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NEWS IN BRIEF
3URBANK, Calif. (/P)—It’s an
other daughter for the Errol
Flynns. The girl, weighing eight
pounds, two ounces, was born to
day at St. Joseph’s hospital. Dr.
Fred Hammerly said mother,
daughter and father were doing
well.
BATAVIA, Java (/P)—A Nether
lands East Indies air force dakota
carrying 24 passengers and two
crewmen was officially reported
missing today on a flight between
Batavia and Bandoeng, Java.
NEW YORK, (/P)—Edward P.
Flynn, 41, executive editor of the
New York Post and the Bronx
Home News, died early today in a
piunge from a window of his 8th
floor apartment during a fire
there. "I’m trapped, I’m going to
jump,” Flynn was heard to call
1 before he plunged from a kitchen
window of the smoke-filled apart
ment, police said.
CHICAGO, UP)—Mrs. Math Lies
of Andale, Kans., the widowed
mother of 14 children, last night
was presented the medal for “The
Catholic Mother of 1947“ by Sam
uel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of
Chicago.
Mrs. Lies, who has operated ;
560-acre farm since the death of
her husband in 1931, said in an in
terview:
“Do things for your children
with a smile, and they will smile
back.” “Be with your children as
much as they can. Pray, because
the Lord is the giver of many great
things.”
i SEATTLE (^P)—A renewed hunt1
for the Marine transport plane I
which disappeared Dec. 10 with 32
men aboard will be undertaken
next week by a party of 21 Marine,
Corps reservists.
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JUNEAU, (>P)—Four men and a
woman were picked up in Wran
* gell Narrows and brought here yes
terday after escaping in a skiff
when the power barge Sondra Lee I
caught fire and its fuel tanks ex- j
ploded.
The vessel, bound from Juneau
to Seatale, caught fire in Wran
gell Narrows, according to owner
Earl Forsyth. Crew members were
Capt. Johnnie Gahrt, Pete Mc
Nulty, George Lane and Mary
Booth, cook.
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JUNEAU, <iP)—Guy S. Prince,
Juneau artist, was sentenced yes
terday to 20 years in the federal
penitentiary for the strangulation
death last October of his wife.
( Judge Harry E. Pratt accepted a J
plea of guilty to a charge reduced
from murder to manslaughter, and
Prince waived his rights to a jury
trial. He has a brother in San j
Francisco. 1
HOMES FOR VETERAN S—Construction of 100 homes for young married veterans of
World War 11 is being rushed (above) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Labor Secy. Would
Outlaw Communist
Party In U. S.
WASHINGTON, (jP)—Secretary
of labor Schwellenbach’s proposal
to outlaw the Communist party in
America stirred Congress today.
Rep. Kersten <R.-Wis.>, heartily
seconded the idea after Rep. Hart
ley <R.-N. J.», chairman of the
House labor committee, promised
to introduce a bill to kill the party.
But a member of the House
committee on un-American activi
ties, who didn’t want his name
used now, said there might be two
objections:
1. Delicate dealings with Russia
might be upset.
2. Outlawing of the party might
merely drive it underground, in
stead of keeping it at least partly
in the open where its enemies can
fight it more easily.
It was in answer to questions by
Kersten that Schwellenbach told
the House labor committee yester
day:
‘‘I think Communists should be
excluded from any type of public
activity, including the right to run
for office, to sit in chambers of
commerce and to hold office in
trade unions. They have advocated
the overthrow of our government
and they should not oe allowed to
have any part in government.”
In Ne\v York, Eugene Dennis,
general secretary of the Commun-1
ist party in the United States, de
clared in a statement that ‘‘The
American people, the followers of
the late President Roosevelt, and
especially the labor movement. ■
were shocked at the demand” of
Schwellenbach.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, Mar. 10 (/PV—A new
sales tax bill was introduced in
the House which would collect one
per cent on gross retail and hall
of one per cent on gross wholesale
business on the same basis as the
present veterans tax, and revenues
which are estimated will be three
m'llion a year will go to the Alas
ka school fund.
The House passed the bill rais
ing all brackets of the graduate 1
fish trap tax on the basis of the
ownership of one firm. The rate
will be $300 each for the first three,
up to eight, $100 for each trap
over fifty.
The Senate killed the House
bill which would have brought
non-resident halibut fishermen un
der a $25 license tax.
The House killed the bill for the
referendum on the question of di
rect election of national commit
teemen.
JUNEAU, Mar. 11 (/P)—A com
mittee substitute of Senate bill
No. 1 to establish the office of ad
ministrator general was definitely
killed by the House Monday after
noon by a vote of 17 to 6. The mea
sure would have taken away all
powers the present governor exer
cises in Territorial affairs.
Many Senators and representa
tives leave on the steamer Denali
Tuesday afternoon to visit the Pio
neers home at Sitka. There will be
no legislative sessions held until
Thursday.
JUNEAU Mar. 1 l.(/P)—The Sen
ate passes Ed D. Coffey’s (D.-3rd>
memorial asking that Russia be
kept from Bristol Bay.
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Seeing The
Legislature From
The Gallery j
(By Mildred Hermann)
The Senate administrator gener-1
al bill was killed in the House at
an evening session last night by a
vote of 16 to tf. No discussion what
I
ever. This may mean the House
will lift its own bill on the same'
subject from the table and try to
pass it, but it is considered doubt-1
iul.
A new sales tax measure was in- ■
troduced in the House yesterday.
This bill would double the present
sales tax and earmark the increase
for school expense. Would be good'
for coming bi-ennium only.
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The House passed the bill this
morning providing that the moth
ers’ allowance for support of de
pendent children be upped to $40
for first child, $25 for each addi-1
tional child. Similar bill was killed
last week in the Senate.
The House also passed the bill
repealing the gross gold tax. It is
now in the Governor’s possession.
The two large delegations from1
each House are leaving today for1
a visit to the Pioneers Home in1
Sitka. There will be only a roll i
call during their absence. It is
likejy there will be no news for
you Thursday because of this.
House killed memorial recom
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mending the appointment of Wal
ker for Governor when Gruening’s
term expires. Vote was 11 to 13.
The House bill providing for a,
referendum on election of national i
committeemn and committeewo- j
man and delegates to national con-,
ventions was defeated in the House
by a vote of 12 to 12.
Senate bill for revamping and|
revising the law relating to party
Truman Asks
Congress To Aid
Turkey and Greece
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(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, </P)—An asser
tion by Senator Vandenberg (R.
Mich>, that the United States may
shoulder world-wide obligations
by helping Greece sharpened Con
gressional attention today on Pres
ident Truman’s report on the Med
iterranean diplomatic crisis.
The President w’ent before a
joint session of the House and Sen
ate at 1 p.m. <EST* today for
a policy statement which members
seem certain to weigh word by
word before they reach any deci
sion to pump American dollars
and prestige into Greece and Tur
key.
There were strong indications
that the form in which Mr. Tru
man couched his proposal to help
the two countries may tip the
scales for or against American in
tervention at the strategic back
door of Europe.
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WASHINGTON, bP)—President
Truman asked Congress today to
supply $400,000,000 and American
military advisers to Greece and
Turkey—Mediterranean bulwarks
against spreading Communism.
In a momentous personal ad
dress to a joint Senate-House ses
sion, Mr. Truman told the legisla
tors that “the foreign policy and
the national security of this coun
try are involved.”
He said the “gravity of the sit
uation” had brought him before
the joint session.
Should Greece disappear as an
independent state, he went on, it
“would have a profound effect
upon those countries in Europe
wnose peoples are struggling
against great difficulties to main
tain their freedom and independ
ence while they repair the dam
ages of war.”
As for Turkey, he said its future
"is clearly no less important to
the freedom-loving peoples of the
world than the future of Greece.’*
Maintenance of its national in
tegrity, Mr. Truman added, “is es
sential to the preservation of order
in the Middle East.”
Mr. Truman did not say how he
would divide the $400,000,000 be
tween Greece and Turkey. It has
been reported, however, that $250,
000,000 would go to Greece and
$150,000,000 to Turkey.
The President added:
"In addition to funds, I ask the
Congress to authorize the detail of
American civilian and military
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conventions was passed in the
Senate yesterday by a substantial
vote. It will likely be killed in the
House.