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NEWS IN BRIEF
DES MOINES, (JP)—Luis Carri
zales, 88, became a lather ior ‘he
third time since 1945.
Carrizales and his 23-yeju-old
wife, Mary were the parent- of a
daughter, Sandra in 1945 and a
son, Frederick in 1946. The chil
dren have the black hair and olive
skin of their father who is half
Cherokee Indian and half Spanish.
The latest weighs seven oounus.
15 ounces.
JUNEAU, (JP)—George Har nson
Meeks, now serving a life sentence
* at McNeil Island federal peniten
tiary for the knife slaying early
last year of Clarence J. Campbell,
will be returned here Jan. 15 for
a new trial. The rehearing was or
dered by the Ninth Circuit Couit
of Appeals which said it found ir
regularities in the original hearing.
SEATTLE (JP)—William J. Wag
ner of Anchorage said the federal
communications commission has
approved his purchase of radio
* stations KTKN at Ketchikan and
KINY at Juneau at a total price of
$140,000. Wagner said he was
building a new five-story studio
and office building in Anchorage
for KFQD, which he now operates.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The Vet
erans Administration are giving
more than 13,000,000 war veterans
six more months in which to rein
state their lapsed national service
* life insurance policies. Omar W.
Clark, acting administrator of vet
erans affairs, set the new rein
statement deadline for World War
II veterans for July 31, 1948.
WASHINGTON, </P)—A section
of a downtown apartment building
caved in last night, killing one
person and injuring 11. At least
one man still was missing today.
^ Firemen were digging into the de
bris on the chance that the miss
ing occupant—a man—or other
residents of the seven-story build
ing might be trapped in the ruins.
LAKE SUCCESS. (/P)—Trygve
Lie, secretary-general of the U. N„
announced yesterday he had called
a meeting of the newly created
five-nation Palestine commission
for Jan. 7. The commission was es
tablished by the recent general as
k sembly to supervise the partition
of the Holy Land into separate
Jewish and Arab countries.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, Final pas
sage of the Republican-sponsored
voluntary price curb bill was vir
tually assured today when the
Hfcuse ordered it considered im
mediately under procedure re
stricting amendments and limiting
debate.
MARRAKECH, UP) — 'By Air
mail—The tradition that English
men dress for dinner has been ex
^ ploded in this southern Morocco
resort center by Winston Church
ill. The former prime minister ap
peared in a sumptuous dinirtg hall
wearing a red bath robe, and no
tie. He appeared the next day, at
lunch, in aviation mechanic’s over
alls, also minus a tie. Churchill
came here to write his memoirs.
“Veto Proof”
Income Tax Slash
Bill Introduced
(By Francis M. LeMay)
WASHINGTON, (AP>—A $5,600,
000,000 income tax cutting bill
which would strike 7,400,000 low
income and elderly persons from
the tax rolls was introduced yes
terday by Rep. Knutson iR.-Minn.)
For the 47,000,000 other taxpay
ers the measure, referred to by its
author as “veto proof,” proposes
tax reductions ranging from 58
per cent in the lowest bracket to
10 per cent on higher incomes.
Knutson, chairman of the tax
writing House ways and means
committee, said he expects the bill
to be the first major business
when Congress reconvenes in Jan
uary. The reductions would be
retroactive to January 1.
They would slash tax revenues
by $1,600,000,000 more than the
$4,000,000,000 Knutson measure
which President Truman twice
killed with vetoes earlier this year.
Here is what the new bill would
do:
1. Increase the present $500 per
sonal exemption to $600, thus free
ing 6,000,000 low income persons
from tax paying and providing
[ some reductions for all other tax
payers. This would reduce reven
ues by about $2,000,000,000.
2. Apply the “community prop
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Many Ships
Damaged In
Pacific Storms
HONOLULU </P)—Fresh storms
brewed today in the Pacific, where
| of five ships in distress yesterday
at least three were safe or headed
for a haven.
Uncertainty centered about the
army tanker El Caney and the
j steamship Middlesex Victory, the
latter the latest to radio news of
, trouble.
The 10,172-ton El Caney with 42
aboard reported from south of the
Aleutians, where it lost a rudder
in high seas earlier this week, that
it was encountering winds of hur
ricane force, 70 to 75 miles an
hour.
A message to the port of em
barkation at Seattle said seas were
running high but the navy salvage
ship Bolster and a standby vessel
were “somewhere in the vicinity.’’
Only yesterday the ship had re
ported the weather was moderat
ing and the Bolster was preparing
to tow it to Pearl Harbor. The Ha
waiian sea frontier had no new re
ports from the El Caney since.
Westward, 300 miles off the
Kuriles, the 7,606 ton Middlesex
Victory reported it had 16 cracks
in its deck plates from the week
of Storms and its fore peak was
flooded.
A message picked up by the 17th
naval district headquarters at Ko
diak said the vessel was approach
ing Japan. The Middlesex Victory
sails from Portland. The number
aboard was not reported.
Some 500 miles east of the wal
lowing El Caney, the 7,176 ton
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Arabs To “Fight To
The Finish” Plan
For Partitioning
I »———
(By Carter Davidson)
JERUSALEM, (/P)—Arabs cor
doning Jerusalem’s Jaffa gate yes
terday captured and killed a 30
year-old Jew who tried to slip
through the Arab quarter to rein
force Jews garrisoning the old
1 city’s Hebrew quarter.
Police said the Jew’s bullet rid
dled body was found near St. Ste
phen’s gate several hours after his
capture. A short time later a 16
year-old Arab boy was shot to
death in the same area by assail
ants officially listed as “un
!
I known.”
j These deaths brought to 266 the
toll of fatalities in the Holy Land
since Jewish-Arab strife broke
out there 17 days ago following the
United Nations decision to parti
tion Palestine.
A new Arab threat to wage a
war to the finish against the par
tition plan darkened the shadows
lying over Palestine on the eve of
! the Christmas season.
The Arab League proclaimed in
1 Cairo Wednesday night, at the
close of a long conference of lead
ers of the seven Arab states, its in
tention to fight to the end against
j the United Nations decision to
' split the Holy Land into separate
Arab and Jewish states.
“As passions and selfish inter
ests have prevailed in the United
Nations and closed the doors of
right and justice in the face of the
Arabs,” the proclamation said,
“they are determined to enter the
battle into which they are forced
j and will carry it to its victorious
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Will Present
Alaska Develop
ment Program
(By Mary Lee Council)
I Reports are being heard in
Washington with increasing fre
! quency that the regular session of
; Congress, convening in January,
will be presented with a rounded
program for the development of
Alaska.
All departments of the federal
j government having interest in the
l Territory will, it is rumored, join
| in presenting the program. It has
| even been hinted there may be a
special Presidential message on the
subject.
Previous declarations by the
President and the military to the
effect that proper defense of
Alaska demands the economic de
velopment of the Territory through
increased civilian settlement bear
out this rumor.
It is understood the department
of the interior is spearheading the
program with the strong baking
of all interested departments and
will seek funds far in excess of
anything ever before appropriat
ed, especially with respect to
transportation facilities.
The actual figures are a matter
of secrecy until the President pre
sents his budget message to Con
gress in January.
Bevin Blames
Soviet “Hostile
Propaganda”
(By Alex Singleton)
LONDON, (/P) — British foreign
secretary Ernest Bevin said yes
terday Russia’s “hostile propa
ganda” during the London confer
ence of the Big Four foreign min
isters council had “made it impos
sible to get to grips with the fun
damental principles involved.”
In a formal report to the House
of Commons, Bevin also charged
that Soviet opposition to participa
tion by her neighboring countries
in the Marshall plan” is violating
the free choice of free states and
is an interference with their inde
pendence and sovereignty.”
Just as he told Soviet foreign
minister V. M. Molotov himsell
near the close of the talks Monday
Bevin reported to the House tha1
; “we were met with a number oi
long speeches and unjustified and
false accusations.”
Bevin said “unfortunately, evei
since its creation,” the council has
alternated between carrying ou1
its original purpose of drafting
, treaties for submission to a peace
conference and "being used for en
tirely different purposes.”
“There is no doubt that this has
created despondency in the
world,” Bevin said.
He asserted that any govern
ment to be set up in Germany
must be representative “and not a
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General Strike
Called In Third
Italian City
j
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ROME. </P*—Newspaper reports
said yesterday a general strike had
been called in a third Sicilian city,
’ Caltonisetta, and that new disqr
' ders had erupted in north, south
j and central Italy.
At Catania, a back-to-work
movement resulted in most stores
of that Sicilian city reopening and
in taxis and horse cabs returning
to their stands. However, printers
and barbers joined the strike and
buses and streetcars still were tied
up. Five strike leaders were under
arrest.
Disunion was reported among
the labor unions participating in
the general strike in Palermo, also
in Sicily the vote in the unions’
council of leagues authorizing the
strike was reported as 39 for, three
against, with six absentions and 51
absences.
The Caltanisetta strike was
voted 13 to 16 by the local cham
ber of labor, affiliated with the
Communist-controlled nat i o n a 1
general confederation of labor.
Earlier dispatches said a strike in
that city of 50,000 might be called
to back demands for unemploy
ment relief, the reasons for the
general walkouts in Catania and
Pelermo and earlier in Rome.
In the last five weeks, Italian
disorders have resulted in 23 po
litical killings and the pillaging
and burning of about 100 party
headquarters, most of them of the
extreme right Uomo Qualunque
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MARSHALL PLAN
AT A GLANCE
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WASHINGTON. (Pi—President
Truman asked Congress today to
' commit America to a seventeen
billion dollar European recovery
program and a "bold" defense of
free men against "totalitarian
pressures."
Mr. Truman proposed that this
vast sum be invested over four
and a quarter years in a made-in
America attempt to buy a "just
and lasting peace."
■
<By The Associated Press)
Purpose: To help 16 western
European countries help them
selves back to peace and prosper
ity by June 30, 1952.
Estimated Cost: Between fifteen
billion dollars and seventeen bil
lion, eight hundred million dollars
depending on what happens to
prices here at home.
Who would run it: A $20,000 a
year economic cooperation admin
istrator, a $17,500 deputy and a
$25,000 roving ambassador.
Congress is asked: To authorize
total spending of $17,000,000,000
and provide $6,800,000,000 in ac
tual money for first 15 months.
Outlook: Long hearings and hot
debate over both amount of money
and plans for running program.
Congressional shuddering was
in prospect, too, over the size ot
the bill.
Truman Asks For
17 Billions For
European Aid
(By Sterling F. Green)
WASHINGTON, </P)—President
Truman’s blueprint for European
recovery calls for less help than
the 16 Marshall plan nations asked
for, and higher prices for what
they do get.
Behind the chief executive’s
message to Congress today propos
ing $17,000,000,000 four-year as
sistance program is an exhaustive
government study overhauling the
economic planning done by the
Marshall plan nations at Paris in
September.
Released by the state depart
ment simultaneously with the
reading of the President’s message
to Congress, this study notifies
Europe that the United States can
not supply gs much gyain, fats and
oils, petroleum, fertilizer, tractors
or freight cars as the Paris report
requested.
It also suggests that the Paris
plans be revised further to:
1. Increase Europe’s own ex
ports, even though it might mean
a slower rise in living standards
there.
2. Slow down plans for factory,
power plant and housing expan
sion on the ground that excessive
i “capital formation” means# less
goods for consumers, lower ex
ports. and inflation.
3. Charter 300 ships from the
(United States temporarily, in ad
, dition to the planned purchase of
1200 war-built vessels, and reduce
Europe’s own four-year objective
of 15,700,000 tons of ship construc
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