PAttlee Slashes Free
LONDON. (/P)—Prime Minister
Attlee slashed dollar spending and
defense costs and cut down on free
medical services today to ease Bri
tain’s economic crisis.
The prime minister laid before
the House of Commons a program
which will mean that some food
costs for hungry, rationed Britons
will rise.
Attlee told the House of Com
mons he estimated cuts would
save 280,000,000 ($784,000,000) in
Britain’s 1949-1950 budget. The
budget totals 3,300,000,000. The
British pound now is worth $2.80.
It was devaluted from $4.03 on
Sept. 18.
Attlee said 30,000,000 ot the sav
ings will be in armed forces ex
penses of this nation, which holds
a key position in the west’s Atlan
tic pact defense plans.
The lader of the Labor govern
ment announced he had slapped a
fee on the bold and expensive
public health service instituted by
his party in July, 1948. From now
on, patients must pay a shilling <14
cents* for prescriptions. Hitherto
prescriptions have been free.
The prime minister also lopped
millions from government admin
istration expenses and capital ex
penses for new buildings, hospi
tals, schools and public works.
This economy program is the
government’s first announcement
of policy since it devalued the
pound. The House of Commons
will debate the program Wednes
day and Thursday.
Hi, Kids!
Nell Muncy, sponsor of the Hal
lowe’en surprise says she has been
deluged by questions about the
forthcoming entertainment for
Hallowe’en.
She is giving some clues as to
the identity of the three witches
today. All of the witches are single
and each works some place in
town. Read the following para
graph and you will find three real
clues she states:
“Does writing letters to be sent
on the next plane give you a
headache?”
Several prizes have been do
nated by local merchants.
FISHERIES COMMITTEE
TO VISIT NOME
The itinerary of the sub-com
mittee o fthe Merchant Marine
and Fisheries which leaves Seattle
Oct. 25th, is scheduled to arrive in
Nome on Oct. 27 for a hearing.
The chairman of the committee
is Victor Wickersham of Washing
ton; Thor Tollefson John Allen,
and E. L. Bartlett.
Accompanying the sub-commit
1 tee will be John M. Drewry, the
committee’s counsel, Howard Balt
70. branch of Alaskan fisheries of
fish and wildlife and Joe Flakne
of the Department of Interior.
Enroute to Nome they will have
a hearing at Kodiak. After leav
ing Nome they will go to the fol
lowing places in the order named:
Fairbanks, Barrow, McK i n ley
Park, Anchorage, Seward, Cor
dova, Juneau, Sitka, Petersburg,
Ketchikan, Metlakatla, arriving in
Seattle on November 10.
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Alaska Defense
Construction To
Start This Year
(By Charles D. Watkins)
• (/I*) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (&)— Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska said today that
appropriation of $96,186,922 in
cash and contract authorization
for defense projects in Alaska as
sures start of construction during
the current fiscal year.
The final amount agreed upon
by the House and Senate for the
Territory represents a cut of $37,
156,298 below the amount request
ed but the remainder is expected
to be provided when Congress re
sumes work in January.
He said the total appropriation
will provide the army with $46,
083,355. Included in this will be
| $315,000 for a survey of a pipe line
! from Valdez to supply fuel and oil
to the Interior Alaska Point; $2,
, 000,000 for petroleum storage at
Eielson air force base; $34,253,655
i for housing, design of a 400-bed
hospital warehouse and other util
I ities at Fort Richardson; and $9
514000 for utilities and housing
at Whittier.
The navy gets . $25,414,000 in
cash and contract authorization
It includes $22,616,000 for housing
communications and other facili
ties at Adak; $2,584,000 for exten
sion of runways and housing and
utilities at Kodiak; and $250,000
for an aviation gasoline station in
Alaska.
The air force funds, Bartlett
said, will amount to $24,689,576.
' Of this, warm-up shelters for air
craft will cose $300,000; housing
and utilities at Eielson, $19,292.
880; telephone^ facilities, outside
utilities and other projects at El
mendorf, $2,472,854; other pro
' jects, with the locations not speci
fied. will be weather broadcast
point-to-point communication fa
cilities $393,887; ground control
approach facilities, $289,174; air
to-ground radio station $519,145;
and radar set facilities $174,566.
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Pink Salmon
Demand Increases
SEATTLE. (/Pi—A leading sal
mon broker said Saturday the
short Alaska pack of chums and
reds has increased the demand for
pink salmon at the reduced 1949
pack prices.
The figures released Friday by
the Fish and Wildlife Service
showed the total 1949 pack to be
the biggest since 1944.
A compilation on the prices list
ed by McGovern and McGovern,
however, showed the total dollar
value about $80,000,000, compared
to an all-time record $96,000,000
last year.
The pack by specias was: 963,
655 cases of reds compared with
1.634.466 last year: pinks 2,673,601,
compared with 1.307.256; chums
499,866 compared with 758,457;
cohoes 188,948 compared with
220.594; kings 49,076 and 53,767.
“The chum pack is way down
and is almost sold out” said E. B.
McGovern. “That will strengthen
the pin ksales. Reds are almost
cleaned up. They are not all ship
ped but virtually all are sold.
There are no red tails left on the
primary market. Cohoes also are
short and moving rapidly.”
The prevailing 1949 prices to
jobbers quoted by the broker are:
Reds, $25 a case; Kings $24; Co
hoes $21; Pinks $16 and Chums
$15.
|Gen. Gollins Won't
Deny Marine (lorps
Right To Fight
WASHINGTON, <£>) — Gen. J.
Lawton Collins assured Congress
yesterday that the army is not
plotting to deny the famed Marine
Corps its ‘‘right to fight.”
Collins, army chief of staff, said
‘‘Some of our marine friends have
misrepresented the army’s posi
; tion.
| “We have no slightest purpose
i to impose the army’s will upon a
sister service.”
Collins testified before the
House armed services committee.
The committee is getting now the
counter arguments against navy
j and marine complaints that pres
ent defense policies are lopsides
—that they overemphasize the air
force and strategic bombing while
cutting down on the navy and ma
rines.
Collins was replying to testi
mony that the House group got on
Monday from Gen. Clifton B.
Cates, commandant of marines.
Cates had complained that ap
parently there was an intention
among some high military policy
planners to reduce his fighting
corps to a “police force."
Collins picked up where Gen.
Omar Bradley, chairman of the
policy-making joint chiefs of staff
left off Wednesday in replying to
na vv-marine charges.
Bradley used bitter language at
times. He hit at “fancy D;uis” who
won’t give their all for the team.
And he spoke of “open rebellion”
and declared the public airing of
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Hawaii Strikers
Return To W ork
HONOLULU, i/P)—The way for
peace was opened Saturday on
Hawaii’s strikebound waterfront
for the first time since May 1.
CIO longshoremen were expected
to return to work today at the lat
est.
The long-jam on fringe wage
issues that blocked reopening of
the docks was broken Friday. Em
ployers and the international
longshoremen’s and warehouse
men’s union settled on pay boosts
for non-stevedorinl workers in
three of the Territory’s five outer
island ports.
The break came 15 days after
the ILWU ad the seven stevedor
ing firms settled the main issue—
a wage boost for longshoremen.
They agreed Oct. 6 on a 14 cents
I boost now, and seven cents more
t on March 1. The union struck May
j 1 for a 32-cents hike in the $1.40
basic wage.
The ILWU refused however to
send Hawaii’s 2,000 longshoremen
back to work until the fringe is
sues were settled for ports outside
of Honolulu.
grievances among the armed serv
ices has done "infinite harm" to
national security.
Taking a more soothing ap
proach, Collins said he wanted to
dispel any notion that the army is
pro-air force and anti-navy.
“Nothing,” he said, "is further
! from the truth.”
And he said he thinks the vari
' ous services can work together
and get along all right.
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