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TAFT BELIEVES $4 BILLION
CAN BE CUT FROM MILITARY
SCHENECTADY, N.Y., UP—Sen.
Taft believes^military expenditures
can be cut by about four billion
dollars this coming fiscal year and
he hopes by another 10 billion in
1954-55.
Taft said Monday night he felt
“the elimination of waste” would
permit reducing the military bud
get to 47 billion for the year be
ginning July 1.
Camels roam in wild herds
through parts of Australia.
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Civil Defense Exercise
Described as Success
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Alaska’s
biggest civil defense exercise Sun
day, bringing out 300 volunteers
to undergo a simulated bombing
and strafing attack, was described
as a success by military and civil
ian observers.
The mock attack was held along
the 28 miles of the Glenn High
way between Ancharage and Pal
mer.
Taking part in the exercise were
•the Alaska Highway Patrol, Civil
Air Patrol, ham radio operators
with 20 mobile units, rescue and
first aid wardens, Boy Scouts and
medical personnel from Anchor
age and Palmer.
Pretended casualties were treat
ed at two emergency aid stations.
A set fire was put out by volun
teer firemen from Chugiak, a
community of 750 homesteaders
with 379 enrolled members in its
civil defense unit — the highest
number per capita anywhere in
Alaska.
Iranians Demonstrate
Over Mossedegh’s Try at
Taking Army from Shah
TEHRAN, Iran, ($1—Police used
tear gas and clubs to smash dem
•onstrations in downtown Tehran
yesterday over Premier Moham
med Mossadegh’s attampts to
wrest control of the army from
the shah.
But the Majlis—lower house eft
parliament—failed by one mem
ber to raise a quorum and thus
delayed until Thursday any legis
lative action on Mossadegh’s pro
posal to curb the powers of Shah
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, includ
ing army control.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Generally clear tonight and to
morrow. NE winds 10-15 mph.
Low temperature expected to
night -5, high Thursday 15.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
18, low 12. Max. wind 28 mph
from the NE. Sunrise at 4:28 a.m.,
sunset at 7:37 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 9, low -3. Extremes this date
since 1907: high 54 in 1940, lo*w
-24 in 1924.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -5 Clear
Kotzebue 7 Part cloudy
Wales 2 Part cloudy
Gambell 7 Fog
Nome 17 Part cloudy
Unatakleet -1 Clear
Bethel 6 Clear
McGrath 5 Clear
Anchorage 27 Cloudy
Fairbanks 19 Part cloudy
Edmonton 14 Cloudy
Juneau 40 Rain
Ketchikan 44 Rain
Seattle 49 Cloudy
San Francisco 58 Cloudy
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FT. RICHARDSON SOLDIERS
KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
ANCHORAGE, W>—‘Three Fort
Richardson soldiers, all of them
22 years of age, were killed out
right in a car accident Sunday
night near Palmer.
A fourth serviceman, believed
to have been riding with them,
was feared to have drowned in
the Matanuska River.
A coupe driven by the soldiers
crashed into a bridge abutment
two miles out of Palmer and cata
pulted to the bank of the river
30 feet below.
FROM GOLD MINING TO
WOOD PULP MANUFACTURE
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)— Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining Co. may start
wood pulp manufacturing, Presi
dent C. A. Norris informed stock- •
holders in the annual report. The j
company’s Alaska mining opera- j
tions have been shut down since !
1944.
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IKE'S DOUBLE
GOSHEN, N.Y., W—Most of us
have a double somewhere in the
world, it’s said, but few of us
know it. Harry Strong, now resid
ing in White Plains, knows who
and where his double is.
The other day a shoeshine ur
chin in New York offered a free '
shoeshine to “Mister Ike.” When
Strong said he wasn’t the new
President the offer was .repeated,
“because you look so ittuch like
him.” The shoeshine incident was
only the latest in a series that has
been going on ever since Dwight
D. Eisenhower came into promi
nence.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
59 Days in Sub
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NEW LONDON, CONN —The 23
volunteers who have spent the last
59 days in the Haddock wave from
the control bridge of their craft,
after their release from the Navy’s
Test-Tube. They were subjected to
simulated undersea conditions by
the Navy to determine how long a
crew of the undersea Navy could
tolerate the super-charged carbon
dioxide conditions that would be
present in manning an atomic pow
ered sub.
Wider Seals for Wider Cops
SANTA FE, N.M., UPI—Noted in
State Police Chief Joe Roach’s
monthly bulletin to his force:
“The new patrol cars are com
ing cut with larger sc...5—so are
the older officers.”
The Alaska Steamship Company steamer Alaska, in tow of the tug Anna Foss passing
through Seattle's Montlake Bridge enroule from her winter layup at Houghton in Lake
Washington to Elliot Bay to prepare for her initial sailing of the year to Alaska on May 27.
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