Senate Takes Up
Anti-Inflation
4-Point Program
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1The Sen
ate banking committed decided
yesterday to go ahead immediate
ly with a four-point anti-inflation
program but delayed action on
President Truman’s request for
standby price-wage and limited
rationing control power.
Chairman Tobey ‘<R.-N. H.» said
the committee will begin consider
ation next week of legislation to
continue rent controls, restore in
stallment buying curbs, tighten
bank credit and possibly increase
margins for buying on the com
modity exchanges.
These four of the 10-points laid
down by Mr. Truman in his pro
gram to combat high living costs
already have been designated as
the subject of hearings by the
Senate-House economic commit
^ tee.
Describing the price-wage and
, rationing recommendations of the
President as “nebulous,” Tobey
told a news conference he expects
to have more information about!
what the administration is seeking
after a conference today with
treasury secretary Snyder.
Tobey said he sees no reason
why the four subjects chosen by
the banking committee for hear
ings which will begin Monday
should not be approved in the spe
cial session of Congress.
He declined to say, however, i
whethel bills may be introduced
soon on the other six points of
the President’s program.
Tobey said he believes the peo
ple are looking to Congress for
quick action to curb the rising cost
of living.
“The American people are get-1
ting bitter and ugly over the tragic
price range under which they are
living today,” the New Hampshire
Senator declared. “The paramount
situation in the country is prices
and we in Congress ought to have
the guts and the intelligence to
find a way to meet this problem.”,
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Siberia Has Many
Times Population
Of Alaska
SEATTLE, (/P) — Soviet Union
colonization of the Arctic and sub
Arctic has peopled that area of
Russia with a population many
times greater than Alaska, Vil
hjalmur Stefansson, explorer and
scientist, said today.
“One of their planned industrial
towns completed during the war,”
he told an interviewer,“ has a pop
ulation of 40,000 persons, more
than the permanent white popula
tion of Alaska.
“We could populate our own
north if we could recover our pio
neering spirit.”
The Soviet Union, instead of
making a secret of its polar ex
pansion, has widely publicized it
in technical and scientific jour
nals, he said. He interprets it as
colonization for its own sake, to
provide self-sustaining communi
ties which will support more and
more colonists.
“However, what the Soviets are
doing in peacetime is also the best
possible preparation for wartime,”
he added.
Visiting here to gather notes for
his “Encyclopaedia Arctica” on
which he is working. Stefansson
said he found it comparatively
simple to collect information he
needs about Soviet trends in the
north.
"The Soviets mail us their sci
entific publications and we trans
Orthodox 'Church
Not To Re-unite
With Russia
SAN FRANCISCO, if?)—Auton
omy of the Russian Orthodox
church in North America was re
affirmed yesterday by five digni
taries representing more than a
million American communicants.
Ending a series of conferences
here, the church leaders rejected
demand for re-union with the
mother church in Russia.
“We acknowledge that there is
a church in Russia and we pray
for the Patriarch. But we here in
America are autonomous,” they
said in a statement.
Concurring in the statement
were his eminence. Metropolitan
Theophilus of San Francisco;
Archbishop Leonty Tu.kevich,
Chicago; Bishop John Zlobin,
Alaska; Bishop John Schehovski,
Brooklyn; and Bishop Niconde de
Greve, South Canaan, Pa.
-*
late them,” he said. “That’s all
there is to it. Sometimes, there is
even an English summary follow
' ing the Russian text.”
His book, planned to run five
million words, will be the first of
its kind and should be completed
by 1949, he said.
“It is hoped that it will answer
any question that an intelligent
i person could ask about the Arctic
1 or the sub-Arctic,” he said.
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