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Last fall Alaska's Congressional Delegate Anthony J. Dimond brought the controversy to a head by introducing a resolution boldly forbidding foreign vessels to fish anywhere on Alaska's 100-mile continental shelf. Grumpy Alaskans appeared at committee hearings on the bill to testify that Japanese boats had been observed within the three-mile limit hauling in salmon with four-mile nets, that aviators flying over the Japanese fleet had seen as many as 20,000 salmon piled on the decks of four fishing vessels, that at the present rate Alaska's salmon would not last five...
Boat. Having already promised to make "indemnification for all the losses" sustained when Japanese bombing planes sank the U. S. gunboat Panay, proceeding up the Yangtze with a convoy of three Standard Oil tankers last December 12, Japan last week received an itemized bill from U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew in Tokyo. Property losses were put at $1,945,670.01, indemnification for death and personal injuries at $268,337.35. On the total of $2,214,007.36, which includes no punitive damages, the State Department expected prompt payment...
Messrs. Gasque and Rankin and their committees are men dedicated to any & every proposal to pay more money to anyone who wore a uniform, even though the bill for veterans' benefits already tots up to $600,000,000 each year (about 8% of the budget). Franklin Roosevelt pays both groups plenty of attention, for it was they who led the fight and passed the $2,000,000,000 Bonus over his veto...
...this year Pensioner Gasque began to outpropose Pensioner Rankin. While Mr. Rankin languished with laryngitis, shrewd Mr. Gasque assaulted the Treasury with no less than nine new bills. But last week found Mr. Gasque bedded in Walter Reed Hospital with a reported heart attack and Mr. Rankin's lieutenant, Congressman Glenn Griswold of Peru, Ind. took his side's opportunity to steal a march. He whipped the old Rankin 10% Disability Bill onto the floor, under the unusual procedure of suspending the rules. The bill could never have reached the House but for quick conniving by Administration Leaders...
...Gasque Bills which the Administration is determined not to swallow* are two. The first would liberalize the interpretation of disability to include every soldier "unable to do manual labor," would up non-service-connected pensions from $30 to the $40 they were before the Economy Act of 1933. Cost estimate: $5,000,000 the first year. The "big" Gasque Bill carries out the announced aims of American Legion Commander Daniel J. Doherty: pensions for all veterans' widows, regardless of whether their husbands ever fought anything but mosquitoes. Estimated annual cost...