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HIGHLIGHTS
(By Jack Rutledge)
WASHINGTON, (^)—The Sen
id * yesterday picked up debate
on the labor bill where it left off
Friday—with a long talk by Sen
ator Humphrey (D.-Minn.)
Humphrey had talked for four
and a haLf hours—but was just
half through his speech, he said
vhen the Senate adjourned for
the week-end.
Monday the upper chamber took
t.ine off from the labor debate to
n.tify the international wheat
agreement.
Yesterday it shifted back to the
labor program, a highly explosive
is>ue in which the administration
‘rying to repeal the Taft-Hart
U-y act, replace it with one more
f. vorable to unions. Opponents
• a at to either retain the T-H law,
< substitutee one much like it.
A major controversy has been
er how to handle strikes that
imperil the national welta >. The
administration measure proposes
no out-and-out curb. Several sug
gestions have been advanced.
Yesterday Senator Morse <R.
Ore.> offered a compromise plan
w hich specifically bans use of
court injunctions to halt strikes.
'Authorized by the T-H bill) but
■••etmits government seizure of
nts under certain conditions.
’.e House took up a new econ
■ e military pay laise bill
which even opponents concede
has a chance to pass.
The new bill would give more
money to almost everybody in uni
form. But it would not give the
h:gh brass such stiff percentage
i" uses as were in the rejected bill.
The overall cost would hike
military pay around $304,000,000
a year compared with $406,000,000
under the original measure, which
was defeated because it was too
costly.
Jtner developments yesterday:
Clapp—a Senate armed services
subcommittee set out yesterday to
teach an “object lesson” to gov
ernment departments for “pub
1 shing reports that would do
damage to a man’s reputation.”
The group wants to know all
about a report that the army class
Alaskan Mammals
Exhibited In N. Y.
I
; NEW YORK. (/R)—A home-type
deep-freeze unit yesterday took
over the task of preserving meat
from 15.000 to 400,000 years old
from nature’s deep-freeze vaults
in Alaska.
The fossilized animals, with
hair and flesh still attached, went
on display at the American Mu
seum of Natural History.
The display includes a baby
mammoth, horse and musk ox
parts, a section of an adult mam
moth, relative of the modern ele
phant, and a “super” bison, huge
ancestor of the modern bison.
Washed from the frozen tundra
I in the Yukon valley outside Fair
banks, *the specimens were uncov-j
ered in gold mining operations j
lest fall. They were transported i
here by refrigerated cars.
WALLACE WILL HAVE
APARTMENTS ON FRONT ST.
Joe Wallace is busy evcavating
the ground between the Wallace
Hotel and the Bering Sea Club
where he plans to put in a con
crete basement. Four Wallace cot
tages will be moved from Second
Ave., between C and D Streets to
the location and completely mod
ernized into apartments.
—
itied TVA chairman Gordon R.
Clapp as “unemployable” for a
foreign assignment.
The army later apologized, said
it was all a mistake, but the probe
is going ahead, anyway. Witnesses
yesterday included secretary of
the army Gordon Gray.
ECA — The Senate appropria
tions committee studying the Eu
ropean recovery program called
economic cooperation administra
tor Paul G. Hoffman back on the
stand for further testimony about
cutting the multi-billion dollar
spending program. Hoffman is op
posing any substantial reduction.
Senators from cotton states—
most of whom want to cut the
ECA total — yesterday rallied
; against any “drastic slash” in cot
1 ton purchases for Europe. Senator
McCarrari <D.-Nev.) had proposed
among other things a cut of $134.- |
000,000 in cotton and wool pur
chases.
, Violence Flares
In Coal “Holiday”
(Continued from Page One)
ment has no expiration date.
Meantime, Lewis, with one con
tract session over headed for an
other. His lieutenants are slated
to resume negotiations with south
ern bituminous mine operators at
Bluefield, W. Va.
The bushy-browed chieftain of
the powerful united mine workers
union met briefly Monday in Phil
adelphia with U. S. Steel corpora
tion representatives.
Publicly nothing was announc
ed. Lewis said only that he had
agreed to meet again with Harry
Moses, president of the H. C. Frick
Coke Co., coal-producing subsid
iary of the steel firm. The new
date: June 23.
Several hundred pickets were
patrolling the mine fields in an ef
fort to convince non-union work
ers that it’s a good idea to stay out
of the pits this week.
There’s been a little violence in
West Virginia and Alabama. Pick
est blocked U. S. Route 19 near
Clarksburg, W. Va., and upset
several trucks. Officials decided
to “cease operations” at the Wil
sonburg tipple, a strip mine.
A crowd estimated at 300 men
forced the closing of a small mine
near Birmingham, Ala. The mine
employs about 18 or 20 men.
The “holiday” this week will
cost the miners an estimated $20,
000 in wages.
They’ll probbaly get it back
however, with a little extra, by
working five or six days next
week—just before start of their
vacation. Prior to the walkout
miners averaged only two or three
days’ work a week.
SUMMER PLAYFIELD
OPENED MONDAY
The Home Arts Club officially
opened the children’s playfield
Monday with Mrs Sam Widner in
charge as supervisor during the
hours 1:30 to 3:30.
Folowing the field day cleanup
of the field members of sponsor
ing group served hot cocoa and
cookies to over eighty children
present.
Arrangements have been made
for the use of the Boy Scout Club
house for rainy days.
Alaska Steam
Against Canadian
Freight Carrying
SEATTLE, (/P)—Alaska Steam
ship company is not opposed to
legislation that would permit Ca
nadian ships to carry passengers
between Haines, Skagway and
other Southeastern Alaska ports
until June 30, 1950. officials said
Monday.
But, declared F. A. Zeusler, ex
ecutive assistant to G. W. Skinner,
company president, the line is “al
together opposed to granting the
additional privilege of allowing
Canadian vessels to carry freight
between such ports.”
Zeusler, in a letter to Edwin C.
Johnson, chairman of the Senate
interstates and foreign commerce
committee, explained the com
pany’s position. Zeusler said:
“We feel that any action which
would tend to weaken the position
of the American merchant marine j
in deference to foreign shipping
would be a serious lapse of long
and well-established policy of the
United States to promote and pro
tect its steamship facilities.”
Revision of the bill <H.R. 2634>!
to limit Canadian ships to passen
gers only between Alaska ports
was recommended by the Alaska
line.
Alaska Steamship company i
hopes to have sufficient ships to i
handle the complete traffic by
June 30, 1950, Zeusler said.
Meanwhile, there was no word
from Washington, D. C., concern
ing possible revival of the Alaska
intetrim shipping plan. The ship
line has urged reestablishment of
that program under which ships j
would be provided by the mari
time commission at charter rates
of $1 a year with marine insur
ance paid by the commission.
After an Alaska visit to Juneau
last spring, Skinner announced
that Alaska Gov. Ernest Gruening
and other Territory officials had
agreed that restoration of some
form of interim program was
needed for continued water trans
portation.
Skinner is in Alaska again, on
an inspection tour of cannery
ports and cannery agencies.
Arsenic is a metal.
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Three New Alaska
Tax Laws Are
i
Being Challenged
JUNEAU, {#*)—The Territorial
tax commissioner might well set
up an auxiliary office in District
Judge George W. Folta’s court
room.
Three tax measures enacted by
the recent legislature have wound
up there for a test of their consti
tutionality.
Latest court action came yester
day when the judge reversed him
self by allowing August Busch
mann and partners in the Mutual
Trap Co., to intervene in a previ
ous case seeking a preliminary in
junction against the tax commis
sioner.
The original action was brought
by P. E. Harris Co., May 27. Judge
Folta declined to allow Busch
mann and associates to intervene
last week, but gave his approval
today.
Buschmann and the Harris Co.,
seek to restrain the commissioner
from collecting increased license
fees.
The Harris complaint set forth
that on the basis of 1948 opera
tions, the company would be re
quired to pay $132,547 for opera
tions which were taxed only $21,
250 the year before.
Other tax cases Judge Folta
now has under advisement are
one brought by the Alaska Steam
ship Co., concerning the new net
income tax law which allows tax
ing of persons touching in Alaska
ports on regular Stateside-Alaska
runs: and one brought by two
Seattle halibut masters and a fish
processing company testing the
non-resident fisherman’s license
of $50.
In preparing synthetic rubber
for manufacture into finished
products, many other chemicals
are added to improve its charac
teristics. just as with natural rub
ber.
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