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NEWS IN BRIEF
HEBBURN-ON-TYNE, Eng., UP)
Fire of undetermined origin swap
the three upper decks of the 22,421
ton British liner Monarch of Ber
muda as she lay in drydoch here
today.
SINGAPORE, f/Pl—'The defend
in the trial of seven Japanese offi
cers charged with responsibility
for the ‘‘Singapore massacre” of
1942 told the war crimes court
that the Japanese were authorized
under international law to destroy
undesirable elements.
Chief defense counsel S. Kuro.se
said the screening and destruction
of Singapore Chinese was ‘‘a mili
tary operation rendered necessary
by the state of Singapore when il
fell.” The prosecution says 5,300
Chinese were killed.
WASHINGTON (/P)—Daily B-2ti
weather observation flights ove’
the North Pole are planned by the
army air forces with information
obtained being made available to
all forecasting agencies “of this
and other countries,” AAF offi
cials announced here. The flights
from Ladd Field, Fairbanks, will
first be made every few days but
later in the spring will become a
routine daily occurrence, the an
nouncement said.
ANCHORAGE, (jP)—FBI agents
and military police today sought
today sought two men who shot
and killed Valentino R. Sabenorio,
52, a war department employee at
Fort Richardson. Public relations
authorities said Sabenorio came
from Delano, Calif., and that an
other post employee said he sav.
his assailants fire twice at Sabe
norio.
WASHINGTON. <P)—Undersec
retary of slate Acheson said today
that the United States must invest
funds to put southern Korea on a
sound economic basis because Rus
sia has blocked any agreement for
a unified government of that coun
try.
y ANCHORAGE, (JP) — A record
list of 31 candidates, for nine city
offices, have filed for the muni
cipal election here April 1. Mayor
Francis C. Bowden seeks re-elec
tion. Nineteen have filed for the
five councilmanic posts.
NEW YORK, (JP) — Air and
ground rescue parties started out at
daybreak, today to resume their
search for an army transport plane
missing in Newfoundland with ten
persons aboard. The air transport
command said visibility in the
search area was good. The plane,
a C-54 Skymaster, was enroute
from Westover Field Mass, to
Stephenville Field, N. J.
SEOUL, (/P) — Metropolitan po
lice chief T. S. Chang today an
nounced the arrest of 120 persons
throughout American-occu pied
Korea on charges of fomenting a
24-hour strike of railroad and util
ity company employees. Chang
said those arrested were “leading
officers” of five leftist political
and labor organizations. The struck
companies resumed normal opera
tions today.
Ministers Struggle
Over German Govt.
MOSCOW, (/P)—'The diplomatic
struggle over Germany in the big
four foreign ministers’ council en
tered a new phase today as the
conferring powers planned their
next moves in negotiations on ;
German government.
The Soviet Union on the one
hand and the United States and
Britain on the other charted man-;
euvers aimed at achieving the kind
of government under peace-treaty
provisions that each side seemed
to believe would be most favorable
to its own political system.
Proposals of all four powers on
this issue had been laid before the
council in varying detail Saturday
night when it quit work till tomor
row to give the foreign ministers'
deputies time to summarize the re
sults of deliberations now two
weeks old.
The deputies on Germany were
committed to hard work boiling
down a mass of political and eco
nomic proposals to lists of points
on which there was agreement ann
points on which there was dis
agreement. Some top U. S. author
ities said this week should tell
whether any concrete accomplish
ment could be expected from the
Moscow conference.
The deputies*on the Austrian
treaty, which had been expected
to give less trouble than the Ger
man, were shown in a summariza
tion by U. S. Gen. Mark W. Clark
to have made little progress. This
summary listed eight agreements
and seven disagreements on politi
cal clauses, seven agreements and
nine disagreements on economic
clauses. Of the 27 disagreements
2(j were in major points.
Battle Rages
In Paraguay
BUENOS AIRES, (/P) — Reports
received from the Argentine-Para
guayan frontier today, not con
firmed by Asuncion, said Para
guayan rebels had routed Loyalists
troops at San Pedro and were
driving toward the capital, 95
miles to the south.
A correspondent for the Buenos
• Aires newspaper El Mundo said
persons familiar with the Para
guayan terrain believed the insur
gents, led by Col. Alfredo Ramos,
now had an “open road toward
their objective.”
In moving from Conception,
birthplace of the 17-day-old revo
lution, Ramon was forced to con
tend with bad roads leading
through swampland, but “with
this difficulty out of the way, it is
expected his units will make rapid
progress southward," these sources
were quoted.
San Pedro, a river port, is half
way between Concepcion and
Asuncion.
_
BOSTON (/P) — Six Roxbury
housewives were fined $10 each
today in district court for playing
poker on the Lord’s day. They
were arrested in a police raid yes
terday.
The complainants — their hus
bands.
Seeing The
Legislature From
The Gallery
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(By Mildred Hermann;
The House Saturday overrode
Governor’s veto of the repeal oi
the gross gold tax and bq a vote
of 18 to 6. The whole affair had
most of the aspects of a horse
trade. The opponent- of the b 11
agreeing to go along with overrid
ing the veto if the other sicie would
yield to their introducing a new in
come tax bill. And that was the
way it was handled.
The argument on sustaining the
veto was long-drawn out and de
tailed with mine lobbyists out in
abundance, and everybody show
ing how everyone else was wrong.
All ipembers of the Second Divi
s’on delegation voted to evorride
the veto.
'rnmediutciy after this action
was taken a new income tax bill
was introduced in the House by
unanimous consent. It closely re
sembles the income tax bill de
feated in the Senate last week.
This new bill is authored by 14
House members, including Ed An
derson and Ost, so it is assured of
enough votes to pass the House.
Whether or not the Senate will ac
cept it remains to be seen, but it
they do not we shall be short about
three million dollars of income
necessary to run the Territory on
during the next bi-ennium.
It is believed that the House will
restore the appropriation for the
Development Board deleted by the
ways and means committee, but
it is doubtful if it will get by the
Senate. In fact the House is ex
pected to restore most of the ap
propriations cut out by the ways
and means committee, except some
minor ones.
All appointments to Territorial
boards made by the governor were
conf rmed last week except two.
They did not confirms successors
for O. D. Cochran as a member
of the board of regents, nor A. H.
Ziegler as a member of the board
of education. Instead they voted by
a large majority to ask the gov
ernor to reappoint Cochran and
Ziegler.. He has not yet done so.
The governor states he has twice
asked Cochran if he desired re-ap
pointment and could get no ans
wer. Then after he had offered the
name of a successor Cochran sent
word that he had decided to re
quest re-appointment.
Members appointed to boards
from the Second Division were
John Cross for a position on the
board of veterans affairs, and Al
berta Peterson, member of the
board of eduction. All members
of the Second Division delegation
voted to confirm these members,
though they had previously indi
cated they meant to oppose Cross.
Only four more days left of the
session. In compliance with joint
rules of the House and Senate only
revenue and appropriation bills
can be acted upon after the fifty
s.xth day. The general property
tax bill and a revision of the li
cense tax bill are on the Senate
•calendar for tomorrow. The House
will start working on the general
appropriation bill tomorow.
France Proposes
Govl. For Germany
m
MOSCOW, (#*)—Foro'gn M m
ter Georges Bidault of Fr m *
proposed today a decentralized,
loosely federated gove r n m e n t
structure for Germany, but warned
that France opposed rapid estab
lishment of even a provisional re
gime.
The French minister suggested
that a one-house parliament be
authorized with its members to be
chosen by the states. He stressed
delegation of virtually all powers
to the states.
He said the French position was
that any establishment of a pro
visional government for Germany
was “premature” but that his dele
| gation found the U. S. government
proposal for a federalized Ger
many “interesting.” He indicated
there were grounds for a compro
mise,.
Foreign minister V. M. Molotov
1 was to present Soviet views.
MOSCOW, (/P)—Lt. Gen. Joseph
Pierre Koenig, French commander
in chief in Germany, arrived here
late yesterday to join his coun
try's delegation at the foreign min
ister's conference.
Koenig was summoned to Mos
cow by French foreign minister
Georges Bidault. Other members
of the Allied control council for
Germany were already here. They
are Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, for
the United States; Marshal Vassily
D. Sokolowsky, for Russia, and Lt.
Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, for
Britain.
Chinese May Have
More Peace Talks
NANKING, (iP)—A government
party official said today the gov
ernment was prepared—under cer
tain conditions—to resume peace
talks with Chinese Communists.
High party members said, how
ever, that they were sure the Reds
would not resume negotiations un
der any conditions.
Kuomintang (government party*
secretary-general Wu Teh-Chen
told the party’s central executive
committee the government was
prepared to begin new negotiations
under two conditions;
1. That the Communists agree to
assist in restoration of communi
cations on a nationwide scale, and
2. That the Communists agree
to an army reorganization plan
drafted under the leadership of
Gen. George C. Marshall, now U.
%. secretary of state.
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HIGH SCHOOL PLAY WAS
VERY ENJOYABLE
Last Friday evening the Nome
high school presented a three-act
play: “He Couldn’t Marry Five” at
the school auditorium. The play
was well attended and everyone
enjoyed the fine acting of the en
tire cast.
The play was directed by teach
ers, Ann Walsh and Mrs. Wm. Gil
lis. The cast included: Phyllis
Roell, Julia Silverman, Bertha
Bjornstad, Loretta Snyder, Olga
Hay, Jane Scott, Elinor Dowd,
Walter McCarthy, Clara Seiffert
LIFTING THE LID
ATJUNEAU
JUNEAU, Mar. 21, </P)—At a
joint session the legislature re
tired by good majorities to con
i.im two appointments made by
Governor Gruening. Dr. Ralph
Carr, Ketchikan, was turned down
tor tiie board of education. Imme
diately the session requested the
Governor to re-appoint A. H. Zieg
ler, Ketchikan, who long has been
a member of the board. The ap
pointment of W. Robert Webb,
rector ot the Episcopal Trinity
Cathedral, a former member of the
board of regents of the University
of Alaska was rejected. The ses
sion asked the Governor to reap
point Senator O. D. Cochran, who
has been a long-time member.
Senator Norman Walker said the
action indicated resentment at the
governor packing the boards.
The Senate passes House bill
placing a tax on the fourth to
tenth fish traps held by one owner
to $500, traps over ten $700.
The House killed a bill which
would have collected $75 annual
license from non-resident commer
cial fishermen to create a fund for
sick and disabled fishermen.
The House passes Senate mea
sure to appropriate $70,000 for the
welfare department to care for in
digent hospital cases; also memor
ial for negotiations with Canada
for lease, sale or exchange of land
to bring Haines Cutoff under the
jurisdiction of United States; also
memorial warning Russia not to
encroach on Territorial waters for
fishing expeditions.
The Senate passes Hou-e mea
sure empowering cities to provide
for garbage disposal, zoning, city
planning. It defeated House bill
raising the school tax from $5 to
$10. It also defeated cutting the
work week of Territorial employ
ees to 35 hours with Saturday free.
It defeated the committee substi
tute for the House bill providing a
fund for sick and disabled fisher
men.
The Juneau Ministerial Associa
tion issued a statement going on
record as favoring pre-marital
medical examination for venereal
disease before a marriage certifi
cate can be granted in the hope
that the bill in the House and an
other in the Senate might be acted
upon. The American Federation of
Labor, also the Congress of Indus
trial Orgonizations concur with
the association in the statement.
The House in a night session
Friday only discussed the closed
shop measure in second reading.
Action was expected Saturday. Al
so action on the veto of the Gover
nor on the mining tax.
JUNEAU ifP)—The House work
ing to nearly midnight Saturday
passed the following Senate bills:
extending the eligibility of the
teachers retirement act to the fac
ulty of the University of Alaska
and employees in the office of the
commissioner of education; to pro
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and Bo Mozee. Properties and
stage managers were Bob Lewis,
Arthur McLain and Tom Tucker.