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the tax law be afforded all tax
payers.
3- -That classification of tax
payers in various categories is not
in violation of the axiom of equal
protection under the law.
Dimond alleged that the law
did not indicate hostile discrimin
ation against certain taxpayers on
the part of the law.
Paul Dryden, tax assessor of the
Second Division, who attended
the sessions, and returned this
morning stated that the case drew
a large crowd to court and that
the young Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Dimond presented his case
well for the Territory in a direct
and forceful manner. He conceded
that the law was not perfect, but
that few laws are, and lack of per
fection in a taxation law did not
make it less valid and legal.
Air Force Breaks
Yukon lee Jam
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — The U. S.
Air Force whipped the mighty
Yukon River with six 500 pound
bombs^breaking an ice jam that
had threatened to send flood wa
ters coursing again through the
little Arctic village of Fort Yukon.
Villagers reported bv radio yes
terday the river was receding
rapidly after fliers from Ladd Air
Force Base here bombed the ice
pack Saturday.
The flow was said to be nearly
normal with few ice floes in the
channel.
Compared to other years, said
the report by bush pilot radio,
“this is very tame.”
During the ice breakup, water
washed through the main streets
and into the Northern Commer
cial Co., store and post office. Last
year the village had to be rebuilt I
!{;ii! Strike Ends
“Satisfactorily
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tipie unit diesel locomotives. They
said the union withdrew its de
mand on the issue, which has been
in dispute between the brother
hood and carriers for more than
10 years.
Union president David B. Rob
ertson, in a statement, termed as
“satisfactory,” the settlement “of
all issues involved.”
The union said it did not with
draw “entirely” its request for as
signment of a third man on big
diesel locomotives. A spokesman
said the Brotherhood “modified”
its demands.
The strike, originally set for
April 26, started may 10 against
parts of the Pennsylvania, New
York Central, the Southern Rail
way and Santa Fe systems. It was
extended to the Southwestern dis
trict of the Union Pacific Railroad
last Saturday.
Although only some 18,000 loco
motive firemen struck, the walk
out disrupted much of the nation’s
rail transportation and had made
idle some 200.000 workers—most
ly railroad employees.
The break in the strike was an
nounced shortly after 3 a.m. yes
terday, and immediately the union
sent telegrams to striking locals
cancelling the strike order.
The union and carriers had met
continuously for nine hours dur
ing the night and early morning
hours. Sitting in at the peace talks
were members of the National
(railway) Mediation Board.
The main snag in the negotia
tions was the dispute over the
hiring of a second fireman on the
big diesel locomotives.
after being swept away by floods.
Another ice pack was said to be
forming at the junction of the
Porcupine and Yukon Rivers but
is still far below the danger level.
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Search For Missing
Scientist and Pilot
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Missing for
more than a week in the barren
tundra country between here and
the Arctic coast, a navy scientist
and a veteran bush pilot were be
ing sought today.
The scientist’s name was with
held by the navy pending notifi
cation of kin. He is from the Arc
tic Research Laboratory of the
Naval research in Washington, D.
1 C.
The pilot, 39-year-old Bert Gal
breath, was with the Berlin Air
lift— and formerly fiew out of
i Nome. He now owns a ranch in
Arkansas and planned to spend j
his summers flying for Alaska
Airlines.
Nothing has been heard from
the duo since they took off last
Tuesday in light snowy weather at
Tigvarik Island headed for Bar
row. Although their Norseman
plane had gas only for four hours,
it carried firearms and provisions
sufficient to permit the men to
survive many weeks, Alaska Air
lines officials said.
Ten Alaska Airlines planes and
airmen from Ladd Field Air Force
Base joined in the search yester
day. They concentrated efforts in
the vicinity of Umiat, about 250
miles north of here, 'where the
navy has part of its Point Barrow
oil operations. Searchers explain
ed that Galbreath might have se
lected Umiat as an alternative to
| proceeding to Barrow.
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Construction
Electricians At
Anchorage Strike
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ANCHORAGE. f/P) — Negotia
i tions were to resume today toward i
; settling the strike called by about
00 construction project workers of
the International Brotherhood of
i
Electrical Workers fAFL).
The issues are the same as those
[ threatening Fairbanks with a
power tieup, a union shop being
the main demands.
However, the city’s contract
with the union has not expired, so
the local power system is not af
fected, as it is at Fairbanks.
Lou Taylor, business agent of
Local 1547, Anchorage, said the
union did not plan any picket
lines unless contractors start hir
ing non-union electricians.
“If we establish a picket line I 1
don’t believe any union man
would cross it.” he said. “We don’t
want to halt building, we want a 1
contract. No contract, no work.”
Major construction projects
here and at Port Richardson are
affected. John Majures, business
manager of the Puget Sound
chapter, National Electrical Con
tractors Association, arrived yes
terday to take part in negotiation
talks.
Big game animals found in Utah
include mountain lions, deer, elk.
pronghorn antelope, bighorn
sheep; bobcats, bears, lynx and
coyotes.
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GOP Counters
Truman With
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President Truman’s Chicago ap
peal for the ouster of “obstruc
tionists” and his advice to the Re
publicans that they “come out for
something” stirred the 150 cam
paigning to new warmth yester
day.
Republicans sent Senator Taft
of Ohio into the battle, to reply
at 10:30 p.m. <EST> last night with
what the GOP thinks Mr. Tru
man’s spring tour of the west in
general; and his climatic speech at
Chicago Monday night in particu
lar.
Between the speech-for-a-speech
exchange, Republicans were vot
ing yesterday in an important and
apparently close primary in Penn
sylvania. The outcome may have
a strong bearing on the 152 politi
cal situation, when a President is
to be elected.
Taft will have the same radio
outlets (ABC, NBC, MBS, CBS>
that Mr. Truman had when he
told cheering Democrats in Chica
go, and the nation at large, that
Democrats “will carry on the
fight” for:
<1) International cooperation;
(2> Taft-Hartley law repeal; (3)
Improved social security laws; (4)
Federal aid to education; (5) Mid
dle income housing help from the
government; (6) Health insurance;
<7» Natural resources develop
ment; (8) Improved farm price
supports; (9) Aid to small busi
ness. and (10» Civil rights laws.
That was Mr. Truman’s formal
summary. Departing from his
text, he gibed at the Republicans;
“I wish the opposition would
come out for something and be a
real opposition. A great political
party cannot survive by being
against everything.”
Pilot Of Airliner
Which Killed Nine,
Will Be Tried
—
I SEATTLE, (/P)—A jury of two
1 women and 10 men was selected
yesterday to hear Civil Aeronau
tics Administration c h a r g e s
against the pilot in an airliner
crash which killed nine persons.
The defendant is James E. Far
ris.
The CAA in a complaint filed
by assistant United States attorney
Vaughn Evans charged Farris
with making an instrument ap
proach to Seattle-Tacoma airport
at a time when the ceiling was be
low the minimum prescribed for
that type of craft.
It also charged him with mak
ing a faulty landing.
Farris denies violating the CAA
regulations, saying he was making
an emergency landing. He con
tends that one of the engines was
faulty and that the craft’s brakes
were inoperative.
The plane, operated by Alaska
Airlines, ran off the runway,
down an embankment and crash
ed on the highway on Nov. 30,
1947.
The case, being heard in federal
judge John E. Bowen’s court is a
civil action and involves a maxi
mum penalty of $1,000 on each of
two counts.
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Saturday, May 20
9:00 P.M.
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