Retired Officers
To Be Questioned
(By Howard Dobson)
WASHINGTON, (^—Question
naires are on the way today to
2,835 army and navy officers ask
ing details about the disabilities
for which they were retired with
tax-free incomes.
A House armed services sub
committee investigating disability
retirements started its first mail
ing to a list of former officers re
tired with the ran of colonel—or
its naval equivalt t of captain—
and above.
Chairman Elston (R.-Ohio) has
told reporters the present retire
ment system “is manifestly un-1
fair” and that his committee’s,
study “will find out all we can
abyut the inequities of the regula
tions.”
Officers retired for disability
receive three-quarters of the pay j
for the rank at which they retired.
The money is income tax exempt.
A committee clerk said the army ,
and navy have furnished the com-;
mittee a duplicate of the list ofj
retired officers sent to President t
Truman. It was requested by the
White House after a Senate inves-;
tigating committee dug up the
story of Ma. Gen. Bennett E.
Indian Fires House
In Drunken Rage
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GARDNERVILLE, Nev., </P)—
A drunken Indian’s raging reac
tion to his father’s rebuke was
blamed today for the fiery deaths
of 10 Indians and the critical burn
ing of seven others—tragic ending
i to a Christmas party.
Sheriff James Farrell said Gree
ley Jim, enraged because his fath
er, Willie .Jim, rebuked him for
intoxication, kicked over a stove
i and tossed a gallon jug of gasoline
,into it.
The resulting explosion and fire
trapped the celebrants in a 30 foot
square shack, operated as a gam
bling hall by Greeley Jim, 24, a
paratroop veteran. The Indians,
terrorized, yanked off the door
knob trying to escape. Some
smashed windows and got out.
Greeley Jim, his wife, his moth- j
er, his brother and two sisters
were among the victims. His fath
er escaped.
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It is estimated that it requires
about twice as much power to
crank a gasoline engine at 10 de
grees fahrenheit as at 80 degrees.
Meyers, who was retired for dis
ability.
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Seven Die In
Texas Hotel Fire
ORANGE, Tex. (/P)—Seven per
sons perished in the flame-swept
halls and rooms of a small hotel
here last midnight while six other
guests jumped from windows to
safety.
Only five of the seven dead had
been identified early this morning.
Nineteen persons were registerd
but only 13 were in the hotel when
the blaze broke out.
Three of the bodies were found
in halls and four in rooms. All
were in sleeping garments.
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ARCTIC CLUB
Informal Housewarming on New
Year's Eve at new Arctic Club at
nine o'clock.
Party scheduled for last Satur
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Febduary, March and April.
NOTICE
TO
REAL AND PERSONAL
PROPERTY HOLDERS
The lax rate on Real and Per
sonal Property of the City of
Nome has been set at llA cents
(.0125) by the Board of Equalisa
tion. One-half of the property tax
shall be paid by Jan. 31, 1948 and
the remaining half by June 30,
1948. Taxes become delinquent af
ter the time set in each case, with
a penalty charge of five per cent
[ (5%) and interest at six per cent
(6%).
Board of Equalisation,
By Carrie M. CcLain
City Clerk.
i Publish Dec. 24, 26, 1947.
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Truman Has Large
Choice of Running
Mates to Pick From
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman may wait until after the
Republicans choose their Presiden
tial candidate next summer before
he picks his running mate on the
1948 Democratic ticket.
Democratic politicians in a posi
tion to know what is being dis
cussed at the White House told
this reporter that Mr. Truman is
looking over a large field but will
not make his views on the No. 2
man known until he sizes up the
GOP nominee.
At that point, Democrats are dis- j
cussing a round dozen possible j
candidates.
These include a scattering of
Senators, at least one representa
tive, a couple of gabinet ministers,
a Supreme Court justice and just
about everybody who has raised
his head among the common level
of the Democratic party in the last
few years.
The House member, Rep. John
McCormack of Massachuse 11 s ,
stands out in early speculation
largely because most Democrats
think that the Republicans will go
East, possibly to Gov. Thomas E,
Dewey of New York, or House
speaker Joe Martin of Massachu
setts, for a Presidential nominee.
The theory among those who
have a voice in*Democratic party
affairs* is that Mr. Truman will
try to match with his vice presi
dential nominee the Republican’s
choice of a top man.
Thus, they argue, if the GOP
CPL. ANTHONY J. REED
VISITING PARENTS HERE
Cpl. Anthony J. Reefi is
with the Marine Corps, jstatiqned
at Kodiak, arrived In Nome via
I the Alaska Airlines to spend a 20
day holiday furlough with his par
ents Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reed.
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! TOKYO, </P)—General MacAr
! thur today ordered the Japanese
government to see that sufficient
labor is provided for work on a
! local housing project for depend
ents of occupation personnel.
He said in a directive that the
labor shortage was the result of
“insufficient distribution of food
and clothing rations, lack of trans
portation, and financial difficul
ties of contractors due to delay in
payments by the Japanese govern
ment.”
picks Senator Taft (R.-Ohio> for
its standard-bearer, the President
might well decide that Senator Lu
cas (D.-Ill.) would be the proper
man to help him make the 1948
campaign.
On the other hand, if the Re
publicans cast their lot with a mil
itary hero—and Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower and Gen. Douglas
MacArthur are mentioned in this
connection—the Democrats might
go for Adm. Chester Nimitz or
somebody in the same mold for
their second man.
Gov. Mon Wallgren of Washing
ton, a fishing companion of the
President, already has said he is
in a receptive mood but the party
leaders here pretty well rule him
out unless Mr. Truman puts his
decision on a wholly personal ba
sis. •
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