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Iraq and Jordan Join Countries
In New Middle East Federation
AMMAN, Jordan, —Iraq and
Jordan joined today in a new
Arab federation rivaling and
challenging the recently pro
claimed united Arab Republic of
Egypt and Syria. The merger cast
doubt on Iraq’s future participa
tion in the American-supported
Baghdad Pact Ailaince.
King Faisal II of Iraq and King
Hussein of Jordan, 22-year-old
second cousins of the Hasemite
dynasty, proclaimed the federa
tion just after sunrise on this
Moslem Sabbath.
The two kings agreed to merge
their armies, economies, finances
and foreign affairs. The mon
archs will retain their separate
thrones and their local govern
ments, but Faisal was named
chief of state of the new federa
tion.
As the Egyptian - Syrian pro
clamation of the United Arab Re
public had done two weeks be
fore, the new federation invited
other Arab states to join. But
there seemed little likelihood
King Saud of Saudi Arabia would
bring his big desert kingdom into
the new arrangement.
There is an element of chal
lenge in today’s action. The Sy
rian - Egyptian union brought
pressure on other Arab govern
ments for a show of unity by all
Arabs in the Middle East. By
merging, Iraq and Jordan cement,
a geographical ledge separating
Syria and Egypt, 120 miles apart.
There was no announcement on
Iraq’s plans regarding the Bagh
dad Pact, in which it is a key
stone and the only Arab member.
The pact has been a target of vio
lent attack from Arab national
ists, who denounce it as a means
of perpetuating colonial control
in the Arab East.
Valentine King
And Queen To Be
Crowned Tonight
Tonight the High School stu
dents of Nome High will crown
their King and Queen of the
Valentine Ball, an annual event,
open to the public, held each year
by the Junior Class.
This is a fund raising project
and the students hope that par
ents’ and community cooperation
will show in the attendance at
the party, for which they have
prepared original Valentine dec
orations.
A door prize of either a radio
or a record player has been an
nounced and admission tickets afe
available from the students or at
the door.
Members of the Junior class
are: Francis Walker, Gerald
Trigg, Earl Towner, Carol Tan
ner, Mary Jo Swanberg, Grace
Smith, Ralph Sheldon, Joseph
Senungetuk, Alice Scott, Floyd
Nagozruk, Ed Maloney, Diane
Lee, Vivian Larsen, Sigfred Lar
sen, Alice Glavinovich, James
Foster, Charles Fagerstrom, Fritz
Chambers, Aaron Bell, Bobby
Bahnke.
Hawaii Governor Says
Alaska Has Better Chance
For Statehood This Year
PASCO, Wash., (J» — Gov. Wil
liam F. Quinn of Hawaii said here
last night it looked as if Alaska
has a better chance of gaining
statehood this ypar than his terri
tory.
His belief, Quinn said, was
based on these reasons:
Some people don’t want the
United States extended beyond
. the limits of the continent.
Some people object to admis
sion of a state with such a mixed
population as Hawaii.
There have been “some Com
munists associated with Hawaii.”
Quinn made the statements at
a press conference preceding a
Republican Lincoln Day dinner
here at which he was guest
speaker.
Navy Awards Contracts
For Three Atomic Missile
Firing Submarines
WASHINGTON, (#1—The Navy
today awarded contracts for three
atomic - powered submarines to
fire Polaris guided missiles. Two
will be built by Electric Boat Div
ision at Groton, Conn., and a
third at the Mare Island, Calif.,
shipyard.
The first deliveries of the new
missile firing submarine are ex
pected in 1960, to coincide with
the time when the ballistic mis
siles are expected to be ready for
quantity production.
It has been estimated the first
boat will cost between 105 and
110 million dollars, with the cost
of the next two dropping to be
tween 85 and 90 million dollars.
Hearings Held On
Proposed Alaska
Freight Rates \
SEATTLE, — Federal Mari
time Board hearings into a pro
posed increase in Alaska cargo
rates resumed here Thursday af
ter a one-day layoff for Lincoln’s
birthday.
In the first day of hearings,
Tuesday, Alaska Steamship Co.
president E. Skinner told exam
iner Arnold Roth that average
costs of handling cargo have in
creased from $2.44 a ton in 1940
to $11.06 in 1957.
Despite more efficient methods,
Skinner said, the percentage of
total company expenses repre
sented by stevedoring and long
shore charges has increased from
20 Vfc per cent in 1940 to 40 per
cent today.
The Territory of Alaska has
protested the 15-per-cent rate in
crease sought would cost Alaska
shippers 2 Vz million dollars a
year.
Deuced Embarrasing, What?
ST. ALBANS, England, UP) —
Police said seven youths accused
of stealing 30 cars for joy rides
plotted the thefts at the Youth
Club of St. Stephen’s Church.
The vicar, the Rev. A. Hart
Synot, explained:
“It was just a case of boys
trying to get a grain of excite
ment out of a town which is ex
traordinarily boring.”
The club has been closed.
The Holy Terrors, all 16 to 18,
were fined 10 to 50 pounds ($25
to $140) apiece.
Helen Twelvetrees Passes Away
HARRISBURG,' Pa., UP>—Helen
Twelvetrees, about 50, former
stage and screen star, died Thurs
day. She was married to Capt.
Conrad Payne, stationed at near
by Olmstead Air Force Base.
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Regulations Announced Governing
Selection of Million Acres by Alaska
To Support Mental Health Program
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Bartlett Expects
Cost-of-Living
Differential Raise
WASHINGTON, UP) — Delegate
Bartlett said today he hopes for
favorable administration action
on his bill to provide realistic
cost-of-living differentials for
federal employes in Alaska.
Bartlett has a bill pending in
Congress which would remove
the present 25 per cent ceiling on
cost-of-living differentials. Bart
lett wants to permit payment of
actual differences between costs
there and in the states.
“I was led to believe the ad
ministration attitude will be very
sympathetic to my bill, particu
larly because of the recent Civil
Service Commission report which
shows a continuing climb in Al
askan costs,” he said.
Bartlett said he was told the
administration’s report on the bill
is expected to be sent to Congress
soon.
> WASHINGTON, UP) —The In
terior Department Thursday an
nounced regulations governing
selection by Alaska of one million
acres of public land. The land will
be used to help support the terri
tory’s mental health program.
Under the regulations effective
immediately, Alaska may select
vacant, unreserved and unappro
priated public land whether or
not it has been surveyed or con
tains mineral deposits.
Lands including minerals will
be patented to the territory, ex
cept mineral deposits in land
which on Jan. 1, 1956, were sub
ject to Public Land Order 82.
Such deposits will be reserved to
the government.
The territory may make its
selection within ten years from
July 29, 1950.
Proceeds from the sale, rental
or lease of the land will be used
to help finance Alaska’s mental
health program, which was trans
ferred to the territory in Febru
ary'1957 after having been an In
terior Department responsibility
since 1905.
Democrats In Congress Talk Of
Five-Ten Billion Tax Reduction
WASHINGTON, UD—Key Dem
ocratic leaders in Congress were
talking today in terms of a five
to 10 billion dollar tax cut if
the business recession makes tax
redaction necessary.
But barring a snowballing de
cline in the economy, there was
no solid conviction on Capitol
Hill that Congress will be called
on to consider tax cuts before
early summer—and then only as
a last resort to reverse the busi
ness slide.
This was the general opinion
held today by influential House
leaders upon whom tax cutting
decisions will rest. All revenue
legislation must originate in the
House.
Early estimates of a possible
tax reduction of two or three bil
lion dollars—as by a $100 in
crease in personal income exemp
tions—have been pushed aside.
It would be ' “a drop in the
bucket” in stemming a major ec
onomic dip, the leaders believe.
Nothing less than a five to 10
billion dollar cut in the nation’s
tax bill would generate enough
new buying power to put the ec
onomy back on the track, they
estimate.
This reportedly was the think
ing behind yesterday’s statement
by House Speaker Rayburn, who
said House Democrats are going
to start a review “pretty soon”
to see where a tax cut might do
the most good—“if there is one.”
Thus far, the House leaders
.have not reached any conclusion
on the timing or nature of a tax
cut should one prove necesary.
Nor are they of the belief that
a precipitous cut will be the en
tire answer.
As one influential member of
the tax-writing House Ways and
Means Committee noted, “Tax re
ductions in themselves can’t
make jobs.”
Tunisian President
Blockades Three
French Consulates
TUNIS, UPi — President Habib
Bourguiba increased his diplo
matic pressure on France today
and put a police blockade around
three French consulates.
Boudguiba previously had ask
ed the French to close five of
their consulates. The French re
fused.
Police guards around the three
consulates put consular officials
under the same restrictions as
France’s 15,000 troops in Tunisia,
now bottled up in their bases.
Bourguiba has asked France to
withdraw her troops and give up
its big naval base at Bizerte as
a result of the French bombing
of a frontier village last Satur
day. /
However, he urged the people
to keep calm and limited to four
hours a general strike called for
today to demonstrate national
mourning for the bombing vic
tims.
Japanese Only Able To
Replace 3 Scientists At
Their Antarctic Station
TOKYO, UP) — Three Japanese
scientists have been flown to a
tiny island of Antarctica to re
place 11 men withdrawn from the
icebound scientific station.
The headquarters of the Japa
nese Antarctic expedition said a
sudden wind storm prevented
flying eight more scientists in.
The three were flown from the
icebreaker Soya Maru after the
plane had brought out 11 scien
tists and six sled dogs who spent
the last Antarctic winter ton On
gul Island.
The Soya Maru and the U. S.
icebreaker Burton Island were
blocked by ice 78 miles from the
island, forcing the Japanese to
abandon plans to restock the base
and land 20 additional men for
the coming winter. The base now
has sufficient supplies to keep 10
men one year.
FBI to Investigate
Allegations About
FCC Officials
WASHINGTON, UP>—Rep. Har
ris (D-Ark) today promised full
cooperation with an FBI probe of
allegations that Communications
Commissioner Richard A. Mack
received “thousands of dollars’*
j from an attorney in a Miami tele
vision case.
Harris said that the investigat
ing subcommittee he heads will
call Mack to testify “very soon”
on the charges made by the
group’s ousted counsel, Bernard
Schwartz.
Testifying under oath Schwartz
said that Mack has acknowledged
accepting several thousand dol
lars from a lawyer Schwartz said
was active in getting a television
license for a firm rated by an
FCC examiner as the least quali
fied of four applicants. He said
Mack described the money as
loans.
Mack could not be feached for
comment.
A few hours after the hearing
Atty. Gen. Rogers ordered the
FBI to make a “complete investi
gation” of the allegations.
Schwartz has agreed to return
Monday for further questioning
on information he says he has
about other FCC commissioners
and Sherman Adams, President
Eisenhower’s top aide.
Junk Dealer, Worth $300,000
'Too Poor' to Pay For Ambulance
DIXON, 111., W)—A junk dealer
who lived as a recluse died yes
terday enroute to a hospital in a
police squad car he had called
saying he was unable to afford
| an ambulance.
Later, a search of the home of
Morris Adams, 56, disclosed $500
in currency and $1,100 in checks
in rubble - filled rooms. The
county treasurer’s office said
Adams owned about $300,000
worth of real estate, including a
160-acre farm.