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Evening star., 1947-11-18
(Tert of Taft speech on Page A-6.,
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Angry Republicans today
marked for almost certain death
in Congress President Truman's
plea for standby power to in
woke limited price-Wage controls
and rationing.
Led by Senator Taft of Ohio, an
avowed presidential aspirant, and
House Speaker Martin, COP legis-
lators launched such a bitter attack
on these two of the Presidents 1O
cost Living proposals that they
appeared certain to become TOP
issues in the 1948 political cam
paign.
Senator Taft, replying to the
President by radio last night after
Mr.. Truman addressed joint ses-
sion of Congress yesterday, sounded
this Republican battle cry:
This is the police state con-
demned by the President himself
only month ago. This is the END
of economic freedom"
The White House, however, sale
public reaction to MI. Truman
proposals was Favorable" Press
Secretary Charles G. Ross said Al
Evening star., 1947-11-18
U. 5. Hopes Tariff Cuts
January | Will Ease
Burden on Consumer
$500 Reductions Part
Of 23-Notion Agreement;
Industry May Protest
By the Associated Press

The Government hoped today
it's wholesale tariff slashes set for
January will save Americans
money without arousing a storm
among industries left with less
protection against foreign COM
petition.
Under terms of the Geneva trade
and tariff agreement made public last
night. this country will make more
than $500 cuts in import duties as
part of a 23-nation pact affecting
half the worlds commerce.
THE general effect should be to
ease the burden on the consumer
we hope for a substantial benefit. T"
one State Department official said In
commenting on prospects for lower
prices.
At least one such result-a drop OF
30 cents fifth" bottle in the retail
price of Scotch and Canadian whis-
ky-Was forecast by the National
Association of Alcoholic Beverage
Importers.
Change Will Be Slow.
But officials said that. in general,
the effect on prices and on. volume
of imports will be slow to come, since
few foreign countries are producing
enough goods to ship them overseas.
Also, many of the thousands of
reciprocal foreign tariff cuts, which
should widen the door for American
exports, will be nullif1ed for time
by other types of control, such as
exchange (currency) restrictions
and restrictive import quotas.
Many European. .and other nations
will continue the quotas, officials
said. in order to keep out unessen-
tial goods and conserve their dwln-
ding supplies of dollars for essential
food; fuel and reconstruction ma
terialS.
Twenty-Five other countries joined
with the United States in the
Geneva agreement, concluded Octo-
Der 80, which the State Department
termed the most comprehensive
international instrument ever nego-
tiated for the reduction of barriers
to world trade
Concessions were made by the
other countries on American COM
modities which accounted for near
ly S20OO,O0o,O0O worth of United
States exports to those nations in
1899.
Braced for Complaints.
The administration braced itself,
meanwhile, for complaints from sew
eral industries against the reduc-
tions in American tariffs. 1t was
recalled that wool producers were
demanding that Congress write a
tariff increase even while the &C.
neva conference was negotiating the
cuts last summer. Congress first
voted a permissive increase, but
when this ran into a presidential
veto the lawmakers revived the
Governments price support program
for two production years.
The United States wool duty, now
"a cents a pound on fine raw wool,
will drop to 251a cents on January l,
as a result of the Geneva pact.
Duties on woolen and >worsted
fabrics also will be Is per cent lower.
Cuts of so per cent-the limit
Evening star., 1947-11-18
Deputies Effort 10 Agree
On Big -Four Agenda Fails
By the Assoeiaied Press

/. LONDON, Nov. 18.-Deputies' at
tempts to reach definite agreement
on the agenda for the Big -Four For
eign Ministers Council collapsed to-
day, leaving it-up to the diplomatic
chiefs to determine whether the fu-
ture of Germany or Austria would
get top priority.
The Foreign Ministers of the
United States, Russia, Great Britain
and France will meet here next
Tuesday.
A split between Russia and the
Western powers prevented a deci-
sion on the scope of the agenda and
the exact order in which various
problems Will be considered.
Evening star., 1947-11-18
Dud De Groot Out as Coach
OF tos Angeles Dons
BY the Assoeioted Press


LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18.-Dudley
De Groot resigned" as head coach
of the Los Angeles Dons of the ALL
America Football Conference today.
Don Ameche, movie star-president
of the club, announced in prepared
statement that De Groot "has tend
cred his resignation as head coach
of the Los Angeles Dons."
The statement said "the owners
and De Groot have made this deci-
siontin the best interests of all con-
cerned." There was no elaboration
either by the owners or De Groot.
The statement, however, quickly
pointed out that the resignation
came on the heels of successive losses
by the club to San Francisco, Buff
falo and New York.
The club which has won five and
lost six games this year, will finish
out it's three remaining games under
the leadership of Mel Helm and Ted
Shipkey, De Groots assistants.
De Groot coached the Washington
Redskins in the National Football
League in 1914 and l945. ~
Evening star., 1947-11-18
Marshall Flying TO Chicago
For Policy Talk Tonight

Secretary of State Marshall
planned to leave by plane this after
noon for Chicago, from where he
will broadcast an important review
of United States foreign policy to-
night.
Gen. Marshall is scheduled to
speak at 10:30 pm. washington
time) at a dinner sponsored jointly
by the Chicago Council on Foreign
Relations and the Chicago Chamber
of Commerce. His address will be
broadcast over the Columbia and
Mutual networks.
The Secretary is flying in a two
motored Army plane. He will return
here Immediately after delivering
his speech in Chicago.
Evening star., 1947-11-18
36 jailed by Czeehs
On Espionage Charges
By the Assoeiated Press

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Nov.
IA Ministry of Interior COM
munique said today that SO persons
had been arrested in Western
Czechoslovakia and charged with
espionage for a foreign power"
Unofficial but reliable reports said
many of the more than 100 persons
rounded up by security police last
week in Bohemia were members of
Czechoslovak-British friendship
and cultural society.
Evening star., 1947-11-18
Paralysis Faces
French Industry
As Strikes Rise
Complete Port Tieup
Is Threatened; All
Coal Miners Out
By the Associated Press

PARlS, NOV. lS.-A DrOao Sec
ton of Frances nationalized in
dustry faced paralysis today as
all 114,O00 coal miners and the
workers of three automobile
plants voted to strike for pay
rises.
Tieup of all the nations harbors
also was threatened, in sympathy
with a Marseille walkout, even as
the center political parties negoti-
ated for formation of a strong gov
ernment to meet the labor crisis.
A vote by $4,000 coal miners to
join those already on strike made
the mine stoppage complete. The
Citroen and Panhard automobile
plant workers voted to follow the
lead of the $4,000 employees in the
nationalized Renault company, who
stopped work a short time before.
Union locals of the nationalized
merchant marine debated calling
their second strike in month. The
federation of all unions in the Paris
region threatened a general strike.
The Civil Servants Union decided
to strike Friday if their demands
are not met.
All have demanded Is per cent
salary advances pending negotia-
tions for raises.
Use of Troops Protested.
The National Federation of Har-
Dor and Dock Workers protested the
use of troops in unloading perish
able goods at Marseille, whose port
has been tied up for a week by a
longshoremens walkout, and in
formed the Marseille local it calls
on all harbors to join this protest
and to consider the possibility "of
general sympathy strike. All other
Mediterranean ports already were
idle.
An American freighter, the Pacific
Victory, arrived in Marseille today
and joined the vessels marooned
there by the walkout.
Some 10000 workers, including all
waterfront men and most of the
citys transportation and industrial
workers, now are out in the spread
ing strike which began with last
Wednesday Communicated riots.
Marseille taxi drivers struck today
for higher gasoline rationS.
Flour mill workers in the Lille
vicinity Joined the strike movement,
causing bakery shutdowns.
u. S. Crew Support Reported.
The Communist newspaper, L HUI
mantle, published resolution which
it said was adopted in strike-b bound
Marseille by crew members Of the
7,200-ton American freighter Henry
Gilbert Costin, voicing "our support
in your courageous struggle against
the imperialism of the Marshall
PLAN"
Crew members of the ship could
not be reached at Marseille for con-
firmation, and other sources there
said they had not heard of the
move.
There was no suggestion in the
newspaper article that the American
crew considered itself on strike.
L'Humanite said there were only
two votes opposing the resolution,
but it did not state precisely how
many crew members voted, how the
vote was taken or to whom the
resolution was forwarded.
(The Henry Gilbert Costin,
owned by the United States
Maritime Commission, has been
carrying freight between New
York and French ports. 1t is
operated by the Cosmopolitan
Steamship Co. Of New York. Its
port of registry is Baltimore)
Reynaud Continues Talks.
On the political front former
Premier Paul Reynaud continued
the conversations he began yester-
Evening star., 1947-11-18
What theRussi0ns
Are Saying of Us:

The MoscoD radio, broadcaSting II
to North America, said:
THE Marshall plan and all its
details reflect the desire of Amer
lean monopoly capital to DOM
mate Europe and the whole
world, to destroy the national
sovereignty of the different states,
to crush the rights and liberties
of all peoples. But such plans are
by no means to the taste OF the
plain people of the European
countries.
This is a fact which will have
to be taken into account sooner
or later"
Evening star., 1947-11-18
Typhoon Spares Okinowo

TOKYO, Nov. IS GA typhoon
passed over Okinawa with but
superficial damage, the 43d Weather
Wing announced tonight. Another
typhoon was reported 180 miles
southwest of the Isle Of Yap.
Evening star., 1947-11-18

(See CHEST, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-11-18

(See FRENCH, Page A-3D
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(See MEYERS, Page A-5o
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lSee TARIFFS Page A-5D
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
Stole Sugar;Soldier Tortured And
 Beaten To Death

NEW YORK, (P)-A witness at the navy courtmartial of chief Signalman Harold E. HirShberg. 29, accused of maltreating Ameri- can war prisoners in the Philip pines, testified yesterday that an army private tortured to death by the Japaneses had been caught stealing sugar from his fellow prisoners rations shortly before his death.
 Marine warrant officer Louis E.. Duncan, 31, of Baltimore, at pres ent attached to the Second Mar inc Division at Camp Lejeune, N. C., who was a prisoner with the defendant at Camp Murphy on Luzon, was the first witness of the day.
 Duncan testified that a store keeper reported to him that he had caught army private George Gar rett of Waco, Tex, stealing sugar from the mems rations.
 He said he reported the theft to Hirshberg and asked him what he would do about it. Duncan said Hirshberg replied that something would happen to Garret" within 24 hours.
 The witness said that within the specified period Barrett was beaten badly by Japanese guards with clubs.
 No attempt was made to 'link the beating with the subsequent fatal beating and torture of Gar ret.
 Garrett's torture was described yesterday by witness. One of the specifications against Hirshberg accuses him of informing the Jap aneSe guards of an escape attempt by Garrett.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS

Pan American arrived yesterday morning an schedule bringing the following passengers: Tullis Car ter, Frances Remley, Edith Ma line, Don Tatoowi, Sigfried Gerge, Louise Cornwall and daughter, and Chas Hyndman.
 Departing were MT. and Mrs. Duncan Johnston, Mir. and Mrs. F. M. Caldwell, Father Tom Cunningham, Father E. Anable, Father B. F. LaFortune, Roy Shy der, Col. Hall, Col. Hewitt, Leah Jones, Maury Kaufman and Glen Lloyd.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
ALASKA AIRLINES

Passengers arriving on today's flight were Thomas Bradley, Wal ter Nayokpuk, Mrs. Betty Mitch ell, Low Nunemaker, George Hite, Lawrence Hughes, Mrs. M. l.. Lehew George Fletcher Ralph Ivanoff, MT. R. Collard, Mrs. R.. Collard and Infant.
 Passengers leaving for Anchor age on the return flight were Maury Fannon, Dinty Moore, Miss Nadine, Miss Remley, Richard Brooks, Mrs. Richard Brooks, Charlie Katchatag, Earl Butcher
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES

Yesterday Arthur Moses was brought in from Lees Camp, and Don Stewart from Casa de Paga
 Monday MT. and Mrs. M. B. Hawkins were passengers from KotZebue to Nome.
 Frank Bingham was a pasSen- ger to Rainbow Camp yesterday.
 Tuesday Martha Avasuk was taken to Shishmaref and Frank Williams was a passenger to Kot- zebue.
 Passengers for Fairbanks yes terday were John MacNees and George Harris.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
AT LEAST TO BEGIN WITH.

it's the man who pays among Mo hammedans. According to the En- cyclopaedia Britannica, payment by the husband to the wife of a sum of money, or other lawful and material consideration, as her dover is a necessary feature of a Mohammedan marriage.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
Alaska May Get Salmon By-Prod- ucts Industry


 possibility of establishing a To- million-dollar year-round indus try for processing waste products of Alaska salmon canneries has been launched by the U. s. depart ment of commerce.
 "The job will be done by the Alaska fisheries experimental commission under contract with the department" acting regional director Philip M. Crawford said today.
 The department was allotted S47,0O0 for the research program, he said. The project will deter mine specific constituents in sal mon waste which have potential market value and the best method for storing the waste for year round processing.
 About 30 per cent of the an- nual salmon catch of 360-million pounds now is scrap. But this waste contains many recoverable pharmaceuticals such as vitamins, hormones and amino acids, and chemical raw materials used as drying oils and resin bases" Crawford said.
 Recoverable material is estim- ated by experts to be worth up to 10-million dollars annually. The waste, now being dumped into the sea or allowed to rot at canneries, includes the head, collar, tailpiece, milt, roe and other inner parts.
 With fishing Alaska's largest in dustry, it's products are valued at more than twice the total for min erals, the Territory's next most important industry. Salmon ac- counts for 90 per cent of the value of fish products. About 30,000 per sons, of whom only 1000 are resi- dents, are employed during the fishing season, he said.
 The research project has re- ceived the endorsement of Alaska Governor Ernest Gruening, Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc, Associa- ton of Pacific Fisheries, North west Salmon Soastal Association, Pacific American Fisheries, Inc, and National Fisheries Institute.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
Forecast And Weather Report Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. s. Dept. of Commerce, Weather Bureau.

Wednesday, July 30, 1947
 Forecast Nome: Cloudy tonight and Thursday with intermittent rain. Fresh southWesterly wind tonight decreasing Thursday. Lowest temperature tonight 42, highest temperature Thursday 52
 Nome data as of 7:3O am. today:
 Precipitation last "A hours 0.46 inches. Total precipitation this month 5.62 inches.
 Temperatures last "A hours: highest 57, lowest 46
 Maximum wind last "A hours 27 miles per hour from the S.S.E.
 Sunrise at 300 a.m., sunset at 9:l8 pm.
 Comparative data: Tempera- lures one year ago today: highest 56, lowest 47.
 . Extreme temperatures on this day since 1907: lowest B in 1929, highest 73 in 1923.
 Data for other selected stations
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
WHOpPER GETS AWAY

DANVERS, Mass, (P)-This is the story about the big one that nine-year-old Johnny Dragon got away from-vouched for by John- ny and his counsin.
 Johnny and his cousin, John McGilvray, were fishing for mack erel when there was a terrific tug on the formers line. Johnny was pulled in. A passing motorist pull ed him out.
 Johnny said he had no idea what hit his line.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30

Creek. Don Stewart, Casa de Paga. Richard Headly, Moses Point. R. D. Carter, Vici, Okla Frances Remley and Edith Nadine, Denver, Colo.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
WALLACE HOTEL

MT. and Mrs. Frank Daugherty, Golovin. Martin Jorgeson, Seattle. MT. and Mrs. Richard Brooks, An chorage. C. L. Dempsey, Willow
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
Agriculture Dept. Will Conduct Re-
 search In Alaska
Continued from Page One)


 The primary, all-compelling reason for the action is wrapped up in the important consideration of national defense. In the present posture of world affairs. Alaska has become highly strategic bas- ton of the outer ramparts of America and will, no doubt, con- [ tinue to be for some time an inn p1rtant link in the chain of na- tional security"
 Dirksen said it was of the high est importance that Alaska be made as nearly as possible self supporting with respect to agri- culture products.
 "I have in my possession a let ter from the then secretary of war, Robert P. Paterson, empha- sizing this point" he continued.
 "This consideration is also en- phatically underscered by the re- cent near famine conditions which obtained in Alaska as a result of the shipping strike, as well as the situation during the war when threat of enemy action to cut off sea communications neceSsitated the expenditure of large sums of money in construction of the AL can highway.
 eff, which Providence forbid there should be third world war, Alaska might turn out to be an- other Pearl Harbor. Steps to min imize such a possibility should be taken without delay"
 Dirksen said the action of Con- greSs does not contemplate the abolition of the university experi- ment station nor the permanent discontinuance of making funds for grants to it.
 DirkSen predicted that in the not distant future Alaska will be- come a state.
 The subcommittee chairman said in his account in the Congress sional Record he had received complaints that the work of the university in agriculture research is generally in very bad repute" and said it was the opinion of of- ficials of the experiment station that the president of the univers- ity and director of Agriculture re- search "are wholly lacking in qualification for or interest in car rying on effective agriculture re- search; that the principal objec- tive has been to produce food for the university dining table"
 He said the bill enacted by Con- gress had been praised by the edi- tor of the Anchorage Daily Times, the business and professional wo- mems club at Fairbanks, the Mat anuska Valley Chamber of Com merce, the Tanana Valley Farm CTS Association and the Wasilla Grange No. of Wasilla, Alaska.
 Dirksen said that though Bart lett had assailed the legislation he was in the House the day it was passed but had not spoken against if
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30

On clothes I spend by legal tender Because this truth I've found. A dress can make a girl look slen-
 der
 And hundred men look round.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30
At The Hotels
PATTERSON HOTEL

Perry Tompkins, John Thomas, Walt Troeschle, Fred O'Brien, s. F. Berg, MT. Coplin.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30

Women are more likely to have gastric ulcers than men; duodenal ulcers chiefly affect the males.
The Nome nugget., 1947-07-30

'Oh, Mother" she exclaimed treturning with escort from bridge game in the next room), I've captured the booby."
 Bless you, my dear, come here and let me kiss you-both of you."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-18

from four to five million dollars each, he added. Before the war Al- aska was served with 23 ships but now the number of passenger Ves- sels has been reduced to four.
 Ask Highway Aid
 Seattle and Vancouver, B. C., highway transport operators asked the Associations aid in straighten- ing out a Customs jam at the bOr- der. Canadian-bOund American trucks, they said, were being held from one to two weeks at the Pacific Highway port of entry near Blaine by Canadian Customs while contents of the trucks were being appraised and duties asses sed.
 Gilbert ". Skinner, President of the Alaska Steamship Company, said the Alaska Military Highway is mo tourist road because of the lack of tourist accommodations a. long the highway and in Alaska.2
 U. S. Sen. Warren c. Magnuso1 (D-Wash.) disclosed that General Dwight D. Eisenhower told him that the joint chiefs of staff have no military interest in whether the Haines cutoff is continued in oper- ation or not.
 Magnuson also told the Associa- tion that the recent four and one half billion dollar cut in the na- tional budget is not only going. to handicap the Columbia Basin and other project developments in this area, but will impair the military security of the whole Pacific Coast, most particularly in Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-18
AsHBY ACQUITTED
 OF MURDER CHARGE

JUNEAU - A jury of six men and six women, after IS hours. of deliberation, brought in an acquit- tai for Thomas H. Ashby, this week in U. S. District Court where he had been on trial since last Sat urday for second degree murder.
 Ashby had been facing charges of second degree murder, with in elusive charges of manslaughter, for the shooting of Stanley Han ming here on October 29, 1946.
 The freed man wept with grati- tude when Clerk of the Court John Walmer read the jury's verdict, de- liyered by jury foreman James Wheeler.
 Ashby was defended by Attorney Howard Stabler. who, although handicapped by his clients deaf ness, presented a strong case Of self-defense for the Territory s oldest white settler.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-18
SETS NEW RECORD FOR
 ROUND-THE- WORLD


 NEW YORK - Airport crowds broke through police lines early Wednesday to welcome, with kisses and congratulations, three men whose trip around the world was the quickest ever made.
 Milton Reynolds, Chicago manu- .facturer, his pilot, William Odom and his flight engineer, T. Carroll Sallee, brought their converted A .26 bomber, the "Bombshell," over LaGuardia Field at 12:06.30 a. m, (EST), just 7S hours and 55 min utes after their takeoff last Sat- urday. Their unofficial record cut .12 hours and 19 minutes from the previous unofficial record.
 Reynolds admitted the trip was tiring, sometimes dangerous, and said, T would not make 1t again for $100,000,OOO." But he added jubilontly to reporters:
 We made the fastest crossing of the Atlantic ever made, in five hours and IT minutes"
 The previous unofficial round the-world flight record, 91 hours and IA minutes was set in 1888 by Howard Hughes.
 'The Bombshell' averaged about 254 miles an hour on it's 2O,O2O-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-04-18
4,3O7 ALAsKANS SERVED
 IN ARMED FORCES

WASHINGTON - Alaska furn- ished 4,3O7 men and women for service in the Army in the period between November 1, 1940 d July 31, 1916, according to a final report issued recently by the War Department.
 Seven of this total were women, five of whom had been separated by July 31 of last year. Of the 4,30O men who served in the Army from the Territory, 2,2OO had been discharged by last July. According to the compilation, 2,40O Alaskans were still in the Army as of July 31. The total military personnel who served in the five and one half year period reached 11,367969 men and women. Of these, 9,56S,- 3S7 were separated from the serv- ice before the end of last July, and 1,799 102 were on duty on that date. More than one-tenth of the total were from New York state.