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NEWS IN BRIEF
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MIAMI, Fla. (#*) — Eight jet-;
propelled army fighter planes [
hopped off at 10:50 a.m. yesterday
for a 970-mile maximum range,
non-stop flight to Andrews Field,)
Washington.
It is one of the longest squad
ron operational flights undertaken
by these 500-mile an hour craft.
The planes belong to the 336th
squadron, fourth fighter group,
and are under the command of Lt.
Col. Nathan H. Abbott of Burling
ton. Vt.
RALEIGH, N. C„ l/P)—Josephus
Daniels, Raleigh publisher and
secretary of the navy during the
first world war died yesterday at
the age of 85. from pneumonia.
SEATTLE, (fl5)—An Alaska Air
lines spokesman said yesterday
that opening of a maintenance
base at Great Falls is under con
sideration but that the line is not
considering transfer of its main
base of operations from Seattle to
Great Falls in which Mayor Hjal
mer C. Johnson said he was in
formed the line would transfer its
maintenance base and make Great
Falls its entry port into the States.
The spokesman said no definite
decision will be reached until af
ter James A. Wooten, president of
the line, visits Great Falls Janu
ary 28.
SEATTLE </P)—John Black, 70,
Yukon Territory sourdough who
helped build Canada’s first trans
continental highway through the
Rockies at Crow’s Nest Pass, B.
C., in 1914, died Tuesday.
He went to the Yukon during
the gold rush and stayed about
eight years, and had lived here 25
years, working as an accountant
until his retirement. His widow,
Bertha, and two brothers, George, |
and William, Vancouver, B. C.,
survive him.
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JUNEAU (/P)—Eugene Lamoore
pleaded innocent Wednesday to
charges of first degree murder
and perjury.
Lamoore has been accused of
aiding Austin Nelson in the slay
ing of Jim Ellen, a merchant, in j
December, 1946. Nelson was con
victed and sentenced to hang but
was granted a stay of execution
pending the outcome of Lamoore’s
trial. •
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JUNEAU (/P)—George Harrison
Meeks, convicted last March of
murder for the knife slaying of;
Clarence Campbell, Seattle, on
Dec. 10, 1945, will be retried
starting yesterday.
Witnesses have been subpoen- j
aed from various parts of the1
United States and also Okinawa. J
The circuit court ordered a retrial i
because of irregularities in the
first trial.
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PHILADELPHIA, </P) — A 22-;
year-old. graduate nurse embarks;
tomorrow on a 4,000-mile trip by
train, plane and dog sled to Ne-!
nana, Alaska, where she will serve
as a missionary nurse—her life
long ambition.
At Nenana, a small village
about 50 miles west of Fairbanks,
Gladys Shreiner will be the only
Congress Will “File
And Forget” “Cost!
Of Living” Tax Cut
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WASHINGTON, (£>)— Republi
cans yesterday pasted a “file and
forget” tag on President Truman’s
proposal for a “cost of living” cut
in income taxes balanced by a
new excess profits levy on corpo
rations.
With even key Congressional
Democrats showing little enthusi
asm for the White House plan, the
majority leadership signaled in
stead for action on a measure by
Rep. Knutson (R.-Minn.> to re
duce income taxes $5,600,000,000 a
year, mainly on a percentage ba
sis.
The House ways and means
committee which Knutson heads
was summoned to take up his bill
tomorrow. Secretary of the treas
ury Snyder was invited as the
first witness.
The White House would:
1. Give each taxpayer a flat $40
a »year reduction for himself and
each dependent dated back to
Jan. 1. Thus a man with a wife
and two children would pay $160
less in 1948. This would remove
10.300.000 persons from the tax
rolls and reduce the taxes of 54,
506.000 others.
2. Recoup the $3,200,000,000 loss
of federal revenue by a new 75
per cent excess profits tax on cor
porations. Corporations with prof
its of $50,000 or less would be ex
empt. Others would receive an
exemption of 135 per cent of their
average 1935-29 profit plus $50,
000.
CIO UAW Will
Seek Wage Hike
DETROIT, (yP)—The CIO UAW
announced today they would seek
a wage increase of 25 cents an
hour and an additional five cents
for other benefits in forthcoming |
negotiations with the motor car
industry.
The demands, approved by the
union’s 22-man executive board. J
are aimed at obtaining a third
round of cost-of-livlng adjust
ments since the war. (
Also included are demands for
a guaranteed weekly wage and a
three weeks vacation for workers
with five years seniority.
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medical authority among some 250
inhabitants who receive medical
care at St_ Mark’s Mission, a chil
dren’s home maintained by the
Episcopal church.
SEATTLE, With two tem
porary patches on her bottom
plates, the Northland Transporta- j
tion company refrigerator ship:
Palisana is expected to leave
Prince Rupert for Seattle.
The Palisana grounded on Bar
rett Point during a heavy fog last
Friday while leaving Prince Ru
pert. Barrett Point is at the en
trance of Prince Rupert harbor.
Northland officials said tem
porary patches were put on No. 2
and No. 3 double-bottom tanks in
a Prince Rupert drydock. The ves
sel will be given permanent re
pairs in Seattle.
“Recovery Aid Or
Draft Necessary”
Says Secy. Royall
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of the army Royall told Senators
yesterday that the alternative to
a European recovery plan may be
drafting men for military service.
Royall made the statement to i
the Senate foreign relations com
mittee in response to questions i
from chairman Vendenberg <R.
Mich.* and Senator Lodge (R.-i
Mass.*.
The army secretary testified
that unless the recovery plan is
accepted, the army and its budget
will have to be “measurably and
immediately” increased.
Asked how this can be accom
plished, Royall said either through
an increase in voluntary enlist
ments, which he said is doubtful,
or “some method of selective serv
ice.”
If we assume that voluntary
enlistments have not produced as
many men as necessary, that
leaves only the draft, Lodge com
mented.
Royall replied: that this is cor
rect.
In other words, Lodge said, we
have the alternative of the Euro
pean recovery plan, or “else going
back to the draft.”
Royall said this is the "logical
conclusion” unless some means
can be found through increaed
compensation or some other
means.
Vets Board Repays
Half Of Loan
JUNEAU, (£*) — A check for
$175,000 was given to the Terri
torial treasurer yesterday by the
Veterans Board in compliance
with a court of appeals decision
upholdnng federal judge George
Folta’s earlier ruling.
Norman Haley, Territorial com-1
missioner of veterans affairs, said
a similar sum will be paid April
30.
The money, to go to the Terri-'
torial treasury’s general fund, was
loaned to the Veterans Board to
facilitate its operations.
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Jewish-Piloied
Plane Fires On
British Plane
JERUSALEM, </P) — A plane
which British military officials
said they believed was Jewish-pi
loted fired on an RAF reconnais-j
sance craft yesterday over Kfaret
zoin, in the mountain area south!
of Jerusalm, where Jaws and
Arabs had been locked in a bloody I
24-hour battle.
The pilot of the reconnaissance
plane reported the Jewish plane
dipped down over a cluster of
Jewish settlements and dropped a
message. The reconnais sance
plane followed it down and was
fired on, but did not return the
fire, the report said.
It was the first time the British
had met any aerial opposition
since the outbreak of hostilities
over partition of the Holy Land,
Truman Favors
Alaska Statehood
In stating that “Our first goal
is to secure fully the essential hu
man rights of our citizens,” Presi
dent Truman, in his State of the
Union address to Congress on
January 7, urged immediate state
hood for Alaska and Hawaii.
“We should also consider our
obligation,” the President said, “to
assure the fullest possible mea
sure of civil rights to the people
of our territories and possessions.
I believe that the time has come
for Alaska and Hawaii to be ad
mitted to the Union as States.”
Two years ago, in addressing
Congress, the President made this
subject part of his speech when
he said, “I urge, too, that the Con
gress promptly accede to the
wishes of the people of Hawaii
that the Territory be admitted to
statehood in our Union, and that
similar action be taken with re
spect to Alaska as soon as it is
certain that this is the desire of
the people of that great Terri
tory.” Nine months after he said
those words, the people of Alaska
expressed their desire for state
hood in a referendum presented to
them in the October, 1946. general
election.
Rent Control Hear
ings Start Saturday
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WASHINGTON, </P> — Senate
committee hearings on legislation
to extend rent controls, now due
to expire Feb. 29, will begin to
morrow.
Senator Cain <R.-Wash.>, chair
man of a banking subcommittee on
rents, yesterday announced plans
for the hearings. He said rent ad
ministrator Tighe Woods will be
among the first day’s witnesses, j
Extension of thees controls is
called for in one section of Presi
dent Truman’s 10-point cost-of
living program. It is one of the
points he appears to have the best
chance of getting from Congress
although there is opposition.
It has not drawn the fire, how
ever, that has been leveled at the
President’s request for price-wage
controls. Sharp opposition to that
cropped out in Democratic ranks
yesterday with Senator Maybank
(D.-S. C.') asserting that “all this
talk about rationing and price
control is only serving to fright
en people and will do more harm
than good.”
Cain told a news conference
that other witnesses scheduled to
appear Saturday include secretary
of commerce Harriman and Sena
tor Myers tD.-Pa.), sponsor of a
rent control bill.
Gandhi Passes 80th
Hour Of Fast
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NEW DELHI, </P) — Mohandas
K. Gandhi passed his 80th hour
of fasting tonight. His physicians
announced he had a good sleep
last night, and added:
“His general condition remains
the same except the kidneys are
not functioning properly and
elimination is defective.”
Russians Planning
Defeat Of Marshall
Recovery Plan
BERLIN, P) — British and
American officials studied yester
day a reported cominform scheme
—identified as “Protocol M”—for
smashing the Marshall plan and
crippling the industrial Ruhr. The
anti-Communist German press,
which published the alleged Com
munist program, denounced it as
a proposed “putsch.”
Details of the plan, first pub
lished by the French-licensed
newspaper Der Kurier late Wed
nesday, said the program, brought
to light in western Germany,
would be coordinated by the com
inform—the Communist “infor
mation agency” set up by Com
munist leaders of nine nations in
Poland last fall—and supported
fully by the Soviet Union.
There seemed little inclination
in either British or American of
ficial quarters to dougt the au
thenticity of the plan. One Amer
ican official said publication of
the plan alone was damaging
enough to the Communist program
in Germany.
"Protocol M" as published by
anti-Communist newspapers in
Berlin yesterday, sets out the op
erational procedure for creating
mass strikes in transport and
metal industries in western Ger
many ‘‘to break the monopolistic
capitalistic attack of the so-called
Marshall plan."
Kodiak Protests
Navy Sales to Civil
ian Employees
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — Repre
sentatives of Kodiak, Alaska,
business men have appealed to
Congressmen and naval officers to
stap sales to civilians at ship’s
stores and navy commissaries at
the naval operating base there.
Mayor Lee Bettinger and L. J.
Norman, Kodiak businessman,
asked that the navy restrict its*
sales to service personnel and
families. Unrestricted sales they
said are “ruining” the business of
regular merchants.
The two representatives said
the navy sells such items to civil
ians as women’s clothing, house
hold utensils furnishings, radios,
toasters, watches, jewelry, cos
metics, cameras, film, luggage,
phonographs, records, and sport
ing goods, and also maintains a
civilian bar at the base where li
quor may be purchased by tht
drink or package.
All these goods, they said, art
sold without tax, at less than
wholesale prices and without
added freight costs which tht
merchants must include in theii
costs. They cited the sale of beet
at $3 a case that costs the mer
chants $4,79 a care to land in Ko
diak.
Even medical service, they con
tinued, is furnished at the base a
a rate of $5 a day for hospitiliza
tion as compared to a $7.50 rah
at the Kodiak hospital. Physician:
services are provided free whih
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