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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
S32 BILLION
 TOP BUDGET
 IS COP AIM
Slash in Army-Navy Funds Foreseen-Room Left
 for Tax Cutting

WASHINGTON, Feb. T Repub- lican. Congressional leaders were said today to be near agreement on a s32, Q0o0o0,O00 top limit for next years budget-a figure they con tend would leave S7,0000O0000 fol tax cutting and debt payments.
 The 20 percent across the board tax reduction plan would cost s. 500,000,O00.
 Persons in a position to know said that COP members of the Senate House Budgetary Commit tee, meeting in secret sessions, ar rived at the S32 o0o,000000 figure by listing a possible cut of S2,- 000,000,000 in President Trumans $11 POO 100000 item for national de- fense.
 MT. Truman proposed an overall budget of S37,500.000,000 He esti- mated revenues at S37,700, 900, ,000 However, Colin Stam, revenue ex- pert for the joint committee has estimated that these revenus will be $2O0, 100000 higher
 To this. the Republicans have added the 00,00O,000 in addition al revenue that will be available if the Senate, like the House, approves keeping the wartime excise taxes on luXuries after July l. Thus. by the Repubncan figuring, revenues will total S39 900, 000,0 900, a $7 OG0,0 ,000000 spread over outgo If this were split equally. it would take care of the 20 percent income tax splash proposed by some party members and still leave S3,500, ,000,- GOO to apply on the national debt.
 It was emphasized that final agreement is yet to be reached on the proposed S2,000,000,000 slice in deiense appropriations Some Re- publican members of the joint committee were reported to have opposed vigorously any trimming of the Army-Navy outlay.
 On the other hand, the secret conferences brought testimony from some experts that the defense ex- penditures might be trimmed as much as 20 percent without damag- ing the efficiency of either the Army or the Navy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
JEWISH PROVINCE
 MAY BE OPENED
 IN PALESTINE

LONDON, Feb. Uniformed sources said today the British cab inet was considering a compromise Palestine formula which would al low 100000 Jews from European dis placed persons camps to enter im- mediately a semi-autonomous Jew ish province in the Holy Land.
 This plan was attributed to For eign Secy. Ernes Bevins and Col onial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones.
 There was no immediate indica- tion from Ten Downing Street on whether the cabinet had accepted it.
 President Truman told Jewish leaders in Washington last July the U. S. government was willing to assume technical and financial re- sponsitility for the transportation of 10000 immigrants from Europe to Palestine
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
Mos(ow Has Worst
 Snow Jiorm, Years

MOSCOW, Feb. I.-Moscow was experiencing today what promised to be its worst snow storm in five years. Snow has fallen almost without interruption for two days, despite an abrupt rise in tempera- ture this morning
 Hundreds of special workers used snowplows to clear the city's broad streets. City traffic continued, de- spite large snowdrifts, although bus es had difficulty in maintaining schedules.
 Reports of heavy snows from other parts of the country encour- aged farmers, whose winter wheat needs covering. The snow also will furnish moisture for other winter and spring crops,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
MAN IS SLAShED AND STABBED TO DEATH: SOLDIER BEING HELD

PALMER, Alaska, Feb. "A Fort Richardson soldier was held by the U. S. Marshals office here today in connections with the stabbing death of Melvin Reckwith. form erly of Olympia, Wash, whose slashed body was found near Wa silla, about 50 miles from Anchor age
 Beckwith, about 35, died within few minutes of discovery without regaining consciousness. His throat was slashed and he had been knif- ed in the heart. He was employed by the War Department at Fort Richardson.
 The soldier. Wilbur E. Keith about 20, was in the custody of the marshal less than an hour later after being overpowered by Ken neth Bloom, a cab driver, and trussed up with the help of Ruth Clemetson, Palmer public health nurse, who chanoed to be driving along the scene.
 Both Bloom and a native girl companion of the two men, Kitty Curtis, of Anchorage. were held as witnesses.
 The marshals office said the staying followed an argument dur ing an all night party which start cd in Anchorage and moved on tc Wasilla.
 Bloom told officers, they said that he was ordered by Keith to drive away from the scene after thay dumped the hody. He said he purposely "ditched" the car four miles down the road and ran to a nearby house where he borrowed a rifle.
 Returning to the cab, officers said they were told, Bloom struck Keith over the head and oVerpowered him.
 A coroner's inquest was to be held today
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
SCOUTS TO BE
 CITY OFFICERS
 FOR TOMORROW
Mayor and CounliImen Fl eCfed- -0thers Are
 Appointed

Dick Wingerson will be Mayor of Juneau for one day.
 The Juneau Troops of the Boy Scouts of America will take over the city tomorrow, for one day, and will fill all city offices during the day
 The Scouts met at the City Hall last evening with Mayor Wainc Hendrickson and City Clerk Jack Popeioy and elected a mayor and six councilmen from among theil numbers after which Mayor Hend- rickson gave a short talk on ths conduct of city affairs
 Councilmen elected for tomorrow are Don Wingerson. Milton Fur ness, Jim Sofoulis, Fred Syller and Dick Keithahan. Following theil election, the new City fathers made the following appointments: City Clerk. George Barril.
 Assistant City Clerk, Stanley Thomson.
 City Engineer Jack Lee.
 Assistant City Engineer, Terry Magorty
 Chief of Police. Phillip Hukill
 Assistant Chief of Police, Ker Danger.
 Patrolmen, Albert Carlson, Cata- limo Rarril, Dick Klingbeil, Jerry Cropley. Edwin Heisel Gerald Shaw and Don MacKinnon. City Magistrate, Carl Wiedman.
 City Health Officer, Lee Pollac.
 Fire Chief, Jeff Pegues.
 Assistant Fire Chief. Rober Rhodes.
 Truck Drivers. Virgil Klinkham' mer and Jerry Wade.
 Assistant Drivers, Billy Orme, Pa Nicholson, George Messerschmidt Joe Wlson and Dallas Casperscn.
 City Attorney, Jerry Hill
 Dog Catchers. Tom Hughes anC Roy Peratrovich.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
TRUMANS HAT IS T0SSED IN BY FLANAGAN
President Claims No Knowledge of Move
 for Nomination

WASHINGTON, Feb. "A broad side of Lincoln Day addresses seem ed likely today to provide the Re- publican reply to a declaration by Democratic Chairman Robert Han nsgan that his party is ready to call on President Truman to seek reelection.
 Hannegan's statement, made at a New York dinner for postal su- pervisors, was said by White House Secretary Charles G. Ross to have been made without MT. Trumans knowledge.
 But there seemed little doubt the Postmaster General and Natlonal Chairman spoke the wishes c the party's high command when he as- serted after praising the President $ handling of foreign and domestic problems:
 We have gone far and fast but the task of leading us to peace and plenty is not accomplished in a day nor a year. Until that work is done, we are ready to call upon our President again as the man who has proved himself fit for the job America will give him the support and loyalty that he deserves of HIS through the years ahead
 Hanregan later repliei yes to question whether it was his in- tention to throw MT. Truman's hat into the 1948 Presidential ring.
 Most Republicans have thought for some time that President Tru- man is certain to be the choice oi the Democrats in the party's l94a convention Accordingly, their strat- egy has been to try to outshine his administration with their own handling of Congress and Guber- material offices.
 Carroll Reece, Republican Nation- al Chairman, brushed aside Hanne- gan's remarks with the comment that it is again the voice of Han negan but the hand of Pendergast.
 The Pendergast organization in Kansas City which gave MT. Tru- man his start in politics was made a prime campaign issue by the Re- publicans last fall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
The W ashington Merry -Go- Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-Those who have watched General Marshall closeup think he has made an excellent, fast-moving start as Secretary of State However, they still have their fingers crossed. Too many new brooms' have come into the State Department belore They rarely sweep out the corners, sell dom get the dust out from under diplomatic rugs. In his brief ten ure, however, Marshall has:
 l.. Named able. sometimes timid Undersecretary of State Dean Ach- eson as Chief of Staff with com plete authority to cleanse the de- partment.
 2.-Backed up Spruille Braden's position that Argentina must purge the Nazis. Simultaneously. Marshall avoided an unpleasant situation with windy Ambassador George MeSsersmith.
 3.-Pledged his firm belief that the State Department is civilian agency and should be run by civ ilians, not brasshats. To this end, Marshall has told intimates he will bring no generals or regular army men into the State Department.
 4.-Moved to solve one thorny United Nations headache-the atom bomb. Without appearing to do SC, he's eased tension on the red-hot atomic-energy issue, so long de- 5ated in New York
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
PLAN FOR LABOR
 PEACE SKETCHED

WASHINGTON, Feb 7-Pres- idential aspirant Harold E. Stassen, outlining plan for peaceful settlement" of industrial disputes, cautioned Congress today against going too far" in restricting un- ions.
 Stassen laid his program before the Senate Labor Committee, in which he called for a compulsory cooling off period before strikes and lockouts, and creation of an independent office of Federal Labor Conciliator.
 The time Minnesota governor declared new national labor legisla tion is needed because union lead CTS have abused" their power.
 But he added that there is some danger lest proposed changes might so weaken labor that the result would be injurious not only to labor but to our free economy as a whole"
 Part of Stassen's criticism was directed at bills introduced by Sen ator Ball (R-Minn) the man he named to the Senate in l940
 The former governor hit out specifically at provisions of those measure which would outlaw in- dustry- wide bargaining, permit em- ployers to obtain injunctions to stop strikes, and forbid maintenance Of membership clauses in contracts These require that workers remain members of their union fer the life of the contract.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
DIPLOMATS AGoG

Secretary Marshalls breathtak- ing pace has set the usually staid Washington diplomatic corps afire. Diplomats who rarely stir from their offices can now be seen whis- pering at cocktail parties, bouncing around hotel luncheon tables com pairing notes on the significance of Marshall's every move. The dip lomatic cables have been cluttered with memoranda from Washington embassies analyzing the new Sec retary of State.
 Marshall upset members of the British colony by holding his first lengthy diplomatic talk with Soviet Ambassador Novikov, not Britain's Lord Inverchapel
 Later, Marshall met the new Po- fish Ambassador The interview lasted seven minutes. Marshall said hello, made it bluntly clear that
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
PORTLAND MAN I5 I5App0INTED ON
 SHIPPING BOARD

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Presl- dent Truman has appointed Joseph K. Carson, former Mayor of Port land. Ore, to be member of the Maritime Commission.
 Carson will be formally nominat- ed tomorrow.
 Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said Carson will succeed to the va cancy created by the expiration of the term of John M Carmody Carson is a Democrat.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
DENALI SAILS

The Denali sailed late yesterday afternoon for the westward with the following passengers booked from Juneau: to Kodiak, Mrs. Mary E. Moore and Mrs. William Mo Phee; to Port Williams, Mrs E. D. Hardin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
s E N A T E. MEASURES
ELEVENTH DAY. FEB. 6
(Passed)

s. B. IA, by Cochran-To reim- purse Northern Light and Power Company for taxes paid upon fuel oil lost in storm at Nome; Il yeas, 4 nays. one absent; to Engrossment.
 s. J. R. l, by Jones-To provide for permanent disqualification and medical care for pioneer prospector Axel Werner; IA yeas, one nay, one absent; to Engrossment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
PRECIPITATION
COUNCIL MEETING

The City Council meets tonight at 8 o'clock with expected only rou- tine matters to be transacted,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07

WASHINGTON UNRRA officials have agreed to distribute fifty mil lion dollars worth Of food to Aus tria and several other nations at the insistence of the United States Sources in Washington say Greece and Poland are among the nations expected to receive the emergency outlay of foou.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Feb. - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5@s, American Can 97, Anaconda 4lA, Curtiss- Wright 6h, International Harvester 30&i Kennecott 49si, New York Central 2lss, Northern Pacific 229s. U. $. Steel 789s, Pound $4.03
 Sales today were l970,000 shares.
 Dow. Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 1874, rails 53.32. utilities 375l.
 The Spanish monarch took one fifth of the treasure collected from New World colonies
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
B BULLETINS. }.

Federal Judge Frank Picard has indicated that if it is at all possible he will deliver his decision before the end of the week in the Mount Clemens Pottery Company portal pay case.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-07
Vets Tax Up

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-26
TOUGH WINTER
 FOR PLANES SAYS
 MANAGER OF pAA
Patience and Criticism Are Both Appreciated by
 Captain White

After comforting with local Pan American personnel, John w. White, General Manager of the Alaska sector, Pan American World Airways, was a passenger for An nette Island today on the last stop of trip through t'la lerrIrory
 Commenting on the fact that this had been hard winter for Alaska service, which he said had not been all that he could have wished, MT White did not allow the reporter to "alibi for the PAA that the weather as mat ter of record was worse than it had been in many years and that the steamship tieup had created, ectedly, an additional and not usual load for the company to carry
 With the interest of Alaska passengers and service in mind, MT. White said, Its been a tough winter Tor the people III AlaSKa, and it hasn't been all cake and ice cream for the people who keep the planes working A lot of you have helped these people out by your patience. A lot of you have also helped out by telling us when mistakes were made by our people. We appreciate both the patience and the criticism
 MT. White, whom it is difficult not to call Capt. White, as he, with Capt. J. S. MacKinnon of Juneau, was on the staff of Ad- mirals Whiting and Wood in the Aleutians during the war, con- ferred briefly with T. c. Harris, Civil Aeronautics Board Analyst, Washington, D. C., before leaving Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-26
ADVICE IS GIVEN OUT
 TO NATION
FonestdI Advises Against Disarmament to Any
 Great Extent


 NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-iR-Sec- retary of the Navy James Torres tai says that the future of civ ilization may be determined in the next A months"
 That is why l ask that the congress and the people of this country think long and carefully before they deny to George Mar shall, Gen. Eisenhower and Adm Nimitz the things that they say they need the Navy Secretary told the Economic Club of New York last night.
 Forrestal said that this nation must not disarm to the point where the nation is unable to meet the duty to itself and to civiliza- tion of providing an anchor of stability in a world still suffer ing from heavy injury and the shock of war"
 Conditions which provide the for disarmament, For restal said, do not now exist nor will they until we have written the peace treaties with Germany and Japan, until the United Ma tions has proved itself a success ful and going concern. until it is clear that the rest of the world wants true disarmament.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-26
DOUGLAS IS NAMED 10
 BRIT. POST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-iR- Lewis w. Douglas, one-time bud get director, was appointed today by President Truman today to be ambassador to Great Britain.
 The nomination was sent to the Senate for consideration.
 Douglas takes the post to which o. Max Gardner, former govern or of North Carolina, was bound when he died suddenly in New York just before sailing.
 Now president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co.,, New York Douglas formerly served in the House as representative from Arizona. He is Democrat and served briefly as Director of the Budget when the late Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1883. He quit this post in a difference of opinion on spending policies.
 The new ambassador to St. James was born at Bisbee, Ariz., July ?, 1894.
 He has three children-Stuart, Peter and Sharman.
 A soldier in the first World War, Douglas was once cited by Gen. John J. Pershing. He re- ceived the Belgian Croix de Guerre
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-26
The Washington
 Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON = You've got to hand it to young Senator Joe Ball that he always says what he thinks, regardless of whom it hits. However, the Minnesota Republican is heading for trouble if he contin- ues to bar certain important wit nesses friendly to labor who he fears might testify against his bill prohibiting 'the closed shop.
 At a secret session of senate labor subcommittee, Ball sharply objected to a roster of witnesses submitted by Democratic Senator James Murray of Montana, includ- ing such wellknown figures as Will liam H. Davis, former chairman of the War Labor Board, and Dr Frank Porter Graham, president of North Carolina University.
 There's no sense in calling people like that" declared Ball. "Ey- erybody knows their views on labor questions
 Well, who do you plan to call?'' asked Senator Murray Don't you want to hear all sides?'
 Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Irving Ives of New York, both Republicans, supported the Mon- tana senator. They said that the proposed witnesses should be clas-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-26
TASK FORCE
 STARTS NEW
 ARCTIC TREK

HEADQUARTERS TASK FORGE FRIGID, FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb 26.-LR-'Tas Force Frigid- ette," of 200 men and 78 vehicles was being organized here today to test men and machinery in trek over the treacherous tundra and muskeg "badlands" of the Arctic.
 It will pursue the same 150 mile route negotiated by fourteen men and five vehicles of the 505th Parachute Infantry regiment last week. This party, commanded by Capt Charles E. Lachausee, of Alexandria, Va, covered the route in three days-two less than an- ticipated-despite the dunking Of one of the motorized "weasels" in Clear Greek, some 75 miles from here, and a delay of several hours when one of the machines cast it's track.
 "F'rigidette" will comprise men and machines of all army ground forces branches of service engaged in tests of army equipment in the Northland. It will be commanded by It. Col. Walter J. Preston, Jr., of Fayetteville, N. C., Task Force Frigid's test executive
 Radio contact will be maintain ed between headquarters and the "sub-task force
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-26
SEVEN YEAR BURNED TO 0DEATH,
 HEROIC ATTEMPT

PULASKI, Tenn, Feb. 26.-tR-- Seven-year-old Toby Malone was burned death last night in a futile attempt to rescue his TO- year-old grandfather from their blazing apartment.
 The child and his grandfather, Pete Malone, were the only casual ties of the fire which routed and left homeless B persons.
 Bremen said Toby, first-grade pupil in the city school, was out side the building when the lire was discovered, but ran into the base ment apartment of his parents, MT. and Mrs. Bud Malone, in the fatal attempt to save his invalid grand father
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-26
GREEN SEES PLOT WRECK
 ALL UNIONS
SaysProposed LdwsWould Destroy Collective Bar
 gaining Rights
By MAX HALL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-lR- AFL President William Green de- clared today that the real pur- pose" behind most labor laws proposed in the new congress is to destroy unions and wreck col lective bargaining
 He contended in a statement prepared for the House Labor Committee that nore of the legis- lation deals with the causes of industrial unrest that has swept the country since V-J day The main cause, Green insisted, was in- flation.
 "The record, which no one can dispute,' the 72-year- old leader of the American Federation of Labor said, shows that during the most critical period following the termination of hostilities, 86 out of every 100 workers who en- gagged in work stoppage did so only because they were caught in the economic vice of rising prices and declining postwar income.
 These postwar strikes did not take place because of a break down of collective bargaining They did not occur because of the failure of unions to carry out the peaceful purposes and procedures to which labor is dedicated.
 'The record shows that one ba- sic cause of that unrest was in- flation. The other major cause was government intervention into labor management relations. Not one of these bills relates in any manner to the problem of imitation and all of them increase, rather than remove, government inter- vention."
 As he did before the Senate Labor Committee last week, Green singled out for opposition bills which would outlaw the closed shop, prohibit boycotts, ban union dues check-offs, require cooling off periods before strikes, force public financial accountings by unions, and impose compulsory ar bitration.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-26
Etna Spouts Molten Lava;
 People Flee

ROME, Feb Dispatches from Sicily said tonight molten lava, flowing slowly from a new crater blown out of the side of Mount Etna menaeed several com munities in it's path and villagers were fleeing in panic.
 The fiery stream was reported to have reached within 2,5O0 yards, of the first village, Passo Pisciaro below the crater
 Dispatches from Catanla to Rome's Giornale D'Italia said the lava began flooding down on a 300-yard front at a rate oi about TO yards an hour, and that when it reached the plain of Damusi, at an altitude of about 1,600 yards, it broke into three forks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-26
HOG PRICES
 CLIMB, $30
 (WT. PAID

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-IR-- The Agriculture Department today discounted talk of $1-a-pound pork chops with an assertion that housewives won't stand for it.
 Skyrocketing hog prices merely reflect a seasonal decline in mar ketable animals, said Charles l.. Harlan, Department livestock price specialist.
 And he told a reporter he ex- poets consumer resistance-which means housewives with their dander up-to force a downturn in those prices soon.
 Department economists held to their contention that food price levels reached their postwar peak last October. after most govern ment controls were removed.
 Ut is possible that prices dur ing the first half of the year may hold their own, or increase very slightly" said James P. Gavin farm and food price economist. But we see no possibility of their climbing back to anywhere near the peak of last October
 Some foods already have declin- ed in cost since the first of the year and further decreases are ex- pected In this class are fluid milk, butter, cheese, evaporated milk, dry milk, eggs, poultry, fresh and frozen fish, fresh and pro- cessed vegetables, and canned fruits
 The department economic hur- eau, in a recent food situation report, predicted downturn in prices of better grades of beef in the spring and summer, when marketing of cattle now on grain feed should increase.
 With large slaughter in pros pect, prices of all cattle are likely to decline more than seasonally in the second half of the year, es- pecially in late l947," the report said.