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VOL. L. No. 134_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8,'1948 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (/P) — The corps of
engineers office here Saturday
said it had set Dec. 15 as the dead
line for any flood control or navi
gation objections to a highway
bridge across the Chena River
<Slough) about five miles west of
Fairbanks. %
It said application for approval
of the span came from Michael
* Baker, Jr., Inc., for the civil aero
nautics administration.
NEW YORK (/P)—Horse players
who bemoan their befogged judg
ment had their vision befogged as
well Friday.
Fog was so heavy in the seventh
race at the Jamaica race track
that only the start and finish were
recorded in the charts. Colors
were indistinguishable at the quar
ter, half, three-quarters and
stretch.
f Came the eighth and final race
and only the finish could be re
corded. The chartmen couldn’t
even see the start of that one.
f INDIANAPOLIS, (/P) — Lady
Luck was looking the other way
when Herman Walker, who wears
an artificial right leg, was struck
by a truck Friday. Doctors in gen
eral hospital found the 46-year
old Indianapolis man had suffered
a broken leg—his good left one.
TOKYO (/P)—Joseph B. Keenan,
chief prosecutor at the war crimes
trial of Japanese leaders, told Jap
anese newsmen today that Presi
^ dent Truman was pleased with
the way General MacArthur had
handled the occupation.
Keenan, just back from the
United States and a visit with the
President said Mr. Truman had
expressed a desire to meet Mac
Arthur.
i
MANILA, (/P)—Pacific typhoon
“Rita” after a feint toward the
* northern Philippines, headed west
ward north of Luzon and is ex
pected to pass into the China Sea
tomorrow.
Winds up to 70 miles an hour
were reported at its center.
TOKYO, (jP)—The army said to
night it has cancelled some pas
senger sailings from Japan and
^Okinawa to speed the evacuation
of American dependents from
communist threatened China.
Col. Harold Eastwood, allied
headquartaers’ transportation offi
cer, said military personnel due
for leave in the United States or
permanent return there would
have to wait while the movement
^from China is being handled.
SEATTLE, (jP) — The radioac
tive heavy cruiser Pensacola will
be asleep in the deep by the end
of the week off the western Wash
ington shore.
Sniffing back a tear, the navy
announced the atom-spattered
hero will be sunk by guns and
bombs of the first task fleet and
4its air arm.
The Pensacola survived Bikini
^atom bomb tests after heavy war
action at I wo Jima, where a kam
ikaze hit her, and at Okinawa.
The coup de grace is set for
Wednesday.
Truman Will Try
To Revise 1948 j
Income Tax Law
WA SHIN CyTON, (/P) — Rep. j
Eberharter <D.-Pa.>, said today he
looks for President Truman to
urge a revision of the 1948 income
tax cut.
The idea, said Eberharter, would
be to pass more of the savings
along to low income groups by
boosting the levies for those in the
upper brackets.
Eberharter, a member of the
tax-framing House ways and
means committee, also predicted
that Mr. Truman will revive his
excess profits tax proposal.
However, some of the Presi
dent’s advisers are known to take
a dim view of such a move be
cause of its possible effect on busi
ness.
There has been considerable
speculation that before Mr. Tru
man reaches any definite decision
on business taxes he may renew
his plea to industry to lower
prices—and profits.
The President had little to say
about an excess profits tax during
his campaign. But he took several
husky swipes at the income tax cut
bill which the 80th Congress wrote
into law over his veto.
| He called it a “rich man’s” bill.
Eberharter did not say what
sort of revisions he thinks Mr.
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—
Internation’l News
At A Glance —
*
(By The Associated Press)
Saturday, November 6, 1948
The Chinese government said
today its troops scored gains in
the Peiping-Tientsin area of North
China, which is surrounded by
communists.
Three communist brigades, to
taling possibly 30,000 men, were
smashed in a drive on Ihkiach
wang, Red headquarters 170 miles
south of Peiping, government
headquarters said.
• Another 2,000 communists were
reported killed, in the govern
ment’s recapture of Hingcheng, in
the Manchurian corridor. There
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek’s
forces are trying to fight south to
the Great Wall and join up with
troops of the North China com
mand.
South of the Great Wall, Red
Troops were said to have been
cleared from the vicinity of the
Tangshan coal mines, which sup
ply Tientisin and Peiping.
The government report came as
American authorities moved to
evacuate 1,000 American depend
ents from Nanking, Shanghai,
Tientsin and Peiping. The Ameri
cans fear an outbreak of fighting
in the major national cities may
cut off escape for the U. S. citi
zens.
In San Francisco, Lee-Dai-Ming
acting president of the Chinese
Democratic constitutionalist party,
Friday cabled Chiang a demand
that the generalissimo abdicate
immediately. Lee’s party, which
now has headquarters at Hong
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Congress Dems
Expected to Revive
New Deal Program
WASHINGTON, </P)—The Con
gress elected Tuesday is expected
to give much smoother sledding to
President Truman’s new deal pro
gram, battered and often ignored
by the Republican 80th Congress.
That program is topped by such
things as broader social security
coverage, anti-discrimination bills,
public housing, public heal.h in
surance and federal aid for educa
tion.
All these measures had been
opposed in the past by many of
the lawmakers who went down to
defeat in last week’s voting. Those
hold-overs who had been influen
tial in blocking the President will
I by in a much weaker position
; now, for Democrats will be in con
i trol of the law-making machinery.
Ousted from the Senate by the
I electorate were such opponents of
Mr. Truman’s legislation as Ball
(Minn.), Dworshak (Ida.), Rever
comb (W. Va.), Robertson (Wyo.),
Buck (Del.), Brooks (111.), and Wil
son (Iowa). Of the defeated Re
publicans only Cooper (Ky.), gave
the President much support.
In the places of these Senators
when the 81st Congress convenes
next January 3 will be Democrats
Douglas (111.), Chapman <Ky.),
Frear (Del.), Humphrey (Minn.),
Gillette (Iowa), Neely (W. Va.),
Hunt (Wyo.), and Miller (Ida.).
There is nothing in the record of
those who have held public office
previously to indicate that Mr.
Truman can expect anything but
cooperation from them, in general.
House casualties included such
Republican foes of Truman legis
lation as Knutson (Minn.), chair
man of the Tax-writing ways and
means committee; McDowell (Pa.),
a leading figure on the House un
American activities committee;
Ploeser (Mo.), chairman of the
small business committee; Harness
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Stock Market
Takes Bullish
Spurt In Trading
NEW YORK, <JP) — The stock
market headed upward early Sat
urday but the rally soon bogged
down.
Toward the close of trading
gains and losses were pretty well
mixed, mostly within a range of a
point either way.
Soon after the opening, orders
poured into the exchange at such
a rate the ticker tape was unable
to keep up with floor transactions
for a while. Business later slack
ened a bit but the day’s volume
still reached a sizable total.
Financial quarters rep o r t e d
widespread apprehension exists
over possible effects of the new
administration’s policies. Despite
the present high level of economic
activity, which promises to con
tinue for months to come, many
feel that business profits may take
a beating.
Probably the market’s greatest
concern, these sources claim, is an
excess profits tax.
Rep. Thomas
Indicted For Pay
roll “Overt Acts”
WASHINGTON, UP) — Rep. J.
Parnell Thomas (R.-N. J.), chair
man of the House un-American
activities committee, was indicted
today on charges of conspiring to
pad the payroll of his Congres
sional office.
His former secretary, Miss
Helen Campbell, wgs charged
jointly with him by a federal
grand jury.
The jury has been investigating
published charges of payroll ir
regulari ies in Thomas’ office. He
was called last week to testify but
declined to do so.
The indictment accused Thomas
and Miss Campbell of conspiring
l to maintain fictitious employees in
i Thomas’ House office so the sal
1 aries paid to these persons could
j be routed into Thomas’ bank ac
count.
The indictment formally charg
ed Thomas and Miss Campbell
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Union Meets To
Consider Settling
Of Maritime Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Harry
Bridges summoned his CIO long
shoremen—key union in the west
coast maritime strike—to a meet
ing Saturday to consider an em
ployer-approved proposal to end
the 66-day shipping tieup.
The proposal was framed by Al
mon E. Roth, president of the San
Francisco Employers’ council, and
would sidestep the issue of whe
ther the leadership of Bridges and
Hugh Bryson, head of the CIO ma
rine cooks and stewards, is “irre
sponsible.” The waterfront em
ployers association and the ship
owners have said that it was and
refused to re-open negotiations
with the two. Friday they report
edly agreed to Roth’s plan.
R e 1 i able waterfront sources
gave this picture of the Roth pat
tern:
1. It included only the basis for
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South’s Tornadoes
Kill, Injure Many
(By The Associated Press)
Pint-sized tornadoes and de
structive windstorms bou need
through five southern states Fri
day leaving nine persons dead, 67
injured and homes, farm buildings
and crops flattened.
The rural area around Benton,
Miss., got the worst of the tornado
terror. The Red Cross reported six
persons killed and 30 injured
there. The other fatalities occur
red elsewhere in Mississippi and
in Kentucky.
Other tornadoes or high winds
struck at Ripley, Miss., near Vicks
burg, Miss.; at Cedartown, Ga.;
near Elizabethtown, Ky.; near Pu
laski, Tenn.; near Alexandria, La.;
and in Louisiana’s rural Catahoula
parish,* 38 miles northwest of
Vicksburg, Miss.
38 Missing In Plane
Disappearances
SEATTLE, UP) — Three planes
with 38 persons aboard were still
missing along the north Pacific
seaboard Saturday despite one of
the most extensive search efforts
ever held in the area.
More than 40 planes, aided by
ships, were pressing the search
from the Washington and British
Columbia coast to the Aleutians.
The missing planes include a
non-scheduled Pacific Alaska Air
Express airliner missing in the
Sitka-Ketchikan area, with 17
aboard, and two navy craft.
The navy planes are a navy PBY
Privateer from the Kodiak naval
base with 12 men on board, miss
ing in the Aleutians, and a long
range U. S. navy Neptune bomber
with nine men, which vanished off
, Vancouver island.
The airliner and bomber disap
peared Thursday. The Privateer
! has been unreported since Wed
nesday.
SEATTLE, UP) — Radio silence
of any ground clues brought
dwindling hopes today for the saf
ety of 38 persons aboard three
planes missing along the North Pa
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Negro Gunman
Kills Six In Wild
Shooting Fray
CHESTER, Pa. (/P)—Seven men
were killed and six other persons
wounded Saturday by a beserk
gunman who died in a second floor
room where he had barricaded
himself against the bullets and
tear gas of police.
The kunman, a Negro, was not
identified immediately.
Police chief Andrew J. Des
mond, Jr., said he was unable to
learn immediately what touched
off the shooting in a largely Negro
district of this southeastern Penn
sylvania city of 60,000.
Desmond gave this account of
the shooting:
Detective Ellery Purnsley, a
member of the vice squad, was
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GOP Scramble For
Parly Leadership
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A scram
ble for Republican party leader
ship—with Harold E. Stassen
among those taking part—appar
ently is in the making as an after
math of last Tuesday’s election.
Despite an assertion by Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey that he has no
plans to step down as titular GOP
head, his second straight defeat
for the Presidency may leave him
little to say about future Republi
can policies.
Those policies largely will be
shaped by the Republican minor
ity in Congress.
There such familiar figures as
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of
Michigan, Senator Robert A. Taft
of Ohio, Senator Kenneth Wherry
of Nebraska, House Speaker Jo
seph W. Martin, Jr., of Mass., and
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