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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-05
Marshall's Must" List

UN. Special privileges and immu-
mites were granted to UN dele
gates while in the United States
And several other !ow-priority re-
quests for legislation authorizing
routine cooperation with the Unit
Cd Nations received favorable ac-
ton.
BY and large, however. the rec.
orc of cooperation on the loW-pri-
o~ity requests was orse than on
the urgent items.
No action "a taken on the Ca.
ladian : American St. Lawrence
River waterway agreement.
The Senate Foreign Relation
Committee never brought up for
ratification the treaty of friend
ship and commerce with China.
A taxation agreement with
France did not get ratified.
Authority to send military ad.
v4sory commissions to foreign
countries requesting such aid was
not granted.
Nothing was done about inter.
national arms traffic control.
Stree the genera! export control
act, covering arms and other spe-
Gifted items was extended till June
30, 1949.
Congress never got around tc
the matter of repaying some 1856
600 Mexican workers over IS mil
lion retirement benefits deducted
from their pay while working on
U. S. railroads in wartime.
The two Houses ended the SEES
sion in disagreement on amend
ments to the Philippine rehabilita-
ton act.
A proposal for a financial grant
in-aid to Korea was never brought
up.
A bill to create a seml-public
corporation to handle U S. 'Voice
OF America ~broadcasts never cot
a hearing.
Congress looked with d~isfavor on
appropriating any more money to
complete the Inter-American high
way.
The 1nter-American military CO.
operation act was sidetracked
pending outcome of the Rio Pan
American Conference in August.
Principal reason the record is
not better is that so much time
had ~ be taken on the Greek
Turkish aid program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-05
Talk About Taxes!

While the Wilmington and New
Hanover county budgets and tax rates
are giving the governing bodies and
the taxpayers bad dreams it is inter-
esting to note how me city is pulling
out of the postwar blues even though
its municipal taxes are infinitely higher
than city and county taxes here will
be in combination.
The city is Wichita. Kansas. Its
story is told in the August issue of
Kiplinger Magazine. "Wichita's ac-
complishments r all the more
notable" says the Kiplinger article,
"since as vel the natives admit, there
was no excuse for the city's existence
in the first place." It started as a
tepee village of the Wichita Indians, 1t
seems, who fled from war in 1868.
For a generation or two it went it's
placid way as a livestock and meat
packing market. Then oil was discov-
cred in the vicinity in 1914 and the
customary oil boom followed.
With the creation of its first air
plane manufacturing plant the city
rapidly became the center of this in
dustry and from 1920 to 1880 was the
"unchallenged capital" of the produc-
ton of air craft. Following the first
World War many Wichita industrial
plants folded up, but with the coming
of World War II the city's industry and
population jumped to unprecedented
totals. By 1913 Wichita's population in
creased approximately 10000. Employ
ment jumped 800 per cent.
Now the population has leveled off
at 100000 gain since 1870 of 49,
900 persons. Last year building con-
struction permits were issued for S14,-
600, 900. When factories now being
erected are completed Wichita will
have jobs for three times as many in
dustrial workers as in prewar days.
The greatest effort has been concen-
trated on the introduction of small
manufacturing enterprises. Before the
war Wichita had two hundred such
plants. Now it boasts three hundred
and twenty-five. The effect of this
improvement in the city's economic
situation has been to raise the number
of retail outlets to two thousand, the
stores employing eight thousand per-
sons.
And the tax rate? It is now S51.4O
per thousand dollar valuation. This,
of course, is a fabulous tax rate, by
Wilmington and New Hanover county
standards. The point that invites
emphasis, we believe, is that Wichita
is moving toward a sound prosperity,
unless the bottom of the nations
financial structure falls out, despite it's
high taxes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-05
year-olds had 5000 basic words; five

year-olds had $500 basic words; five
year-olds, $500; s~ix-year-olds, 14,7OO;
seven-year-olds 21,ooo; eight-year-olds
26,300; n~ine-year-olds, 10000 and ten
year-olds $4,000.
Considering that Shakespeare Is
said to have employed only 16, 900 words
in all of his writings, the kids of the
United States are not so backward.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-05
The Steel Barometer
An Editorial from The New York Herald Tribune

Vow IOlh AASiOAo
| increased - - cents an aovI
April. The RAILROADS wv
freight rates II per cent a ,
to the cost of the steel hag y.
''imported'' raw mateTlaIs' q
of steel scrap have jumped .
ton in two months. Zinc. IN.
per, palm oil-all lmp'I'''' .
ments in steel making j,
scared, too. Replacement " y
battery Of coke ovens TO-DAY 5o0 :
81, 200. coo against 81 0oo, WV,
| 1889. And Mr.. Olds warns 'l,''
new price on finished S.sS,
not. even take into account ,
Lewis wage victo"r' "''-C" Wv,
add about $3.50 a ion m0, :,
steel at a later da.e So II g
and the layman coon.,47
wages. however inof~ass soos
may have been, sees no 'V''
relief. .,r
no,nic stills, hoping they
replaced by crutches NJ 70
years. we may hark o'. cords
Bernard M. Baruch.s , nd
simple wisdom, deIl'' a2s
April: ''There is only The The II
out. That is by WORK IN he
we produce, the less WIZ .,s
cost of living" That IS wv NJ:
way out of another vlelOu re
wage spiral. The miners, Lars
operators, the steel wo1 Nv
the steel producers s ~n.rtives
have the economic lhes +ss,,
maximum production NV
sic industries that msk!
lower per-ton cos-s ana .,nno
rossible to stabilize G''t
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-05
cOOD MORNING

There is more bitterness in sins ending
than there ever was sweetness In Its act
ing. II You see nothing 10Th tf put goo gToo w IN i ;n
Its con~clusion.-Dyer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-05
Just In Fun
Succinctly Stated

Succinctly Stated
Old fire-eating Senator jim VA
son was once the topic Of a con
versation in the White House dN
ing the Coolidge administrator
"You know remarked one 9
the guests, Il heard Jim make
speech back in his native I'
ana one night, and when he cam
to his conclusion, he said, WI
low citizens, now l have sN.
you all the facts, and you CO
vote for me or go to hell.
President Coolidge, who M
been quietly listening. intervs1.
He said: "Difficult cnoE;
wasn't it?"-WaI Street JJourl%
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-05

countered, thew can be counted
to be cautious in the END. IS
once remarked that CERTAIN " ,.
atoms had to be ''prooed WIN "
onets," but the implication o. }.
was that if the bayone!' '1''
anything unyielding, 1t vas ''
10 call a halt.
Copyright. 1917, New 1"'
Tribune. Inc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-05

I do not believe the people of the United
States should be asked to support this nrono-
sal Marshall Plan) without beng told VIZ
sacrifices it will entail, as we'll as what a~e
the needs of the res of the world.-Sen A.
thur Capper (R) of Kansas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-05
Quotations

Tire is qui e a little opinion IN Congress
that the American people will not 60 on in.
definitely spending their money for the re.
lief of other nations without getting some
tax relief themselves.-Sen Donald Millkin
CR) of Colorado.
The frontiersman., 1947-02-22
F 2 bruary 22, l947
BAD WeATHtR KEPT SPECIAL MEETING OR, BelTz GROUNDED Of AfU TONIGHT

DR. BeuZ 0ROUNDel FOR SEVEN DAYS
 Dr.. Melvin .Beltz, who was stranded at Lake Clark for seven days by bad we ther, was finally returned to Anchorage on an army plane last week. Upon his arrival there he found his own plane, on which he had been expec ting delivery q since the fir st of the: year, had reached that city
 The doe tor and Mr s. G1 izabe'th Bowen, who has been on leave from her nur s ing du- tias' at: SeIdovia. hos- pi tai in order to vii sit her. bro ther in College Place, Wash., r returned as far as Homer in the plane Wednesday,. but were grounded by: flying condi ti ons there.
 The plane, which is ski-eouipped, ar- r ived in Seldovia yes terday. morn ing, but was immedia tely dis tched to. Anchor- age again. The ship was flown nor tn from the fac tory by pilot Fr ed Fr akes.
The frontiersman., 1947-02-22

Because agent Buck Douglas has been called Outs ide to be- gin negotiations on fish pr ices, a spec 1al meeting Of the Alaska Fishermanss Union has been called for 7:3O tonight.
 Mir. Doug1 as plans to leave Monday morn ing.
 Dur ing his absence there wi II be no reg ular AFU meetings. However the executive comri tee of the un- ion may call a spec- tal meeting from time to time while he is away.
 MT. Douglas was unable to say t today how long he will be gone.
The frontiersman., 1947-02-22
fOUR-H CLUBS
 MEET IN HOMES

The thr ee Four-H clubs will meet at the homes of the ir leaders Mrs. c. O. Swain, Mrs, Fl len Nilsson and Mr s. Thor vald Jen en, at 7 o'clock next Tue sday even ing. |. !; ,,.
The frontiersman., 1947-02-22
The Fron i CT sman
GRACIf;C tOST

! SNTuN | ,O Coof
 AZ HOMER
 The Or acie O., the boat own ed by Ed Carlson of Por t1 ock, grounded on the Homer beach last week when Mir. Carls on was tran spor ting Homer fre- fight from the Ander- son Dock here.
 Mr. Carlson left his boat to go uptown and the craft was beached by the out going tide. Later a str ong wind. blew up which pounded the craft on the shor e.
 The boat is a to- tai loss, but Mr. Carlson was able to salvage the engine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26
PLAN OF
 DEFENSE
 GIVEN
Fleet Admiral Eimiiz 0uf- lines Preparations
 Alaska Mentioned

WASHINGTON, March 26.--tR-- Fleet Admiral Chester w. Nimitz assured Senators today that a com plete and up-to-date plan of de- fense for the United States is prepared and ready for immediate action.
 Nimitz, top ranking active Navy officer, said comprehensive, in- tegrated and complex" defense plans are constantly being revis- ed.
 Some changes, he added, were approved by President Truman in recent months.
 The matter was raised by Sen ator Bridges, (R-NH at hearings by the Senate Armed Forces com mittee on legislation to put all armer forces under a single de- partment of National Defense. Bridges said Secretary of War Patterson had told the commit tee there M.s no such plan.
 Shaking his head, Nimitz said there are integrated plans calling for use of the Army, Navy and Air Forces to keep ravages of war and areas of conflict as far re- moved" from the continental United States as possible.
 He said they include:
 A plan for joint defense of the United States and Canada from attack, including standardization of weapons.
 A system of military, naval and air bases which had been submit- ted to the State Department.
 Special "on site" defense plans for Alaska and the Marianas.
 Nimitz supported the so-called merger legislation but said each Efanch of the armed services should be free to develop and purchase it's own specialized equip ment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26

MOSCOW, March 26.-IR-For- mai Russian opposition to an Am erican-British and French proposal that China should be one of the inviting powers to proposed Ger man conference was officially dis closed tonight.
 With release of a report from the Council of Foreign Ministers De- puties to the Big Four Council it. self on procedure for preparing the German peace treaty, wide variety of disagreements became officially evident
 These followed the same pattern of splits heretofore unofficially re- ported from the Deputies meetings over such issues as the kind of voice that should be given to all nations in treaty making and whe- ther the German government should be compelled to sign the treaty.
 The peace conference report, which the Deputies gave the Coun- cil of Foreign Ministers two days ago, said The United Kingdom and the French delegations con- siders that China should be one of the converting powers of the conference. The Soviet delegation disagrees."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26
TWO TIDAL WAVES HIT
 WIDE AREA
Sea Rolls in 30 Feet High Following Severe
 Earth Shock

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Mar. 26:-Two huge tidal waves, estl- mated by some eye-witnesses at 30 feet high, today struck 6O- mile stretch of the east coast or North Island, New Zealand, wreck ing many buildings and damaging road and bridges.
 The first wave struck the Pow erty Bay coast at 8:3o a. m, local time (3:3O D. m EST, March 25) |, approximately an hour after the New Zealand observatory reported "a very severe earthquake some miles out to sea"
 The second wave rolled into the bay an hour later.
 Apart from the town of Gls- borne, where some streets became salt water rivers four feet deep, the area affected was populated thinly, mainly by holidayers in summer cottages and some farm ing families.
 Residents along the seashore' warned by the roar Of the ap- preaching wall of water, raced to ! higher land and no downings are : reported.
 Osborne, a town of about 16,00O population, is on the east coast of North Island, at the head of Poverty Bay, which is approxi- mately 200 miles southeast o1 Auckland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26
petit Jury
 Is Sworn In

The Petit Jury panel was sworn in this morning in U. s. District Court. The 37 qualifying as mem bers are Fred s. Alexander, Mrs G. G. Brown, w. K. Burford, Jessie L. Geeslin, Altert S. Glover, Joseph c. Johnson, John Krug- ness, Sr., Joseph A. LaPierre, Odel- ia Light, Wort Newman. James Reid, Mae J Sabin, Curtis Shat tuck, Robert w. Simpson, ST, Mary c. Treat, Dean K Williams, George Wilson and Chris Wyller, Juneau; Ed Bach, Orin H. Bliss, Mrs Beatrice Guerin, F. w. James, Mrs. Beatrice Jimmie, Margaret Alice Pearce, Janet Sey and James Willis, Douglas.
 Austin Arnold, Rake; William L. Burkhart. Jamestown Bay; Frank E. Cashel, Sitka, Arthur R. Hudson, Hoonah; James H. Wheeler, Petersburg; John Jacobs, Robert E. Lee, Sr., and Lois I. Short. Haines: William w. Rusk. Mrs. Mabel Willard and Robert Willard, Angoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Lucidor in port loading fish.
 Tongass, from Seattle, due at midnight
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver March 28.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle March 29, calling at Ketch- ikan, Wrangelf, Petersburg, Juneau Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
 Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle 10 a. m April l.
 Northern Voyager scheduled to sail from Seattle, April 3.
 Aleutian, from west, scheduled to arrive about March 30.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26
ADDED LEVY ON
 CANNED SALM0N
 PASSES SENATE
Tax Figures Cut Back to Old levels-Lilense Meas
 ure Is Amended

Committee OuDstlJLte for Senate Bill Fl, which puts an additional tax on canned salmon during this and next year of 10 cents per case on red and king salmon and cents on pinks, was passed by the Alaska Senate this morning.
 Passage by a IA to vote follow ed bout over adoption of the amendment cutting the special lev ies down from 12 cents and cents respectively. President Nerland first ruled that the amendment had fail ed by not receiving votes or a majority of the full membership The Chair, however, was not sus- tained and the amendment was adopted by an to count. Sena- tor Frank Peratrovich, still ailing, was absent when vote on the amendment was taken, but came in answer to Call of the Senate" to vote to sustain the Chair.
 A subsequent attempt by Senator Victor Rivers to hoist the tax if gures up to 20 cents and 10 cents lost out
 Senator Norman Walker pur- portedly arguing for passage of the bill, took the occasion to vent his wrath upon boy statesman John Qlffrnuinf1 Vr hnd Hn I against any change in the bill brought out by the Finance Com mittee. The highlight of Walkers remarks was his declaration that he may run again and wishes he could be running against two young Senators (Butrovich and Gunnard Engebreth) whom he would run from the Canadian border up Gas tineau Channel, across White Pass and into Lake Bennett
 The Senate today also passed. under suspended rules, Senator Joe Greens s. B. ll8, calling for members of Territorial boards to nOld offlce until successors have been confirmed by the Legislature. Business License Tax $. B. 82, the business license tax act, was received back from the House. was set back for amendment and then re-passed, again unani- mously. Senator Victor Rivers ob- Jected to the Munz amendments which were adopted, as they entire ly exclude the mining industry from application of the general li- censing act.
 ! As formality, the Senate voted on the Governors veto of House Bill 21, the measure that would have required calling for bids on
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26

CENTRALLY, H., March 26- Amid rapidly dwindling hopes of relatives and official belief that l22 men had perished, rescue crews struggled against lethal fumes today for possible sufviv- ors of mine explosion in the heart of the southern Illinois coal fields
 Eighteen hours after the blast trapped virtually a complete shift at 3:30 D. m. (CST) yesterday as it was about to leave work, res cuers, wearing gas masks, were held back by poisonous fumes half way along the three and one half mile passageway
 Soldiers from Scott Field, Ill, joined State Police in controlling the throngs of relatives and sightseers gathered at the tipple as the squads of workmen toiled to seal off side entries and im- prove ventilation.
 Of total of 131 AFL union min CTS trapped by the blast, nine were brought out alive, one was brought out dead, and IA were counted dead by that official at the bottom of the 540-foot shaft.
 That left TOT unaccounted for, and the man who did the checking, Chief Electrician Fred Hellmeyer, said he had no hope of finding them alive.
 But not all hope had been aban- doned, and rescue teams, on the job through freezing night, still were trying to get through poi sonouS gas and fallen timbers to save any who might have survived the fumes.
 Other experienced mine men at the scene shared Hellmeyer's pes- simistic view of the situation.
 Elmer N. Baird, Face Boss, said it would take "at least until 6 o'clock tonight" to recover the last body, because we may have to work at the rate of thirty minutes for each sixty feet of progress
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26
HOUSE RIPS HOME REPORT, NOT ADOPTED

Cutting loose this morning an the report and recommendations made by the Joint Committee on Territorial Institutions in regard to the Alaska Pioneers Home, the House of Representatives neither adopted nor rejected the report, but substantially tore it to pieces.
 The committee report, which is printed in full elsewhere in today's paper, was read in full this morn ing, after which Rep. Garnick, seconded by Rep. McCutcheon, moved that it be adopted.
 This brought storm of pro- test from various members of the House, most of whom had also visited the Home recently. Many of the allegations made in the re- port were declared untrue and several of the recommendations were denounced as unsound.
 Rep. w. w. Laws asked to hear more about the report of the de tective" who had been sent to Sitka by the committee some time ago. Rep. Almquist, Chairman of the House Committee on Territor- ial Institutions, said that. tEe in vestigator" had no official status and that he had paid his own expenses on trip to Sitka.
 Caused Uproar
 Rep. Vukovich charged that the man, who was not named, had gone to Sitka at the request of the committee and that he had ca 's- ed a. terrific uproar there, both in the Home itself and in the town. Vukovich defended the Board of Trustees and the sup erintendent, all of whom had been in office only few months and had not yet had time to make many changes.
 Opposition to the closing of the Pioneers Home Hospital to the people of Sitka was voiced by Rep Andrew Hope and supported by Rep. Maurice Johnson. Rep. Mo Cutcheon suggested that the time for closing the doors to the ad- mission of outside patients might be extended until sometime in 1850.
 Rep. G. E. Almquist asserted, on the other hand, that Sitka never has made move to establish its own hospital and probably never would do so. as long as the Home will take care of them. This was denied by Rep. Hope, who said that the town has acquired a site for a hospital, but that construc- tion has been delayed for several reasons.
 No Bedbugs
 The statement made in the re- port that the Home is infested with bedbugs was also hotly denied by several of the Representatives Rep. Ed Anderson reported that he had talked with many of my friends from the Second Division and that they had been satisfied with the conduct of the institu- tion.
 Rep Thelma Engstrom said that Charles w. Carter and Henry Roden, both members of the Boaro of Trustees appointed last year, dc not care to continue op the board This statement was challenged by
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26
Flaw wIsEound After License
 Tax Is Passed
Senate Recalls Measure 10 Keep Mine Levy Clear
 -Fish Discussed

After unjointing two legs of the so-called basic tax tripod set up by Senators Victor Rivers and N R. Walker the Alaska Senate yes- terday afternoon took a sudden fancy to the one leg remaining and passed S. B. 82 unanimously
 However, hardly had the action been completed when an oversight came to light: Passage of s. B 82, which imposes an overall sys- tenn of business license fees would repeal the net tax on min ing production for which the Legislature had pitched battle with the Governor.
 s. B. 32, which was passed over the veto, set up the net mining tax as license tax" and s. B 82 repealed all license taxes ex- cept certain exceptions for fisher men, clamdiggers, etc-not includ- ing the mining levies.
 In addition, s. B 82 would re- peal only the tax levied by s. B ! 32 l. would not affect that pro- vision of s. B. 32 which wipes out the 3 percent gross tax on val uable minerals. The end result would be that the mining industry would wind up paying only the one-half of one percent gross tax levied by s. B. 82.
 Tax Wiped Off As soon as the status of the mining tax was questioned, the Attorney General was called. He agreed that the net mines tax would be wiped off and suggested a simple amendment to s. B. 8l that would correct the situation i Senator William Munz thereupor gave notice of intention to recon sider his vote on s. B. 82, so that the bill could be set back fol amendment, and the note was dis patched to the House to recall the licensing measure.
 Though overshadowed by sub- sequent developments, Senate pas sage of the uniform trade license act" was a major surprise and the unanimous vote left it's proponents flabbergasted.
 In his argument for the mea' sure, Co-author Rivers had indi. cated his expectation that the bill would join in the limbo it's two ! companions, the net income ta' and general property tax measures The opening remarks made by tht other author, Walker, had an iron ic tinge that indicated the same state of mind.
 I Cochran Switches
 It was probably Senator o. D Cochran's switch to a favorabl' attitude on the license bill tha carried other colleagues along coupled with a statement iron Delegate in Congress E. L. Bart lett that the Delegate does no anticipate any considerable diff culty in securing repeal of tn present Federal licensing set III
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-26
7 FILINGS

At press time this afternoon there had been two more filings for next Tuesdays city election.
 A. G. Glover, proprietor of Spruce Delicatessen, filed as in dependent candidate for the city county and Dr. J. o. Rude filed for School Board Director
 Filings close this afternoon at 4;30 o'clock.
 Books will be open for night of ' and 9 tonight, Thursday and Friday, closing Saturday at l2 noon.