The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 10, 1947, Page 1

37 BILLION DOLLAR : House - Threatens Quick Move: - To Take Ball » Away from Senate u » > . 3 o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" R - e VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,473 " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1947 LEGISLATION SenateBill MINIMUM ABOUT LABOR AimsEndof GETS START Big Strikes GET BOOST Republican Sympathy In- dicates Fair Chance Ball’s Measure Would Out- law Industry - wide or | "ypacc ik il i Natl. Union Bargaining S 10—Sena- | dent Truman's tw Jan. 10—Presi- AM F. ARBOGAST By WILLL e-stated bid to WASE}NGTON, Jan. 10, —The | WASHINGTON, Jan. Republican-controlled 80th Congress tor Ball (D-Minn) today introduced ended its first week of business to- & bill that would break up industry- day with the House threatening to|wide °bargaining between unions take the ball away from the Senate and employers. ; on lator legislation ! He deseribed the measure as aim- House leaders privately disclos- ed to prevent nationwide. shut- ed plans to have their branch write downs in an industry as a _result comprehensive strike controljof a labor dispute. Under it: i Congress may pas measure Lefore the March 1 date| 1. No union could represent in bill to hike the pay base. Chairman Taft (R-Ohio) has set| Largaining the employees of two; The new Chairman of the House for his labor committee to send companies in the same industry|Labor Committee, Rep. Hartley, one to the Senate for debate. 5unles.s the plants were less than (R-N.J.) told a reporter that “per- It is possible the new House labor 100 miles apart scnally, I'm very much in favor of committee headed by Rep. Hartley! (A union could represent the em- jt" (R-NJ) will use as the basis of ployees of a single company—such| The present rate, set in the 1938 its considerations the all-inclu- as General Motors—even if itS| Fair Labor Standards Law, is 40 sive measure introduced yesterday plants were all over the _coumry;:cm;s an hour. All firms doing by Rep. Francis Case (R-SD) 2. No employer association could| pysiness in more than one state “We aren't going to wait for the represented two companies in the pave to pay their help at least Senate; we can pass a bill much same industry unless the plants| that much quicker in the House” a high- were less than 100 mlle:\‘ apart. Pepper said in an interview that placed Republican told reportei Further, n: would be illegal rm-_ a4 5 new standard is “vitally neces Case Labor Bill national union to try to force its gapy > The new labor measure propoSed lccal units to seek the inclusion of | ny Truman didn’t say how high by Representative Case is farjany particular terms in a Lator-' o wants to go. But in two mes- broader than the Case bill Vcwed‘Mmmpemenvz contract, or to con- sages to Congress this week he em- last year by President Trumar. It|spire with its local units to seek phasized that he considers an in- includes more than a score of laktor any particular terms. cfease NecessALY. | law revisions, one of which would| Ball called his new measure more Neither Pepper's Bill make it possible for the government important than his previous bill to other is likely to slide to delay a coal strike, or a strike outlaw the closed shop. Federal without a tough scrap. in any equally important industry, courts would enforce its provisions: Many Dixie Legislators have through Federal court injunction. by restraining order: fought an increase on the grounds 1t also defines a group of “unfair o it ‘would hit Southern industry labor practices” by unions. harder than Northern. | Senate Republicans had planned COORD"‘AHON TAWHKENTS o Tarm states dret to concentrate at the outset on the /] expected to yell, too, unless labor 1946 Case bill with slight revisions,| AROUND WORLD | costs are included when parity FLIGHTS, IS PLAN Officials of Two Airline, an(“l to tackle more comprehensive prices are figured on agricultural legislation later. products. | Companies Meet in Kansas for Purpose Competing with labor legislaucni 5 P i for Congressional interest and as- | sured of almost equally-prompt at- WIIILIAM S(Hupp BELLEVUE HOME KANSAS CITY, Jan. 10.—North-! west Airlines, Inc, and Trans-: world Airline officials conferred tention are bills to cut taxes and here today for the inauguration, to dole out to the various govern-| ment agencies the funds they need 'probably in April, of around-the- world passenger flights. up 35 cents to 75 cents an hour. encugh Republican sympathy jindicate at least a fair chance that nor any through | | | for the fiscal year starting next July 1 Universal Training | In the background, but likely to erupt into the fight stage at| any time, are such issues as uni-; One of the last leaders of the whal- ing industry, William P. Schupp, 80, died last night of a heart attack which seized him only a few hours| (after a newspaper interview in (Continued on Page Five) - The Washington Merry - Eg -Round By DREW PEARSCN WASHINGTON Inside fact about the shift of U. S. command- ers in Germany is that the stage was set for the change shortly after Lieut. Gen. Lucius D. Clay| in!leased Aleutian Island during the! should arrive | Shanghai today. He explained that|War. » the flight personnel had visited! In the interview, Schupp said al fields at Edmonton, Canada, Adak large amount of heavy machinery; /in the Aleutians and at Seoul, disappeared from the Akutan| 'Korea, and that fields would be Island whaling station, the island available so that Northwest planes'on which a volcano erupted this never would be more than one/ Week. When the Navy turned the hour from the nearest airport. |station back, no indication was Hunter arrived here today Iram‘BiV;ll tl;:n the property was di i i Minneapolis with seven other|turbed, he said. | {,‘,2;‘}:’,;‘,‘3,3:“‘Z;““NQ;‘,“’“\‘,T,’,‘E“ 5(,’; Northwest Airlines officials for the| “It was not until our representa- weeks ago. conference and said they would take tive had checked the station, tha'tv’ Shortly. before that, the Senate,UP in addition to schedules, termin-We learned what had been taken,”| War Investigating Committee (the!al facilities, tariffs and equipment. | he said. old Truman Committee) had semi?fiWAt ;lix}:ialzsl ::;t:;;z:s"?:v:o:fi; i imates e + Vi ::: Gc::?;ncyot:s:lim(};:;g znnn;‘ee‘;:ec;itake five days and cost $1,800. ;George L. R_ussell, usqs[an'.v“.)\;_:’isge with a preliminary report highly' The globe-clrc_lmg service, ap-lAdVOCate. said the comp;amlhd b'-] ritical of what wemtio in the DrjBraved by the Civil ;Aeranautica|000 eliim had not been cettled be- = ti * Board last August, will be operated cause it had not been proven to B ocupRsER Foue by TWA from New York to the Navy's satisfaction General Clay, then in the United | g oyi 1o way of Parls, Cairo,| The Pacific-American whaling States, was much upset by this re-| o0 and Canton, and by Company is the largest American ort and talked (o, fiien Secre!ary‘ND"hwest from Shanghai to New'Whaling concern on the Pacific. In of State Brynes about resigning.|yon o way of Anchorage, Seattle 1939, his boats killed more than He felt that Gen. Joseph MCNaI-| ;g onicago. {300 whales, kelieved the largest by | ney, ‘top 'commander of U. 8.| |any American whalers since the| troops in Germany, was the man| Col 1840’s. |survey flight | In Washington, D. C., Rear Adm.| | > really responsible, though he, Clay, as head of the Military Govern- ment for Germany, got the blame. On top of the uniavorable Meader report, Gen. Clay addressed a meet- | ing of the National Association .4 Of Manufacturers and afterwards sat down at an off-the-record » meeting of NAM leaders including some of the top moguls of Ameri- can industry. Their solution for the future of Germany was sim- ple. They told Clay that they should be permitted to get in touch with their opposite numbers in German industry—the I. G. Far- bens, the Opels and the other big | industrialists who helped build up "+ Hitler's war machine. If allowed to do business with * the German cartels, the U. S. in-| dustrialists told Clay they would have Germany back on its feet in no time. This shocked General Clay. Lat- er he told Secretary Brynes and his (Continued on Page Four) GREAT FALLS, Mont. | John F.. Chennault, Great Falls, i | Army Air Base Commander, says CHICAGO — Four Negro child- jthat 27 Eastern newspaper and | ren burned to death in a fire this| | magazine writers. and editors will | morning that destroyed a four story | arrive at the base Jan. 19 en route | brick tenement building. lto Alaska to observe cold weather | I o ] e i | tests being conducted there by the! CRARY No. D. — Three train-| {Army. Chennault said they were!men were killed when the locomo- 1expected to travel in an Army C- | tive boiler on the Pullman section T54. lof a passenger train exploded. ! - = Four cars werg derailed but no/ { passengers were injured. | WASHINGTON -- Secretary of ~ > > - | Interior J. A. Krug announced to-! CHICAGO — Some chain stores| | day selection of Hazelton, Pa., as a|in the Chicago and New York ! site for the Bureau of Mines new areas tomorrow will knock v.hree! /$450,000 anthracite research labora- to five cent off the cost of a| | tory. |pound of butter. Announcement/ - - lof the reductions in the retail fig-| —— Heavy winds whlch;ure followed a break in wholesale lashed at the western seacoast of jprices. |Alaska for the last 24 howurs are —— o |subsiding today and weathermen| LONDON — The Moscow radio! {look for a period of comparative announced today that Generalissimo {calm. Wind velocities reached 47‘|sumn received Field Marshal Vis- [miles an-hour at storth-plagued|count Montgomery toeday. The |Nome last night, but this morning|broadcast gave no details of their they were logged at 24. "meeting. SEATTLE 'Control of WAGEMAY | Pacificlsles | Demanded IS ERUPTING | :Three Touring Congress- men Make Their Report Today to Congress boost the national minimum wage House members, just returned from|volcanic disturbance | brought from Senator Pepper (D-|a tour of Pacific bases, told Con-|Aleutian Isl Fla.) today a proposal to shove it/ gress today the islands seized by by the Nav their advance Mount Shis] And the general idea commanded 'on Japan—could if used in reversé!was erupting with such violence to —become stepping stones onto our'that it showered ashes two inches Amercian forces in continental shores.” control does not tial enemy naticn, pass to a poten- or into our strategic position in the Cen- Itral Pacific is weakened.” The statements were made in a report by a House Naval subcommit- ited False Pass tee consisting of Reps. Izac (D- Calif), Biemiller (D-Wis) and Bishop (R-IID). ‘The House members said: “If another war is to be fought in the Pacific, the bases which will be available to us in support of our military operations at its out- break will be the same bases which we hold at the conclusion of the . . . peace conference.” At another point they said: ) “We have built air strips at great in blood, lives and money on these islands in the Pacific. We should not desert these islands, thus| allowing them in a very short time to revert to jungle. “With very small cost, these air strips can be kept in repair and readiness for use at any time. In our opinions, the cost of main- tenance, using natives supervised by military government personnel, would be exceedingly smal .- AUTO INDUSTRY IS THREATENED BELLEVUE, Wash, Jan 10— .Por'al - fo - Portal Pay Would Eliminate Cars, Also Jobs, Is Claim Croil Hunter, President of North- Which he declared the disappearance| pErTROIT Jan, 10~The porml-! Iwest Airlines, said his Airline’s first Of company property from a Navy- i, sortal pay demands of labor, if| tion came from the Navy i Authorities said ridges Was recommended for the F and villages between the peak and Wildlife Service for Alas the village of Akutan would protect | eries for protection of seal granted, would wipe out the auto- mobile industry, George T. Christo- pher, President of Packard Motor Co., said in an interview here. Christopher, who addresser the the Society of Automotive Engin- eers on “Industrial Democracy,” was asked whether the portal pay de- mands would “have any effect on car prices,” if granted. “No, not on prices,” he replied. “What would be the effect?” he was asked. “The result would be to eliminate cars,” he said. "There simply would be no industry, nothing—including Jjobs. “There is nothing we in industry can do or say. The issue is now a legal fact and the answer to it all is in the hands of Congress. We can only wait and see what they will do.” : . -o STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah from Vancouver, the |eruptions by hands of any other nation whereby | miles T e SHISHALDIN, UNIMAKISLE, Ashes Two Inches Deep@ Reported Showered on False Pass WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.— Three| SEATTLE, Jan. 10.—A second in Alaska's| 1ds was reported today which said 9,387-foot aldin on Unimak Island ldeep on the village of False Pass some kind of| Consaquently, they said, Ameri-|20 miles away |can occupation and control must be | maintained “in order to insure that|District at Kodiak, said neit from the Navy's 17th ler the | Shishaldin activity nor continuing Akutan Volcano, 100 westfard were endangering |residents of the isolated Aleutian islands. The USS Passiac, a netlayer, vis- Jan. 2, and reach- jed Dutch Harbor today with news ‘of the new eruption Postmaster Frank Bell of False Pass told Pas- isiac crewmen that Shishaldin had ibeen erupting every five days for {several weeks. Quartermaster 1 ¢ Allen E. Sit- ter of Los Angeles said he observes heavy black puffs of smoke burst- ing from the mountain. False Pass ! residents said the eruption caused electrical disturbances which looked The report ————— BUDGET AT A GLANCE | 1947 1948 ! Income $ 40,230,000,000 $ 37,730,000,000 i Outgo 42,523,000,000 37,628,000,000 || 2993, Surplus Year End Debt Detense Cost Veterans’ Benefits Deficit ALASK BUDGET REPORT Truman Ask for Various Funds-Would Rehab- ilitate Alaska R.R. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—Presi- dent Truman asked Congress toda in his budget message for rchab- ilitation of the Alaska Railroad with a cash appropriation of $4,000,- 000 and contractual authority for an additional $15,000,000. For maintaining existing high- ways and continuing construction in the Territory he asked $3,753,000 for the next fiscal year, an increase | of $1,153,000 over the current year ,000,000 260,100,000,000 15,150,000,000 7,601,000,000 BUDGET SUBMITTED LARGE SUM REQUESTED BY TRUMAN 'Message le;\ Congress with ltems Sef Forth- Is Over Estimates By CHARLES M?LON\’ WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Presi- dent Truman proposed today that the government spend $37,528,000,000 during the fiscal year which begins rext July 1. His budget message to the Repub- lican Congress thus went more than $8,000,000,000 over the limit some !key GOP leaders have set for Fed- eral outlays in their determined rdrive to cut taxes while whittling 202,000,000 260,200,000,000 11,587,000,000 5 3,000,000 GOPERS PLAN ' SLASHING OF ' BIG BUDGET "Shocki nfiisappcint- | 5 F ‘away at the mammoth national ment"” Expressed-Demo- !aen: A { Mr. Truman earmarked $11,587,- crats Are Safisfied [000.000—or nearly o thira of the | itotal for national defense—and By CHARLES MOLONY iugnln ignored Republican demands {that this item should be held to WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Presi-'$10000,000,000 or less dent Truman today asked Congress| pu: the Chief Executive calling to approve government spending of pic pudaet "réulmtic" » 0 ap | his and “tight, $37,528,000,000 in ‘the fiseal yes | insisted zlhu(, he had been “l'nofl' starting July 1. "hard-boiled . . . than I like to be"” Republicans promptly threatened in enforeing his own economy de- to cut the figure by as much as!'mands on Federal agencies, $8,000,000,000. | His recommended total of $37,528,- Mr. Truman told the Congress in 000,000 is $4,995,000000 under his his budget message that his propos- revised estimate on what it is cost- lal is the product of like lightning flashes and lighted Ho asked $61300 for the salavies|foue:! hard boiled” ing the government to operate this the entire area. Sitter said the and expenses of the Governor and| gs"‘““(t{‘.“. Bridges (R-NH) of ‘hudleal'. and $1,668,000000 higher than village was covered With a tWo- Sccretary as compared to $54675 genar oot SEE G0 ehesbudaetihie SRR Aed & FENE AR, ingh coating of volcanic ash, and this year. } ¢ appropriations committee,! Even so, the President said the that einders an inch and a half in For care and custody of the im= jazsafled the oufline as a “shocking Treasury will close its books on r disa intment.” 5 . diameter, lay on the whart. |sane. neasked #8340, increase of| “GEN T (Rund) told sq Sudget. 18 menrt i e Meantime a new report from u . $43,000. e os g " 4 " Naval Service vessel said inhabi-| For wagon roads, bridges and reporters the President’s request is $202,000,000 surplus to boot—provid= tants were not in danger village of Akutan, where the vol- cano of the same name still was erupting Ensign Dennis N. Dillon of Cor- vallis, Ore, said bright orange | colored flames of varied intensity ‘seemed to burst from expanding ! gases” on Akutan mountain, and that flames were seen piercing the | at the'trails he asked $130,000, of $10000 from the current year. | For reconstruction of the Rich-| , a decrease ardson highway he recommended 1$250,000 and he asked $7,000,000 for the Alaska Railrdad special fund. The total recommended for the government of the Territory was divided between $8,578,000 from reg- ular funds and $7,001,000 from spec= clouds and appeared (o rise several lal.funds. hundred feet top. Ensign Dillon, Oaptain of a Na- val Escort vessel which passed the island January 6, reported he and Lieut. Willie E. Gros of Kirk |land, Wash., observed the flames | for an hour and a half above the mountain { this week. | | inhabitants, although earlier re- | ports said lava was flowing down Akutan’s slopes. NINETY-FOUR-YEAR ' OLD MAN IS NAMED MUNICIPAL JUDGE | appropriations { tor The Territory would benefit from recommended for other departments. The budget asks $23,950 for agriculture exten- sion service there: $42,500 for agri- culture experiment stations; the In- dian Service was listed for $160,000 construction of schools h and Fish- otter and other fisheries and for furnish- ing food and clothing to natives {on Pribilof Islands. Alaska fur scal were listed for $69.300, an incr e of about $7,000, a.id the Alaska N tive service of ine Indian Bureau was specified for $4,069.000 compar- ed to $3429,008 thi r Funds for enforcement of the Aleska game laws were set at $107,700 as compared with $162,630 investigations BREMERTOW, Jan 10.—Judge this year, $150,000 was suggested James W. Carr, newly-appointed, for the fox and fur s°al industries municipal judge, said today he!of the Pribilof Islands; $14,000 for would nok dispute the statementindigent relief and $1679,000 for the that, at 94, he is the oldest jurist|Signal Corps’ Alaska Cc ”""'”"ca'!Truman‘_s bBudget. ‘mesaane ]uons System, an increase of $936,-| 10 view in Des Moines, 000 over the present ye: in active service in the country. Carr was appointed this week |by Mayor L. Hum Kean after Judge‘ Frank W. Ryan resigned. He had: |served previously as police judge from 1919 to 1935. e - ASSEMBLIES OF GOD hos- | First reports of the Akutan erup- pitals, dock repairs and quarters, earlier | an increase of $50,000, and $872,000 | 'PUBLISHING HOUSE | at least $5,000,000000 more than Congress will sanction. Rep. Taber (R=NY), head of the House appro- priations committee, gets the fir Congressional crack at whacking it, thought it ought to be cut to $29,- 500,000,000. Okeh By Democrats cd there are no tax cuts in the next 18 months. He placed estimated in- come for the coming year at $87- 729,000,000—a drop of $2,500,000,000 from the current fiscal period. In addition to reiterating his plea ‘for: Congress to leave wartime in- icome tax rates in effect, Mr, Tru- Democrats generally expressed man prodded the lawmakers to: satisfaction with Mr. Truman’s. 1. Prevent a $1,200,000,000-a-year | recommendation, but divided over cut now scheduled to take effect his stand against a tax cut ,July 1 in excise taxes on liquor, Senator Murray (D-Mont) des-!beer, wine, furs, jewelry, cosmetics, |cribed the proposed expenditures as moyie admissions, night club bills, “rockbottom” and expressed the, telephone service and other items. opinfon that Republicans would! 2 Increase postal rates suffic- have a hard time cutting the total.!jently to wipe out the post office Senator McKellar (D-Tenn), the!department’s $352,000,000 operating chairman of the Senate appropria-’ deficit. tions committee last year, said he! (There were indications that had hoped taxes would be reduced.these suggestions will apply prin- But Senator Elmer Thomas (D-!cipally to second-class mailing |Okla) told reporters he favored privileges of certain newspapers and keeping levies at present levels or magazines on the ground that the leven increasing them if necessary.ipresent low rates constitute a “sub- The President’s message went to'!sidy” to them.) Capitol Hill at noon for reading by! If Congress accepts the recom- (clerks in both houses. Delivery in!mendations on excise and postal the Senate was delayed temporarily rates, the Presidgnt said, it can in- by other business ‘crease to $202,000000 margin of In the House, Rep. Rankin (D-jsurplus—which he termed ‘“very Miss) sought to cut short thefslight"—to $1,800,000,000. |lengthy reading, but Speaker Mar-| In contrast, he added that he tin insisted on members hearing the i now expects the current fiscal yedr whole thing. The clerk read on foriwhich ends June 30, to wind up a full hour and a half {with a deficit of $2293,000,000 — s $393,000,000 worse than he estimated CRITICISM Ilust August. DES MOINES, Ia., Jan. 10—The ' Uping his 1947 figures for the President of the United States!second time since his record peace- Chamber of Commerce, Willlam'time estimates in last year's bud- |Jackson, has criticized President'get message, the President sald In an|expenditures this year will reach | Jackson $42,523,000,000 — a $1,000,000,000 gain |declared that the budget did not go from his August estimates. Heas- far enough in proposing the curtail--cribed this largely to veterans pro- ment of government expenditures'grams. | land reduction of the public debt.{ Revenues this fiscal year will |Jackson, who is a Democrat, as- reach $40,230,000,000, a gain of |serted that he disagreed with Mr.$600,000000 over August estimates Truman’s claim that the budget was'and a jump of $8,717,000,000 from \ scheduled to arrive at 10 o'clock to- night and sails for Skagway at 11 o’clock. Alaska, from Seatttle, due tomor- row night or Sunday morning. ef Russa eckine e Base PICKETED INSEATILE LONDON, Jan. 10.—Soviet Russia | SEATTLE, Jan. 10—Picketing of Sword Knot, from Seattle, due D'as asked Norway to grant herla publishing house halted construc- Sunday. !special privileges at Spitzbergen,itijon work today on the nearby Sailor Splice, from Seattle, due the “ULWEB:;’" ‘"WL‘;@; minister an-neadquarters building of the North- Monday. noynoet today. in Oslo {west District Council of the Assem- North Sea scheduled to sail from In London, a British foreign office plies of God, which is to be the Seattle today. spokesman said Britain was “Wamgdismct office of the church for Tongass scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. establish a base in the Arcticiajagka. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Island group. Seattle January 17. - - IIONS | Baranof scheduled to sail from STO(K ouom {lishing House, said electricians re- Seattle January 24. {fused to work on the headquarters Denali scheduled to sail from NEW YORK, Jan. 10 — Closing|pujlding because of the pickets. Seward Friday night, coming di-| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| oOfficials of the Allied Printing rect to Juneau southbound and stock today is 5%, American Can|Trades Council (AFL) said the 957 Anaconda 39%, Curtiss- | Wright 5%, International Harvester 74, Kennecott 494, U 71%, Pound $4.03';. publishing house was deoing com- mercial work for downtown firms S. Steelion the unfair list and it was at- tempting to organize the plant. Mr. due Sunday. - > NEW YORK--Four firemen were trapped in a fire early this morn- ing when the third floor of a building in the financial district, Dow, Jones averages today are as collapsed during a fire. They were fcllows: Industrials 17743, Rails later rescued. ‘4958, Utilities 36.60, main non-union, Salés today were 1,060,000 shares.|Phillips said in a letter to mem-| realistic. oo Report Made On Aulq Byodudio 10 —Ward's today DETROIT, Jan tomotive reports tion in tke United States holiday week ended January 4. Included in this week’s are 50,689 |assembled in the United Sta |gether with 2625 cars and trucks made in Canada. D T HOTEL J | GUESTS A UNEAU plant had expressed a desire to re- | tle yesterday and is staying at the ing to Manila on i ! Juneau Hotel, : For N the ct Au- g | estimated ' the end of excess-profits tax col- of a request from “some power” to washington, Northwest Idaho and|this week's car and truck produc-{jections and (3) an expected de- and Can- cline in receipts from surplus prop- The Rev. Ralph M. Phillips, man- ada at 78329, compared with a re-lerty sajes, ager of the Northwest Gospel Pub- | vised total of 53437 in the short| figures cars and 22,890 trucl to- Miss Louise Davis of the Alaska day from Seoul ber churches that employees of the| Native Service returned from' Seat- remain four or five days before go- jhis forecast of a year ago. Better- tthan-expected tax collections result- {ing from high-level business activ- ity accounted for the increases, Mr {Truman said the coming year, however, el Executive declared, in- (come is expected to run $2,500,000,- 1000 lower—becauss of (1) the reduled drop In excise taxes, (2) >e Northwest Airlines Plane i Shanghai SHANGHAI | Airlines’ survey i i ks | 5! | | i Jan. 10—Northwest { plane arrived to- It is scheduled to Oriental sur- vey flight