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The Nome nugget., 1947-03-28

next year (The last one last year. cost the taxpayer about million dollars for the present low ebb of the Territorys fnances) Rivers speaks chair of the Taxation Committee.
 Whether the Alaska Senate will respond favoraby to such gentle prod remains to be Some members of the Senate finance committee among them Senator Coffey, of the opinion that Senator Rivers knows too little about the finances of the Territory and that tax already passed by the Senate will be ampe-providng certain abuses in certain offices can be corrected, and economy steps are taken.
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FAIR NOTES

Do you sing, dance, play a musi-, cal instrument, or have any hid den talents? If so, you certainly should participate in the amateur hour" at the Fair. All persons in- ,e"ested should contact Ellen Man deville as soon as possible. It promises to be an entertaining event with many new and differ ent contestants already lined up making for an evening of fun. Both y .ungsters and adults may partici- pate with worthy cash prizes go-
 ng to the winning contestants. So, why not try out, you may land in Hollywood.
 It also might interest you 10 know that a newspaper corre- spondent and cameraman will be in Nome for the Fair, to take ad- vantage of the many picture talk ing possibilities and news write ups made possible through the reindeer events, dog races and many other different activities planned for April l6 through the 20, at the Ninth Annual Fair.
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Strange Bedfellows
(The Denver PoSt)


 WHILE MANY AMERICANS anxiously study Rus sian reaction to Mr. Truans challenging request for U S. aid to Greece and Turkey Russian observers should find greater for in the solid prepon derance of approval the speech ecited in this country Russia should find it sobering to evauate the frmness of U. s. public opinion in support of the Presidents po sitiOn In the preSs in Congress- and among the public the early reaction general acceptance that Amer ica must throw not only her moral weght but her teria strength against the tide of totalitaranism
 The opposition to such democratic offensive" fol- lows lines which could have been plotted in advance The Communist Daily Worker is in character when it calls the proposal "empire grab masked by anti Communist hysteria." Similarly, the Henry Wallace New Republic-P M axis have reacted with their ex- pected opposition.
 Just the prewar America-Firsters found them selves in unembarrassed alliance with the German American Bund, today do unreformed isolatonists like Senator Taft find themselves bedfolews with Con- munist totalitarians
 Senator Taft observes that If assume this special position in Greece and Turkey, hardly longer reasonably object to the Russians continuing their do nation in Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria
 By such statement the Ohio Senator proves him. self typical of the false Republican leadership which is undermining the partys power in Congress. Mr. Taft shows inability to make moral distinction between the aggression of Russia based brutal minority pres in the victim countries her borders and the position taken by the United States which is to support the right of free people to choose their political institutions
 This is the distinction MT. Truman has so clearly made. Fortunately, Americans whole appear to un derstand it and its courageous implications.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-28
Portland Seeks SS Service To Alaska

PORTLAND, Ore. (P)-Portland is applying for twice-monthly steamship service to Alaska.
 The chamber of commerce, in disclosing the move, asserted enough cargo is assured, both northbound and on the return trip, to make direct steamship serv:ce profitable.
 The chamber filed notice with the maritime commission.
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armament. They would still have their Communist fifth columns all over the world. Without any armed forces, they could be as upsetting a factor as they are now.
 Winston Churchill'S comment on President Truman's program of American aid to Greece and Tur- key is interesting. "No step which l have seen taken lately has more increased the chances of mainten- ance of world peace and world freedom" says the British war time minister. "If such a step had been taken by the United States before the last war, it would have stopped it."
 There is a striking parallel be- tween the present situation and that which prevailed before Mu- nich. The British and French made the fatal mistake at Munich of try ing to halt Nazi aggression by ap- peasement. President Truman did not repeat that blunder. Confront ed with Communist aggression in Greece, he proposed American aid to help the Creeks stop that.
 Communist squawks against the Truman program were to be ex- pected. But the United States will be more respected in Moscow for the firm stand t has taken. The Russians must understand that President Truman is not looking for trouble. But they also must realize that the. United States, arm ed with the atomic bomb, is not to be bluffed in its efforts to preserve world peace. This country while speaking softly can speak firmly now in international councils be- cause it really carries "big stick"
 Russian attempts to drag the Chinese situation into the discus sions of the Moscow conference cannot be taken too seriously. The purpose obviously is to muddy the waters. The job of the conference is to draft peace treaties for Aus tria and Germany. The Chinese situation has no relation to that at all.
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Proposed Tax Program
(Daily Alaska Enpire)

TN THIS POSTWAR nfationary period due to con- dtons beyond our control the great demand imposed upon the Territory to meet the many needs of the peo- pie .. etc.
 Such reads the preamble written by Senator Victor Rivers, to proposed tax program which would give the people of this Territory of the biggest feecngs yet.
 The people, for whom Senator Rivers deeply grieves and for whom he would pass three tax bs would cough up if these bills became law an estimated $4, 4,300,O 900 for the next biennium.
 AS in the past four five legislative sessions income tax dviduals and businesses is proposed It is the old effort to push the Territory of Alaska into field of taxation already exploited to the saturaton point by the Federal government.
 second bill, which travels under the disguise of
 license fee bill, is nothing but second income tax bill-ths the gross income of businesses-and as in the with gross income tax the business which has huge gross, but low profit is forced out of business This bill would collect license fee of $15 per from all businesses with yearly gross of $20 900 less plus income tax one-half of one per cent upon the gross receipts 000 grocery store doing gross of S520O0O year would pay $15 plus an other $2,50O for license" to do business-some li- Of this business would pay the net income tax, too.
 The third bill of the proposed program is general property tax upon all property in Alaska, within and without incorporated towns. levy of 10 mills the value is proposed and the money collected within the cities would be refunded-merely matter of bookkeep- ing In Juneau, for instance, the city would collect mills and the Territory would collect 10 mills which it would return to the city. Tax Commissioner (uncon- frme) Mullaney says this would give the Territory 900 bennum. We suppost that this would not include the refunds to cities.
 While most Of these new taxes would be levied on business concerns the average of the street is not dumb that he doesn't realize who will pay the bill in the end-Mr John O. Public.
 Incidentally two of the bills provide that up to per cent of the taxes collected could be used by the Tax Commission for collection and administration. If the maximum per cent were used which is probable, this would mean additional of $185 900 for Commis- sioner Muaneys office which added to his request for $94 900 to the office for the next biennium would give him slush fund of $379,000,
 The poor people of Alaska might be interested to know that this the office which set up just two ago to run for 900 bennum-whch just goes to show how things grow.
 In 1945 the Legislature set up the Tax Commissioner for $1000O0. The Commissioner has asked for double that for this biennium and if the proposed tax bills pass, would have fund the $400000 mark Using the established formula, this would put the Tax Com missioner in the envable position of being able to ask the next Legislature for $80O 900.
 Senator Rivers suggests that unless the program he and Senator Walker propose is adopted there will just have be special session of the Legislature within the
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A modern airplane has at least three electrical systems serving radio, instruments and motor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-14
vERMoNT's MODEST EXPERIMENT

A number of Vermonters including Senator George D Aiken have mentioned with pride the success of that States Industrial Relations Council. The coun- cil a voluntary private agency. made up of eight representatives of abor-four from the CIO and four from the AFL-and eight representatives of industry, was organized about year ago. It has slender record Seven cases have brought before it. Of these two were settled by acceptance of the councils recommendations In two others the recommendations were accepted but not yet been put into effect In two additional in dispute settled before the council could act. In the seventh, the councils advice was accepted by side but rejected by the other.
 There are obvious reasons why the Vermont plan might not stand transpanting to other States. One point is that Vermont has only 41 900 persons em- ployed in manufacturing industry. Of these only l6 800 are members of the unions represented on the council The small size of the State and the relatively small industries there permit representatives of labor and industry to get better acquainted than is possible elsewhere This helps explain the virtual unanimty of the councils decisions But there is feature of its makeup which is of striking interest: it has never had representative of the public The president of the Vermont Federation of Labor believes that the absence of public members is help to the council.
 Those who remember the career of the War Labor Board with it's panels made up of representatives of labor management and the public, will be inclined to think that Vermont has something It is easy tas, to define the public when the public interest is
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plains the reciprocal trsde clauses of the treaty as follows:
 We agree to buy from Argen- tina cnly these foodstuffs, agricul- tural products and manufactured goods which are not available from any other country at a lower price"
 Actually, the effect will be to give Argentine products heavy preference, since the treaty valves import duties on all commodities covered by it. This is the proviso which Areen.me officials frankly emphasize as the most significant.
 Through the effective function ing of this agreement" one auth oritaive spokesman said, we hope to convince all our neighbors that 1t would he to- their advantage to sign similar pacts wiIh us. Thus, a South American Customs Union would be created and the 'Vnrein- ato' tyice-regal empire) re-estab- Ashed economically, though not in a political or territorial sense"
 The Spanish Vice-Regal Empire, b,fore the South American wars of independence which began 1855 years ago, comprised what are now Ar gentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia Uru- guay and Paraguay.
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20 YEARS AGO &s1g', f H F F. : s
FEBRUARY 14. 1927

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then, We knew about the agree ment between the Soviet Union and Peron for mutual recognition, and Percn had guaranteed us cCmplsse freedom in return for support of his five-year plan.
 Besides, Tambcrini as President would have been under the thumb of Braden and the United States. which would have heen the worst thing in the world for Argentine workers"
 Though this Communist claim may appear surprising, 1t is given some credence by the fact that, after Braden left his Ambassador ial post in Buenos Aires in Aug ust l945, U. s. Charge dAf1aires Jchn Cabot refused to continue supplying the Communists with funds, as Braden had been doiAg. Instead, he referred all such re- quests directly to the State Depart ment.
 Cabot's intimates say that he Was well aware of the local Reds plans to sabotage the anti-Peron cam paign.
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MARSHALL AND PEARL HARBOR

Secretary of State George Mar shall get warm greeting at the White House recently rom mem- bers of the North Carolina Con- gressional delegation, who were fil- ing out of the Presidents office as he went in. Spotting his old friend, Rep. Bayard Clark, Marshall remarked:
 Say, the last time I saw you, we were on opposite sides of committee table"
 The General referred to his tes- timony before the joint Pearl Har- Dor Investigating Committee, of which Clark was a member. During part of the testimony, Marshall was held up for 10 days waiting for a plane to take him to China. You made a very good witness" complimented the North Carolin- ian referring to this incident. Tn lact, I'm still of the opinion that during those 10 days while you were on and off the witness stand you exhibited more patience than the Holy Writ accredited to Job"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-14
When the Switch Failed
Washington Post)

We find it difficult to follow the mental processes which have led criticism of the Supreme Court for
 it's decision in the Willie Francis Convicted of murder in Louisiana Francis was ordered elecrocuted when guards strapped him into the electric chair and threw the switch, some mechanical defect saved him Thereupon he appealed to the courts, claiming that any second attempt to effect his execution would amount denial If due process of law by subjectne him to double jeopardy and to cruel and unusual
 punishment Speaking for the majority of the court. Justice Reed concluded, When an accident, with no suggestion of malevolence prevents the consummation of a sentence the States subsequent course in the administration of it's criminal law is not affected on that account by any requrem of due process under the fourteenth amendment"
 It is difficult to see any basis for dissent from this conclusion although four members of the court dssented Certainly execution should be carried out until the last reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the accused has been removed But when this re- ouirement has been satisfied and the law calls for capital punishment, how reasonably say that an apparently unavoidable accident should change the outcome?
 Most of the appeals for the unfortunate victim of this accident rooted in sense of mercy Mercy has a useful and rightful place in any democratic system of law enforcement. But even mercy ought to be applied on some other basis than mere mshap Supreme Court can be expected to write a mercy concept the due process clause If the court is to be criticized for straightforward and legally mpeccabe decision of this sort the public understanding of it function is likely to become increasingly distorted.
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tion by the Chilean-Argentine Con- gresses is still required to make the agreement officially operative, but well-informed sources say such sp- proval is a foregone conclusion
 The treaty includes negotiations of a 100000, ,O00-peso about Sl75,- 100000 U. S. Argentine loan to Chile This amount is broken down into three separate projects: 30G- 000,000 pesos for development ol Chilean natural resources and m dustry; 200,0000OO for public VOTES in Chile, and another 200,- 100000 to IS bilize Chile's balance of trade"-which, in prac- tice, means that this sum will b. largely spent il the purchase cl Argentine goods and products
 Contrary to reports widely pup hshed in the USA, however, the agreement does not specifically bind the Chilean Government to purchase Argentine commodities. A highly placed Chilean source ex-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-14
REFERENDUM ON
 FISH TRAPS IS
 Up 10 GOVERNOR

Quickly and without a roll call the House of Representatives yes terday afternoon concurred in Sen- ate amendments to House Bill 8, which provides for a referendum on the fish trap question next year, thus sending the bill over its final hurdle in the Legislature and on to the Governor. There seemed 10 be little doubt in the minds of he members that the bill will be approved by the Governor.
 AS the bill now stands. the vot- ters of Alaska in the 1948 Gen cral Election may place their marks before one of the following two statements:
 The practice of fishing by means of fish traps within the Territory Of Alaska should he gradually abol- shed oyer a ten year period by
 Dpropri3te legislation.
 Th2 practice of fishing by means q fish traps should be continued. "
 The action of the two houses in passing the bill and of the House sn accepting the Senate amend ment. which raised the elimination period o ten instead of five years, ends fight for a referendum on this ubiect Of several sessions duration
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-14
Reforming an Agricultural Outcast
tNew York Sun

New York Sun
 For vears farm IS throughout the Mid-Wast have been most uncomplimentary in their remarks about Kochia variCusly called fireba Mexican fireWead and summer cypress So hardy that it will grow in city alleys and fierce it's way up between cracks in side walks it has thrved farms when pay crops have withered from drought Even the grasshopper scorns it. circumstance which hardly endears it to the farmer watching that pest destroy crops which he has labored Now he is informed that this agricultural vagabcnd has heart of gold; that should another series of droughts along Kcchia could the salvation of his hungry livestock.
 Reports of attempts of farmers during the last great drought to keep their stock alive Russian missiles served challenge to E. K Erickson of the department of agronomy of South Dakota College. He was certain that there must be some better sub stitute and, the current issue of Farm Journal reports began experiments which led to the discovery that Kocha possesses almost as much protein, more carbohydrates and less fiber than alfalfa that live stock thrive on it, and that, cut twice year when about feet high, it yields two and one-haf tons of high quality hay an acre. Although, as a weed, Kochia has been a persistent annoyance its en- couragement does not mean that it may get out of hand. It is annual which be eradicated by narrowing the right time in the spring by moving close From outcast it is quite likely to be pro- noted to a place of prominence in American agri-
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Daily Lessons in English v L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MTSUSED: ENTEUSE still regarded quaim by authorities Avoid saying They enhused the prospects, Say They ENTHUSIASTIC prospects"
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Preventive. spelled ven-tiv, and ven-ta-tiv.
 OFTEN MISSPELLED: (adcve Divers those who dive Diverse (adjective); different
 SYNONYMS: Active alert agile animated lively spirited vvaous
 WORD STUDY a vocabulary by each Toda INCREDIBLE; worthy of belief should thought thing incredible with should dead?" XXVI 8.
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farm prices" (This is essentially the program of the American Farm Bureau Federation.j
 "Or four, we can provide a floor under farm prices high enough to prevent disaster, but not so high a. to cause large surpluses. This flool would fluctuate according to econ omic conditions and according to the particular crop. Production would be designed to leave some surplus
 This fourth plan" concludeo Goss. lis the Grange plan. M President-and we like to talk ol a stop-loss flcor, which would vary and be sometimes above, sometime below parity. We propose to have planned surpluses of some crops potatoes, for inStance-turned into starch or glucose. And the Grange would be prepared to help dispose abroad of anything We found sur plus to our domestic needs. Our idea is to keep surpluses to mini mum, but put what surplus there is to a useful humanitarian pur- pose. For instance, we would work out means of using our surplus to help feed people abroad who are in bad way for food"
 Truman did nou commit himself regarding any oi these alternative plans. So far his Department of Agriculture has not yet taken any clear position on them; so all he could do was tell Cess he was tre- mendously interested in the andy sis.
 You've certainly boiled it down, he said I'd like to look into thest ideas in little more detail, MT Goss, so would you mind discus sing them little more fully in z letter."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-14
NEW CHILEAN
 PACT

High Argentine Government of ficials now freely admit that they expect to make the recently con- cluded economic agreement with Chile the cornerstone Of an all- South America Customs Union.
 Incidentally, it was mandatory economic ties between Nazi Ger many and small European countries which were the first cornerstone of Hitlers empire.
 The far-reaching bilateral treaty, first announced some weeks ago, has just been approved in it's fn- al form hy the joint Argentine Chilean Commission appointed to adjust minor differences. Ratifica-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-14
ARGENTINE COMMUNIST
 DOUBLE-CROSS

Argentine Communist leaders openly boast that they double crossed Spruille Braden during last years political campaign which re- suited in the election of Juan D. Peron.
 Nominally, the local Reds were part of the Democratic Union Coal ition that supported the unsuccess- ful candidacy Of Jose Tambcrini. But Communist Party officials now claim that they were merely us ing" the opposition parties and U s. Assistant State Secretary Bra den as levers in driving a bargain with Peron.
 We could have swung the cleo tion the other way in the last two weeks of the campaign a Com nunist spokesman recently admit ted But we didn't even try. By
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MODERN ETIQUETTE RRyo RyoRrerA LEE

O When married signs the a sign her Mrs. Mary Brown?
 A. No the correct form for married is Mrs James Brown"
 O. Is it obligatory at dance?
 Yes it the thing especially a informal dance
 o. May calling card be any color
 A Black the only be engraved
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LUstGERS

ATTENTION LOGGERS with logs for sale. Contact Juneau Lumber Mills Will buy from 100000 1t
 10 lo000000 feet For further particulars see Juneau Lumber Mills. 433-tf
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clearly at stake The power, seems to have hit upon interesting discovery in it's exclusion of represen- tatves of the public.
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GOA CARD PARTY Feb i4 at pm, Parish Hall, Bridge, Pinochle and Whist.
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LOOK and LEARN sy' sy C. GORDON

recognized as independent republic?
 Approximately how patents telephone today  ' 8 Where did the legislative Of what famous address perish from the earth?
 5 Why do some animals retract their angry
 ANSWERS:
 1 France in
 2 Approximately patents
 8 At Jamestown Virginia
 4 Lncolns Gettysburg Address.
 All animals that fight h
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The Washington Merry-Go-Round

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