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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Profits Of Railroads Climb

The Interstate Commerce Commission has just issued
statement showing remarkable increase in profits of the
railroads.
In 1889 the aggregate net income $9470O,000 In
1913 it 500 million The carriers got than that
during couple of the years of World War III when they
working overtime government business and handling
traffic to and from both coasts.
Dividends increased to $289 million last year Thus
the stockholders didn't receive than about Wofths of
the profits, but that wasn't the fault of the profits
The amazing thing is the decrease in the number OF
railroad employees The business last year
Iied with about 600 fewer employees than the carriers
had in World War when traffic very much less. 1t
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Double-Stdnddrd Myth

A doublestandard myth has been carefully nutured by
the commercial press to the effect that labor man is al
biased and should be appointed to government
office except as am advisor"
A perfect example Of this attitude furnished at
the Senate hearings last year when Senator Taft had the
efronery to ask Typographical Union Officer Ralph Wright
how he could possibly the public mpartaly if he
appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor.
Wright politely answered that when a trade unionist
took oath to imparaly uphold the public interest he
could live up to that oath well any other citizen
In little book, Mr. Wright entirely too polite.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Label And Newer Members

TO the pioneers Of the American labor movement scar
cey anything of greater Importance than the union label
prncple-the principle that those who work union must
buy union Millions of trade unonsts and their families adj
here faithfully to this principle today But trade unonists
that younger and members of organized
labor learn the Vita need of insisting the union label
shop card and button when purchasing goods services
BY doing this they protect their jobs and those of other
workers employed under union conditions; by doing this
they strike heavy blows at the sweashoppes and chsees
who have unfortunately not yet been completely eliminated
from American industry
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Obnoxious Tuxes

This believes that it is high
should be eliminated
duced This applies particularly teegrams-a whoppng
telephone
electric light bulbs Certainly
and there
With respect to imposing luxury tax teegrams the Com
Tegrapher Journal hits the
marks that there Capitol Hill who will endeavor claim
that, telegram
will wormen the payroll
and help relieve shortage should be
The
sales and tending keep They especially
full obnoxious times eenn industrial activity
would the public promptly
ending them.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Supreme Court Does It Again

Monday, March 7th the Supreme Court trumped its
of January 3rd in again declaring that the states
may outlaw union security though federal law does not
They applied this decision not only to the ataAey Act
but to the original Wagner Act The moral to this decision
is that LPE must fight year in and year out for liberal
state legislatures, and that federal lawmakers must
that the aftatey Repeal Bill specifically declares that
federal law cannot be undermined by vicious state anti
union shop laws.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Asset Or LiubilitY

You are either the other. The difference lies in
the degreeyou may be 80 percent asset only 90 per-
cent your union For instance if your dues
promptly could claim you not financial asset to
the local if your support begins and ends there will
admit Cat least to yourse that you less of asset
than the member who pays his dues plus lot more.
Check off the following 10 questions (when one is
looking over your shouder give yourself 10 points for each
answered yes add the total and rate yourself your
own honestly conducted Private Opinion Pol":
Yes No
l. regularly attend my unions monthly meetings
g pay my union dues promptly --..-.----.--------
g. not only attend meetings, but take active
part in the proceedings ----.-------------
A. | serve on committees whenever asked and do
my share of the work --~----------.---.---
8. consider the best interests of the union when
casting my vote
6. If have a complaint to make union activities,
make it where it counts the most-n a union
meeting -.----.---.------.--
z. / try, whenever possible, to bring members
into the union
8. know the value of the union a factor in main
tanning the gains we have made as well as in
obtaining them
8. ! actively support a membership policy of non
discrimination for of race, creed, color
10. ! can inteigently explain to any of my
union friends, "Why belong to a union ----.~-.-
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Internation'l News At A Glance ---
(By the Associated Press) Tuesday. January l8. -949

Nationalist North China was falling apart today. The surrender or fall of Peiping. the last great city in the north which the com munists have not taken, was ex- pected momentarily.
 Foreign diplomats expected to be told any minute the Chiang Kai-Shek government is leaving Nanking.
 Some troops which Chiang's generals and war lords managed to keep out of communist traps were trekking back into Ranking from north of the Yangtze rivre, seizing foreign owned and Chinese properties. The U. S., among oth- CTS protested.
 Russia refused any part in me diating peace talks between China and the communists who have made long strides toward con- quering the country. Russia pro- fessed she believed in ''non-inter- ence in the internal affairs of other nations" The United States and Britain and probably France informed China's Nanking govern ment last week there is nothing they could do in advice of coun- sel at the present stage of the civil war.
 There seemed nothing Chiang could do in the way of arms. His military establishment appeared to be about bankrupt.
 Peace came little closer in Pal estine, Israel and Egyptian nego-
 Continued on Page Three)
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Pilot Refused To Fly "Yale Special'' Plane As Unsafe

Seattle, CP) A pilot who said he refused to fly the Yale Spe- cial' plane, which crashed here Jan. 2, killing fl men, declared last night he warned a CAA off cial 50 minutes before the takeoff that the plane was unsafe to fly"
 Tes.ifying before a civil aero nautics board hearing, pilot Elm met G. Flood, Jr., said he notified Louis C. Mugge, aviation safety agent for the CAA, that he had re- fused to pilot the plane because of icing conditions and 'the attitude of the owner, William F. Leland" '"
 Leland died in the crash and CAB investigators are still trying to determine whether he or pilot William Chavers was at the con- trols when the New Haven-bound DC-3 rammed hangar on the take off.
 ChaverS and another creWman perished along with II Yale stu dents.
 Flood said he told Leland before the takeoff that there was ice on the ailerons which would have to be washed off before the plane would be safe to fly.
 Flood quoted Leland as reply ing: "This is a hell of a time to pull that"
 Flood said he then refused to fly the plane and Chavers was sub stituted as pilot.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Income Tax Bill Reaches Senate: Chances Slim
(By James Hutcheson)

JUNEAU, CP)-With the special session of the Alaska Legislature drawing near it's end, A House-ap- proved income tax bill finally reached the Senate yesterday.
 At the same time, the House ways and means committee neared the end of an overhaul job on the general property tax bill and ex- pected to present it to the House for floor action today.
 The Senate set II am. today for converting as a committee of the whole to hear witnesses called to testify on the income tax measure. The length of the witness list to be called may determine whether the bill has any chance of getting through the Senate before the special session ends.
 Some Republicans indicate they don't expect it to and most Demo- cratS held only faint-hearted opti- mism.
 House members remained until late yesterday afternoon expecting to receive the property tax bill, but Rep Warren Taylor, chairman of the ways and means committee reported the committee was delay ed by legal snags.
 Taylor also said there was con- siderable sentiment in favor of setting S2,5OO as the personal property exemption. Feeling earli- CT in the day indicated S5,000 was a likely figure.
 There was no Senate debate on
 Continued on Page TWo)
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Washington, D. c., Prepares For Gay Inauguration

WASHINGTON, (P)-Harry s. Truman, a man with a pay raise and a new lease, got out his din- her jacket yesterday and started celebrating.
 His inauguration for new term as President will take place at 9 am. PST Thursday. This flag-decked city of nearly 1,000,- 900 is considerably agitated about it, with the prospect of several hundred thousand visitors adding themselves to the confusion.
 MT. Truman has just about fin ished revising his inaugural ad- dress. It is expected to be for eign policy speech primarily, al though it would not be surprising if he also talks about his flair deal" domestic program as foun- dation for foreign policy.
 Monday Congress. completed ac- ton on a bill raising the Presi- dents regular salary from S75,000 to $100,000 a year, and raising his tax-free expense allowance from $40,000 to $90,000.
 Last night MT. Truman and his family were drawn into the storm of festivities that has begun roar ing there They broke bread with 2,350 members of the Truman
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Vast Undeveloped Resources In All
 Parts Of Alaska

JUNEAU - Completion of the Bureau of Reclamation'S recon naissance report on potential de- velopment of water resources in Alaska for power production and other beneficial uses was announc- ed yesterday by Joseph M. Nor gan, chief of the Alaska Investi- gations, prior to departing for Washington, D. C.
 Included in the report is an ex- tensive survey of development possibilities of Alaska's fisheries, wildlife, forest( mineral and agri- cultural resources.
 "Alaska's undeveloped resourc- es now represent a loss of more
 Continued on Page Eigh)
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Must You File
 l948 Declaration?

In addition to your 1948 income tax return, you must also file by March IS a Declaration of Estim- ated Tax if in ls4s. you expect either
 1. Your wages Subject to with holding) to exceed $4,500 plus $500 for each exemption.
 or
 2. Your other income to exceed $100 (assuming your overall in come exceeds S600.
 Collector of Internal Revenue
 Tacoma. Washinoton
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
LIFTING THE LID AT JUNEAU
(By James Hutcheson)
Tuesday, January 18, l940

Tuesday, January l0, l949)
 JUNEAU, CP)-NeW hope for the passage of an income tax bill during the final week of the special session of the Alaska legis- Iature was seen today after the de- feat of a Republican-sponsored memorial chalelnging the sessions legality.
 The Senate defeated the memo rial yesterday by a vote of l3 to 3. The only votes for it were by it's two sponsors, Chales Jones and William Munz, of Nome. and E. B. Collins of Fairbanks. Five other Republicans voted with the Demo- crats.
 It was the first breach in Re- publican front which has remain ed firm throughout the sessions organizational phases.
 Immediately after defeat of the measure, the Senate passed a bill setting up a new legal code for Alaska embracing all Territorial laws.
 The vote was l2 to 4, with all opposition coming from the Re- publican ranks. Proponents of the measure contended that any laws enacted at the special session should be based on the new code; therefore the bill is essential. Op- ponents said it should have waited for the regular session, which opens next week, to remove any Continued on Page Five)
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19

SEATTLE (P)-John MacKessy Anchorage, construction worker, and two companions have arrived in Seattle after driving by auto mobile from Anchorage via the Alaska highway, and MacKessy scoffed at any suggestion that this was a rather remarkable dead-of- winter feat.
 "The Alcan Highway was clear of snow and in fine shape" Mac Kessy said. "In fact, the only trou- ble he had came after he hit the States.
 "It was pretty icy between Great Falls and Spokane.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Marine Cooks File CIODiscrimina- ton Charges

SEATTLE, (P)-Members of a former asserted "anti-communist' segment of the marine cooks and stewards union have filed charges of discrimination" against the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions group.
 The National Labor Relations Board Monday said it was inves- tigating charges by various indi- viduals that the CIO union is re- sponsible for their not being re- employed on Seattle-Alaska ships.
 D. L. Rotan, organizer for the faction that broke away from the CIO during the recent maritime strike, said lat least 50" former Alaska ship steward. department employees have taken the action.
 The group which later affilia- ted with the AFL, was unsuccess- full recently in an attempt to gain an NLRB election for bargaining rights on Alaska vessels.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Sets Speed Record For 2-Engine Plane Anchorage-Seattle

SEATTLE, (P)-A speed record l 1,554-mile flight from Anchorage to Seattle was reported yesterday by Air Transport Associates. Inc, a non-scheduled airline.
 The company said pilot Milt Donner of Seattle was at the con- trols of GAG that made the trip in hours, 10 minutes, arriving at 200. am. The plane carried pas sengers and freight.
 The previous record of hours, fl minutes was set in the flight December by a GAG owned by the same company. its officials cold
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19

ELGIN FIELD, Fla. (H) - A B-36 bmober with 24 men aboard took off late Monday for Ladd Field, Fairbanks, for two months of Arctic tests.
 Capt. Eugene J. Graham of St. Paul, Minn., in charge of testing the air forces huge land-based bomber, is in command of the flight, expected to take IT hours nonstop.
 At Ladd Field, the six-engine craft will join other air force mod els now under study.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
NEEDHAM, Mass. (P)-An or

NEEDHAM, Mass. (P)-An or ganization out of existence for 32 years has contributed $500 to an event not scheduled for 62 years.
 The Needham military band inactive since 1917 - gave the money to help finance the towns 300th anniversary celebration in the year 2011.
 The $500 was found unclaimed in local bank and seven of the 28 charter members of the band voted to give the money to the fund.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
NEWS IN BRIEF

SEATTLE, (Ap) An agreement granting waterfront Watchmen a 15-cent hourly raise was reported Monday by the CIO international longShoremen's and warehouse mems union.
 William Gettings, reg on l ILWU director, said the contract, covering independent Seattle wa terfront firms, will extend until June l5, 1851. He reported the old scale was $1.30.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19

NEWPORT, Wash. (P)-Charles 5, and Everet, 6, sons of Mrs. Lil- lian Chenevert, perished in fire which destroyed their farm home Monday. Despite efforts of their widowed mother to save them.
 Mrs. Chenevert was d o n g chores when the fire started, ap- parently from a defective stove pipe. She was burned as she tried to enter the house and save the children. Heavy snoWs on the roads slowed neighbors in their eff forts to bring aid.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
WASHINGTON, (R)-The civil

aeronautics board made final yes- terday an order giving Cordova Air Service, Inc, $29, ,0OO mail pay for the period July l3, 1944, to Dec. 3l, l947, on its route linking COrdova. Katella and Cape Yaka-
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19

TOKYO, R)-It is too much trouble, union bank workers said in effect today, to count 100 yen notes.
 To cut down on their work, they asked that 1000 yen notes be is- sued. The 100 yen notes are the largest in circulation now.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19

taga, Alaska.
 The mail pay equalled $1.73 for each mile flown in authorized mail service, the board said.
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Section 5. TAX ON INDIVIDU- AIS. FIDUCIARIES. CORPO- NATIONS AND BANKS.

A. GENERAL RULE. There is hereby levied and there shall be collected and paid for each taxable year upon the net income of every individual (except employees whose sole income in Alaska con- sists of wages or salaries upon which tax has been withheld as re- ferred to in subsection B of this ction), fiduciary, corporation and bank, required to make a re- turn and pay tax under the Fed eral income tax law, a tax com puted by either one of the follow ing methods:
 CD A tax equal to 10 per cent of the total income tax payable for the same taxable year to the United States under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, as computed without the benefit of
 C0rtirua1 op D,~a T'N-~~
The Nome nugget., 1949-01-19
Income Tax Bill Before Special Session In Juneau
S-ction 4: TAXABLE YEARS TO
 WHICH APPLICABLE.

The provisions of this Act shall apply CD to the taxable years be- ginning January 1, 1949. and be applicable to the entire current year, including that part which has elapsed prior to the effective date of this Act; @ to fractions of fiscal years ending in 1949; 3 to taxable years beginning in l949 and ending in 1850; and (4 to all ensuing taxable years.
Evening star., 1949-10-10
ey the Asseeioted Press

FORT WORTH, Tex. Oct. TO-
Four persons were found shot to
death today at their home in
suburban Oak Knoll.
They were identified by neigh
bors as:
Mrs. Richard G. Finch. about
SO; Penelope Finch, 8, her daugh-
ter; Allan Finch. Z, her son: a
Mrs. Walker, identified as the
children's maternal grandmother.
Neighbors said the husband aud
father, an American Airlines pilot
and Air Force veteran. had not
been home for several days. He
has been on leave Of absence from
the airline for two years and was
running a chincilla farm here.
The airline said Mr.. Finch was
reported at the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F.. r. Finch,
in An Arbor. Mich.
I An acquaintance of Mr.. Finch's,
Bill Wing, an American Airhnes
co-pilot, said Mr.. Finch was q
colonel in the Air Transport
Evening star., 1949-10-10
| Mural in Senate
Slightly Damaged
By Seeping Water

An enormous oil painting of the
Battle of Lake Erie was slightly
damaged at the Capitol today by
water leaking from the Senate roof
reconstruction job.
Experts from the Office of Archi-
tect of the Capitol David Lynn
and the contractor were uncertain
as to whether there would be any
permanent effect from the soak
ing. Several small streams Of
water had poured down over the
oil paint of the gigantic mural and
the canvas had started to buckle
slightly.
The water apparently came from
a supply which had been used on
the roof reconstruction job to pre-
vent fire from the welding and
other work still in progress.
The painting, on the east wall Of
the Senate wing In the spacious
stairwell, shows Commodore Perry
with several OF his crew in q small
boat.
Evening star., 1949-10-10
Three Die as Cargo Plane
Crashes in Wyoming
BY the Associated Press

CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Oct. 10
Forced off its regular route by
storms, Slick Airways cargo
plane crashed last night near
Cheyenne Airport, killing its three
crewmen.
The San Francisco-to-Denver
twin-engine plane nicked a knoll
three miles northwest of the
Cheyenne runways while coming
in for a landing. The plane had
been directed to land here rather
than at Denver where rain and
fog limited visibility.
The C-46 craft skidded across
rough terrain for more than city
block before disintegrating into
tangled mass. There was a light
mist but visibility was satisfac-
tory.
First reports were that four had
been killed. Coroner Wesley
Schrader said an embalmed body
that was part Of the cargo had
been mistaken for a passenger.
Evening star., 1949-10-10
Two Big AFL Unions
End Long-Standing
Jurisdiction Dispute
Carpenters and Loborers
Make No-Strike Pledge
Port Of Agreement
By the kssociotsd Press

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct. 10
Better labor peace in the con-
struction industry was assured to-
day with settlement Of a long
standing jurisdictional dispute be-
tween two key American Fedora
tion of Labor unions.
An agreement climaxing several
years of negotiations has been
reached during sessions OF the an
nual AFL convention here, it was
learned.
The agreement contains no
strike pledge between the AFL
Carpenters and the AFL Laborers
Union on handling of concrete
forms.
This argument may be unknown
to a great many people bat has
tied up millions of dollars of i'm
portant construction work for
months at time. with strikes
occurring frequently over the
years.
Will Elect Officers Today.
The agreement became known
as the AFtL convention began to
wind up business. Election Of
officers late today was to climax
the session of considering resolu-
tions and a major address from
Secretary of Defense Johnson.
william Green, AFL president,
Evening star., 1949-10-10
Kansas Train Wreck
Kills 4, Injuries 50
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

MEADE, Kans., Oct. 10.-A
Chicago-bound Rock Island pas
senger train hit a track wash,
out 3 miles east of here today,
killing four persons and injuring
approximately so.
Heavy rains occurred in the
area yesterday. Ambulances from
Liberal. Dodge City and Fowler,
Kans., went to the scene. Meade,
in Southwestern Kansas, is the
county seat Of Meade County.
. The train, 'The Imperial" was
eastbound from California with
130 passengers.
In Chicago, w. H. Hills, operat-
ing vice president of the railroad,
said the accident was due to "a
flash food which undermined the
track in that section"
At Fowler a small hospital and
the high school were being used
to care for the injured. =.
Bodies of two victims were taken
to a funeral home at Meade. Two
other bodies were taken to Liberal.
The body Of a baby was reported
still in partly submerged car.
William r. Owens, editor of the
Meade Globe News, said four
coaches and q diesel unit left the
tracks. One Of the cars was re-
ported to have made q complete
dip-hop. Another turned over on
its side, he added. Two other cars
and the diesel unit remained up
right, and four other cars re-
NAMED on the tracks.
Evening star., 1949-10-10
SupremeCourt
Won't Dismiss
|TideIunds Suit
BY the Associated Press

The Supreme Court refused to-
day to throw out two suits by
which the Federal Government
seeks to establish its paramount
right to oil-rich tidelands off the
Texas and Louisiana coasts.
The court last May Is granted
the Justice Department perrnis-
sion to sue the two States and
asked the latter to file answers
to the Governments claims.
Texas and Louisiana replied
with requests that the court dis
miss the suits. They said the
Constitution does not give the
Supreme Court authority to de-
eide a controversy between the
United States and a State.
In refusing to dismiss the suits
the court gave Texas and Louisi-
ana 80 days additional time in
which to file answers to the Gov
ernment's action.
Justices Jackson and Clark took
no part In today's action.
Evening star., 1949-10-10
Four in Airline Pilots Family
Found Shot to Death in Home

Command during World War II.
A next-door neighbor, Mrs. T.
c. Hukill, discovered the bodies
when she went to inquire about
the children, whom she usually
drove to school with her own
child.
Mrs. Hukill said she last saw
the family Saturday. Neighbors
said the grandmother had come
here recently from Florida.
The grandmother's body was
found on a bed in a well-furnished
bedroom. She apparently had
been shot through the mouth. A
20 Colt revolver was found about
3 inches from her hand.
The boys body was found on
bed in a nearby room. He had
been shot through the head.
The girl and her mother were
found in the same bed in a CEN
ter-front room.
All bodies were clad in bed
clothing. Investigators said the
deaths apparently occurred Sat-
urday.