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CONGRESS PROPOSES A TAX ON GAMBLING
While it is not legal to have a lottery in the United
States, the Congress of the nation has about decided to
impose a gambling tax to secure revenue which the
nation needs.
The House, which first developed the idea, esti
mated the levy on commercialized gambling would
yield $400,000,000 a year. The Senate approved the
gambling tax, although some members are highly du
bious as to how much money the levy will actually
turn into the treasury, since it deals with an activity
which is illegal in most states.
The gambling tax imposes a ten per cent excise
on all bets on sporting events, elections or other con
tests, made with bookmakers or other persons accept
ing wagers for profit. It applies to bets with lottery
operators and to wagers placed in a pool in any sports
event and a $50-a-year occupational tax on persons
accepting bets or receiving them from bookmakers.
Most of the revenue is expected to come from off
track horse race and numbers betting. Specifically ex
cluded are friendly bets between persons who are not
commercial gamblers, card games such as poker, roul
lette wheels and bingo games.
Senator Estes Kefauver, of Tennessee, argued
against the levy on the ground that a tax on gambling
would give some color of legality to enterprises the
government ought to be trying to shut down. There is
logic to his contention, of course. If the levy on gambl
ing gets on the statute books, the danger is that the
next step will be to legalize betting in order to make
sure that the excise tax is collected.
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
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The bigger the executive the less actual work
he performs.
The medicine men of the Indians were not the
only fakirs to inhabit continental U.S.
The secret of happiness is not do what one likes,
but to be able to like what one has to do.
A conservative is a fellow who thinks that nothing
should be done the first time.
A second-rate army is just as. useless as the
second-best hand in a poker game.
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16 Homes Blasted
By Series Natural
Gas Explosions
ROCHESTER, N.Y., (/P), Stunned
citizens of fashionable suburban
Brighton today half-heartedly be
gan picking up debris from a ser
ies of terrific natural gas explo
sions that shredded or set fire to
31 residences.
Three persons died yesterday in
the explosions, which sent homes
in an eight-block area booming
skyward with a noise “like a gi
ant .string of firecrackers.” An
estimated 20 to 25 persons were
injured. Observers likened the
damage and noise to that of block
buster bombs.
New York State’s state safety
commissioner, Thomas W. Ryan,
arrived early today to join a many
pronged investigation into the
cause of the blast, which probably
caused damage of approximately
$1,000,000.
As the state, Monroe County,
city and town of Brighton officials
began an investigation, the presi
dent of the Rochester Gas & Elec
tric Co. said a workman’s lantern
may have touched off the chain
reaction explosions.
Alexander B. Beebee added that
a regulator valve in a principal
main apparently failed. He said
an explosive mixture may have
accumulated then in the regula
tor vault beneath the street and
been ignited through a vent by a
lantern left nearby at a sidewalk
construction project.
Fifteen homes were demolished
and 16 others damaged by the ex
plosions or resulting fires. Three
persons were hospitalized. Two of
the victims were burned seriously,
another cut by flying debris. The
injured included six firemen.
Jefford Makes First
Landing On Anchorage
International Airport
A crippled DC-3, carrying four
persons, roared down on Inter
national Airport at Anchorage on
Sept. 17, in an emergency land
ing without brakes, marking the
unexpected and unofficial open
ing of the $11,500,000 field five
miles southwest of Anchorage.
Jack Jefford, veteran Alaskan
pilot, brought the twin-engined
Douglas to a halt 5,000 feet after
the wheels touched the runway,
despite the fact that mechanical
failure made braking facilities on
the plane useless.
Construction crews working on
the field rushed to clear the 8,000
foot east-west runway of construc
tion equipment and trucks after
Jefford radioed that his brakes
were gone and he needed a long
field on which to make an emer
gency landing.
15-Year-Old Ft. Yukon
Boy Tries To Board
Alaska-Bound Plane
SEATTLE, </P) — A 15-year-old
Alaska boy wanted to go home
Friday night.
So he hitch-hiked from Tacoma,
where his parents had sent him to
attend school, to Boeing Field
and tried to board an Alaska
bound plane.
Police officer D. L. Moody inter
cepted him, however. Moody said
his parents live at Fort Yukon,
Alaska. The youth entered the
plane before Moody arrived and
told attendants he v/ould pay his
fare when he got to Fort Yukon.
Moody took the boy to the juve
nile annex for questioning.
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Books
at the Nugget
Quartz Creek Field Will
Be Boon To Miners
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than in the past,” Schwamm sta
ted.
Although it is late in the season,
considerable construction can be
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accomplished yet this fall as all
equipment is now at the airsite.
If work is not finished this season,
construction will be able to re
sume in the early spring with com
pletion of the airfield in time for
the start of the mining season.
The new airfield will be fin
anced under the Federal Airport
Act, whereby the federal govern
ment matches territorial aviation
gas tax funds on a 25-75 percent
basis. «
The Grant Mining Company,
low bidders on bids advertised by
the Territorial Department of Avi
ation for the Quartz Creek air
field, is owned in partnership by
P. K. Johansen and Henry Wuhr
man.
REDUCING AID
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce,
Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday with gentle
westerly winds. Low temperature
tonight 32, high tomorrow 48.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 30 Snow
Point Hope 38 Cloudy
Kotzebue 40 Fog
Wales 38 Cloudy
Gambell 38 ' Cloudy
^ome 32 Cloudy
Unalakleet 39 Part cloudy
Bethel 40 Clear
McGrath 35 Part cloudy
Anchorage 44 Clear
Fairbanks 33 Cloudy
Whitehorse 30 Part cloudy
Edmonton 30 Cloudy
Ketchikan 51 Cloudy
Seattle 54 Cloudy
San Francisco 57 Cloudy
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