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NEWS IN BRIEF
BLOOMINGTON, 111. (A*)—Dep
uty sheriffs ?ped to nearly a score
( of establishments in surprise raid
in search of gambling machines.
The deputies who stopped at a
downtown pool hall didn't take
time to find a parking place an i
when they returned from the rai ;
they found police had given them
a traffic violation ticket. SheriH
Curtis Gilberts said the raid was
worth more than the $1 fine as
sessed the deputies for double
parking.
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TOKYO, (/P) — Passenger car
production in Japan is "a long
way off,” although the nation bad
ly needs transportation, Allied
headquarters’ industry division re
ported today.
J. Z. Reday, chief of the division
said there was no indication how
soon foreign automobile manufac
turers might reopen their assem
bly plants in Japan. This step pre
sumably could not be taken unt 1
Japan is reopened to foreign trade
and investments.
JERUSALEM (/P)—A British po
liceman was killed and five other
Britons were injured last night by
a bomb explosion on the highway
between Haifa and Tel Aviv. An
^ official announcement said the
men were returning to their quar
ters near Hadera after visiting a
motion picture theater when the
blast occurred.
WASHINGTON, Duty free cop
per imports would be limited to
400,000 tons in a one-year period ii
Senator McFarland tD.-Ariz.), has
his way.
He wants to amend legislation
passed by the House and pending
in the Senate which would suspend
duties on copper imports, without
any tonnage limits, for two years.
McFarland and 10 other Sena
tors have signed his proposed
amendment.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (/P)—San Jose
. milk drivers and plant workers
p- ended their 15-day strike last night
to resume deliveries today. The
AFL teamsters union voted ap
proval of a wage settlement, re
troactive to Feb. 1, which conceded
an hourly wage of $12 a day for a
five-day, 40-hour work week.
SALONIKA, Greece (/P)—Greek
government troops were reported
ready to begin full-scale opera
tions against guerrillas in the |
neighborhood of Mount Granynos
near the Albanian border.
Alexis Kyrou, Greek liaison of
ficer with the United Nations Bal
kan investigation commission here
made a formal announcement of
the planned drive last night.
BOSTON, (/P)—Postmaster-gen
eral Robert E. Hannegan today
spiked reports that he intended to
resign either from the cabinet or
as Democratic national committee
chairman. “I have no plans 16 re
sign from anything,” he told news
^ men as he left Massachusetts Me
morial Hospital where he under
went an operation to relieve high j
blood pressure. 1
Alaska Broke Yet
Legislature Passes
No Tax Bills
(By Mary Valentine)
• Resident (INS) Correspondent)
JUNEAU, Mar. 20—Alaska is
broke and the 1947 regular session
of the Territorial legislature in its
last week has killed the only two
tax bills of any value. These bills,
a property tax and an income tax,
both interpreted as fair and rea
sonable oy the attorney general
Ralph J. Rivers, and by other tax
legislation authorities, were killed
in the Senate late Wednesday. All
the reasons in the book were used
as excuses against the bills, but
the concensus was that Alaskans,
if their legislators represent their
demands, do not want to be taxed,
and do not want progress.
This statement came from busi
ness men and local residents of l ie
capital of tiie last frontier.
Contrasted with the recent ma
jority vote for statehood, which
might be interpreted as progress,
and the minority bills introduced
in both Houses, bills for more
schools, better hospitals, a south
ern branch of the University of
Alaska, a pre-nuptial physical ex
amination law, a tighter liquor
control law, enriched w heat prod
ucts law ito fortify the vitamin
lacking Alaskan diet', and others
the question of a possible contra
diction may arise. A few social
legislation bills have been passed
by both Houses and been signed
by Governor Gruening. The only
tax measure of any might left is a
gross income tax bill now on the
table in the House.
This bill takes a left hook at the
little guy and leaves industry, con
struction corporations etc., un
touched. In addition to the refusal
to pass tax legislation that will
cover all possible taxable groups,
appropriations have been cut to
nearly nothing, and the years
ahead may be lean for even those
legislators who see no need for
taxes.
Alaska was in shaky financial
shape before the legislature con
vened last January twenty-sev
enth. Governor Greuning in his
message to the joint Houses made
constructive suggestions to answer
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CIO Demands
Senator’s Removal
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Chairman
Taft (R.-Ohio), bluntly rejected
today a CIO demand that Gerard
D. Reilly be ousted from his job as
a Senate labor committee consult
ant.
The complaint against the for
mer member of the national labor
relations board came from CIO
president Philip Murray. He con
tended that Reilly has a “known
and demonstrated animus toward
organized labor.”
Taft replied: “Mr. Murray does
not seem to realize that the time
has gone by when the CIO can
hope to dominate the executive or
the legislative branch of the gov
ernment.”
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, UP)—The Senate de
votes several hours amending the
aeronautics bill without final ac
tion. It passes a memorial for a
landing strip near Sheep Moun
tain. It also passes an appropria
tion for $10,000 for the game com
mission to be used in restocking
fur game animals, birds, and fish.
The Senate passes House bill 12
appropriating $50,000 for vocation
al education, also a memorial ask
ing the whites be allowed to own
reindeer.
The Senate also passed a memo
rial for a road from Wrangell to
Mill Creek.
In a several thousand word mes
; sage to the legislature, Governor
; Gruening vetoes the Senate net in
I come on mining, stating a
number of reasons t will not as
sist the mining in lustry to recuvt.v
i frjm the doldrums, and will not
produce revenue.
It is a loosely drawn bill and
would have repealed the present
three per cent gross tax on gold
and other minerals, and substitute
i a tax on net profits, ranging from
four per cent in the lower brack
ets to eight per cent in the higher
ones.
There has been no attempt as
yet to override the veto. This, was
the first veto message of the ses
sion.
The House passes a bill to estab
lish a branch of the University of
Alaska in Southeast Alaska. The
Senate refuses to accept.
During the discussion of whites
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Navy Launches
New Cruiser
QUINCY, Mass. (/P)—The navy’s
first air-conditioned cruiser, the
716-foot Salem — 100th ship
launched since Pearl Harbor at
Bethlehem Steel company’s Quincy
yards here—goes down the ways
Tuesday.
Except for the super-cruisers of
the Alaska class, she and her sister
ship, the Des Moines, launched
here last Sept. 27, are the largest
cruisers yet built for the navy.
They are 40 feet longer than their
Baltimore class predecessors.
Many Communists
In Greece
NEW YORK, (S’ — The New
York Times said today that “an
authentic report” received in
Washington stated that Communist
bands in Greece had a strength of
13,000 and sought to “cut Greece
in “half.” The source of the report
was not given.
The Times’ story, written from
Washington by James Reston, said
the immediate military objective
of the armed bands was to estab
lish a carridor from the Albanian
border east to the Mt. Olympus
area on the Aegean sea. In such an i
event, Greek Macedonia would be
sandwiched between the corridor
and Aegean to the south, with
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to the
north and Albania on the west.
Greece, Turkey
Documents To Be
Made Public
(By Alex H. Singleton)
WASHINGTON, (JP)—Under c
retary of state Acheson agreed *<»
day H> open for public inspecf on
secret "background” documents
dealing with the situation in
Greece and Turkey.
He did so at the request of mem
bers of the House foreign affairs
committee, now considering Presi
dent Truman’s proposal to use
$400,000,000 plus military advice
and materials to bolster the two
nations against Communist aggres
sion.
Acheson discussed the Presi
dent’s proposal generally in two
hours of public testimony before
the House group yesterday. When
lie returned for further testimony
this morning, chairman Eaton <R.
N, J.i inquired about the “myster
ious secrecy” of the documents
which were handed to committee
members yesterday for their per
sonal information.
Eaton said the documents have
“seemed to create more interest
than the grave issue before us.”—
that of a major shift in American
diplomatic policy.
Acheson said Eaton had called
his attention to a demand within
the committee that copies of the
document be furnished the. press.
He said the state department now
planned to do just that with the
i likelihood that they would be made
public later in the day.
First Easter Seals
On Sale In Alaska
Preceding Easter Sunday on
April 5, ten thousand envelopes
containing Easter seals are being
mailed to Alaskans in the first sale
of the seals in the Territory for
the aid of crippled children and
adults.
The Easter seal sale in Alaska is
being sponsored by the Alaska
Crippled Childern’s Association, a
member organization of the Na
tional Society for Crippled Chil
dren and Adults. Of the proceeds,
92V2 per cent remain in the Terri
tory for Alaska’s program for care
of crippled, and the other per
cent go to the national organiza
tion, Mrs. Marshall Hoppin, ACCA
president, explained. There are
700 known cases of crippled chil
dren in Alaska needing care which
these funds will help to provide,
she said.
Mrs. Robert Bartoo of Anchor
age is general chairman in charge
of the drive.
Local chairman, Mrs. Donald
Lyle, who also worked on last
year’s campaign, has announced
that the seals will be on sale as
soon as they arrive.
The brightly tinted Easter seal
this year depicts a small boy walk
ing with a crutch up a path to a
shining star, and it bears the plea
“Help Crippled Children.”
Frank Gross, Janesville, Wis.,
high school student, designed the
seal in full colors and received the;
Michael J. Dowling Memorial.
Seeing The
Legislature From
The Gallery
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(By Mildred Hermann)
Governor Gruening yesterday
\ toed the bill repealing the gross
‘ax r<n g Id and substituting there
to c a graduated net income tax
on all mining. He gave afr his rea
sons that the bill was so poorly
drawn that it was fatally defective
and cited the opinion of attorney
general in that connection. Also
stated that the new' net income
tax proposed by it would produce
no revenue for the Territory. The
faults specifically mentioned in the
bill were that it fails to define
gross income on which the net in
come tax would have to be based
and throws the doors open to a
multiplicity of law' suits to collect
the taxes. Also that it allows for
double depletion, once to the oper
ator and once to the lessor and re
peals the severance tax wrhich all
mining states have provided to
compensate the state for loss of its
natural wealth through mining op
erations.
The Senate this morning over
rode the veto by a vote of 13 to 3,
but the House has not yet acted
upon it. It is believed the House
will sustain the veto.
The House this morning refused
to receive a new income tax bill.
The motion losing by one of the
necessary 16 votes.
The Munz-Coffey bill providing
for setting up an aeronautics com
mission with headquarters in An
chorage passed the Senate yester
day after the Senate had heard
testimony from Marshal Hoppin.
president of Alaska Airlines and
John Manders, attorney for the
same, in support of it. Some diffi
culty has developed over the man
ner of electing members of the
commission; Munz holding to his
desire to infringe on the executive
powers in that respect.
The property tax bill and license
revision bill, numbers 2 and 3 re
spectively of the Rivers-Walker
tax program are now on the Sen
ate calendar. They have been de
layed two days because of Walk
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Knot Ships Sail
For Alaska
SEATTLE. (/P)—1The freighters
Rose Knot and Terminal Knot
were en route to Alaska today af
ter installation of temporary port
able electric heating units ended a
dispute over heating facilities yes
terday.
The two vessels, whose depart
ure had been delayed several days,
sailed last night.
Demands by the sailors union of
the Pacific and the marine cooks
and stewards union for large boil
ers and sealed quarters brought a
guarantee by the maritime com
mission that all such vessels would
be equipped with new boilers as
they became available, not later
than next Oct. 15.
A tie-up of 12 “Knot” type
freighters serving Alaska had been
threatened.