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Tin on Our Doorstep
THE Financial limes of London has forecast that
the world tin shortage is here today due to de
pletion of Malayan deposits and the difficulty of pro
cessing Bolivian tin.
The paper also states that the shortage can be
relieved by releasing some from the giant U.S. stock
pile.
This probably is the first warning that America’s
own supply right on our dorrstep should be readied
for production.
Although the known deposits at Lost River are
vast, financial assistance should be given for further
exploration.
This forecast should accelerate the action on
bills now before Congress to stabilize the price of tin
for domestic production and make it possible for this
industry to be developed in a business-like way.
It isn’t doing anyone any good where it is now
and no one is going to risk capital to develop this tin
potential unless there is some assurance that the price
will not change over a period of several years.
Atty. Gen. Kennedy Urges
Congress to Tighten Up
Laws on Gaming Devices
WASHINGTON Uft — Atty. Gen.'
Robert Kennedy Tuesday urged
Congress to tighten up the iaiws
against interstate shipment of slot
machines and other gambling de
vices.
He saia in a statement oeiore
the House Commerce Committee
that new legislation would “be an
important factor in cutting or
ganized crime down to size.0
Kennedy testified before the
committee in support of legisla
tion which would:
1. Broaden the anti-slot machine
Johnson Law of 1951 to include
any device, made “primarily for
use in connection with gambling.”
Pinball machines played for
amusement only would still be
exempt, he said.
2. Require anyone engaged in
an interstate business inolving:
gambling devices to register with j
the Justice Department.
3. Require anyone who makes,
or buys or leases gambling de
vices to record the manufacture
or transfer of the machine.
A. Set up a numbering system
to authorities could more easily
trace ownership.
Dial 2631 for
Arctic Sanitary
Service
Britain Sells Six Jet
Airliners to Red China
LONDON HD — Overriding
American objections, Britain will
1 go ahead with sales ot six Vis
\ count jet airliners to Red China,
\ government officials report.
They said a reported \J.S. ban’
on an American firm’s supplying
certain parts for the six planes
will hold up the sales since the
equipment can be obtained from
other suppliers.
The British position, sources
here said, is that the gear is sub
ject to such control only in a
quantitative sense because it
would only be disadvantageous to
sell it to the Reds in large num
bers. The airliners themselves are
not embargoed for sale to the
Communist bloc.
The United States and Britain
have long been at odds on the
matter of trade with the Com
munist Chinese regime, which
Britain recognizes and the United
States does not.
SLICED IN HALF , . .
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (f» — A
passenger train sliced through a
big grain truck so deftly yester
day the driver of the truck and
his helper hardly felt it.
Gene Wilson, 29, a trucker from
Sterling, Colo., said there was a
sudden drag after his tractor
crossed the trades. He and Cliff
Radcliff, 30, got out to investi
gate and found a Missouri Pacific
train standing between the front
half of the grain trailer and the
rear half.
Sen. Gruening Claims
Alaska Is Helpless Victim
Of Water Transport Rates
WASHINGTON (*> — Alaska
was described by Sen. Ernest
Gruening as “a helpless victim
of cruelly excessive water trans
portation rates.”
His remarks, Gruening told the
Senate, were prompted by an
Alaska Steamship Co. request for
a rate increase in addition to one
allowed conditionally in January
1960 and still pending before the
Federal Maritime Commission.
“The Alaska Steamship Co. is,
despite its lamentations of poverty
and affliction, a very profitable
business enterprise,” said Gruen
ing.
“This company is, and has been
making money at a rate reflect
ing a handsome return on its in
vestment.”
The pending 1960 request is
for a 10 per cent increase. The
new one is for increases ranging
from 10 to 20 per cent on certain
Alaska shipments.
Lrruemng said Alaska Steam
revenues from water carrier
operations, without adjustment
for earnings from affiliated enter
prises, rose from $16,136,124 in
1959 to $19,239,972 in 1960.
The original order allowing the
10 per cent increase, he said, pro
vided for refunds to shippers if
it were denied. He said it also
called for a special account for
funds accruing from the increase.
Counsel for the state, Gruening
said, “discovered the absence of
the account in the course of hear
ings . . . when testimony was
given by an officer of the com
pany that the special account had
not been established and that, on
the contrary, monies received
from the increased rates were
simply thrown in with commer
I cial revenues.”
Sen, Harry Byrd Claims |
* Could Pay OK Debt
WASHINGTON (M—Sen. Harry
I Byrd, (D-Va.), criticized yesterday,
what he said was the decision to
“write off nearly $2 billion in aid
to Japan for about 25 cents on the
dollar.”
“I recently visited Japan at my
own expense,” Byrd said. “Her
progress has been amazing. She
could pay what she owes us in
full.”
Byrd, Chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, made this
contention in a statement an
nouncing he will ask his commit
tee to make “a full scale investi
gation into the fiscal condition
of this country in all of its as
pects” before it acts on an ad
ministration request to raise the
legal debt ceiling to $308 billion.
“Recently published figures in
dicate the United States govern
ment has spent more than $100
billion in foreign aid,” Byrd said.'
“The people of this nation are en
titled to know exactly where this
money has gone.”
Approve Bank Merger
WASHINGTON m — Comp
troller of the Currency James J.
Saxon approved Monday the
merger of the First National Bank
of Anchorage, Alaska, and the
First National Bank of Juneau.
} So-called ''peace, talks'*
with Communist isadsrs hsvs
boon flolnfl on sines 1M3.
During this 1«-y*ar period
communism h«s made rapid
strides. i. encircling the
K giobt to within 90 miles of;
f the United States.
■ I
m
We should
negotiate ^
with Communist
leaders
* at every *"
opportunity <
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WASHINGTON W — President
Kennedy says failure to reach
agreement with the Soviet Union
on a nuclear test ban was the
l biggest disappointment of his
first year in the White House.
“This*” he said, could have
been “a very important step in
easing tensions.”
The most heartening develop
ment, he believes, was a “great
surge for unity” among the West
ern Allies and in Latin America.
In his first news conference of
the year — five days before the
first anniversary of his inaugu
ration — Kennedy touched on
nearly a subject a minute Mon
day, roaming from the farm prob
lem at home to Laos and Berlin
abroad.
— He hopes for a quick
agreement between industry and
the union to avert a strike and
the hasty stockpiling of steel that
slight impede the nation’s econ
omic recovery.
Farm — Kennedy set a goal of
reasonable balance between farm
output and demand. In hi*; State
of the Union Message, he prom
ised to present Congress a new
farm program geared to the times.
Civil Rights — Kennedy said he
would issue an order against
racial discrimination in federally
aided housing when he believes
it will serve the public interest
and advance the cauae of civil
rights. He claimed more progress
to the field during the last if
months than, the previous eight
years and said hie record may be
of
this year “and at the end of our
term.”
Foreign Trade — “When the
educational job is done,” Ken
nedy declared, the country will
support his request for broad au
thority to negotiate tariff cuts. He
said figures are being prepared
in an effort to persuade Congress
members that his program would
be “most helpful to the United
States.”
Berlin — Despite reports that
U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn
Thompson has made little pro
gress in talks with Soviet Foreign
Minister Gromyko, Kennedy said
the discussions would continue in
an effort to find a solution for
the Berlin crisis.
Kennedy stated his previously
reported belief that an effort to
tear down the Communist-erected
wall in Berlin would have pre
cipitated "a very violent reaction
which might have taken us down • &
a very rocky road.”
U4I. DEFENSE CHIEF
18 "VERY ENCOURAGED"
WASHINGTON m
of Defense Robert McN
turning from a confenm
Pacific commanders,
day he is “very en
the focreaSSbg
South Viet Nam open
Communist dements
However, he also sgid in talk
ing to reporters that Infiltration
and subversion by the Viet Cong
rebels have reached “huge pro
portions.”