Seattle To Help
Montana Chambers
SEATTLE (/P)—Cooperation be
tween Seattle and Montana cham
bers of commerce in working for
Alaska highway improve m e n t
was recommended by the Alaska
and marketing committees of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Monday.
The joint recommendation was
made to the chamber’s board of
trustees for further action.
The resolution recommended
“cooperation with Montana cham
bers of commerce in efforts to
have the Alaska highway properly
maintained and improved to allow
tourist travel and commercial
traffic to move more freely be
tween Alaska and Continental
United States.”
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Mr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Nichols
have been in Washintgon and will
go to New York before returning
to their home in Fairbanks Mr.
Nichols came east on official busi
ness in connection with his posi
tion as United States marshall for
the Fourth Judicial Division with
headquarters at Fairbanks.
Greeks Execute
Eight Communists
ATHENS, (iP)—Eight commun
ists were executed in Athens to
day. They were sentenced for
crimes committed during the re
bellion of December, 1944.
A government report said 40
guerrillas were killed and 150
wounded during a four-day battle
at Neachora in the Pepanto area.
Reynolds Party
Leave For China
OAKLAND, Calif. (/P) — The
Reynolds scientific party, bound i
for Asia in search of a mountain !
higher than Everest, took off at
7:53 a.m. yesterday.
Bill Odom, round-the-world
flier, was at the controls of the
converted C-87 transport.
The first stop will be Honolulu.
The party plans refuelling land
ings at Wake, Okinawa, Tokyo
and Shanghai. It will establish an
operations base at Lang Chow and
proceed with its projected explo
ration of the Amne Machin moun
tains in Hopeh province.
Contractors Face
Investigation
BALTIMORE, UP)—1,900 veter
ans stopped mortgage payments
Monday, and* a major loan associ
ation said it would grant no more
credits “to any builder who has
been unable to maintain the good
will of G. I. home buyers.”
Contending they were cheated
by contractors who used faulty
materials, the veterans said they
would halt principal payments on
loans acquired under the “G. I.
bill.” They also charged that con
tractors had not met the specifica
tions on which the houses were j
purchased and had not complied;
with the Baltimore city building j
code. .|
(“G. I.” loans up to $8,000 are
guaranteed 50 per cent by the gov
ernment.!
The grand jury is already in the1
midst of investigating the veter-1
ans’ complaints, and attorney gen
eral Tom Clark recently ordered
the FBI to make similar probes in
various cities of the country.
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Mrs. Eva McGown of Fairbanks
called on Delegate Bartlett upon
her return from an extended visit
in Ireland where she was born.
Early Filing Brings
Early Refunds
As a result of earlier filing of
income tax returns this year, re
funds have been made to 4^.000
more taxpayers in the Wa-hing
ton-Alaska collection district than
for the corresponding period last
year, Internal Revenue co1 lector
Clark Squire announced today in
Tacoma.
Cooperation of taxpayers has
made possible the refuud;ng of
93.5 per cent more money <over
two million dollars' durih" the
first eight weeks of the current
filing period, he said.
Refunds to date amount to $4,
271,644 for 91,055 taxpayers as
compared with $2,207,054 for 45,
051 taxpayers a year ago.
Income tax collections un to
February 26 amounted to $8^,461,
053. Up to the same date last year
the amount was $77,765,731.
So far the collection of all fed
eral taxes in this district totals
$140,894,882 as compared with
$130,954,123 for the corresponding
period in 1947.
Taxpayers who file on Form
W-2 can aid in the processing of
returns by seeing that the present
address appears correctly on the
face of the form used.
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