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ONE PLACE IT DOESN’T FRICTION
Senate Rejects
Reducing Cabaret
Tax To 10%
WASHINGTON, UFi — The Sen
ate Tuesday rejected 51-39 a
move to cut the 20 per cent cab
aret tax to 10 per cent.
Nevada Sens. George Malone
<R) and Alan Bible (D) offered
the proposal as an amendment to
an excise tax bill that had kept
the Senate working until close
to midnight Monday night.
Malone described the cabaret
levy as a monstrous and highly
- discriminatory hangover from
World War II.
Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill) sup
porting the amendment, said
there has been difficulty in .cut
ting the tax because it is identi
fied with cabarets. He said it
really is a tax on live music.
Malone agreed, contending that
cutting the levy in half would
make jobs for hundreds of musi
cians. He said the reduction in
the tax would generate so much
more business that he doubts any
revenue would be lost.
However, Chairman Harry
Byrd (D-Va) of the Senate
Finance Committee said the
amendment would cost the treas
ury 20 million dollars a year.
The 20 per cent levy brings about
40 million annualy.
In acting on the excise bill
Monday, the Senate defeated 51
39 an attempt to strike out of the
House-passed measure a pro
vision benefitting whisky dis
tillers.
This provision would permit a
distiller to hold his product in
bond up to 20 years without
paying the $10.50 a gallon tax.
instead of eight years as at pres
ent.
The Senate vote came des
pite an attack on the provision
by Byrd. He denounced it as a
“windfall running to many mil
lions of dollars” and declared “I
am certainly not willing to give
tax relief to any whisky distil
lers when we are denying tax re
lief to other taxpayers.”
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Navy Blimp Christened
“Snow Goose” After
8,000-Mile Arctic Trip
SOUTH WEYMOUTH, Mass.,
U?>—Its 8,000-mile Arctic journey
completed, a Navy blimp grace
fully nosed into its home base
here Tuesday and was promptly
christened thg “Snow Goose” by
its exuberant crew.
When the Snow Goose touched
down on the runway at 8:26 a.m.
it had been in the air 76 of the
past 77 hours. In that time it had
flown 3,400 miles from Cornwal
lis Island, north of the Arctic
Iircle, to T-3, a floating ice
island 500 miles from the North
Pole, then back back home with
only a hour stop for refueling
at Churchill, Manitoba. The re
fueling was done on the runway
without tying up to a mast.
Purpose of the trip was to
test the feasibility of using blimps
to drop supplies and for scientific
observation in the Far North
particularly in summer when
flying conditions are excellent.
But the 24-hour Arctic. sun make
airplane landings impossible on
the slushy icepack.
The blimp made a mail drop
on T-3, the ice island manned by
IGY scientists and dropped some
depth charges for underwater
sound studies in the surrounding
Arctic Ocean.
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Japanese Airliner
Missing With 33
Persons Aboard
TOKYO, UPi — A Japanese air
liner carrying 33 persons, includ
ing one American was lost and
feared crashed in Japanese coast
al waters.
All-Nippon Airways said aboard
its missing DC-3 were 3 crew
men and 30 passengers includ
ing one non-Japanese listed as
Howard Kreiss. The Japan
Broadcasting Corp. reported he
was with Kreiss Co., Los Angeles.
The lost airliner reported at
8:37 Monday night about 100
miles southwest of Tokyo, that
it had trouble with its left en
gine and was returning to Tokyo
International Airport.
A U.S. Air Force amphibian
plane started searching coastal
waters.
Five Japanese Coast Guard
boats began a sweep of the area
from Shimoda—near where the
plane first encountered trouble—
to Tokyo Bay.
Woman Prefers Dogs
DENVER, OPt—What price free
dom?
For television technician
Wayne V. Shafer, 33* it cost him
five registered dogs, asked by his
wife in a suit for divorce.
He left the dogs’ registration
papers on the desk of the Rocky
Mountain News with a note say
ing his wife, Sally, 26, could
have them in return for “my
freedom.”
“This is wonderful,” said blonde'
Mrs. Shafer. “He pan have a di
vorce. Now that I have my
dogs, Im happy.”
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Nomination of Judge May!
Cause Political Tug-of-war
WASHINGTON, UP) — Chances
appear uncertain for Senate con
firmation this year of the nomi
nation of Franklin L. Orth as a
federal judge at Anchorage.
With Congress moving toward
adjournment, the Senate judi
ciary committee has made no
move to schedule a hearing or
otherwise act on the nomination
submitted by President Eisen
hower July 25.
If the Senate doesn’t get around
to confirming Orth, Eisenhower
could give him a recess appoint
ment and resubmit the nomina
tion when Congress returns in
January.
Orth, now deputy assistant
Secretary of Defense for Man
power, would replace the in
cumbent, Judge J. L. McCarrey
Jr., on the district court bench in
Alaska’s Third Division. McCar
rey’s term has expired.
Judiciary committee aides de
cline to discuss the Orth nomi
nation except to say “nothing has
been scheduled.” Neither will
they comment on reports of a,
political tug-of-war between two
Republican members of the com
mittee—Sen. Alexander Wiley of
Wisconsin, Orth’s home state, and
Sen. Arthur Watkins of Utah,
which McCarrey claimed as home
before moving to Alaska some
years ago.
Watkins said McCarrey first
learned of Orth’s nomination to
replace him in a radio news
broadcast.
The Utah senator said he had
not requested a hearing on the
Orth nomination but that Sen.
William Langer (R-ND) had.
Langer, however, told a news
man his request to Sen. James
Eastland (D-Miss), committee
chairman, had contemplated ap
pointment of a subcommittee only
for the purpose of holding a
hearing on Orth’s qualifications.
He said he did not propose to
enlarge the hearing’s scope to
include either McCarrey’s pro
tests against the President’s fail
ure to reappoint him or those of
Alaskan residents who feel the
nomination should go to an Alas
kan.
Langer dismissed these matters
with the statement: “The Presi
dent can nominate whomever he
likes if he is qualified.”
Union Blames Racial
Discrimination For
Riot In Prince Rupert
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., UFV—
A riot here recently in which
an estimated 1,000 persons took
part, was caused by racial dis
crimination against the Indian
population, a fisherman’s union
claimed Monday in a letter to
British Columbia government of
ficials.
The union called for a full
scale investigation into the dis
turbance, particularly into treat
ment of Indians by Royal Cana
dian Mounted Police and by
local business.
Failure to investigate the mat
ter, the union said, could re
sult in future disturbances “on
a more massive scale.”
The riot occurred the night of
Aug. 3 when police arrested a
man and woman, who officers
said had been fighting in the
street.
Bystanders, many of whom
were Indians, objected to the ar
rest and the crowd soon grew in
to a howling, fist-waving mob
which demonstrated for more
than three hours.
It was finally stopped by the
town’s entire force of policemen
and firemen, using tear gas and
fire hoses.
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Baltimore 3-9, New York 2-3
Chicago 3, Cleveland 1
Washington 6, Boston 3
National League
Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 4
Cincinnati 12-4, Philadelphia 11-5
Pacific Coast League
Vancouver 3, Phoenix 2
Spokane 5, Sacramento 4
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