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GOPs Squabble
Over Income
Tax Reduction
WASHINGTON, UP — Somej
Democrats were laughing up their
sleeves today at an open squabble
among Republicans over a bill to
cut individual income tax rates
11 per cent starting June 30.
One GOP camp was led by Rep.
Reed <R-NY', oldest Republican
in continuous service in the
House and chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee, the com
mittee that must start all tax bills
through Congress.
Reed emerged from a closed
committee session yesterday with
a flat statement the group would
approve the tax-cutting bill at a
meeting planned for Feb. 16. Fur
ther, he told reporters, the House
would pass it right away — any
delay would be “over my dead
body.”
House Speaker Joseph Martin
<R - Mass' then took a different
view. The Speaker told a reporter
“We’ve got to do some budget
cutting” before the House should
consider tax reductions.'"He said
it would take several months to
see how the budget shapes up.
Several members, declining to
be quoted by name, backed Mar
tin. Some other Republicans lined
up with Reed.
Rep. Martin (R-Iowa) noted the
bill sponsored by Reed would
merely advance by six months the
date already set by present law
for an 11 per cent rate reduction.
The effect thus would be to cut
income tax liability this year by
51/! per cent.
Masked Gunman Kills
Fairbanks Club Owner
FAIRBANKS, W — Two gun
men wearing Halloween masks
shot and killed a 62-year-old Fair
banks night club Owner in the
kitchen of his home early Mon
day, police reported.
The victim said they believed
the gunmen were after receipts
from the three bars Wright owned
in Fairbanks. They fled with only
$20, taken from Mrs. Wright’s
purse.
While awaiting the Wrights’ re
turn home, the men drank a
quart of champagne and part of a
quart of whiskey they found after
forcing the rear door.
Mrs. Wright told authorities she
and her husband entered the
house about 1:45 a.m. after closing
their downtown clubs, and imme
diately noticed the empty cham
pagne bottle on the kitchen table.
Suddenly the two masked men
confronted the couple. Wright
was shot through the heart when
he tried to resist and his wife was
bound to a chair with wire.
PLUCKY PIGEON WINS PFC.
WITH U. S. 40th DIVISION,
Korea, UPl — Homer the homing
pigeon, carrying a message from
a 40th Division command post to
the rear, developed wing trouble
and made a forced landing the
other day; he hopped the last two
miles and delivered the message.
“For initiative and loyalty,”
said Pvt. William R. Raymond,
Detroit, “Homer has been pro
moted to PFC — Pigeon First
Class.”
C. E. Wilson Sworn In As
Defense Secretary, Filling
Out Eisenhower’s Cabinet
WASHINGTON, Wl — President
Eisenhower’s cabinet was com
pleted today when Charles E.
Wilson took the oath of office as
Secretary of Defense in the White
House.
At the same time, Harold E.
Stassen was sworn in as director
of the Mutual Security Agency
and former Gov. Val Peterson of
Nebraska as an administrative
assistant to the President.
Eisenhower stood beside Wil
son, Stassen and Peterson at the
swearing - in ceremony and ex
pressed his pleasure at having
them in his official family.
When Peterson had taken the
oath, Eisenhower said-, “Val, I’m
glad to have you aboard.”
Peterson replied, “It was kind
of a rough trip.”
This quip may have referred to
a slight mixup in the reading of
the oath — or to the fact that
Eisenhower once planned an am
bassador’s post for him but gave
up the idea because of opposition
from Sen. Hugh Butler (R-Neb),
an old political foe of Peterson.
As an administrative assistant,
Peterson did not require Senate
confirmation. Ambassadors must
have it.
Senate Committee Okays
Roger Kyes as Deputy
Secretary of Defense
WASHINGTON, UP — The Sen
ate Armed Services Committee
today gave unanimous approval
to the nomination of Roger M.
Kyes as deputy Secretary of De
fense. The General Motors vice
president had promised to sell all
his extensive stock holdings that
might conflict with the defense
job.
This was the second of the
controversial Defense Department
nominations to win approval of
the committee. Earlier, it en
dorsed Charles E. Wilson as De
fense Secretary and, the nomina
tion later was approved by the
full Senate.
Only one criticism was raised:
Sen. Hunt (D-Wyo) said he would
vote for Kyes but questioned the
policy of installing both the presi
dent and vice president of Gen
eral Motors—largest defense con
tractors — as top officials in the
Defense Department.
There were reports today that
Eisenhower may abandon his
plan to name Robert T. B. Ste
vens, Army Secretary unless Ste
vens finds a way to dispose of
his textile business.
Republicans To Replace
All “Acting Postmasters”
WASHINGTON, (S) — Republi
cans have found they can take
over more than 2,100 postmaster
ships immediately and are going
to start making the appointments
soon, it was learned today.
GOP senators have asked the
Postoffice Department to check
on the number of posts now filled
by acting postmasters. The figure
already has topped the 2,100 mark
with two states to go.
Former President Truman
named acting postmasters for
some of the vacancies, but the new
administration will send up its
own names for the jobs.
Dulles Reports
Plans for Ending
Far East Wars
WASHINGTON, UR—1The Eisen
hower administration was report
ed authoritatively today to have
well advanced plans for trying to
end the Korean and Indochinese
wars by denying Russia any “ad
vantage” from them.
Secretary of State Dulles, dis
cussing this subject publicly for
the first time since the new ad
minstration took power, told a
national radio and television au
dience last night:
“Today these wars go on be
cause the enemy thinks he’s get
ting an advantage by continuing
the war. I believe that Gen. Eisen
hower will find the ways to make
the enemy change his mind in
that respect so that they too will
want peace.”
Dulles’ statement was described
authoritatively as being based on
plans fpr specific moves, although
he gave no hint in his speech as
to what these moves will be.
Dulles’ broadcast speech pin
pointed trouble spots of the world
in a sweeping survey of American
foreign policy problems, and also
contained an appeal for popular
confidence at home in the State
Department and Foreign Service.
He promised, with the help of
the FBI, to rid the department of
any Communist or Red sympath
izers who may be found there.
Writers On Two Alabama
Daily May Not Use “Ike”
For President Eisenhower
MONTGOMERY, Ala., OP —
Headline writers on Montgom
ery’s two daily newspapers must
use the full name of the President
of the United States in news
stories.
“Let’s make our contribution
toward restoring some of the dig
nity that belongs to the office of
the United States,” managing edi
tor William J. Mahoney said in a
notice banning such headline fa
vorites as “Ike.”
Hereafter, headlines must refer
to President Eisenhower as the
President, or Eisenhower. In the
body of stories he must be listed
as Mr. Eisenhower, Gen. Eisen
hower or President Eisenhower.
The rule applies to the jointly
owned Montgomery Advertiser
and the Alabama Journal.
BRITISH CANBERRA JET SETS
ENGL AND-AUSTRALIA MARK
OF 22 HOURS. ONE MINUTE
DARWIN, Australia, UP) — Brit
ain’s Canberra jet bomber, al
ready the conqueror of Atlantic
speed records, hung a new official
England-to-Australia mark on its
fuselage today.
The speedy twin - jet whizzed
down at the north Australian port
just 22 hours and one minute
after leaving London. Its actual
flying time for the 8,608-mile trip
—unofficial so far—was 19 hours
and one minute.
This more than halved the pre
vious official record listed with
the British Air Ministry of 45
hours, 35 minutes, clocked by a
four-engine Lancaster bomber in
August, 1946.
First Measures Introduced In House
Would Repeal Property Tax and Move
Primary Closer to General Election
Red Negotiators
Responsible For
Prison Riots
TOKYO, UP) — The United Na
tions Command today charged
the two top Communist armistice
negotiators with “direct respon
sibility” for prisoner of war riots
in Koje and Cheju islands.
The UNC quoted captured
Communist documents and Allied
intelligence reports in directly
blaming North Korean Gen. Nam
11, senior Red delegate to the sus
pended talks, and his deputy Lee
Sang Cho.
The Allies said thfc uprisings,
which cost the lives of more than
200 Red prisoners, were part of
the “Communist campaign on the
second front of the Korean war.”
“These two generals and their
fanatical followers have exploited
a new area of total war,”" the
UNC charged.
The statement spelled out in
detail steps it said the Reds took
to organize the riots.
“Many prisoners captured by
the U.N. forces have admitted
they were deliberate plants, dis
patched to penetrate the prison
camps at Koje, where they were
fo' establish ‘cell organization com
mittees’ in each camp,” the state
ment asserted.
It declared there was direct
chain of command from the ar
mistice negotiators right down to
individual compounds in the pri
soner camps.
Parents of Teen-Age
Television Singer Take
Agent Into Court
LOS ANGELES, UP)—'The court
has taken under submission a suit
to block approval of the latest
option of freckle - faced Jimmy
Boyd’s seven-year contract with
Abner Greshler Productions.
Jimmy is the television singer
who skyrocketed into big money
with his recording' of the song,
“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa
Claus.” Attorneys for the 13-year
old hillbilly claim he is entitled
to more money than he has re
ceived from the sale of 2,200,000
records.
“The main difficulty,” observed
Superior Judge Frank G., Swain,
“Is that Jimmy has hit the jack
pot, so to speak. He has made a
lot of money. That has caused the
parents, quite properly, to inquire
into the contract.”
Greshler contends he has spent
considerable time and money
building Jimmy into a TV per
sonality. But the lad’s parents
contend the agent is entitled to
only 10 percent of Jimmy’s earn
ings but is getting as much as 60
per cent on loanouts to producers.
OIL TANKER ACCIDENT
LITTLE FALLS, N.Y., UP) — A
gasoline-laden tanker skidded on
an icy hill early today, overturned
and exploded, setting fire to seven
houses on the outskirts of this
central New York city. No cas
ualties were reported.
> JUNEAU, Iff) — Bills to repeal
Alaska’s general property tax law
and to move the primary election
date closer to the general election
topped the first batch of measures
introduced in the House during
the second day of the Territorial
Legislature Tuesday.
A memorial to Congress for an
elective governor and lieutenant
governor also was introduced.
A bill was introduced by How
ard Pollock (R-Anchorage) to re
vise the Statehood Committee and
extend its authority.
Only one measure was intro
duced in the late-organizing Sen
ate. It was by Charley Jones to
establish a $25 bounty on wolver
ines, with a $15,000 appropriation.
In other House measures, Jul
ian Hurley (R-Fairbanks) intro
duced a bill to repeal the pro
perty tax. Hurley is from the
Fourth Division, where opposi
tion has been strongest against
the court-entangled 1949 law. The
Republican platform called for
repeal of the statute.
Dorothy Prior (R-Anchorage)
introduced a bill which would
change the primary election from
late April to late June, change the
filing deadline from Feb. 1 to
April 15 and change precinct elec
tion workers’ pay from $15 a
day to $1.25 an hour.
Pollock’s Statehood Committee
bill would call upon a committee
of eight legislators and three
gubernatorial appointees to pre
pare an actual statehood bill and
submit it to the voters by refer
endum.
Richard Gruel (D-Fairbanks)
introduced the No. 1 House bill
memorial to President Eisen
hower and Congress. It declares
that an elective governor would
provide further evidence as to
the “validity of our claim of being
able to govern ourselves as a
state.”
The Senate agreed to hear the
Governor’s message at 3 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon, but the
House failed to take aciton on it
before Tuesday afternoon’s ad
journment.
Charley Jones Nominated
By Fellow Ohioan
JUNEAU, —It looked like a
private party of ex-Ohioans when
Sen. Charles Jones, 77-year-old
Nome pioneer, was elected presi- '
dent of the territorial Senate Mon
day.
When Sen. John Gorsuch, An
chorage Republican, learned that
Jones came from Ohio 53 years
ago, he asked the privilege of
nominating him for the office
which had been conceded him by
the Republican majority.
Gorsuch explained that he him
self came from a community only
26 miles from Jones’ boyhood
home at Zanesville, Ohio.
Jones, mayor of Nome, came to
the area in 1900. He is one of the
four living members of Alaska’s
first legislature in 1913.
He is a former United States
marshal in the Second Division.
He was a member of the 1947 and
1949 sessions, was defeated in
1950 and elected again in 1952.