May Find Substi
tute For Draft Of
18-Year-Olds
WASHINGTON, (/P) — There
were strong signs today that the
•Senate may receive a substitute
for the defense department plan
to lower the minimum draft age
from 19 to 18 years.
Although the department has
not yet finished its supporting ar
guments before a Senate prepar
edness sub-committee, majority
leader McFarland (D.-Ariz.) told
a reporter there already is talk of
a compromise.
x^utoiic testimony on tne issue
was suspended over the weekend
to allow assistant secretary of de- :
fens i Anna M. Rosenberg and her!
stafl time to gather more facts.
McFarland said two possible
compromises had been mentioned:
1. Allowing a draft of young
men when they reach 18 but re
quiring a years training before
putting them into combat or over
seas service.
2. Limiting actual draft to
yout ha who are 18 years and 6
months .old.
Secretary of defense Marshall i
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and Mrs. Rosenberg contend that
18 year olds are needed to meet
the emergency increases in the
army, air force, navy and marines,
and for launching a long-term
program of compulsory military
training.
Mr::, Rosenberg said Friday that |
President Truman had boosted the
June 30 goal for the combined'
forces to 3,462,000. This was 247,
000 higher than the 3,215,000 per
sons the defense officials asked at
“Mooseneat John”
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Reported Missing
ANCHORAGE, {iP)-John Hed
•berg, 85, known to thousands of
Alaskans and tourists as “Moose
meat John,” is reported missing
between Anchorage and his home
stead at Kenai.
A search was reported being or
ganized at Kenai, where Hedberg
has not been seen since August.
At request of Hedberg’s son,
John, Jr., a U. S. marshal’s depu
ty entered the former’s home at
Mountain View, Anchorage sub
urb. He reported Hedberg’s rifle
and packboard gone, indicating he
had not returned from Kenai.
The son said his father went to
Kenai last summer, returned to
Anchorage, and then went back to
Kenai, “about the time of the
freeze-up.” The Kenai postmaster
said Hedberg had not called for
mail, which included his monthly
Territorial pension check.
Friends expressed fear Hedberg
had an accident during his trip
by outboard motor boat an Cook
Inlet water enroute to Kenai.
Hedberg, one of Alaska’s most
colorful old timers, was noted for
a flowing beard that always cap
tured top honors at the annual
Anchorage Fur Rendezvous beard
growing contest. He had lived 52
years in Alaska. _
Most of the residents in New
Mexico’s 18 Indian Pueblos speak
three languages: English, Spanish
and their ow ntribal language.
start of the hearings last week.
And, Mrs. Rosenberg said, “It
may be upped -again.”
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PONTIAC, Mich., {/P} — Quad
ruplets were ibom last week to
Mrs. Anne Rosembush, 34, wife of
a 36-year-old stonemason.
St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital re
ported the two boys and two girls
and their mother werei “doing
fine.”
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, SALT LAKE CITY, (A>) — The'
city parks commission turned over
■a bass fiddle to. a group of ama- j
teur singers. The instrument had
, been collecting dust since the
1930’s. It had not been used since
a WPA Orchestra was disbanded.
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friends of my late brother, George
Marshall, who have sent so many
cards and letters of cheer to us,
and for the help and comfort they
gave him during his illness.
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3781 West 27th,
Vancouver, B. C.
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and throat specialist will be here
the second week in February.
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make appointments at the M-M-M
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Federal Employees
In Alaska Don’t
Pay Territorial Tax
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proaching for payments on 1950
incomes.
^People who fail to pay income
taxes are inviting a sales tax in
I Alaska,” said Sen. Guimard Enge
breth, Anchorage Republican.
Sen. Steve McCutcheon, Demo
crat, declared the Territory “must
prosecute these people and en
force the tax laws.”
William E. Bittner tax collector
in charge of the Anchorage office
said his staff was swamped in get
ting delinquent tax notices in the
mail, besides notifying taxpayers
of failure to pay on 1949 income,
the notices assess a 25 per cent
penalty plus six per cent interest.
“If the Territory can’t enforce
the income tax,” said Engebreth,
“some other method of raising
revenue must be sought “The Ter
ritory must have money. If one
third or two-thirds of the taxpay
ers do not pay taxes the same at
titude will be taken by others.”
McCutcheon said he hoped the
Legislature would authorize the
Alaska attorney general to estab
lish a branch office here, and as
sign a man full time to enforce
ment of tax laws.
“It is high time we collect all
our taxes,” McCutcheon added. “I
saw a stack of delinquent tax no
tices in the tax office about a foot
high. They were only for those
taxpayers from “A” to “L”. It is
estimated the money involved is
nearly $500,000.”
. Both Senators said they were
informed only a few government
agencies cooperate with the Terri
tory in collection of taxes from
federal employees.
The Times said the delinquen
Heroic Stewardess
! Dies in Fiery Plane
| PHILADELPHIA, (/P) — An at
! tractive 24-year-old stewardess—
only five months in flying service
—died on duty yesterday after
rescuing 10 passengers from the
flaming wreckage of a National
Airlines plane in which seven per
ished.
Mary Frances Housley, five foot
three inch brunette who went to
wark for NAL only last August,
died a heroine in the fire swept
DC-4. The big four-engined plane
skidded over a runway, crashed
into a ditch and burned in land
ing at International airport. Four
other women and two babies lost
their lives.
To the last, Miss Housley, de
scribed by fellow employees as
“the most pleasant person you
ever want to meet,” held one of
the victims — a four-months-old
baby—in her arms. She was cred
ited with leading to safety at least
10 of the 19 passengers who es
: caped with minor injuries.
Survivors of the crash told how
| the black-eyed hostess from Jack
| sonville, Fla., opened the cabin
, door and cautioned them to, “take
it easy.” Then she made repeated
rescue trips into the plane until
she was swallowed up by the
flames.
| The ^ilot, Howell Barwick, and
the co-pilot, Edward Zatarian,
both of Jacksonville, Fla., escaped
uninjured.
cies first became known when
notices were sent to the local of
fice from Juneau.
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