The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIII, NO. 11,243 Tax Increase Call Is Cancelled NAVY AIRLIFT AIDS GLACIER STUDY EXPEDITION Drops 6 Tormuipment fo Juneau ‘lce Cap” - 20 to Be in Field More than six tons of supplies and equipment were dropped from two planes to the ice and snow covered heights of the Juneau “Ice Cap” this weekend as the Navy sent a second plane from Kodiak to reinforce airlift operations for the American Geological Society's Juneau Ice Field Research Pro- ject (JIRP). Low clouds shrouding dangerous peaks which rise out of the 4,000- foot level ice fields east of Juneau have slowed down operations of a PBY sent from the Kodiak Naval Air Station two weeks ago to shuttle supplies into the glacier study expedition. With clearing weather yesterday, the Navy dis~ patched an RD4 (DC-3) to help complete the task of getting the expeditions equipment into the field. SIX FLIGHTS MADE JIRP and Navy men made six; flights from Juneau Airport to the ice field Saturday with operations beginning at 4:30 am. and wind- ing up late in the evening. According to Maynard Malcolm | Miller, field director for the glacier expedition, one more flight of the PBY will wind up air drop opera- tions. He hopes weather conditions| will permit the final flight today. For supplementary support later in the summer, a Navy plane may re- turn for one or two more flights. Eighteen men will be on the “Ice Cap” by Wednesday. if all goes well, Miller said today. | In addition, three new memters of the expedition are tc arrive to- morrow to join the project. Dr. Donald B. Lawrence from the De- partment of Botany, University of Minnesota, accompanied by his wife, who will assist him in his work, will be aboard the Baranof when it docks here tomorrow afternoon. Dr. Lawrence, Mrs. Lawrence and Lloyd Hultert, University of Mon- tana, graduate student in botany will study ecology at the fringes of a number of glaciers in this | area as indicators of glacier ad-, vance and recession. Richard Ward, University of Min- | nesota graduate student, will alsoj arrive on the Baranof to join JIRP as a high level plant ecologist. WILLIAMS GOING Dean Williams, Pan American Airways agent in Juneau, who is being released from PAA duties| for three weeks to aid in investi- gation of the ice field as a summer ski area, will join the final group to make the ascent to the high levels. Expedition Leader Mmer,l newcomer Ward and Williams are| scheduled to leave tomorrow after- noon for low level expedition head- quarters at Taku Lodge, to take oft | from there for a 12-mile trek up the Taku Glacier Ridge to the main base camp situated at the center of the ice field. A two-man team of JIRP men who have been assisting Miller in air-drop operations for ‘the past week left during the weekend with The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON {Copyrisht, 1040, by Be!l Symdicate. Inc.) | ASHINGTON— Here are some things to remember about the Brit- ish monetary maneuverings which amiable Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder is trying to straighten out. The story goes back to war days, but can be summarized chap- ter by chapter. Chapter 1—Bretton Woods: At the Bretton Woods monetary con- ference in 1944, Lord Beaverbook and Winston Churchill argued that Britain couid not go back to normal free-trade relations after the war, that Britain must live by its wits, would have to put across the same cut-throat barter agreements such! as negotiated by Hitler (and as now signed with Argentina). Roosevelt and Morgenthau ar- gued that there was not much use in defeating Hitler if the allies were to adopt his methods after- wards, and the British finally came (Continued on Page Four) | Baker and Felix Hart, C. C. Saun- a ton of equipment aboard the Taku Lodge craft Red Wing. Mel- vin Marcus, JIRP secretary and member of the geological glacio- logical team anqg Duncan McColles- ter, Harvard graduate and high level ecologist, were to scale the Taku Glacier ridge to the mam base camp to pick .up used para- chutes and return these chutes to Taku Lodge headquarters where they will be brought into Juneau for use again in the mid-summer drops. Marcus and McCollester are to begin their climb up the ridge between the Twin Glaciers tomor- row to join a four-man team al- ready established at the 4100 foot Camp No. 4 on the Southeast edge |of the ice field. | Four camps with a total com-| plement of 13 men have Leen estab- lished to date on the glacier, ac- cording ‘to Miller, MAIN BASE CAMP Main base camp where an insu-| lated wood-framed and aluminum sheathed hut for a permanent in- stallation is to be built, is located| on a rock island near the head! of Taku Glacier at 4200 feet. There, | a three-man team has set up a complete meteorolczical station and ta 25 watt radio transmitter and| receiver for three-times daily con- tact with the CAA weather sta-| |tion, radio station WXA and the| Geoldgical Survey in Juneau. Half-way down the Taku Glacier ridge a two-man team is operating an intermediate meteomlogical‘ | station sending weather data to the | main base camp for relay into the | Juneau weather bureau office A third camp has been estab- ihshrzd by members of a seismic| investigation crew on Taku Glacier Headed by Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, jof the Stanford Research Institute and a pioneer in the seismic study of ice, this group is working up the Taku Glacier carrying on depth determining operations on the way.| FOURTH CAMP The fourth camp has been estab- lished at the site of last summer's reconnaissance expedition on the Southeast rim of the ice field. Here, a third meteorological station with a radio transmitter and receiver to send out weather data has been set up. The Army put a third plane in the air this weekend for JIRP, with a DC-3 coming down from Anchorage carrying 1200 pounds of | special radio equipment. Aboard | the Navy's Kodiak RD4 assisting| |in air drops Sunday were Lt. Cmdr. A. W. Jones, Lt. V. O. Hatfield, V. | Erickson, ADAN and W. 2. Thomas, AD3. | | | Navy airmen acoard the Kodiak| PBY which has assisted JIRP dur- ing the last two weeks are Lts. Jeft| ders, AM2; James Seaman, AMI;| F. B. Bowman, ADAN; E. Danahay, | ALE; P. E. Luck, AN; and B.| Koerth, AE3. The expedition headquarters dur- ing its Juneau operation has been the U.S. Forest Service warehouse where the many tons of special; supplies and equipment for the three-month project has been care- fully packaged and - prepared for | airplane deliveries. Some members of the project expect to remain on the high level ice field for ‘con- tinuous sttudies until the first win- ter snows begin to fall about Oc- tober first. Temperature 0;— Juneau "lce Cap” Cool 44 Degrees The thermometer registered a cool 44 degrees on the high reaches of the Juneau “Ice Cap” at 8:30 am. today. First morning weather reports ito be sent from advance parties of the Juneau Ice Research Project, glacier expedition were received by the CAA Weather Bureau at Ju- neau Airport today. The tempera- ture was only 12 degrees lower than Juneau’s 56 degrees at the same| time this morning. Members of the American Geo- graphical Society’s expedition re- ported over their newly installed | 25 watt radio transmitter and re- | ceiver which was parachuted trom ia Navy plane Sunday to the ex- pedition’s main base camp «near the center of the Juneau ice field. The sky was overcast over the ice fields with intermittent rains ]and a southeasterly wind. Dew- point stood at 14. The main base meteorological station is one of four which will te in operation by the glacier study expedition throughout the summer. A second station is already set up at the 2200 foot level on the east ridee alongside Taku | 'LATHROP'S RADIO |PARNELL TO HURL are working up to formal demands .. gers ohrugged off the President’s JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1949 BUSINESS WOMAN | OF ANCHORAGE IS | KILLED; ODD (ASE! ANCHORAGE July 11—/ --Helen Patterson, 30, Anchorage busmess‘ woman, was injured fatally yester- | tay afternoon when she tell into the propeller of a float plane on the Yantna River during a fishing trip. ‘The Tenth Rescue Sgradron here was informed Miss Patterson was | standing on a float and assisting in | beaching the plane when she lost | | her balance. She died within a few | i minutes after falling against the| whirling propeller. The plane was piloted by Jan Koslosky, Anchorage and Palmer business man. The couple was on| a fishing trip to the Lake Creek area. Miss Patterson was manager | of a women’s dress shop here. The Rescue Squadron brought the bodyi to Anchorage. | I | STATION OPENED AT ANCHORAGE ANCHORAGE, July 11—®—Dedi- | cation of the new, ultra-modern studios of KENI, 5,000-watt radio| station, here Saturday before one | thousand guests climaxed the latest | achievement in the career of Aus- tin E. “Cap” Lathrop, millionaire Alaska builder, Studios occupy the entire third floor of Lathrop’s Fourth Avenue| Theatre building. | FOR AMERICANS IN ALL-STAR CONTEST' [to work call |ernment. Emergency Dedared by King George LONDON, July 11— (®—King | George VI proclaimed a state of emergency today to deal with a crippling strike on the London docks. The King acted on the recom- mendation of the Cabinet atter wildcat dock strikers defied a back by the Labor Gov- A mass meeting of 5,000 dockers had voteq earlier to continue their | stoppage. It was the first time the British government had invoked the 1920 Emergency Act since the general | strike of 1926. Under the act the government is empowered to draft civilians — but not strikers — for |work on the docks, may conter traordinary powers on the police' and may commandeer buildings for | the use of troops. A total of 10,278 men—out of the London dock force of about 25,000— failed to show up for work this morning. That left 112 ships idle in the tieup denounced by the gov- ernment as Communist-led. The dispute began with a refusal of British dock workers to handle ships involved in a strike by a Canadian seaman’s union. Tacoma Man Is Elected Grand Exalted Ruler CLEVELAND, July 11.—®-— The Benevolent and Protcotive Order of Elks today elected Emmett T. An- | derson of Tacoma, Wash., as Grand BROOKLYN, July 11—(P—Lefty Mel Parnell of the Boston Red Sox | will start on the mound for thel American League in tomorrow’s| All-Star baseball game, with the| National League sending either | Warren Spahn of the Boston| Braves or George Munger of the| St. Louis Cardinals against him. WHALES MAKE WHALE OF STORY THIS MORN Almost breatiiess, Thomas (Jake) | Jacobsen came into the £mpire; cffice this morning to report a 60- foot whale cavorting around in the Channel. Jake said that the whale was around for about #30 minutes before taking off down the channel, for apparently less cramped quart- ers. Later on, there were two phone calls from “posted” watchers in the Federal Building that'three whales were playfully taking a look at the| town. According to recollections of several townspeople, it has been several seasons since the last whales | were seen this far up the Chsnnel.‘ At that time, five or six put in| their appearance. CARL HALL HERE AFTER TRIP THROUGHOUT ALASKA Carl Hall, who has been making trips to Alaska for the last sixteen years as representative of the In- ternational Shoe Co., St. Louis, ar- rived in Juneau aboard the Aleut- ian after a trip to Fairbanks and Anchorage. Mr Hall, who was associated in business with his father, John Henry Hall until his death two years ago, will remain in .luruanu| for the next few days. He is at| the Baranof Hotel. HOUSTON. Tex., July 11—#— Governor Beauford Jester was found dead today in his pullman berth on a train at the Southern Pacific depot. He was 56. WASHINGTON, July 11— (@ -— Two House Republicans apparently ifor an investigation of Judge| Samuel H. Kaufman's handling of | the Alger Hiss perjury trial i WASHINGTON, July 11-—®—| THe General who headed the Army’s public relations and a re- tired Navy officer was killed when a cabin cruiser exploded on the Potomac river yesterday. l} Glacier. A third station will be| maintained at the head of the| Twin Glaciers, and a fourth at low level is being maintained for the project' by Royal O'Reilly at| Taku Lodge. 1 | Exalted Ruler. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 61; minimum, 53. At Airport— Maximum, 64; minimum, 49." FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with an occa- sional rain shower tonight and Tuesday. Lowest tem- perature tonight about 50 de- grees. Highest Tuesday near 50. . PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® In Juneau — .02 inches; e since July 1, .65 inches. L] At Airport — .03 inches; *1 MISSING TRIO IS in Interior Found- Taken to Fairbanks By GEORG MEYERS Fairbanks News-Miner Statt Wriier FAIRBANKS, July 11.—®—With a bottleful of beetles and chinful of stubble, Dr. Melville T. Cook, 79- year-old Louisiana botany professor stepped jauntily from a rescue plane last night with his wife and pilot Bill Currington. | The trio, objec. oi a week-long |search by more than 30 military |and civilian planes, were snatched by a helicopter only 24 hours be- | fore from the side of a 3,200-foot mountain 50 miles north of the Arc- tic Circle and 50 miles north of Fort Yukon. Their single-engined Cessna crash-landed on the tundra slope when Currington became lost and the gas supply ran low. Despite their apparent calm, Dr. [Cook. and Mrs. Cook, who is also near 80, and Pilot Currington were | emphatic in declaring they have {had their fill of eggs and Alaska mosquitoes, the world’s hungriest. They had a cargo of 90 dozen eggs aboard—consigned to a road- Only a few dozen were cracked in the crash. cooked,” said Dr. Cook. Buzz-Bombing Mosquitoes | “To foil the formations of buzz- | bombing mosquitoes, the three slept inside the plane at night and sealed tape to keep the insects out. They sent up daily smoke signals | hopes of catching the attention ot | | rescuers. They were sixited yesterday | morning by a 10th Rescue Squad- |ron B-17 piloted by Capt. C. K. | Hale (hometown unavailable). They .Asaxd it was the first plane they had seen since the crash despite the fact that aircraft had bracketed more than 400,000 square miles in the exhaustive search. Helicopter Rescued A helicopter settled yesterday af- | ternoon on the mountain side, pick- up the Cooks and Currington and flew them to Fort Yukon. They were then flown here in a Wien Alaska Airlines plane. tion, Dr. Cook could not forget he was a scientist, and spent his days catching insects peculiar to the RESCUED Three Dowrfin_ Plane Crash | | national | house—when the plane put down. | “We ate them raw, we ate them" ingg!ns and Sons Funeral Parlors, {up cracks with emergency bandage | Despite the peril of their situa-| ! | in | | | | | via Prince Rupert, B. C., | Ficken, | Cole, MEMEER ASSOCIATED PRESS First Leg of Cruiser Race Ends Nanaimo NANAIMO, B. C, July 11.—@P— Winner of the 18th annual Inter- Cruiser. Race between America and Canada, completed yesterday, was M. C. Hopkins of Se- | attle’s Queen City, Yacht Club. He completed the predicted-log race with only 131805 percentage error over the 174 miles from Olympia to Nanaimo—one of sev- en yachtsmen who completed the course within 2 per cent of their predicted time. Ninety-four yachts entered and all but one, the Fusil fer, which developed engine trouble, | completed the race. Ten of the cruisers are schedul- ed to continue to Juneau, Alaska, in a re- vival of the Capital-to-Capital race from Olympia to Juneau. FICKEN DIES THIS MORN IN SEATTLE; SICK FOR SOME TIME A. J. Ficken, rormer local resi- dent, passed away this morning in| Seattle according to advices re- ceived by H. I. Lucas from A, J. Jr. He had been ill for some time. He is survived by his widow and son. Mr. Ficken was born in Chicago, July 15, 1877. Burial will be made from the Seattle, on Wednesday. The Fickens left Juneau several years ago. While - here; Mr. " Ficken iowned his own meat market and was well known locally. He was a! member of the Blue Lodge of Ma- | sons, Elks. STILL HOPE FOR DOUGLAS HOUSING; the Scottish Rite, and the LEADERS CONFER Hope that the West Juneau Hous- ing Project will become a reality still appeared on the scene today. Original sponsorship of. the pro- ject has been taken up by Cash cal and government leaders at 11 a. m. today in the office of Ken-v neth Kadow, Alaska Field Commit- tee Chairman. In new plans for the housing de. B y Truman PRESIDENT GIVES MIDYEAR REPORT T0 CONGRESS; 11 REQUESTS ARE SUBMITTED Everett Nowell of Fairbanks | ‘and Don Cooney, Seattle contractor, . it was disclosed at a meeting of lo- since July 1, .12 inches. o | grass, flowers and fungus. The first e Arctic and gathering specimens of | |ing quotation of { ities 35.08. FIGHT TONIGHT PHILADELPHIA, . July 11—#— Welterweight champion Sugar Ray | Robinson won his battle of the scales today, tipping the beams at 147 for his title fight tonight with Kid Galvin. The Cuban chal- lenger weighed in at 144%. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July '11.—#—Clos- Alaska Juneau fine stock today is 3%, Anacenda 27%, Curtiss-Wright 8%, Interna- tional Harvester 25, Kennecott 46%, New York Central 9%, Pacific 13%, U. S. Steel Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 650,000 shares. Averages today are as follows industrials 170.81, rails 4292, util- 21%, REPORT IS FAVORABLE NEW YORK, July 11.—(®—Stock economic message and stock barely | stirred before the President spoke —and remained stuck in a narrow rut after he had finished speaking. Only a moderate amount of busi- ness was done. Most comment from the financial district classed the mid-year report | |as favorable. RITES FOR HILDRE Funeral rites for Andrew Hildre will be held Wednesday afternoon | at 2 o'clock at the Charles W. Cart- er Mortuary. Mrs, Hildre, widow, arrived this afternoon via PAA plane from Norway, Northern | e | thing he did on arrival here last| night was to wave aloft a bottle of | | bettles. “Look,” he said, “what I got | for the museum at Louisiana Uni- | versity.” Only Slightly Bruised The three suffered only bruises in the crash, which washed out the ! doors and twisted the propeller. Mrs. Cook, whose face and neck are slightly marked by mosquito bits, said ghey were unworried un- til after the fourth day. “Then,” she said, “we began to fear that nobody would look for us so far north.” The Cooks said the misadventure plete their vacation tour of Alaska. age and to other sections of the| | turn to Baton Rouge until Septem- :| ber. Dr. Cook, widely known as a | botanist and author, is a member| of the Louisiana State University.| Currington, a native of Sacra- banks. He is 31. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Prince George from Vancouver }scheduled to arrive 5 p.m. today. | Baranof from Seattle 1s due to- morrow afternoon 1 o'clock. Princess Norah from Vancouver | due tomorrow afternoon. Princess Louise scheduled to sail Irom Vancouver July 13. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Kathleen scheduled sail from Vancouver 8 (p.m. Satur- day. plane’s landing gear, popped off the: will not alter their plans to com-| | Territory, and do not plan to re-| | velopment, rentals will with an extended amortization per- iod and 64 units rather than the pervicusly considered 96 units. Ten- | tative commitment from the Fed-| eral Housing Authority on new plans is expected the latter part ot this week or the beginning of next week. If commitments are satistactory, land clearing will begin immediate- ly, with expectations of 32 units completed by October 1, with re- maining RQouses to be finished 15 to 25 days thereafter. Meeting with Kadow, who spent the weekend in Seattle conferring on the problem, were Governor Gruening, Lt. Comdr. Edw. Chester, Mayor Waino Hendrickson, Cham- ber of Commerce representatives Fred Eastaugh and Herbert Row-| land, FHA man Harry Lucas, Har- They will go from here to Anchor- | old Foss and Cash Cole. Further easement of Juneau's housing problem &appeared in the offing with plans revealed for more | than 40 homes to go under con- mento, makes his home in Fair- to struction by private bullders here. CALIFORNIAN HOUSE GUEST AT HOME OF CLAUDE BROWN After making a circle tour of In- terior Alaska, Mrs. Joy Helbach of Los Angeles, Calif,, arrived in Ju-| neau aboard the Aleutian to be a be higher | By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON, July President Truman today cancelled his call for a $4,000,000,000 tax increase. He bowed to a temporary | deficit spending policy to head off | any depression. “No major increase in should be undertaken at this time,” were the President’s words. Also: “We cannot expect to achieve a budget surplus in a declining na- tional economy.” In a stunning reversal of his stand, Mr. Truman sent to Congress a midyear economic report wiped clean of his past demands for trols. Instead—stating that unemploy- ment is acute in some areas—he proposed 11 new laws to build up | jobs and production, boost consum- er income and kuying power, and loosen federal lending. All the ideas were familiar, Most were not drastic. They included | public works planning, but not more { public works; plan; expansion of Soclal Security and jobless pay; extended GI bene- fits. | No Crisis Action Crisis action isn't needed, Mr. Truman said, because the economy still is strong and healthy. It can hit a soaring annual output of “well above $300,000,000,000", in a few years, he predicted. That is one-fifth higher than today's na- tional production. “But there is nothing healthy about more unemployment or less | preduction,” Congress was told. “Such trends can and must be re- versed by positive action, private and public . . . “Our own people insist upon the maintenance of prosperity, and will not tolerate a depression.” Optimistic Report The President’s Council of Econ- omic Advisers, in an accompanying as somewhat more optimis- f t OPINIONS SPOKEN ON MESSAGE GIVEN BY TRUMANTODAY By RADER WINGET NEW YORK, July 11.—(#—Busi- ness and financial circles in New York called President Truman's | 'economic proposals to Congress | “constructive—for the most part.” Those parts they didn’t like, they were flatly against. They have been against them since the President tirst offered them at previous ses- | sions of Congress. The more con- servative still felt there were too many “welfare state” proposals. | A great deal of the praise came | for those things the President did | not propose—policies and recom- | mendations which businessmen felt he had toned down or eliminated irom his previous programs. All of them felt that the major | parts of the speech still had to be acted on by Congress, and “we. will wait and see how things turn out.” Here are some reactions to the | Presidential report: Wall Street broker: “It's on the bullish side. It's on the construc- tive side for the stock market and for business. He has gotten away from an anti-business attitude. He's talking the businessman’s language now and he’s even using business | expression.” | Retail executive: “It's typically Truman. Why should he repeal the freight lrnnsportauon tax and dis- | criminate against other businesses "who have to bear excise taxes? It should he propose a higher mini- mum wage again? Nobody needs | it. Nothing should be done to pro- ject rigidity into the economy. A higher minimum wage would cause 1n—@—| taxes' price, wage or other business con- | the Brannan farm, | doesn't seem logical at all. And why | PRICE TEN CENTS f I tic in genem tone than Mr. Tru- man, It found the business out- lock reassuring. But agreed that | federal action s called for. “We may have the unique and fortunate experience of liquidating a major inflation without falling into a severe recession,” the three- member council reported. In a sentence certain to win the acclaim of business, Mr. Truman took his stand against any major increase in taxes. i Only Two Tax Increases Only estate and gift tax rates should be raised he sald. He added that the transportation tax on ! goods should be wiped out and the’ “carry-over” losses in corporation taxes should be liberalized. The expected results: (A) better profit prospects for industry; (B) a small net loss in federal revenue, in place of the thumping hoost in corporation rates and income taxes which the President asked in his January economic messagé and for which he spoke again only a month ago. ; Legislators Flailed The President flailed at legisiators who insist on government economy to the point of cutting ‘“essential national programs” like defénse and foreign aid. “Nothing could repre- sent greater &conomic ‘ folly,” he sald, . Mr. Truman urgéd) businessmen to lower prices where possible, to keep sales and ‘production high. But don't cut, wages. in .order te reduce prices, he advised; that cripples the . worker's buying power and "me | gets hurt. Requests 'lfo Cpnm- g ‘These were his requests to,K Con- gress—they areé® of “vital lmpon- ance,” he said: 1. Shun any major tax bonst Re- peal the transportation tax, except | on passengers, liberalize the carry- over of losses by corporations. Raise estate and gift levies. 2. Lengthen the time limit for repayment of loans made to busi- ness by the Reconstruction Finance | Corporation. 3. Launch a study of the in- vestment and development needed for an expansion of economy. 4. Adopt “an improved program" {of farm income supports. (Congress i is'badly split on the farm program: House Democrats wm discuss & stand tomorrow.) Raise Minimum Wage 5. Raise the minimum wage from 40 cents an hour to at least 75. Broaden its coverage. (Such legis- lation is still in committee on Cap- itol Hill) 6. Bring more industries under Unemployment Compensation. In- crease the benefits. Lengthen the period of idleness covered. 7. Extend for one year—to July 25, 1950—the veterans’ readjustment allowances, or so-called “52-20" pro- gram. This program got its nick- name frot the provision for unem- ployment pay to veterans at the rate of $20 a week for a maximum of 52 weeks. Social Security Benefits 8. Raise social security benefits. Extend coverage to more persons. Increase direct public grants. (A soclal security bill may come from the House Ways and Means com- mittee in about a week.) 9. Let federal agencies speed the advance planning of federal works and acquire sites. Help states and localities ta do the same. 10. Provide technical aid to de- velop the world’s backward areas and encourage foreign investment. Reciprocal Trade Pacts 11. Restore the reciprocal trade agreements act, to bolster up world commerce. (The House has passed such a bill; & Senate fight awalts.) In general, the message was cal- culated to reassure business. No- where was there mention of an ar- ray of anti-inflation powers which ' house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Claude | unemployment where the employer | Mr. Truman demanded in his Jan- V. Brown. On her first trip to the Territory, she plans a stay of sev- eral weeks. BIRTHDAY PARTY At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crass at 308 Gold St., a party | was held last night honoring their son Earl, Jr, on his twenty-first' birthday. Present for the orcasxon‘ ing the war to discourage passenger !n!hnon could not afford to pay the mini- mum but could pay less.” Rallroad executlve: “I think you ‘llnd that abolition of the freight tax won’t make the railroads too | happy. They have been grumbling | about the tax on passenger fares, | \whlch he doesn't propose doing anything about. It was put on dur- uary report—demands which Con- gress has largely ignored. Now dead for certain, they iIn- cluded standby price and wage con- trol authority; allocation of scarce materials; extension of bank credit controls and installment-plan buy- ing curbs; regulation of grain and | other commodity exchanges to curb Neither was.there men- were Mr. and Mrs. Grant Logan,| travel, and it still discourages pas- |tion of the government building in- Phoebe Ann Logan, Bill Logan, and August Avolan, senger travel. "oft now,” It should be taken dustrial plants when private capital ‘laus to do so.