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(By Hugh Fullerton. Jr.)
NEW YORK, (£>) — Joe Louis,
who usually manages to say the
right thing, seems to have skidded
in his knowledge of mathematics
or human nature when he figured
the public wouldn’t pay 75 cents
to see him fight Sweden’s Olle
Tandberg. . . . Joe isn't old enough
to remember when they imported
France’s “ox-chid man,’ Georges
Carpentier, to fight Jack Demp
sey. . . . Gorgeous Georges was
* better known by reputation than
Tandberg is, but as an opponent
for Dempsey he was so weak that
they made him do his training in
secret. . . . Nevertheless, that 1921
fight at Jersey City drew boxing’s
first million, dollar gate. The pub
lic paid $1,789,238 and promoter
^ Tex Rickard almost threw a fit
for fear the bout would end so
quickly the customers would start
a riot. . . . Tandberg, according to
available records here, has fought
most of Europe’s good heavy
weights in the past seven years
with a record of 16 victories (8 by
knockouts) four losses and a
draw.
In addition to big Barney Poole,
back from West Point with a few
years of eligibility left, the U. of
Mississippi football squad next
* fall will include three of his cou
sins, Phillip, first-team guard;
Jackie, sophomore end, and Les
lie, freshman tackle. . . . Leslie is
the eighth member of the Poole
clan to enroll at ole Miss. . . .
Would you call that Poole-ing re
sources or vice versa?
Approximately 638,000,000 tons
of coal were mined in the United
♦ States in 1942.
Greeks Arrest ■
Many And Nip
Red Revolution
ATHENS, (A*)—The Greek gov
ernment announced that more
than 2,000 persons were arrested
in the Athens area early today in
raids aimed at stamping out a
Communist plot to stage a revolu
tion and spread civil war through
out the entile country.
Minister of public order Napo
leon Zervas said the zero hour for
the Communist stroke was to have
been around 1 a.m. tomorrow,
when attacks were to have been
staged simultaneously in all parts
of Greece, bringing the present
mountain guerrilla warfare into
urban centers.
Between 3,000 and 4,000 polfte,
gendarmes and soldiers staged the
lightning raids before dawn this
morning, Zervas said. He added
that many important Communists
already had fled and either were
in hiding in Athens or in the
mountains.
Most of those arrested, he said,
will be taken to islands near Ath
ens, while the investigation con
tinues.
The transport already has be
gun. Some ringleaders, Zervas
added, will remain in Athens to
await hearings. Those not impli
cated in the plot will be released
and others probably will be ex
iled, officials said.
A leftist leader who escaped ar
rest in the first raids declared:
“They’re making a clean
sweep.”
Plastics now are used in the
manufacture of the magnetic com
pass, used in tanks and armored
vehicles.
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Sourdoughs Will
Hold ‘Ton of Gold’
Celebration
To celebrate the landing of the
S.S. Portland in Seattle, July 17,
1897, with the. “Ton of Gold”
which started the Klondike gold
rush in ’98, oldtime Alaskans and
Yukoners are already stampeding
to Seattle for the 16th Internation
al Sourdough reuninon to be held
in the New Washington Hotel,
July 24-27, announces Captain A.
F. Hoffman, northern chief of the
Alaska Yukon Pioneers. At a No
Host luncheon, Friday, July 25,
those on the Yukon water shed
prior to December 31, 1899 will be
especially honored. International
president, A. J. Goddard, who
took the first boat down the Yu
kon River will be toastmaster.
Several in the north prior to 1890
will be present, including Henry
Willett, S. S. “Skiff” Mitchell and
H. A. “Ray” Stewart.
Assisting on convention plans
are Ed. S. Sears, oldtime Yukoner,
S. W. Taggart, Ralph Lomen, Jim
Gaffney, and R. N. Sundquist of
Nome; Lee L. Mellin; Mrs. Nora
Miller, Lady of the Golden North;
Mil. Helen Buck. Daughters of
Alaska Yukon Pioneers will be
: cohosts with the Alaska Yukon
Pioneers and Ladies of the Golden
North. Miss Jane Sellen, formerly
of Cordova is president.
Charles O. Silvertsen, president
of the San Francisco-Oakland As
sociation, has notified housing
chairman, Glenn Bartlett, that his
group will arrive in a chartered
plane. Wm. H. “Billy” Brown,
wires that Los Angeles will be
represented with Jack Robarts, T.
W. “Thag” Buchholz, Shel Wet
tach, Mabel White, Anna V. Hor
ner, and others already en route.
B. J. Parker, W. E. Haddock, ,B.
R. Dusenbury, Frank Lowe and
Tom Lamb will be among those
from Vancouver, B. C. Past presi
dents L. B. Loomis, Bessie E.
Mauro of Portland, Ore., and E. B.
Velikarfje of Yakima will join D.
E. “Griff” Griffiths, Seattle at the
executive board meeting. Griffiths
started the first dog races in Fair
banks in the early days.
Invitations have been sent to all
Igloos of the Pioneers of Alaska;
mayors of Alaska cities and the
Yukon; to Robert Service, Rex
Beach, former Delegate Dan Suth
erland, Hon. George Black, H. W.
“Lee’ Croft, Shel Wettack of Nome
! and Ruby, Godfrey Chealander
| who managed the Alaska Yukon
| exposition, and M. A. “Klondike
j Mike” Mahoney.
A “Gold Ship” banquet and ball
will be held at the Masonic Tem
ple, July 26, and a “Gold Ship”
picnic at Woodland park on Sun
day as the w.indup of the four
days of celebration by the stam
peders of the trails of the famous
gold rush. “They may have added
fifty years to the days of their
youth,” says secretary Lulu M.
Fairbanks, “but their hearts are
still young, their minds active,
and their interests alerted to the
present.”
Everyone is welcome and invit
ed to attend the entire convention.
LANDMARK FINALLY
BEING TORN DOWN
The building, formerly owned
by C. W. Thornton, deceased, is
being torn down for the city by
Hermann Hoop. The structure has
been in the center of the present
street intersection of Front and
Steadman streets, and has been a
considerable handicap to traffic,
having been a contributing cju.-c
in one death.
Coal Agreement
Signed; No
National Tie-Up
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the wage agreement — completed
last night—had been formally
signed.
As soon as the various operators
signed, NMW headquarters sent
out the signal for the back to
work move in those operators’
mines.
Still to accept the pact are the
southern operators, who refused
•to participate in industry-wide ne
gotiations, and scattered operators
in the midwest and west. Com
bined, they represent slightly
more than 40 per cent of total soft
coal production.
Lewis said the pact would be,
“interesting” because it is the first i
negotiated since passage of what
he scathingly described as the
“Taft slave law,” a reference to
the Taft-Hartley bill putting new |
restrictions on unions.”
Discussing that law, Lewis ac-1
cused the Republican part of “sell
ing out to finance and industry” (
t for contributions to the 1946 Con
, gressional campaign which gave
it control of Congress.
“One thing about a Republican
i Congress,’ Lewis said, “they stay
. bought.”
FRED ROBINSONS
DEPART FOR STATES
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Robinson, of
the U. S. Weather Bureau who
have been stationed at Gambell on
St. Lawrence Island, departed for
the States with the P.A.A. yester- j
day. '
Committee Okays
Income Tax Bill
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WASHINGTON, UF}—The Sen
ate finance committee approved
the $4,000,000,000 income tax cut
bill today in 43 minutes.
The vote was 10 to 3, with only
Democratic Senators Barkley
(Ky.), Lucas (111.), and Connally
• Tex.) opposing the reduction which
would go into effect next Jan. 1.
Chairman Millilkin <R.-Colo.)
whipped the bill through his com
mittee without the formality of
hearings. The legislation, approv
ed by a whopping 302 to 112 mar
gin in the House yesterday, is
identical with the original tax re
duction measure vetoed by Presi
dent Truman, except that the ef
fective date is moved up from July
1, 1947, to Jan. 1, 1948.
The committee went into closed
session at 9:15 a.m. and reached
its decision at 9:57.
Before the deciding vote, the
committee rejected, also 10 to 3, a
substitute bill proposed by Sena
tor Lucas (D.-Ill.).
The Republican schedule for
Senate action gives the tax mea
sure right-of-way for considera
tion as soon as the army-navy uni
fication bill is disposed of—possi
bly tomorrow.
MARRIED IN TEXAS
Miss Margery McLain, daughter
of Carrie McLain, who has been
home since finishing a term at the
University of Alaska, left yester
day for Texas where she plans to
be married soon, to a Texas boy
she met while attending the uni
versity.
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