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Nome, Alaska, Monday, October 8, 1951
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OFFICIAL
TAX PENALTIES FOR VIOLATORS OF CONTROLS
Declaring that the nation can safely scrap its econ
omic controls within the next two years, Eric Johnston,
Economic Stabilizer, declares that the government is
getting ready to crack down on producers who delib
erately defy price and wage controls.
Until we get our defenses in order, he warns, we
cannot dare tolerate the “flaunting of controls” by
anyone and serves notice that no quarter will be given
to black marketeers.
Mr. Johnston, one should note, is a businessman of
note. He took cognizance of the criticism of some of his
business friends, declaring that more production, volun
tary restraint, higher taxes and elimination of unneces
sary governmental spending are necessary but declared
that “none is a magic formula to stability of our dollar i
under the inflationary stresses ahead in the next two
years.”
While the government does not plan to terrorize
the people into economic loyalty and seeks cooperation
in the solving of the grave problem, it will not hesitate
to use the severe penalties provided in the law. One
of these, he pointed out, is a provision in the income
tax laws that permits disregard of any costs, as a de
ductible expense in connection with taxes that are paid
by a business in violation of price or wage regulations.
SOVIET TO LOSE MILITARY EDGE
|By the end of 1951, if present plans are completed,
there will be 500,000 Allied soldiers and airmen in
Germany. This will change the entire strategic situa
tion in Europe.
The Russians are generally supposed to have six
armies in East Germany, 'otalling approximately
300,000 men, but these will not be enough to inflict
political pressure upon Western Europe once the dem
ocracies get their forces organized. In addition, the
defense that the Western naxions are erecting in Ger
many and Western Europe will probably be strong
enough to prevent the quick and easy conquest of that
area bv the Russians.
•/
Some time ago, it is reported, the Russians took
the view that a six-to-one superiority in men and ma
chines is necessary for a successful attack. Obviously,
they will have no such superiority in Europe.
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, oppor
tunity transient. —Goethe.
Russia Announces
A-Bomb; Claims It’s
To Defend Russia
By Eddy Gilmore
MOSCOW, (/P)— Generalissimo
Joseph Stalin disclosed Saturday
Russia recently exploded an atom
bomb in a test and plans more test
blasts of “atomic bombs off various
calibers.”
This was the first time the So
viet TJnion had announced it had
exploded an atomic bomb.
Stalin made his revelation in a
front page interview with an un
named correspondent of Pravda,
official newspaper off the Russian
Communist Party.
The announcement was tele
phoned to U.S. Ambassador Alan
Kirk just before he left for the
airport to board a plane for the
United States. The news did not
delay his departure.
Stalin advised American leaders ;
not to “get excited and raise the '
alarm about the atomic bomb ex
plosion in the U.S.S.R.”
The Russian leader said Soviet;
bombs are no threat to American
security because the “the Soviet
Union is not contemplatting an
attack on the United States or any
other country whatsoever at any
time.”
Instead, he said, Russian bomb
developments are for her own de
fense against aggression.
“The testing of atomic bombs of
various calibers will be carried
out in future also, according to the
plan for our country’s defense
against the Anglo-American ag
gressive front,” Stalin said.
In Vista, Calif., Gordon Dean,
chairman of the U.S. Atomic En
ergy Commission, said “Stalin was
only confirming what we (the Uni
ted States'* already knew. But we
will watch with great interest any
future test Russia might make,” j
he said.
Stalin repeated that Russia
wants international control of at
omic weapons but charged that an
American plan put before the Uni
ted Nations was a mockery of
control.
—
Washington Huskies Bow
To Southern Cal 13 to 20
SEATTLE, (/P)—Janitors in the
University erf Washington football
barracks were sweeping up the
pieces of shattered hope today
while Oregon State’s warriors took
a tuck in their belts and prepared
to carry on the Northwest’s bid
for a berth in the Rose Bowl.
Labeled a dark horse in the
Pacific Coast Conference pennant
chase, Southern California walked
on Washington 20-13 and brought
this praise from losing coach
Howie Odell: ‘Greatest team I’ve
seen since I came west—and that
includes Notre Dame.”
Even a 100-yard touchdown
punt return by Hugh McElhennv
to tie the score at 13-13 couldn’t j
quench the U.S.C. fire.
While the air hissed out of the
Washington balloon, Oregon
State’s Beavers rolled to an un
expected 34-6 triumph over Idaho
in their conference opener. Stan
ford, the only other team to win
a conference victory, rolled over
Michigan 23-13 to give Far West
prestige an unexpected boost.
California, the perennial cham
pion and looming again as the
probable titlist, mashed Minnesota
55-14. !
Tiny vegetable and animal or
ganisms called plankton, which
abound in the oceans, are the
basic diet for all animal life in
the seas.
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Ex-Marine Held In Slaying
Of Air Force Cpl.’s Wife
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif., (/P)
—William R. Stewart, 29-year
old ex-Marine, was held Saturday
to answer to superior court on
Oct. 22 on a charge of first degree
murder in the butcher knife slay
ing of the 44-year-old wife of an
Air Force Corporal stationed in
Alaska.
Stewart, of Stockham, Neb.,
did not testify at his preliminary
hearing, but two friends said that
an argument followed a day of
drinking. Testimony developed
that Stewart apparently grabbed
a knife with which Mrs. Miriam |
Lake was preparing food in her
kitchen and stabbed her fatally.
It was testified the drinking
continued when Stewart met Mrs.
Lake and found that it was her
birthday. She invited him to* her
apartment for dinner, testimony
disclosed.
An autopsy report said she was
stabbed 21 times and suffered a
skull fracture.
The slaying occurred Saturday.
Mrs. Lake’s husband, Cpl. John
Lake, 44, who recently returned
from Alaskan duty with the Air
Force, said he is seeking a dis
charge so he can care for their
10-year-old son, Jackson.
Approves $400,000 For
Anchorage Federal Jail
(AP .Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The Sen
ate Appropriations Committee ap
proved spending $5,000,000 to
complete a $15,000,000 revolving
fund for Alaska housing Saturday.
The House had approved $3,500,
000 for the same purpose.
The Senate committee also ap
proved $400,000 for building a jail
at Anchorage. The House had
denied any money for the jail,
for which $950,000 had been
asked.
ERROL FLYNN CLAIMS $244,000
BAR FIGHT DAMAGES
NASSAU, Bahamas, (/P)—A fight
in a Nassau bar last March cost
screen actor Errol Flynn $224,000,
he alleges in a suit filed here Fri
day. The statement of claim filed
with the Bahamas Supreme Court
said Duncan McMartin, wealthy
t
Canadian mine owner, struck the
movie actor in a bar at the Wind
sor Hotel on March 5.
Flynn was recuperating from a
spinal injury at the time, the state
ment added, and the “vicious blow
on the head” aggravated the old
injury.
Defense Dept. Has
Good News For
Some Servicemen
By Frank O'Brien
WASHINGTON, (JP)—The Army
has put a “home by Christmas”
tag on enlisted World War II vet
erans called involuntarily from
the reserve.
Other recent developments on
the military front:
1. The Defense Department
wants Congress to give everyone
in all branches of the armed forces
—from private on up—a ten per
cent pay raise, with an $800 top.
2. Selective Service says draft
boards across the nation will be
gin next week reclassifying child
less married men of draft age.
Chairman Mahon (D-Tex>, of
the House Appropriations Sub
committee, read the House a letter
Friday from Assistant Secretary
of Defense Anna Rosenberg, an
nouncing the new Army release
plan for veteran reservists below
the rank of commissioned officer.
The letter also said—
The Air Force will release all
its enlisted men ordered to duty
from the volunteer reserve after
12 months service.
The Navy is releasing its en
listed men in this category after
about 15 months service.
The Marine Corps will release
by June, 1952, its volunteer and
inactive reserves — both enlisted
and officer—who were assigned
to duty before June 30, 1951. They
will have served an average of
about ten months.
Rev. OTlanagan Installed
Bishop of Juneau Diocese
JUNEAU, (/P)—The Most Rev.
Dermot O’Flanagan was installed
yesterday as the first bishop of
the new Catholic diocese of Ju
neau.
The impressive ceremony ws in
the Church of the Nativity. The
Most Rev. Thomas Connolly, newly
installed archbishop of the new
ecclesiastical province of Seattle,
officiated.
Immediately after the installa
tion, Bishop O’Flanagan celebra
ted solemn pontifical mass. The
new bishop was consecrated in
rites at Anchorage last week.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, (/P)—
President Truman today nomina
ted Francis Xavier Chapados to
be U.S. Marshal for Division No.
4, Alaska, succeeding Frank Barr,
who resigned.
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