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EVENING PRESS NEWS 
U.S.S. HOI 
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24 JULY 1958 
NATIONAL NEWS 
Washington 
President Roosevelt on the recommendation of high Navy of 
ficials may ask the next Congress for an appropriation to 
start development of a polar air fleet base m Alaska to com- 
plete America' s Pacific aerial frontier , it was diodose 
Sunday , 
Washington 
Reuresentat j' ve Clare S. Hoffman, Michigan Republican, _ Sunday 
defied the National Labor Relations Board to stop him from 
circulating a speech he made in the House last session charg- 
ing that Communists are active in the Committee lor industrial 
Organization. 
Washington 
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor 
Sundayurged Secretary of State, Cordel Hull to negotiate . 
additional reciprocal trade agreements with friendly nations m 
an effort to boost lumber exports and create additional em- 
ployment . 
Washi n gton 
Changes in government fiscal policies under which ^taxes would 
increase automatically during prosperous times and drop during 
degressions are being studied by the treasury in connec ion 
with proposed revision of the federal revenue structure it was 
learned Sunday. 
Washington 
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The Federal Maritime Commission is seeking to speed up its pro- 
jected ten year one and one fourth oillion dollar piogram or ^ 
a merchant marine by advising steamship companies that they musu 
begin their construction programs on schedule or face ras ic 
reductions in governmental subsidies. Officials said Sunday 
that twelve companies which have agreed to build a total ^o 
sixty three ships by 1942 have been tardy in getting their 
programs under way . 
Port Washington, L.I. 
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The British pick-a-back piano, Mercury, took off from Port 
Washington this morning on the second lap of its irans-Aulan 
flight to Europe. The Mercury will speed across the Atlantic 
via Montreal and Botwood, N.F. The craft will go to England 
by way of tho Azores and Lisbon. 
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