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3 Top Generals
Meet in Tokyo
For Strategy Talks
TOKYO, (iP)—Three of Ameri
ca’s top generals rendezvoused in
Tokyo Thursday for strategy talks
on the Korean War.
Within an hour, Gen. J. Law
ton Collins, U.S. Army chief of
staff; and Lt. Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor, commander-designate of
the Eighth Army, flew in from
opposite directions for conferen
ces with Gen. Mark Clark, the
U.S. Far East commander.
The meeting came amid con
tinuing speculation that the war
soon will take a new turn—either
in a full scale Allied offensive or
in greater direct pressure against
the Chinese Communist mainland.
Taylor arrived from Washing
ton. Collins, who came here from
the United States several days
ago, flew back from a quick in
spection trip to Korea.
It was the first time in the
Korean War that the U.S. chief of
staff, the Far East Commander
and an Eighth Army commander
had been together in Tokyo.
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Highlights of
Grueiiing Speech
To Legislature
Some of the points included by
Governor Gruening in his final
message to the Alaska legislature
included:
A suggestion that legislators
“may well give consideration” to
establishing an independent high
way patrol.
A description of School facilities
as the territory’s most pressing
problem and a proposal for a
school construction authority to
handle financing.
A recommendation that a terri
torial land office be created.
A proposal to extend Veterans
Act benefits to Korean veterans.
A suggestion of a new political
sub-division to solve problems
such as the “greater Anchorage
area.” It would be equivalent to
a county, city, public utility dis
trict and school district rolled into
one unit for taxing and law en
forcement.
A call for streamlining govern
ment and a better auditing and
accounting setup.
Special praise for the records
of the Alaska Housing Authority,
the Development Board and the
National Guard.
A statement that he considered
the Taiya aluminum project near
Skagway will eventually become
a reality. ,
Criticism of federal policies for
the preservation of diminishing
salmon runs and a call for greater
territorial control.
In opposing repeal of the prop
erty tax, the governor expressed
the opinion it was an “extremely
mild tax and it is proper it was
made so and that it should Con
tinue to be so.”
He described it as the only
property tax levied outside cities
and school districts, and declared:
“From the standpoint of equity
and justice it would seem proper
not to exempt one portion of Al
aska and leave others subject to
the property tax, which will be
the case if the tax is repealed.”
He also expressed belief it would
aid the territory’s industrial de
velopment through the clearing
up of titles.
The territorial treasury now
has about $400,000 in property
tax collections which have been
held in escrow since the property
tax became entangled in the
courts.
FLASH FIRE DESTROYS
SWANKY TOKYO NITE CLUB
TOKYO, WP) — One man was
killed and 72 persons were injured
Wednesday when a flash fire de
stroyed one of Tokyo’s swankiest
night clubs and two adjoining
restaurants. Police said 22 of the
injured are in critical condition.
Japanese and western patrons
were lingering over cocktails in
the Gimbasha (Silver Coach)
when a boiler blew up in a choc
olate shop below.
One Plane Crashes,
2 Missing, in Latest
Series of Disasters
SEATTLE, UP)—One plane was
known Thursday to have crashed
and two others were missing and
presumed down in the latest ser
ies of aviation disasters along the
North Pacific rim.
Twenty-two persons aboard the
three planes were missing, includ
ing Capt. Julian D. Greer, com
mander of Fleet Air Wing 6, sta
tioned at the Alameda Naval Air
Station, Calif.
A total of 298 persons had been
known dead or were missing in
10 previous military plane dis
asters around the North Pacific
rim from Tokyo to Alaska to Mon
tana which started last Nov. 7.
The pilot of a Central British
Columbia Airways plane which
went down Tuesday was found
alive on a windswept beach 400
miles north of Vancouver, B.C.,
Wednesday night. Also found was
the drowned body of one of his
six passengers.
James J. Siddle, pilot of the
CBCA plane, said the craft sank
after striking a submerged log
when he tried to attempt an
emergency landing. When the
plane started to sink he ordered
the passengers to don life-jackets
and make for the beach, 200 yards
distant.
Capt. Greer was aboard a U.S.
Navy P-4Y patrol plane which
vanished Wednesday over the Pu
get Sound country of western
Washington on a flight from Ala
meda to Whidbey Island Naval
Air Station, 50 miles north of
here. Nine other Navy personnel
were aboard the craft.
Missing in the wilds of central
British Columbia was an RCAF
Dakota which disappeared Wed
nesday while on a training flight
with seven men aboard.
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