Debt, Taxes, Both
Can Be Reduced
'oi.tmued F om Page One
4 ough-going revision of our entire
tax system.”
In his April 9 letter Hanes de
clared that if Congress went
through with contemplated spend
ing cuts, the treasury would take
in from $9,500,000,000 to $11,000,
000,000 more than it would spend
in* the 18-month period ending
June 30, 1948.
The House has approved a six
billion dollar cut in President Tru
man's $37,500,000,000 budget es
^ timates, the Senate a $4,500,000,000
reduction. The two branches have
not agreed on a common figure.
Secretary of the treasury Sny
der, in testimony yesterday and
Tuesday, stood pat on .his assertion
that no tax cut should be made
this year, but that any surplus
should be applied against the pub
lic debt.
W. T. Sherwood, assistant com
missioner of internal revenue,
told the committee late yesterday
that some of the features of the
House bill would be hard to ad
minister. He also asked that Con
gress allow at least 60 days be
tween enactment and the effective
date of any tax reduction to per
mit distribution of revised with
holding tax instructions.
Congress Headache
To Alaskans
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approve statehood.
“Alaska,” he said, “is the only
Gibraltar of the air age. It seems
to me at a time when Russia is
building up her population on her
side of the Bering Sea we should
build up the population of Alaska.”
Robert Atwood, publisher and
editor of the Anchorage Times, al
so favored statehood. He said any
opposition might be explained by
the fact that Alaskans always ex
press their own views and not one
always agree.
“If you ask ten Alaskans the
same question,” the editor said.
• “yoi^probably will get ten differ- j
ent answers.”
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Household equipment: furniture
kitchen ware, dishes, curtains, rugs
drapes and the like, can be pre
duced from petroleum plastYcs.
Steamship Lines
Ask 35 Percent
Rate Hike
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tified him of approval of the con
tracts. The operators, he said, will
sign them next week.
M organ said it is understood the
army will use the commercial ves
sels to transport its goods to Alas
ka.
The form of the contracts was
worked out by a House sub-com
mittee headed by Rep. Jackson <D.
Wash.) at a time when the steam
ship companies threatened to dis
continue service to Alaska unless
they received a rate increase.
Delegate Bartlett said Ralph
Rivers, attorney general of the
Territory, will file a petition in a
day or so asking the commission
o suspend the rates pending a
hearing.
“I think the proposed increase is
entirely out of order,” Bartlett
said. “This is a fact especially in
view of the substantial govern
ment assistance to be furnished
the companies in the way of ships
and insurance. We shall ask the
commission not to allow the in
fcrease.”
Davliglit Saving
Varies In States
<By the Associated Press)
The pattern of areas that will go
on daylight saving time April 27
will in places resemble a patch
work quilt, many communities
having exercised their option to
differ with their neighbors on
whether to make the time change.
In General, the time change will
be made on a statewide basis, with
most of the tsates planning to re-,
main on standard time being in
the south and west.
While most areas making the
change will do so at 2 a.m. on Sun-'
day, April 27, at least one—New
burgh, N. Y.,—will wait until May
27 to turn the clocks forward. All
but a dozen villages in New York
will go on daylight saving.
A doctor asked his woman pa
tient her age. “I never tell anyone
my age,” she answered coyly. ‘‘But
as a matter of fact, I’ve just reach
ed 21.”
“Indeed,” said the doctor. ‘‘What
detained you?”
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June For
December Couple
SEATTLE, i/P)—A couple with a
combined age of 165 years will be
married near here tomorrow after
a long distance correspondence ro
mance of more than four years.
Mrs. Alice .1. Wiles, a sprightly
83-year-old widow from Gratiot
county, Michigan, said she accept
ed the mail proposal of Peter Pe
terson, 82, ten days ago and flew
here for the ceremony. Their cor
respondence started through Peter
son's “lonely” advertisement in a
magazine.
Her deceased husband was a
Methodist minister. Peterson, a
widower, was a former locomotive
engineer. They will be married in
a small church down the street
from his home in the rural com
munity of Des Moines.
BILL BOUCHER TO STATES
ON BUSINESS TRIP
Wilfred Boucher left today on a
short business trip to the States,
via the Alaska Airlines.
GM-Auto \\ or kers
Reach Agreement
DETROIT. The CIO United
Auto Workers settled with Genera!
Motors Corp. last night for an 11* 2
cent basic hourly wage increase,
but UAW president Walter P. Reu
ther said the Union had gained ‘‘a
total economic package well over
15 cents.”
The new agreement—being pre
pared for corporation and union
signatures today—was expected to
set a pattern for the auto indus
try's wage drive this year.
Under its terms 220.000 General
Motors production workers will
get, in addition to the hourly boos*
pay for six holidays which the cor
poration said is equal to an addi
tional 3x/i cents an hour, and new
vacation benefits.
Helium, found with natural gas,
now enables deep sea divers to re
main under water for a- long as
six hours.
Gestapo Chief
Sentenced to Hang
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, UP)—
Gestapo chief Harold Wies was
sentenced to death by hanging
Thursday, for the destruction of
Lidice.
Nine other Gestapo men were
convicted of participating in the
Nazi razing of the little Bohemian
village and the slaughter of its
men. They were sentenced to pris
on terms ranging from nine to 30
years. One other was convicted,
but no sentence pronounced as yet.
Lidice, destroyed in 1942, in re
prisal for the assassination of Rein
hard Heydrich, Hitler’s ‘"protec
tor” of Czechoslovakia, became a
world symbol of Nazi savagery.
A. L. WRIGHT HERE
ON BUSINESS TRIP
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Warren, Soule Fairhurst of Ta
coma, and other related lines is in
town on a business trip.
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