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NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU, (/P)—Atty. Aimer J.j
Pet rson, Anchorage, filed his,
candidacy Saturday for Territorial
Attorney General on the Republi
can ticket.
TACOMA, Wash. (/P) —Grave
side services for Mrs. Ellen Chase,
who died Sunday at her home in
Cordova, Alaska, will be held at
Mountainview cemetery here. The
body was flown to Seattle Friday.
Mrs. Chase, a former Tacoman,
was the wife of Dr. William H.
Chase, mayor of Cordova. Services
will be under the auspices of Fern
Chapter, Order of Eastern Star.
CLEVELAND, </P)—A. F. Whit
ney resigned from the Progressive
Citizens of America Saturday be
cause “I cannot go along in its
endorsement of a third party.”
Whitney, president of the pow
erful Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, has been a member of
PCA’s board of directors, and sat
on the stage when Henry A. Wal
lace, PCA’s Presidential candidate
recently spoke here.
VANCOUVER. B. C. </P)—A. L.
Hager, president of the New Eng
land Fish company and the Cana
dian Fishing company and prom
inent in international fishing cir
cles, died here Friday. He had
been ill for 10 days.
Hager was the first chairman of
the International Pacific Salmon
Fisheries commission created in
1937 and served again in the past
last year.
He is survived by his widow,
Hilda, and five daughters.
LONDON, iff) — The Daily
Graphic said Saturday Princess
Elizabeth and Phince Philip have
decided to decline all official invi- i
tations to visit the British Com- J
monwealth or the United States
this year.
The Graphic said the decision
was reached during a recent royal
family gathering.
GULFPORT, Miss. (/P) — Five
cars of the fast Louisville and
Nashville streamliner Humming
bird were derailed, and the pas
sengers shaken up Saturday in an
accident five miles west of Gulf- ^
port.
SEATTLE, UP) — Capt. Rodney
L, Rossart, 54, who served in the
army transport service in Alaskan
waters during the war, died Fri
day after a two-weeks illness. A!
son Howard W. Rossart, lives in
Bellingham and another, Charles
Rossart, is in Alaska.
WASHINGTON, UP)—'Two Re-'
publican Congress members today!
introduced legislation authorizing,
the Truman administration to set1
up meat rationing machinery, in-,1
eluding printing of ration books.,
The bill sponsored by Senator,
Flanders (R.-Vt.) and Rep. Javits
(R. N. Y.) provides up to $1,000,- ]
000 to allow the agriculture de
partment to make all necessary
preparations. ,
Under terms of the measure,]
President Truman is authorized to
submit a detailed meat rationing
program to Congress. It would go
Warmer In Nome j
Than In States !
(By The Associated Press'
While Nome was enjoying the
comparative warmth of a temper
ature of 32 degrees above zero.
and one of the mildest winters in
many years, winters coldest wea
ther in the States, dropping the
mercury to a 43 below zero read
ing at qne place in Wisconsin,
number the central states Satur
day, and sections of the south and
southwest were hit by snow, freez
ing rain and sleet.
Early, however, only seven
deaths were attributed to the wea
ther. Three Kentucky men were
killed near Bowling Green when
their auto skidded on an icy high
way into the path of a Louisville
and Nashville railroad train. One
death from freezing was reported
in Tennessee and another in South
Carolina. Two deaths resulted
from the frigid temperatures
which gripped Wisconsin.
At Ladysmith, Wis., a ranger
station reported a low of 43 below.
The thermometer plummeted to
36 below at Bemidji, Minn.
The worst cold wave of the sea
son which caused at least 25
deaths and cut sharply into fuel
oil supplies had moderated con
siderably in the midwest today
but it still held a firm grip on
eastern and southeastern states.
The Chicago weather bureau
said subzero readings were some
what general in the New England
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Congress Will
Sustain Veto Of
Income Tax Slash
• ;
WASHINGTON, UP) — Rep.;
Doughton (D.-N. C.) predicted
Saturday that Congress would
sustain a veto of the present Knut
son bill to slash income taxes
$5,600,000,000 a year.
Nevertheless, the North Carolin
ian told a reporter, he thinks
President Truman is wrong in his
stand that there should be no
overall reduction in federal rev
enues. I
And if the Senate “moderates
the GOP tax measure after it'
leaves the House it might muster i
the necessary two-thirds majority
to override a Presidential turn
down, the veteran Congressional
tax expert said.
As matters now stand, Dough-,
ton declared, the bill introduced
by Rep. Knutson (R.-Minn.) and
the President’s own plan for a
“cost of living” income tax cut
offset by a new levy on corpora
tions present “a choice of two
evils.”
“Thus far I have seen no justi
fication for restoration of an ex-1
cess profits tax,” he said. "There
should be a reasonable tax cut,
but not as much as in the Knutson
bill.” Treasury experts say the
GOP proposal actually would re
duce federal revenue by $8,300,
000,000.
into effect automatically unless
disapproved by both the Senate!
and House within 30 days.
Special Session
Not Probable
JUNEAU (/P)—Governor Greun
ing, returned from trips to the
Interior and to Ketchikan, says
there is little prospect of a special
legislative session.
He said he had sounded out
opinions on the subject during his
visits in various sections, and will
keep his mind open on the sub
ject.
The governor said the Terri
tory’s financial situation was
made less shaky when the veter
ans’ board was ordered to repay
$350,000.
He said the situation of main
taining the university of Alaska
was relieved by $25,000 loans from
Alaska Airlines, Capt. Austin E.
Lathrop, and Alaska Steamship,
and by promise of other loans from
business men or organizations.
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Sam Tucker Has
Crackup Near St.
Michaels Creek
Sam Tucker rented a plane
from the Bronson flying school
about noon yesterday expecting to
be gone about an hour on a flight
to Safety. When he failed to re
turn on schedule, Lester Bronson,
observing the poor visibility and
icing weather conditions, called
Willie Foster and they both went
up in Foster’s plane to search for
Tucker.
The plane was located from the
air in the vicinity of St. Micheal’s
Creek and from the air looked
like a total wreck, stated Mr.
Bronson.
They returned and notified C.
A.A. who in turned called Capt.
Gammon of the 10th Rescue.
Two weasels were immediately
dispatched by the A.I.D., with
S/Sgt. Joe Jennings of the 10th
Rescue to locate the plane from
the ground. At the same time
George O’Connor left town with
a snow mobile. The weasels went
as far as the Snake River Bridge
and then turned north for about
seven miles to the St. Michaels
Creek area where they found the
plane upside down and Sam
Tucker lying face down on one
wing.
S/Sgt. Jennings found Tucker s
leg to be fractured in several
places and put on temporary
splints and also took care of other
injuries before putting him in the
weasel and taking him to the Base
hospital.
Tucker stated that he thought
he got in an air pocket as the
plane seemed to go out from un
der him. That fact and poor visi
bility, as well as icing conditions,
are reported to be the cause of
the accident. Tucker stated that
when he came to he was hanging
by his safety belt.
Lester Bronson, owner of the
plane stated that Tucker was
lucky to be alive as the plane
could easily have caught fire.
The weasels from the Base and
the snowmobile from town each
going a different route arrived at
the wreck at about the same time.
Sam Tucker will be taken to the
local hospital today it is reported.
Baruch Gives
11-Point Domestic
Economic Plan
t
WASHINGTON, <iP) —Bernard
M. Baruch laid before Senators to
day an 11-point program for
“peace-waging” including a “roll-[
back” in food price, no wage |
raises and no tax cuts for two!
years.
Baruch was a witness before the
Senate foreign relations commit
tee on the Marshall plan for mul- i
ti-billion dollar aid to Europe. He
endorsed it, but told the Senators:
“Dollars alone will not save Eu
rope nor win the peace."
Baruch then proposed his do-'
mestic program, saying “the time
has come to organize—to mobil
ize—for peace. It cannot be put
off safely any longer. The time for
courage and decision is here.”
These are the major things he
proposed in that “mobilization:”
1. Reduce major food prices “in
exchange for guaranteeing farm
ers an assured price for their
crops for the next three years.”
2. Stabilize wages in return for
this rollback.
3. Restore the excess profits tax
1 at 50 per cent of wartime levels.
4. Continue rent control “with
1 provision only for clearly justifi
able increases.”
5. Postpone tax reduction for
two years and then cut levies
gradually over a five-year period.
6. Put off all less essential state
and federal public works, giving
priority to “increasing production,
housing, schools, hospitals and
other essential needs.”
7. Set up a capital issues com
mission to review all public and
private projects “with a view to1
deferring less essential projects.”i
8. Establish a Congressional
“digging committee” which would
cut government costs.
9. Increase production.
Ask Elinor to Cam
paign for Truman I
_ !
WASHIN GTON, </P) — The
Democratic high command has
asked Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
to campaign for President Tru
man’s election next November
and has received assurances of her
willingness to cooperate.
Confirming this, chairman J.
Howard McGrath told a reporter,
he also expects James A. Farley. I
who broke with the late President
Roosevelt in 1940 over the third |
term issue, to become active again
during the campaign.
Farley already has made one
speech, in which he prophesied
that Henry Wallace’s independent
Presidential venture may end ‘‘as
a one-man party.”
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Find Aleutian Mail'
Mate’s Body
—
KETCHIKAN (>P)—The lifebelt
clad body of one man was found
on the beach near an overturned
outboard skiff in Popof Strait
west of Kodiak Island and three
other men are feared lost, the
coast guard tender Cedar radioed
Army Pilot Lands
Disabled Plane At
Nome Air Base
Saturday the Nome Air Base
had a visit from three generals
and ten colonels it is reported, ar
riving from Anchorage in a C-54,
on officials business.
The generals were Major Gen
eral J. H. Atkinson, Air Com
mander of the Alaska Division,
Major General E. E. Partridge
from headquarters, and Brig.
General D. V. Gaffney of Air Ma
teriel.
Pilot Capt. Robert E. Copley is
being highly praised by army of
ficials for bringing in the party
with one of the four motors “fea
thered” due to mechanical diffi
culties and the brakes not func
tioning due to low hydraulic pres
sure. He is reported to have made
a beautiful but difficult “tail low”
landing. The party returned to
Anchorage yesterday.
Russia Expected
To Object To Bi
zonal Occupation
BERLIN. MP) — Russia is ex
pected to soundoff sharply against
the new British-American bizonal
occupation setup in western Ger
many when the allied control
council meets tomorrow, but offi
cials of the two western powers
predicted an outright break with
the Soviet Union would be avert
ed.
These officials and Germans
themselves wondered, however,
whether the Russian occupation
commander, Marshal Vassily So
kolovsky. would demand that the
U. S., Britain and France pull out
of Berlin, on the ground that the
new bizonal set up nullifies four
power agreements for control of
Germany.
The council has not met since
the London conference of foreign
ministers broke up. Subsequently
the U. S. and Britain established
their new joint government setup
in Western Germany, giving Ger
mans more power in the govern
ment of the economically merged
zones.
The establishment of bizonal
has been attacked bitterly by the
Soviet press, which suggested that
the western allies would be asked
to withdraw their forces from
Berlin.
Sokolovsky is reported just back
from an extended visit to Moscow
and there has been considerable
speculation as to whether he re
ceived new policy orders from the
Kremlin.
Friday.
The dead man was tentatively
identified as Beak Benge, Browns
burg, Ind., mate on the Aleutian
Mail. The Aleutian Mail went
aground last Monday on Unimak
Island but 15 crewmen and pas
sengers were rescued the next day
by the Cedar and taken to Sand
Point, on Popof Island.
The three other men in the skiff
were reported to be John Ander
son, the owner Bernard Anderson,
and Reynolds Gilbert, all of
Squaw Harbor.