Russia Purposely
Blocked Ministers
To Defeat Aid Plan
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of State Marshall Saturday hand
ed America the job of helping
western Europe reach the high
level of economic recovery which
he said is probably the only way
to force a lasting peace on hostile
Russia.
In a sober report on the failure
of the London foreign ministers’
conference, Marshall said there is
a direct relation between Russia’s
“frustration tactics” in London
and her “frank declaration of hos
tility” to the $17,000,000,000 Euro
pean aid plan bearing his name.
If the Marshall plan succeeds,
he said, it will fijl a “political
vacuum” created by the war and
result in “forms of government
which guarantee true freedom, op
portunity to the individual, and
protection against the terror of
governmental tyranny.”
Communist leaders “openly pre
dict that this restoration will not
take place,” the secretary said in
his radio address last night, and
added:
“Until the result of this struggle
becomes clearly apparent, there
will continue to be a very real dif
ficulty to resolve even on paper
agreed terms for a treaty of
peace.”
Marshall spoke from his state
department office only a few
hours after his return from Lon
don, and shortly after President
Truman had presented the Mar
shall plan to Congress.
The secretary repeatedly blamed
foreign minister Molotov for fail-!
ure of Britain, France, the United!
States and Russia to reach agree
ment on the German and Austrian
peace treaties.
“I realize that the many lengthy
statements and the frequent and
fundamental disagreements were
very confusing to the general pub
lic,” he said.
Commodity Grain
Speculators Names
To Be Published
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Congress the names of any gov
ernment officials who might have
used inside information to play
the commodity markets. Anderson
insisted on getting formal author
ization from Congress first.
He said the commodity and ex
change act required him to keep
confidential the information he
regularly receives on large scale
transactions, involving for in
stance 200,000 bushels or more or
grain, 1,000 tons of feed or 25 car
loads of butter, and other data ob
tained in occasional spot checks of
commodity exchange records.
After an unsuccessful attempt
by the Senate appropriations com
mittee to get the list by subpoena
ing Anderson Thursday, the Senate
passed the resolution he asked.
Anderson said identifications on
! the speculator list will be checked
closely to avoid mistakenly listing
persons with similar names who
are not in the market.
i _
WASHINGTON, (A>)—Secretary
of Agriculture Anderson today
made public a list of 771 so-called
big traders in the commodity fu
tures markets.
| The names included that of Ed
win Pauley, special assistant to the
secretary of the army, but no other
government employees were on
this list which Anderson said is a
“partial” one.
Pauley testified before a Senate
committee that he had large hold
ings in commodities when he too*
the job under undersecretary of
the army Royall, but has been get
ting rid of them.
The list was made up of traders
who held commodities on the fu
tures market on Oct. 31, 1947 and
Oct. 31, 1946.
“This was, as a matter of fact,
one of the purposes of these at
tacks.”
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Truman May Sign
“Inadequate” Anti*
Inflation Bill
WASHINGTON, (iP)—Intimates
of President Truman predicted to
day he will sign the Republican
; “voluntary” anti-inflation bill de
spite his conviction that it is far
from adequate to hold the line on
| the cost of living.
They said he will accept the bill
mainly because of sections which
(1) continue his export control
power over scarce commodities,
(2) continue his authority to allo
cate transportation facilities such
as boxcars and (3) restore his war
time power to restrict use of grain
for liquor.
At the same time the President
is expected to declare that the
GOP plan of voluntary industry
agreements will never keep the
lid on inflation and to renew his
demand for standby wage-price
controls ahd rationing authority.
Just before passing the Senate
approved measure late Friday, 281
to 73, the House beat down a last
Democratic attempt to give the
i President compulsory power over
the allocation of scarce commodi
! ties. ,
Victorious Republicans quickly
called on the President to encour
age agreements under the bill
without delay in the meat, steel
and oil industries, all of which
have been described by adminis
tration spokesmen as critical spots
in the economy.
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TO
REAL AND PERSONAL
PROPERTY HOLDERS
The tax rate on Real and Per- j
sonal Property of the City of!
Nome has been set at 1V4 cents
(.0125) by the Board of Equalisa- I
tion. One-half of the property tax ;
shall be paid by Jan. 31. 1948, and j
the remaining half by June 30th,
1948. Taxes become delinquent af- j
ter the time set in each case.
Board of Equalisation,
By Carrie M. CcLain ■
City Clerk.
Publish Dec. 22, 24, 26th, 1947.
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Alaska Railroad
Workers Seek
Wage Increases
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tive firemen and enginemen: E. W.
Robinson of Anchorage, and ex
ecutive officers Jonas McBride,
nnd J. J. Murray.
American federation of govern
ment employees: Howard C. Lu
ther of Anchorage, and Col.
Charles Stengle, legislative repre
sentative.
Brotherhood of railroad train
men: Del Van Curler of Anchor
age, and Harry See, legislative
representative.
Order of railroad telegraphers:
vice-president J. L. Elliott.
Order of American train dis
patchers association: John D.
Shaw of Anchorage and executive
vice-president C. S. Matthews.
Shaw is representing both the
telegraphers and dispatchers.
Bartlett said that Van Curler
and Robinson stopped in Cleve
land en route to Washington to
confer with A. F. Whitney, presi
dent of the brotherhood of rail
road trainmen, and D. B. Robert
son, president of the brotherhood
of locomotive firemen and engine
men. Shaw and Luther stopped in
Chicago to confer with O. H.
Brase, president American train
dispatchers association.
Today they are to meet with J.
B. Burns, president of the Ameri
can federation of government em
ployees, in Washington.
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Strike In Italy /
ROME (A*}—A nationwide strike
began in Italy’s food industries
and violence broke out over a
Christmas dole among Naples’ job
less Saturday, even as Pope Pius
XII warned in a Holy Week mes
sage that class hatred threatened
the very foundations of nations.
Indications were that the food
strike, latest leftist-led labor cri
sis to harass the newly reshuffled
Christian Democratic government
of Premier Alcide de Gasperi,
might be settled by nightfall.
But in Naples five personk, three
of them policemen, were wounded
in rioting and gunfire touched off
when an unemployment office
handed out Christmas doles to a
crowd of jobless. Some of the
crowd argued they were being
given less than they were prom
ised. Both police and persons in
the crowd used firearms. Reserves
were called to restore order.
In Vatican City, the Pope issued
a Christmas encyclical “Optotis
sima Pav” (Most Desired Peace),
against a background of prolonged
labor strife in Italy and France. It
said:
“Those who, with a premeditat
ed plan, thoughtlessly raise up the
crowd, exciting it to tumult, to se
dition and to offenses against the
liberty of others, without a doubt
do not operate to mitigate the pov
erty of the people but rather in
crease it and provoke extreme
ruin, aggravating hatred and in
terrupting the course of the works
of urban life.”
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