Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Wednesday february 18, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 7 billion net earned in 1958 by Bell system new York up the Bel system earned close to $1 billion after taxes in 1958, its annual re port showed. No other net profits of a Busi Ness Enterprise have been so High in a year s time with the exception of general motors corp., which earned nearly $1.2 billion in 1955. The Bell report showed consolidated net income for 1958 at $981,436,000, equal to $14.01 a share of Stock of american Telephone and Telegraph co. This compared with $852,904,000,or $13 per share of at to Stock in 1957. At to and its principal operating subsidiaries comprise the Bell system. Vat to earnings earnings of at to itself amounted to $744,073,000, or $10.95 a share in 1958, against $686,058,-000, or $10.75 per share in 1957. At to president Frederick r. Kappel said in the report mailed to 1,620,000 shareholders that the earnings improvement reflected More efficient operations vigorous Selling including Doorbell ring ing to sell the service and much needed rate increases. Total assets amounted to $19, 493,951,000 Aguilu $17,677,876,000 a year ago an increase of almost $2billion. Ellis Island still on Block new York a the govern ment is still trying to get rid of Ellis Island. A 27-acre piece of land fill and Rock in new York Harbor the Island was once the first stopping place for thousands of immigrant son their Way to the Mainland. But now its massive Brick building stand empty. The general services administration has advertised that it will open sealed bids on the Island March 9. Actually the Gas has been trying to get rid of Ellis since the immigration service pulled out in 1954. Every government Agency has turned Down a Chance to use theland and an attempt to sell it through Public bidding last year failed. The highest bid was only$200,000, less than one thirtieth of the estimated value. The Island in t very Well Situ ated As a quiet vacation spot an the problem of ferrying personnel to and fro has continued to make institutional buyers wary meantime the government spends about $140.000 a year to maintain the place. Audrey takes first Steps Hollywood up actress Audrey Hepburn who suffered two broken vertebrae when thrown from a horse Jan. 28 on a film location took her first Steps since the Accident. The actress Hopes to return to Mexico Early in March to Complete filming scenes for the unforgiven her husband actor Mel Ferrer said. Boy 7, plays Hooky with parents consent san water Minn. Up Tommy Drall 7, is doing his schoolwork at Homo while attorneys search la books in a fight Over whether he can be forced to attend classes. A two week recess was called in the trial of Tommy s parents or. And mrs. Otto Krall. They Are charged with disobeying a Law that requires parents to Send youngsters to school. The Ralls said they did not like the trite teaching methods at Afton Lake school go they set up class for their son in their Home. Oath my up wrong tree not this nog Navy seeks promotion speedup in Captain Marine colonel slots Washington a the Navy has asked Congress to help break promotion log Jam it said is holding up the deserved Advance ment of its most promising younger naval and Marine corps  of the Navy Thomas s. Gates said at present 8,000 regular Navy commanders an lieutenant commanders veterans of world War ii and Korea rein line for some 2,000 Captain s jobs. In the marines he said,-3,000 majors and lieutenant colonels must be fitted into 580 colonel s  we gain legislative re Lief promotion will stagnate and we must also Force out some four finest and most needed offi cers Gates told a House armed services subcommittee. He urged enactment of Tempo Rary legislation which would in essence permit the Navy to Weed out of the higher ranks less Quali fied Navy captains and Marine corps colonels four to five year earlier than is customary. So the watchful gaze of Trainer Stacy Hall a dog named Silver climbs a pole at Hubert s museum in new York City with the agility of a cat. Hall claims the year old dog can also walk a 1.%-Inch boar blindfolded and turn around Halfway across. Us i photo thyroid tied to outbreak of to in healthy persons Philadelphia a Why should apparently healthy individuals baseball player red schoendienst of the Milwaukee braves for instance suddenly come Down with tuberculosis a team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has a theory that the thyroid gland May play a controlling role in the development and spread of to. The scientists have tested the theory by experimenting on Rab bits but they Are careful to emphasize their findings might not hold for Man. Results of test the experiments seemed to indicate that thyroid secretions and perhaps other hormones alter the natural resistance of rabbits a least to to. The scientist team headed Byrd. Max b. Lurie professor of experimental pathology developed machine that made it possible for each Rabbit to breathe in sex artly the same amount of virulent tubercle Bacilli. With the degree of exposure con trolled the scientists juggled other factors. They removed the thyroid glands of some of the animals exposed but did not remove the glands of others and gave some rabbits thyroid depressing drug propel Thio Racil. Then they gave All the rabbits drugs which stimulated the thy roid. Finally the animals were exposed to measured amounts of tubercle Bacilli. The findings the stimulated thyroid made the rabbits More resistant to to. But those which had receive the thyroid depressing drug and those with their thyroid glands re moved were More susceptible than the other rabbits to tuberculosis. About 30 patients at Philadel phia general Hospital also were Given a thyroid hormone in Addi Tion to their regular  were not helped. But Lurie pointed out the Rab bits got the thyroid stimulants be fore they were exposed to virulent tuberculosis germs. This he said might indicate that changes in thyroid conditions possibly allow dormant to Bacilli present in Many persons to grow multiply Ana spread v naval captains now Are permitted to Complete 30 years of service before forced retirement if passed Over for promotion to rear Admiral. Under the proposed legislation which would expire in 1970, Selec Tion boards would begin the Weed ing out process after 25 to 26 years service. This would open up the rank of Captain to younger combat officers now stymied. The pile up Gates testified consists of about one third of All regu Lar Navy and Marine corps offi cers. These officers Are concentrated in a four year Span of seniority As a result of wartime serv ice. This Hump of younger officers has moved together up the pro motion ladder. To absorb it Gates said the Navy must still discard about one half the officers even though promotion is seeded up. Inflation might hold up tax Cut., official says Washington a the Treasury s no. 2 Man said the possibility of a tax Cut in the years just ahead might be erased by revival of inflationary pressures. Under Secretary Fred c. Scribnor jr., said thai if inflation wore Oil the upswing it might not be Wise to Cut taxes even if the National budget showed a significant surplus. We should not dispose of that surplus unless our whole economic i posture warrants it Scribner told the tax executives Institute. Scribner said that if there is a revival of inflationary pressures ought to aim at a surplus in listed this conditions in we the  the Treasury officials the first of three which will have to be me considering lax reel Lions. He listed As he second condition a requirement that thought to Given to reducing the National debt. If in bad limes we allow our selves to run a deficit in order to stimulate the recovery he said we must pay off debt in Good limes. Otherwise we shall engage in periodic increases in the Public debt without countervailing  the context of Scribner s re Marks seemed to suggest he might give debt reduction priority Over a tax Cut. Secretary Robert b. An Derson and other fiscal spokesmen in the administration have declined to assign a priority is be tween these objectives. Hold Down costs finally and most importantly Scribner said the Prospect for a tax Cut depends upon our Success in holding Down Public  Scribner said every american must be prepared to accept and even to request the Resl Richion of spending programs of individual special interest. When the realisation gain ground that holding Down expenditures Means to hold Down every body s expenditures and when everybody accepts this then Weill have established fiscal discipline and the budget will be under control he said. Civil defense held obsolete noise annoys an Noyce Geneva . Up John Ford 51, told police people were annoying him and that he wanted Little peace and quiet. He was so vehement about it that he was arrested for disorderly conduct. Gop leaders in . Predict defeat of off track bet plan Albany . Up state Republican leaders have predicted that the off track betting plan of new York City s mayor Robert  won t  the gop leaders made the com ment As the mayor s Bill carrying out the legalized off track betting was introduced in both houses of the legislature. The Republican chieftains in control of both houses also indicated Wagner s recommendation for a higher City sales tax would have Tough  a legalized version of off track Belling is nol foreseeable in the immediate future regardless of How much Wagner thinks of it Senate majority Leader Walter Mahoney said. Wagner had said earlier that new York City must have either off track betting revenues or a Rise from 3 to 4 per cent in the sales tax if it is to meet its  Mahoney had suggested the Cit find other ways of raising Money besides the two proposed levies. Wagner asked is he going to give us another tax Washington up sen. Stephen m. Young a Ohio asked Congress to slash the civil defense program. Lie said the program is wasteful outmoded and  Young said a request by Loo a. . Chief of civil and defense mobilization that. Congress double is appropriation was  Young aimed his criticism at oth Federal and stale civil defens spending. He said most of the $500 million in Federal funds Over the last nine years has been wasted along with hundreds of millions of dollars spent by state and municipal government. Taxpayers victims a a  High salaried official shave sinecure he said. The Fine patriotic men and w o m u n who Volunteer for civil defense service and the taxpayers generally Arete  Young said that if there were Surprise communist missile attack civil defense will be  might even hinder military  i assert that our civil defens program has 1 e c o m e outmoded and obsolete and that it would Bea shameful waste of Public Money to continue in the same pattern he said. Children suffocate in snowbound car Warren wis. A three children died of Carbon monoxide poisoning after a car in which they were Riding stuck in a Snowbank Here and the motor was left run Ning while its adult passenger left to seek help. Susan Decorah 11, and he brother and sister Arnold 9, and Mabel 7, were found by a passer by. Police arrested their Mother mrs. Florence Decorah 32, two men and another woman on an open charge pending an inquest. Trees of holy land growing in California Calexico Calif. Up local authorities believe a group of Trees called the Crown of thorns growing in the desert about 20 Miles from Here is the Only Patch of its kind outside of the holy  is from this heavily spine Shrub that scholars believe the tormentors of Jesus Christ fashioned a Crown of thorns. The Patch of perhaps 100 Trees is located off . Highway 98 Between Calexico and san Diego