followers of De Gaulle. France
continued to call up soldiers, an
ticipating continued trouble. Civil
war could develop.
It is noteworthy that French
Communists hold labor captive.
So powerful is the Communist-led
Trade Union Central committee,
that apparently whenever it says
so, a general strike is begun. It is
a pity that as desperately as
France needs peace and produc
tion, its workers are misled into
contributing to the political chaos.
In Italy, also the Communists
failed to win an election and
adopted methods of violence in an
attempt to start a civil war.
What Agitators Want
These things are not surprising.
They are just the ordinary, well
established tactics of the Commu
nists. But to Americans, these
events must serve as warning. If
we want to preserve peace, har
mony, and prosperity, we should
keep our own people well-inform
ed. When Americans see through
these tactics with understanding,
it will be impossible for us to have
enough Communists and “fellow
travelers” to create such violence
in America.
We should pay attention to
trends, lest we give our Commun-1
ist agitators the assistance they!
want: 1. Regulations on industry
that would limit production and
add .to shortages of goods. 2. High
taxes of a nature that limit capi-'
tal flowing into tools of produc
tion, to make it appear the gov
ernment should produce goods.
3. Industrial confusion, creating
misunderstanding and suspicion;
between workers and employers.
The agitators just love those
things!
Transportation |
Legislation To Be
Introduced Soon
WASHINGTON OP)—1The mari
time commission expects to be
able to submit to Congress short
ly a plan for solving the transpor
tation problems of Alaska.
Richard Parkhurst, commission
member, told two members of the
House special committee on Alas
ka Transportation Wednesday he
would let them know shortly just i
when the program for needed
legislation will be sent to the com
mittee.
Parkhurst conferred with Rep.
John J. Allen (R.-Calif.), chair
man and Rep. Tollefson <R.
Wash.) of the committee and gave
them new data.
“Parkhurst told us,” Tollefson
told a reporter, “that he would
give us a suggested outline for
legislation to solve the Alaskan
transportation problem in a short
time.
“Chairman Allen and myself are
anxious to get this material so
that the people of the Northwest
and Alaska will know just what
is planned. We feel the question
should be settled just as quickly
as possible.”
The Alaska transportation prob
lems came to a head last Febru
ary when Seattle companies oper
ating shipping service to the Ter
ritory as agents for the maritime I
commission notified the commis
sion and Congress they would not
continue the operation independ
ently after their ships were re
turned to them by the government
at the end of February.
The House merchant marine
and fisheries committee and the
commission worked out an interim
plan under which the government,
furnishes vessels to the compan
ies at a nominal charter hire un
til June 30.
efore the plan was put into ef
Russia Rebuilds
2,000,000 Homes '
MOSCOW UP) — Two million
rural homes have been built in
devastated areas of the Soviet
Union since the Germans were
driven out, according to the gov
ernment newspaper Pravda.
But 60,000 families in these
areas are still without homes and
are living in dugouts, Pravda
stated.
The Germans during their pe
riod of occupation managed to de
stroy more than 6,000,000 rural
houses, Pravda said.
feet the commission granted the
shipping companies an increase in
rates which they said averaged
35 per cent but which Alaskans
insisted averaged 60 per cent. The
increase is being contested by the
Territory.
Recently examiners of the com
mission reported the rates were
not exorbitant but the commission
has not acted upon those findings.
Snyder Opposes
Senate Aid Plan
WASHINGTON, ^—Secretary
of the treasury Snyder Wednes
day vigorously opposed requiring
the 16 Marshall plan countries to
use their dollar holdings in this
country to help cover costs of the
$6,800,000,000 European aid pro
gram.
“It would be folly” to force them
to do so, the secretary told the
Senate foreign realtions commit
tee.
Snyder said the citizens of these
countries had about $4,800,000,000
in dollars assets on last June 30,
but he added:
It would be difficult to get cash
readily on most of these assets as
some are already earmarked; the
Europeans need the funds to
cover their normal trade and fi
nancial operations; and their
holdings are already below a
“safe” amount needed to keep
their own currencies steady.
Reynolds To Fly
To China To Study
Mountain Peaks
CHICAGO, </P) — Milton Rey
nolds, prominent manufacturer
and famed around-the-world
flier, will leave by Northwest Air
lines for the Orient today to make
plans for a Reynolds-Boston Mu
seum aerial expedition to western
China to determine whether
mountains there rival 29,141-foot
Mount Everest. He is scheduled to
be in Anchorage tomorrow.
Chief interest in the proposed
expedition which originally was
scheduled for the first week in
January, is the little known Amne
Machin mountain range.
•‘Nobody has ever been in there
to make accurate findings,” said
Bradford Washburn, director of
the Boston Museum of Science
and a leader of mountain expedi
tions in the United States and
Alaska. “We’re almost certain to
find the world’s highest unmap
ped range of mountains."
Members of the projected 10
man expedition team said recent
ly that available reports on the
area are skimpy, but some reports
indicated the lowest of three
peaks in the mountain range is
28,000 feet.
Richard Coldthwait, Ohio State
University geologist, said the plan
also calls for a study of rocks that
might indicate oil, metal deposits
or uranium.
The party after Reynolds makes
suitable arrangements, is sched
uled to fly in a C-87 Vultee plane,
piloted by Bill Odom, who flew
around the world twice last year,
once with Reynolds. The base oi'
the expedition would be at Lan
chow, about 1,250 miles from
Shanghai.
They also will watch for any
evidence of U. S. air force person
nel who might have landed in the
wild area during the war.
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