Cut In Government
Spending Seems
Very Doubtful
WASHINGTON. </P)—Some top
Republicans in the Senate have
expressed doubt that their drive to
cut government spending will get
far.
One GOP leader, asking not to
be identified by name, said flatly
that this session will see no slash
es that will amount to anything.
He said that might make neces
sary a boost in taxes.
Another, Senator Taft (R.-Ohio^
iaid he is “hopeful” that Congress
will trim federal expenses, but
Added: “I am not optimistic.”
A third, who has led many
economy drives in the past, said
he will go along with any cuts
suggested by the Democrats but “I
won’t stick my neck out and pro
pose any.” He too asked to remain
Anonymous.
President Truman in his Janu
Ary budget message estimated ex
penses for the year beginning next
•July 1 at $41,858,080,000, as
Against estimated receipts of $40,
135,000,000.
That would mean a deficit of
$373,000,000 — not counting items
which have come up since then,
like the rearming of Western Eu
rope, a project which reportedly
would cost between one billion
and two billion dollars.
Mr. Truman asked Congress to
keep the government out of the
ed by approving $4,000,000,000 in
new taxes. That met with a cool
eception from the lawmakers.
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Fund Ticket this week?
WALRUS CLUB
Earthquake
Rumblings
(Confined from Page One)
Cove, Alaska, Sunday night .was
waiting patiently at West Water
way dock. Her unloading berth at
the cement plant is up the Duwa
mish waterway—on the other side
of the damaged bridge.
I
More than 1,100 western Washing
ton homes suffered damage in last
W e d n esday’s earthquake, the
American Red Cross disaster serv
ice reported yesterday.
The estimate — which does not
include hundreds of homes where
damage was slight enough not to
warrant rehabilitation grants —
was made by Richard F. Gordon,
director of the Red Cross disaster
service for the eight western
states.
Gordon said 82 families have
registered with the Red Cross for
help as a result of the quake dam
age to their homes. More than half
of the appeals for direct aid came
from Puyallup, he said.
Results of the Red Cross survey
were made public as state, city
and county officials sought to
solve their own housing problems,
j In Olympia where both the old
and new capitol buildings have
been “padlocked” because of
quake damage, only two of more
than a dozen offices using the
buildings have found new quar
ters. Governor Langlie moved into
the adjacent transportation build
ing Monday and the superintend
ent of public instruction set up of
1 fices in the armory.
At Seattle, city officials evacu
ated 121 residents of the Seattle
Hotel when one of the structure’s
walls began to move and appeared
Kirk Appointed
U. S. Ambassador
To Russia
WASHINGTON, (/Pi —Vice Ad
miral Alan G. Kirk was appointed
ambassador to Moscow today.
Kirk is being transferred from
the ambassadorship to Belgium.
He also has been serving as minis
ter to Luxembourg.
At Moscow, Kirk will succeed
Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith who
was relieved recently to take com
mand of the first army in New
York.
The White House announced
President Truman’s choice of Kirk
for the Moscow post.
Kirk, 60, is a native of Philadel
phia and now a legal resident of
Connecticut.
He was graduated from the
naval academy in 1909 and served
in the navy until 1946 when he
was appointed ambassador to Bel
gium.
During World War II, he par
ticipated in the allied landing op
erations in Sicily as commander
of the amphibious force of the
United States Atlantic fleet. He
was one of a group of allied offi
cers who prepared and directed
naval phases of the cross channel
invasion of France.
Up come the statisticians with
the interesting fact that the aver
age person takes som$ 18,098 steps
a day—a day. mind you!
ready to crumble. It was propped
by the 100-foot boom of a crane
until workmen could bind it with
cables.
School officials estimated dam
age to Seattle schools would be be
, tween $200,000 and $500,000.
New Regulations
Will Bankrupt
Independents
(Contined from Page One>
the blanket authority, effective
May 20, and thereafter will li
cense each of the irregulars only
after an investigation of its opera
tions.
The objective, the board said, “is
to confine the carrier to the rendi
tion of irregular .service.”
The board will continue blanket
authority for about 2.000 small ir
regulars, which use planes less
than 10,000 pounds take-off
weight.
Speaking for the independents,
Fischgrund declared in a state
ment:
“The new regulations issued
yesterday will put out of business
virtually every independent air
line in the country.
“This arbitrary ruling is an un
precedented elimination of small
, business that will live long in in
famy.
“Unless the Congress and the
administration demand that the
CAB permit these lines to exist
pending hearings, it will be a
j mockery of the truth for the Tru
man administration to claim to be
a friend of small business. These
non-scheduled airlines represent
the life savings of hundreds of
veterans of World War II who
formed them and have operated
i them profitably for over three
years.
“It is ironical that at the same
time the Senate is investigating
why the airlines are losing money
and require more and more sub
sidy, the CAB is putting out of
business the only profitable seg
ment of the air transportation in
I dustry.
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British Ship Hit
In Renewed
Chinese Civil War
(Contined from Fage One)
Foreign airmen saw the running
fight. The consort was 15 miles
below Rose Island, where the si
lent Amethyst lay aground. Rose
Island is 60 miles northeast of
Nanking and 160 miles upstream
from Shanghai.
From the air the observers were
unable to spot any activity aboard
the grounded Amethyst. Her flags,
they said, were still flying. Chi
nese naval sources, which report
ed 20 casualties aboard the Ame
thyst to British quarters in Nan
king, denied any shots had been
fired by nationalist gunners along
the south shore of the river.
The airmen said no firing was
observed in the vicinity of the
Amethyst but that smoke was ris
ing from communist positions op
posite the island on which the
sloop was grounded.
The Amethyst carried a comple
ment of eight officers and 140
men. She is comparable to an
American light destroyer nad dis
| places 2,000 tons.
LEGAL ADVERTCSEMENT
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT
SECOND DIVISION.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE of OTIS E. RANK, De
ceased.
No. 788
NOTICE OF HEARING ON AD
MINISTRATOR'S FINAL RE
PORT AND ACCOUNT AND THE
DETERMINATION OF HEIRS
AND/OR BENEFICIARIES
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Kenneth M. Rank, adminis
trator with will annexed, of the
foregoing estate, has filed in the
above-named Court his Final Re
port and Account and that on the
14th day of June, 1949, at the
hour of 10:00 A. M., in the office
of the above-named Court, a hear
ing will be had for the purpose of
settling said Report and Account
and determining the heirs and/or
beneficiaries of the said estate.
All objections, if any, to the
said Report and Account and proof
of heirship will be heard at such
time.
DATED this 12th day of April,
1949.
Kenneth M. Rank,
Administrator
with will annexed.
Pub. Apr. 13. 20. 27. May 4, 1949.
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