P. O. Box.Town.
SAVE THIS PUZZLE AND SUBMIT IT WITH THE
WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGRAM5 61 TO 66
ALASKAGRAM No. 64
CLUE: If Kemcy is a contestant and knows this
island settlement, he’s doing all right.
R U OK, Kemcy? —....
(Place* (Extra Letter)
Your Name.
P. O. Box.Town.
SAVE THIS PUZZLE AND SUBMIT IT WITH THE
WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGRAMS 61 TO 66
U. S. Promises
“Limited Aid** To
Asiatie Countries
(Continued from Page One'
which the charter was designed
to preserve.”
Jn a major foreign policy speech
prepared for San Francisco’s Com
monwealth Club, Acheson also:
1. Declared the United States
stands ready to trade with China
on a fair basis but not to sell the
Chinese “goods which may be
used to harm us.”
2. Accused Russia of shipping
food from China to the Soviet Un
ion at a time when 40,000,000 Chi
nese face possible starvation; also
accused Russia of having robbed
Manchuria of industrial equip
ment with $2,000,000,000 worth of
productive capacity in 1945.
3. Described the new Soviet
$300,000,000 five year program of
aid to China as falling far short
of “China’s real needs and de
sires.”
4. Said the major threat to free
dom and progress throughout Asia
today is “the attempted penetra
tion of Asia by Soviet-commun
i ist imperialism and by the colon
ialism which it contains..”
Kcp. (iore Stales
(i. S. A. Program
“Most Impractical”
^Continued from Page one)
Fairbanks has voted and sold $4,
, 500,000 in bonds right now and
they have the cash money ready
to go.”
The law which set up the Alas
ka Community Facilities program
contemplated total expenditure of
$70,000,000, of which the recipi
ents must repay 50 per cent.
Rep. Gore (D.-Tenn.- called at
tention to the Fairbanks pro
gram, with its building costs of
$9,425,000 and the data saying the
1940 population was 8,500.
“That is more than $1,000 for
every man, woman and child,”
Gore said. ‘‘If you expect this
| committee to approve anything
likt that, I think you have another
thought coming.”
GSA officials explained that
this was the general overall pro
gram which Fairbanks has under
consideration.
Gore continued his criticism of
the proposals for community facil
ities for other towns, including
Homer, which was listed as hav
ing a population of 25 in 1940.
The program calls for $270,000
for Homer for sewer and water fa
cilities and a boat harbor.
“I want to register my protest
against a program that is so im
practical and unreasonable as
that,” Gore said.
Seward replied that Homer is
a fishing village and that the pro
posed harbor “is the most import
ant thing to that community.”
He told Gore that the program
“is what the people think they
need” and “there has been no ap
proval by the administrator or any
one else.”
Jess Larson, general services
administrator, told the committee
the program was presented “for
the purpose of informing the com
mittee as to the type of projects
and estimated costs, among which
certain ones will be no doubt ap
proved if they meet the standards
we have set up.”
Gore insisted on inserting in the
record details of programs sug
gested by 29 public bodies in
Alaska, calling it the “most im
practical program I have seen
suggested to this committee.”
Tax In formers
Gel La rtf e Sum
n
(By Charles Molny)
WASHINGTON, (A*) — The gov
ernment trained its guns today on
tax dodgers — past and future
alike—as it came up to the 1949;
income tax payment deadline at
midnight tonight.
To get help in bringing to light
new evasion attempts, it dangled
before prospective tax informers
a $500,000 pool of funds available
this year for evidence uncovering
tax frauds.
To mop up on cases involving
income amassed in the big war
profit year of 1943, it asked grand i
juries over the country’ to rush j
indictments today lest the law’s (
time-lapse limits bar further ac- (
tion. An indictment, or some other
form of action such as the filing
of a bill of complaint, has to be in
the record by midnight to get
within the time limit as to 1943
returns.
As for informers, they will have
a chance to ring up a record haul
this year for the third year in a
row.
There are more than 40,000,000
persons subject to the federal in
come tax. How many will try to
cut corners is just a guess.
Last year was a big year for in
formers—and the government.
The government paid out $449,
984 to 97 informers, in rewards
ranging from $25.86 to $47,072, for
aid that led to the recovery of
$8,187,914 in taxes that otherwise
would have escaped detection.
That completely overshadowed
the previous record tallied in 1948,
when informer rewards totaled
$99,975 and led to recoveries to
taling $2,351,000.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
BRIDAL SHOWER FOR
MISS LOUELLA EOCHE
Peggy Whitmore and M;a.> An
derson were co-hostesses tit a
bridal shower last Monday after
noon for Lou ila Boche whose en
gagement to Robert Oliver was
announced r< (fitly.
The party was given in the Ber
ing Sea Club which was decorated
in spring colors of green and yel
low with a large group of friends
in attendance. Assisting the hos
tesses were San Losee, Grace Her
man and Margaret Owens.
Two beautiful cakes were made
for the occasion and decorated
with figurin' s of bride and groom
and bridesm id and best man.
Louella Boche was the recipient
of many lovely gifts.
Margaret Steinwandel was the
winner of a clever guessing game
which was enjoyed by the guests.
NEWS IN UK I El
(Continu *d from Fage One
ccutors went to work vcstt relay
on a stack of indictments accusing
34 persons and nine firms of
cheating th government out of
more than two million in wartime
income tax*
A special federal gl and jury re -
turned 23 indictments Monday—
almost on the eve of today’s dead
line for payment of 1949 income
taxes. More indictments were ex
pected.
The defi ndants allegedly failed
to report income totalling an es
timated $2,319,081 between the
years 1942 and 1946, thereby de
frauding the government of $2,
032,649 in taxes.
The individuals, most of them
f New York business men in the
high income brackets were sched
uled for arraignment today.
N.GCO. Spring
CLEAN-UP
SALE
Ladies Lingerie
Sp ecially Priced
.25 to 1.00
— INCLUDES —
RAYON GOWNS - HR AS
GARTER BELTS
SHORT GIRDLES
Etc. - Etc. • E?c.
FOR WOMEN ONLY
MEN NEED NOT APPLY