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“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME"
VOL. LXXVIIL. NO. 11,944
JUNEAU. ALASKA, MONDAY. OCTOBER 22, ;951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Reds Retreat;
U.S.Tanks
Rake Kumsong
By ROBERT EXJNSON
U.S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, Oct. 22—141—
American tanks rumbled into flam
ing Kumsong today for the second
time in three days as Chinese re
treated before advancing Allied In
fantrymen.
For four hours the M-46 Patton
tanks shot up the former Red
stronghold on the central front.
Then they lumbered back through
mud and heavy mortar fire to their
own lines.
Allied Infantrymen, striking out
of the fog, overran two hill passes
including the highest yet taken
on the 15-mile Kumsong front.
The Reds put up a hot fight on
the ridgeline for a little while.
Then they withdrew, and the
United Nations Infantrymen ad
vanced unopposed through the mud.
Despite the soggy going, the ad
vance was so rapid engineers had a
hard time keeping up with the In
fantrymen.
Forty-two Chinese didn’t want to
retreat. They surrendered.
A front line officer estimated
Red casualties in the ten day
offensive would exceed 15,000.
The Air Force said nine B-29s
today knocked out a new airfield
in northwest Korea Just as the Reds
were getting it ready for use.
The target, at Taechon about 45
miles southeast of the Manchurian
border, was designated “very spe
cial” by the Air Force.
, For a long time, observers had
watched the Reds build the concrete
airstrip from riverbottom sand.
When it was ripe for blasting —
after the Reds had spent the ulti
mate in labor on it and just before
it could be put in use — a high
ranking Air Force officer called
for its destruction.
CAB Under Fire
Over Camelling
* Airline Permit
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — 141 —
A federal order cancelling the per
mit of an independent airline to
fly a route to Alaska came under
fire in the Senate Saturday.
Senator Sparkman (D-Ala) chair
man of the Senate Small Business
i Committee which is investigating
the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB)
* told the Senate CAB had “erred”
in judgment when it macie the
order.
He joined Senator Morse (D-Ore)
in a renewal of accusations that |
CAB at times has applied “stran
gulation regulations” to independent
air lines.
Sparkman named the line in ques
tion as Air Transport Associates.
Morse said the permit cancellation
was part of a CAB program to
' "eliminate the independent air
lines” and had caused “great up
set” to the business lift at Anchor
age and other Alaska cities.
Morse asked Sparkman whether
he feared CAB might get tougher
with the independents while Con
gress is out of session.
Sparkman told Morse he has
instructed the committee staff to
“keep in touch” with CAB affairs
while Congress is away.
TheWashinglon
Merry-Go-Round
(CoDy-'scht. 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
T^ASHINGTON—Historians who
* evaluate the closing clays of the 82nd
Congress will probably make special
note of the confirmation debate,
over Ambassador Philip Jessup be
cause of two things:
1. It marked the high-water mark
in this country of legislation through
fear. Such Senators as Gillette of
Iowa and Smith of New Jersey were
fully aware of the unfairness of the
charges against Jessup but bowed
to their fear of a small, intolerant,
vociferous segement of the Ameri
can public sometimes called Mc
Carthyites. (
2. It also marked a period when
newspaper editors were criticizing
the White House on freedom of the
press, while one wing of tlie press
seriously confused the pubUc by
distorting or suppressing important
facts so necessary to a free press.
Unquestionably the timidity of
certain Senators was due in part
to this confused and poorly informed
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Expect New
Truce Talks
To Start
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, Oct. 22——
Korean truce talks are expected to
resume tomorrow or Wednesday.
Liaison officers today completed
in agreement for reopening nego
tiations after a two-month break
The United Nations command
promptly ratified it.
If the Communists OK it today,
irmistice talks will reopen at 11 a.m.
tomorrow (9 p.m., tonight, EST>.
Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols,
spokesman for the U.N. Command,
aid if Red approval is received to
norrow morning, delegations “may
veil agree on initiating the sessions
tomorrow afternoon.”
The two five-man negotiating
committees will meet in a faded
,’ellow tent at Panmunjom, midway
letwecn oppo.sing front lines. They
will take up right where they left
iff at Kaesong — on the Question
if where to create a demilitarized
cone for the armistice. The Reds
suspended the Kaesong talks Aug.
23. They charged the Allies bombed
the Kaesong neutral zone the day
before but the Allies denied the
charge.
U.N. and Communist liaison of
ficers completed their arrangements
for renewal of negotiations by
signing an eight-point security
pact at 10:45 a.m., Monday.
Three hours and 20 minutes later
the U.N. ratification was delivered
to the Reds at Panmunjom.
It called on the Communists to
renew truce talks “without further
delay.”
Reds Have Many
Planes on Korean
Front Is Report
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — UP) —
The Air Force said today the Com
munists have well over 1,200 planes,
half of them jets, north of the Yalu
river border between Korea and
Manchuria.
Enemy air strength capable of
use in Korea has been steadily in
creased despite Red losses, a spokes
man told a Pentagon news confer
ence. He said that 90 Russian-built
jets have been destroyed or prob
ably destroyed and 204 damaged or
believed damaged by United Na
tions airmen since June 30.
Before today’s conference a sec
recy label was lifted from an off
the-record statement by Gen. Omar
Bradley Oct 5 that U.N. air op
erations have been costing the
enemy about 7,000 trucks a month.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff made the statement on
his return from an inspection trip
to Korea.
Front Door Locked
But Trap Door Open
Means Loss of $80
A little detective work by Ju
neau police soon discovered how
thieves, working in the wee hours
of Sunday morning, broke into a
South Franklin candy store owned
by James Sofoulis.
Sofoulis reported Sunday that his
store had been entered and some
$30 taken from his till and a. cigar
box. He said he was certain he had
locked the door, and there was no
other evidence of a break-in ap
parent—until police started look
ing.
A trap door in the rear of the es
tablishment was found which ord
inarily opened into nothing but
water below. But when the tide was
but, it was found a 10-foot drop
tc the fill had evidently been scaled
with a ladder. Ladder marks could
be plainly seen.
Police advised Sofoulis also to lock
the trap door in the future.
Protests Made on
Vatican Relations
WASHINGTON. Oct. 22—Ufl—A
wave of protest against President
Truman’s decision to enter regular
diplomatic relations with the Vat
ican promised today to touch off
a heated battle when Congress re
convenes.
There was little if any criticism
of the President’s seiection of Gen.
Mark Clark as Ambassador to the
Roman Catholic Church State. The
protests, some of them from *the
pulpit, were from Protestants who
argued that the establishment of
diplomatic relations violates the
constitutional injunction that the
church and state shall be separate.
New and Old Legion Chiefs
Don R. Wilson, Clarksburg, VV. va., attorney wnu was
succeed Eric Cocke, Jr., (center) of Dawson, Ga. as national com
mander of The American Legion, waves to the throng in the con
vention hall at Miami, Fla., with his wife Mary Virginia (ieft).
Behind them is a background of state delegation signs . Wilsons
election climaxed a final convention session. Note part of the Alaska
sign. UP) Wirephoto.
Atom Blast
May Be Birth
Of Baby Bomb
LAS VEGAS, Nev„ Oct. 22-rIS1)—
The Atomic Energy Commission an
nounced that it set off a nuclear
explosion at its Vucca Flat test site
shortly after 6 a.m. (PST) today.
It was not visible nor was )t felt in
Las Vegas' 75 miles away.
The explosion came just as a
bright sun was rising over the
mountains to the cast, and this
may have had something to do with
the inability of observers to see a
flas,h to the northwest.
It was ‘he ixth atomic blast in
Nevada. live others were set off
at the AEC proving ground near
here last winter, all before dawn.
All were brilliantly visible for
hundreds of miles.
The AEC made only this state
ment :
"One of the nuclear detonations |
announced by the Atomic Energy
Commission on Aug. 28 was held
this morning at the Nevada test
site.”
An AEC spokesman confirmed
that the shot was made from the
top of a 100-foot steel tower, similar
to the structures used in the orig
inal A-bomb blast at Alamagordo,
N.M., in 1945 and also later at Eni
wetok.
The absence of any flash would
seem to confirm speculation that the
AEC has developed a smaller nuc
lear weapon. Speculation on such
weapons has included artillery-type
shells and guided missiles with
atomic warheads.
This, however, was a stationary
or fixed-point detonation and would
indicate that the atomic scientists
have developed what might be
termed a baby A-bomb.
Statehood Bills
Up Next Congress
Is Promise Made
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — UPI —
Majority Leader McFarland <D
Ariz) told the Senate Saturday the
statehood for Hawaii and Alaska
will be considered early in the next
session of Congress that begins
January 8.
The House has passed bills to ad
mit Hawaii and Alaska as the 49th
and 50th states several times, but
they always have died in the Senate.
Senator Knowland (R-Calif) to
day asked assurances from McFar
land that the statehood bills would
be considered "early in the next
session.”
He said people of the two terri
tories had been "waiting a long
time” and unless the Senate acted
early in the session there probably
would be no decision again.
Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo),
chairman of the Senate Interior
and Insular Affairs committee
which handles the legislation, said
he would do everything possible to
get the statehood issue before the
Senate promptly, saying:
"People of those areas are en
titled to have a decision. I will
leave nothing undone to have that
i done.”
House Group
Arrives Here
On World Trip
Headed by Representative Herb
ert Bonner of North Carolina a five
man sub-committee of the House of
Representatives arrived in Juneau
Sunday afternoon from Great Falls,
Mont. The party left this afternoon
for Anchorage in a military air
transport C-54.
The Bonner group is a sub-com
r'l'tro of r\ n«;r ^>x|V>Jl't)tur“'
committee. The party expects to be j
away from Washington. D. C. for:
45 days and its itinerary includes
Japan, Korea. Okinawa, Philippine
Islands, China, Singapore, India, i
Tiieste, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Ger-;
many, France and England.
“Hard Working” Trip
Representative Bonner said this
is a "hard-working” trip. The com
mittee will investigate the general
supplv problem not only for Am
erican troops stationed abroad but
also in friendly countries where
the United States is givuig econ
omic support for miUt* 7 and civ
ilian projects.
Only Congresswom an in the group
is Mrs. Cecil Haiden of Indiana.
Mrs. Harden is one of the first Con
gresswomen to ever visit Alaska.
She said that she is very inter
ested in women who are serving in
the armed forces and that she mak
es a point of visiting women in their
quarters and talking with them. She
has been Republican National Com
mitteewoman from her home state.
May Visit Korea
In Tokyo, the group will meet
General Matthew Ridgway and
when he grants permission, they
will travel to Korea. In Paris, the
party will visit SHAPE headquart
ers and interview General Ike Eis
enhower, supreme allied commander
of Europe.
Other representatives , with the
party include: Bill Lantaff <D
Fla) W. J. Bryan Dorn (D-SCi,
George Meader, (R-Mich), and
Charles Brownson, (R-Indj.
Accompanying the sub-committee
as advisers are: Thomas Kennedy,
general counsel for the expenditures
committee; Herbert Roback, staff
member of the sub-committee; Ray
Ward of the Bureau of the Budget;
General C. C. Penn, escort officer
from the Department of Defense;
and John Elliott, munitions adviser
from the State Department.
In honor of the Congressional
group, Acting Governor and Mrs.
Joseph Kehoe, entertained Sun
day afternoon at a cocktail party
at the Governor’s House. Invited to
meet the Congressmen were Ter
ritorial offiicals, and members of
the Juneau, Petersburg and Sitka
Chambers of Commerce.
FROM WRANGELL
Prank and Dorothy Webb, of
Wrangell, are registered at the Bar
anof.
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• Low tide 1:38 a.m., 3.8 ft. •
• High tide 8:38 a.m., 11.6 ft. •
• Low tide 2:12 p.m., 7.9 ft. •
• High tide 7:51 p.m., 12.2 ft •
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Local Government
Purchasing Officers
Heard by Legislators
General satisfaction with the Gen
eral Services Administration pur
chasing and procurement office in
Seattle was expressed at the meet
ing ot the sub-committee of the
House expenditures committee held
this morning in the jury room, fed
eral building, with Congressman
Bill Lantoff, (D-Fla), presiding, and
with Congressmen Charles Brown
son, iR-ind), and Mrs. C'cll Har
den iR-ind), committee members
Also present were Tlr. mas Kero
nedy. general counsel for the ex
penditures committee, and Kay
Ward, of the Bureau of the Budget,
formerly of the Forest Service in
Alaska.
The General Services Adminis
tration, Congressman Lantoff ex
plained, to the representatives of
the federal agencies present, had
teen established to provide govern
mnet agencies with an efficient
and economical supply system.
“The General Services Administra
tion developed from plans of our
committee and we want to express
a continuing interest in General
Services and to improve its opera
tion wherever possible,” the chair
man said.
Testimony Is Given
Present and testifying to the use
by their agencies of General Ser
vices were .Edgar N. Hales, Geo
logical Survey; Marvin Ripke, ad
ministrative officer, Alaska Native
Service; Charles Burdick, assistant
regional forester, U. S. Forest Ser
ice; Vance Blackwell, office engin
eer, Bureau of Public Roads; Milton
Furness, administrative officer, Fish
and Wildlife Service, E. Robert
Haag, supply officer, Alaska Road
Commission; S. H. Lorain, Bureau
of Mines.
General Services Administration
through its Seattle office, does the
combined purchasing of supplies
and equipment for federal offices
in the northwest area and all Al
aska supplies except for emergency
purchases when needed are handled
through the office.
..'they are doing a fine job," was
the expression of agency purchas
ing officers who spend from $25,000
to $2,500,000 a year through the
Seattle GSA.
Only problem voiced by witnesses
before the committee—and the
committee was asking for problems
with which to deal—was delay In
getting delivery—sometimes serious
delays w'hich affected seasonal op
erations of the agencies in Alaska.
It developed that Alaska purchas
ers get no jobbers rates through the
GSA. Going-rates are paid with a
flat surcharge of 6 percent for
handling.
Marine Station
The question of a possible marine
station to be operated in Alaska for
use of federal agencies, and to be
operated by the GSA was discussed.
'1 iie question was raised by Con
gressman Brownson as whether or
not government work could be
done as economically by .use of ex
isting commercial facilities. Brown
son asked an agency head if in
stallation overhead was figured in
his estimate that it cost his service
about half as much to do its own
marine repair work as commercial
work would cost.
"We have found situations where,
economically, the government would
be better off to use existing com
mercial facilities than to maintain
their own,” Brownson commented,
when he learned no overhead was
figured in the agency’s costs.
Another of Brownson’s interests
was whether Alaska had available
any quantities of scrap metal that
might be shipped out for defense
purposes. Inquiry indicated that
cost of shipping and small quantit
ies available would not justify hand
ling scrap at the present.
The meeting was adjourned
shortly before noon to allow the
congressional party to enplane for
Anchorage.
Officer's Revolver
Found by Child;
Result, Baby Killed
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22—'JR—Po
lice officer Andrew J. Bacquet, 32,
was attending a western movie at a
drive-in theater with his family.
The roar of the cowboy-actors’
guns was deafening. Suddenly
Bacquet’s wife stumbled from the
rear seat moaning:
"The baby’s dead — I’m hurt.”
Bacquet’s 3-year-old son, Ronald,
had climbed back into the rear
seat of the car and found his
father’s service revolver. Holding it
in both hands, he pulled the trig
ger.
The bullet passed through the
neck of his 4-month-old brother
Mark and lodged in his mother’s
abdomen. The baby was dead on
arrival at a hospital. Mrs. Bacquet
was in critical condition.
— EMPIRE WANT ADS PAT —
Witnesses Claim Hardships
On Coast Guard Regulations
For Southeast Alaska Waters
Alleging that strict enforcement
of Const Guard regulations and
the classification of Southeast
Alaska waters as coastal waters
rather than inland waters created
many hardships in this nrea, 14
vessel owners and members of Ju
neau, Sitka and Petersburg Cham
bers of Commerce testified at an
informal hearing held tills morning
in the Senate chambers.
Presiding at the hearing was Rep.
Herbert Bonner (D-NC), aqting
chairman of the House merchant
marine and fisheries committee and
chairman of the sub-committee on
the Coast Guard. Bonner stressed
that it was an informal hearing but
that the transcript of the meeting
would be used by his committee.
With Bonner at (he hearing were
Rep. George Meader (R-Michl and
Rep. W. J. Bryan Dorn (D-SC).
Representing the U.S. Coast
Guard were; Admiral Joseph
Greenspun, Capt. F. P. Vetterick,
Comdr. E. C. Hawley of Alaska
Const Guard headquarters; Lt. H.
M. Kelsey, Ketchikan; Capt. G. W.
Callbeck, 12th Coast Guard District,
San Francisco; and Comdr. Paul
Sabonis. Coast Guard headquarters,
Washington, D.C. Captain Call
beck and Comdr. Sabonis are in
Juneau to nold a hearing Wednes
day on Coast Guard regulations.
Problem Outlined
Robert Boochever ana Jerry Mc
Kinley of the Juneau Chamber out
lined the basic problem at the out
set of the meeting. Boochever
stated that the waters of Southeast
Alaska are classified as coastal
waters and that stringent inspection
rules were adhered to although the
boats only travel In protected water
ways. He emphasized that he wan
not objecting to enforcement of
proper safety regulations but that
by requiring the same standards for
Southeast vessels as those ships that
travel on the high seas, the Coast
Guard was working a hardship on
owners of smau vessels.
The regulation that requires a
barge to be inspected each time it
is beached Is illogical because for
many years barges have been the
only means of transporting heavy
equipment and supplies to Isolated
areas where there are no docking
facilities, Boochever said. The
barges are landed on sandy beaches
at low tide, its cargo removed, and
the vessel refloated at high tide.
To require that a barge be Inspected
following each beaching of this
type is an unnecessary hardship, he
said.
Witnesses Appear
That he would have to go into
the boat business to stay in the
logging business was the statement
made by Wally Westfall. Westfall,
j who operates small logging camps on
| BCranof Island, said that the prob
j lem of taking supplies and heavy
' equipment to his camps was almost
1 insurmountable. Uijder Coast
j Guard regulations, tug boats ar
riving at the camps to tow log rafts
I are not nllowed to carry freight and
I as a result when planes cannot bring
in supplies, his loggers have not
had fresh meat or other supplies.
Westfall said that he has heavy
logging equipment stored on the
docks in Juneau and because of the
stringent enforcement of barge op
erations he has not had any way of
transporting the machinery.
Answering a question raised by
Rep. Bonner, Westfall said that he
had never known of a case where
a barge was lost because of beach
ing operations.
Barge Owner Testifies
George Baggen, Jr., said that
he and his father have operated a
barge in Southeast Alaska waters
for the past 15 years but that this
year due to inspection difficulties
the barge has been on the beach.
He said that the barge, built in
1912, had been in continuous service
and had never had an accident
Congressman Bonner said, “In
other words, due to the march oi
progress, the barge that has seen
so many years of service is now
beached." ,
R. J. Sommers testified that he
had purchased the car ferry from
Stock Quotations
NEW YORK, Oct. 22——Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today Is 3%, American Can
113%, American Tel. and Tel. 156 >,
Anaconda 46%, Douglas Aircraft
57%, General Electric 55%, General
Motors 50%, Goodyear 44%, Kenne
cott 81%. Libby McNeill and Libby
8%-, Northern Pacific 56%, Standard
! Oil of California 49%, Twentieth
Century Fox 22, U.S. Steel 41%,
Pound »2.80, Canadian Exchange
| 95.56%.
Sales today were 2,690,000 ehares
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 262.29, rails 81.67, util
ities 45.55.
►—-:—--‘
j Steve Homer, Its original owner, but
j liad found that there was no way
I to put the operation on a paying
basis. The requirement that six
men operate the barge was only
one factor that made Its operation
ccstiy. Before the ferry was even
put in the water this spring, $17,000
had to be spent on required re
pairs. In July, the ferry was pur
chased by the Territorial Board of
Road Commissioners and its opera
tion is now subsidized by the Terri
tory.
Lifeboat Incident
Francis C. Hyde, owner and cap
tain of the mail boat Aeglr that
runs between Juneau and Pelican
City testified that last year he pur
chased a six man life raft to comply
with Coast Guard regulations and
I this year he was required to buy a
$1,500 lifeboat to comply again with
a revision in regulations. He is
not allowed to carry passengers and
there are only two mqn aboard the
boat on its mail runs.
Other witnesses to appear at the
hearing included: Bert Parker, mine
operator from Gustavus; Earl Oh
mer, president of the Petersburg
Chamber of Commerce; Ralph
Reischl, owner and captain of the
Treva C.; G. C. Hamilton, logging
superintendent for Columbia Lum
ber; Walter Sperl, captain of the
mall boat Yakobi; Orrin Ruther
ford, Sitka Chamber of Commerce;
and Larry Fitzpatrick, representa
| tive of the Juneau Vessel Owners’
Association.
The witnesses were introduced by
F-ederl.'k O. Eastaugh. attorney and
, score ary. of the Juneau Chamber, i
Coast Guard Replies
n.imiral Joseph Greenspvn, com
mandant of the 17th Coast Guard
District, said that the Coast Ouard
has throughout its long history en
forced maritime safety measures.
He said that if the waters in South
east Alaska were re-classified as In
land waters It would not change
many features of regulation en
forcement as most regulations are
drafted to apply equally to high
seas and Inland watery.
He said that the record did not
entirely support the thesis that the
waters of Southeast Alaska were j
not hazardous. In the past three |
years, there have been 182 casu-1
aides, with 29 lives lost and 23 ves
sels wrecked.
Rep. Bonner asked Admiral
Greenspun If he believed that the
regulations which prohibited the
long established custom of beach
ing barges was not retarding pro
gress in this area. Admiral Green
spun said that the question could
only be decided by Coast Guard
headquarters in. Washington. The i
; Admiral added that he wasn't sat- I
lsficd with the statistics that had!
I been preserved at the irtefeting.
Comdr. Hawley stated • that there
■ was a misunderstanding on the
barge regulations and that the
Coast Guard permitted beaching
; but not "Indiscriminately.”
j Capt. Sabonls stated that one
' important factor that had not been
j brought up at the meeting was
that while everyone had objected
j to inspection of barges, no owner
had protested that his barge had
been turned down following an in
spection.
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Defense Deparlment
Seeks Steel Scrap;
Will Salvage Scrap
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — <iP —
The Defense Department estimated
today the armed forces are contrib
uting annually ^bout a quarter
billion tons of scrap iron and steel
badly needed In the nation's war
expanded steel industry. More is
being sought.
Along the eastern seaboard is an
estimated 105,000 tons of scrap in
ship wrecks, which will be offered
for private salvage. The same offers
are being made for 40,000 tons of
war-wrecked shipping along the
Alaskan coast.
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• (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU •
• At Airport: Maximum, 39; •
• minimum, 24. •
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■ • (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Partly cloudy with occasional •
I • gusty northeasterly winds •
i • tonight and Tuesday. Low- •
• est temperature tonight near •
• freezing. Highest Tuesday •
• about 40. •
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• precipitation *
• (Past 24 hours ending 1:30 a m. today •
a At Airport — None; •
• since July i—12:52 Inches. •
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Huge Tax
Bill Signed
By Truman
Provides for Individual
Boosts; Further Increases
to Be Asked
WASHINGTON. Oct. 22 — (jfl —
Higher taxes on income and many
things people buy will go into effect
Nov. 1. They are included in the
new tax act expected to increase
the federal revenue by $5,691,000,000
a year.
In signing the tax bill Saturday,
President Truman said this is not
enough and he will call on Con
gress in January to Improve the tax
laws.
Mr. Truman had asked for •10,
000,000,000 in new revenue. He
signed the measure calling for a
lesser amount, he said, not because
it is a good bill but because “we
badly need these revenues to help
pny for the strong defenses we are
building."
The measure provides for Indivi
dual tax boosts ranging from 11 to
12 percent for most taxpayers;
excise (sales) tax Increases on a
long list of items Including liquor,
gasoline and household appliances,
and bigger taxes for corporations.
Mr. Truman criticized provisions
in the law which he said give
wealthy persons new chances for
escaping their share of the tax load
“through such devices as excessively
liberal ‘capital gains’ provisions,
family partnerships, and excessive
depletion allowances on oil and
gas and cyte.fii mineral properties.”
Research to Be
Conducted on
Territory's Coal
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 22-tffl—The
US. Bureau of Mines announced
today that William C. Kern? of
Bridgeport, W. Va„ is being trans
ferred to Anchorage, Alaska, as a
fuels engineer to supervise the samp
ling of coal furnished military In
stallations by Alaska coal mines.
In addition to his responsibility of
checking the quality of coal des
tined for the Army, Navy, govern
ment buildings and other Installa
tions in the territory, Kerns will
conduct engineering research on
coal-mining problems.
Book Goes Down
On Odds Against
Labor Victory
LONDON. Oct. 22—*1—The i bet
ting odds against a Labor govern
ment victory . in Thursday’s na
tional elections were shaved to 0
to 2 today. ' ‘ ;
This was the price quoted by a
reading London handbook which
one week ago was willing to >give
7 to 2 that Prime Minister Attlee
and his followers would not be re
turned to office.
Odds against Winston Churchill
r.nd his Conservatives .lengthened
slightly this morning to 1 to 4. A
week ago they were 2 to 9 in the
betting.
Supreme Court to
Hear Appeal on
Contempt Sentences
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — MB —
The Supreme Court today reverted
itself and agreed to hear an i|t
peal by six attorneys who got con
tempt sentences for their conduct
during the New York trial of the
eleven top Communist party lead
ers.
The six were counsel for the Red
leaders at the trial before U. 8.
District Judge Harold Medina.
Judge Medina gave them sentences
ranging from one to six months;
The Supreme Court first denied
the attorneys a hearing last June.
They then petitioned the court t^o
reconsider the denial, and give thetn
a hearing. This request was granted
today and a date will be set later
for the hearing.
Baranof scheduled to arrive
northbound. Tuesday at 7 a.m.
Freighter Coastal Monarch in
port. . ,, .
•Princess Louise <scheduled to ar
rive early Tuesday evening.
Denali scheduled to soil from Se
attle Oct. 26.