“Far Greater U. S. ,
Taxes” Ahead
PHILADELPHIA, {/P)—Assert
ing that Americans can afford to j
pay “far greater taxes,” the fed-!
Oral reserve board chairman put
before Congress Saturday a plea
for quick enactment of higher
taxes.
“Never has our economy been
more prosperous,” said Thomas B. |
. McCabe. “Never have we been in
a better position to absorb higher
taxes without impairing that
economy.” i
In his address before the Amer
ican Academy of Political and So
cial Sciences Friday night, Mc
Cabe hinted also that “further re
strictive action” can be expected
on credit buying.
Discard “Package”
Appropriations
WASHINGTON, (/P)—By a 31 j
to 18 vote, the House appropria- j
tions committee today junked the,
one-package system of handling
federal appropriations.
It decided to return to the old j
system of handling the budget erf
each agency in a separate bill, i
The one-package plan was tried |
for the first time last year.
Chairman Cannon (D.-Mo.) told J
newsmen 18 of the 20 Republicans :
joined 13 of the 30 Democrats on |
the committee to discard the one
package system. Against discard
ing it were 16 Democrats and 2
Republicans.
The committee also voted ta re
Ban Import Of
Russian “Slave
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Labor” Products
Reports of slave labor In Soviet
Russia 'have caused the first tJ. S.
import ban against a Soviet prod
uct since the two countries estab
lished diplomatic relations in
1933.
The treasury department Fri
day prohibited imports of Russian
crabmeat on the grounds it is pro
cessed by “forced, convict and in
dentured labor.” U. S. tariff law
forbids import of anything pro
duced by such means.
The order was signed by cus
toms commissioner Frank Dow
and approved by Secretary of the
Treasury Snider.
Like other Russian commercial
activities, crabmeat production is
a government-operated monopoly.
In March, 1949, the United States
asked for United Nations investi
gation of charges that vast num
bers of Soviet citizens were held
in forced labor camps. In July of
that year the British delegation to
the U. N. economic and social
council produced docu m e n t s
which, the British claimed, show
ed that 10,000,000 Russians were
slave laborers.
strain Cannon’s authority to set
up sub-committees to handle the
different money 'bills. By a vote
of 25 to 23 it authorized Cannon
to set up the committees but made
his appointments subject to ap
proval of the full committee.
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England Calls Up
More Reservists
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LONDON, </P)—Prime Minister
Attlee announced today Britain
will call up 235,000 army reserves
for 15 days of training this sum
mer.
At the same time the (Royal Air
Force will recall 10,000 officers
and men from its own reserve.
Attlee gave this information at
the start of a statement to the
House of Commons outlining Bri
tain’s plans for rearmament
against Red aggression.
Attlee said the total strength of
this nation’s armed forces will (be
800,000 men 'by April 1. This com
pares with 682,000 in April, 1950.
The army reserves to be called
up this summer will be mainly
class “Z” men—that is draftees
who served between th£ start of
World War II and Jan. 1, 1949.
Attlee said the expanded de
fense program will cost £4,700,
000,000 (or $13,160,000,000 in the
next three years. This compares
with a government estimate last
September of £3,600,000,000 or
$10,080,000,000 for the same pe
riod.
Atonic? Explosion
Startles Las Vegas, j
Nev., Residents
LAS VEGAS, Nev. {AV-Citizens
of this gambling resort Saturday
felt an explosion from the Atomic
Energy Commission’s new testing
grounds some 40 miles from here.
It was believed (to be the sec
ond testing detonation on the des
ert base.
Many in this city believed they
saw an atomic blast.
“It really lit up the sky like a
big sunburst,” said one citizen.
Literally hundreds of people
saw and heard the blast. Many of
them were southern Californians ]
in town for the usual week-end
tourist influx.
The blast was timed at approx
imately 5:30 a m. to 6 am., Pacific
standard time. Gambling casinos
run full blast through the night
here and many people are up at
that hour.
Something mysterious exploded
last week on the testing ground.
AEC officials conceded that:
1. “A detonation did occur” on
the Nevada desert Friday but
wouldn’t say whether it was
atomic or simply a conventional
explosion.
2. The purpose of the explosion
was to try out communications
and other facilities at the former
air force bombing range.
3 Full-scale tests will start with
in two weeks but their results
“will be neither visible nor audible
except under certain weather con
ditions.”
That last point certainly rules
out full-scale atomic blasst. They
can be seen and heard under any
weather conditions.
Observers decided the lack of
audible and visible evidence in
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Pacific Fisheries
Will Be Considered
In Japanese Treaty
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WASHINGTON, (AV-&ep. Mit
chell CD .-Wash.) received assur
ance last week that Pacific North
west fisheries* matters will toe
given consideration in any Japan
ese peace treaty.
Mitchell recently wrote Secre
tary of State Acheson requesting
that a fisheries expert toe included
on the staff of John Foster Dul
les, now in Tokyo discussing pre
liminary phases of the treaty
drafting.
The assurance was in a letter
from Jack K. iMcFall, assistant
secretary of state, which Mitchell
made public. McFall said:
“Mr. Dulles is aware of prob
lems relative to fisheries relations
between this country and Japan.
Although the discussions at this
time with the Japanese are in a
purely preliminary stage, you
may be assured that the views of
the repreesntatives of the fisher
ies industry are being borne in
mind and that upon the return of
Mr. Dulles the industry will be in
formed of developments.”
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the future kests supported earlier
guesses that the range will be
used as a huge, outdoor labora
tory for conducting basic nuclear
explosion studies by producing
minor “atomic fire” bursts.
These presumably ccruld be
used to: (1 Increase efficiency of
nuclear fission explosives; (2) De
velop new trigger mechanisms for
firing the bomb; (3) Develop
atomic weapons in connection
with radio-logical weapons; or
(4) Provide studies of “packaging”
atomic explosives in small con
tainers so they could fit in artil
lery shells or medium-size guided
missiles.
Alaska Construc
tion Workers Get
Wage Hike
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ANdiORAGE, yP) — Six key
building unions were granted
wage boosts approximating 30
cents an hour* at a Thursday night
i labor-management conference, it
was learned reliably Saturday..
Benefitting are carpenters, ce
ment finishers, laborers, operating
engineers, iron workers.
Spurred by the federal govern
ment’s drive to free the Terri
tory's mammoth construction pro
gram from work stoppages, the
unions and Associated General
Contractors began talks early last
week. Some unions not included
in the agreement were reported
still negotiating, among them the
painters, bricklayers, plasterers,
and the hotel and restaurant
| workers. Demands by the electri
cian’s union were reported placed
; in the hands of an arbitration
board.
Plumbers and steamfitters, who
accepted a wage of $3.50 per hour
last summer, were not involved in
| the current talks.
Under the old wage scales team
sters received from $2.30 to $2.95
an hour, laborers $2.40 to $2.70,
; cement finishers $2.78 to $2.90,
iron workers $2.84 to $3.04, car
penters $2.84.
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