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Evening star., 1947-04-30
July | IS Logical Time
For 1axCuts, Taft Says;
SenaIe Bill Due Soon
BY n. A.soe,at.d Pres.

Senator Taft, Republican. of OhSo
said today that July is the .Ioeicaia
time to put lower income taxes into
feffect.
Senator Taft said there are three
tpractical disadvantages to making
the cut retroactive to January /. Is
provided in the $4,000, 900 900 tax
reduction bill approved by the
House.
]. The Treasury has estimated
that If the House bill became law
S75l 600 600 in refunds would have
to be put out by the Treasury next
year to cover reductions for the first
half of 1947. This would be In
addition to the reduced revenue that
would result from the rate decrease.
2. In Senator Taft,s opinion, the
distribution of tax refund checks
would be inf1ationary to some de-
gree, since many persons who re-
ceiyed them would be inclined to
spend them Immediately for goods.
8. II withholding taxes were adj
justed low enough for the latter
half of calendar 1947 to make the
total withheld for the year approx
mate the actual tax, it would be
necessary to readjust them upward
at the start of 1948, to the probable
bewilderment of taxpayers.
The Senate Finance Committee
continued hearings on the bill to-
day. Witnesses included James
Styles, jr,, of Chicago spokesman
for the National Association of State
Chambers of Commerce.
Chairman Millikin predicted yes
terday the committee will approve,
perhaps next week, a bill modelled in
general on the House measure, but
said he expected a scrap over the
effective date. Some Democrats
want to delay it until the first of
next year.
I. Senator Mcclellan, Democrat, sof
Arkansas offered amendments yes
terday designed to remove the ad-
vantage that nine States with COM
munity property laws enjoy over the
other 80. In those States, husbands
and wives may divide their income
for tax purposes, even though it may
be received only by one spouse. This
often cuts the total tax because sur
taxes are graduated.
Under Federal income tax law, the
Federal Government recognizes this
praclice in the nine States, and per
mits residents in them to follow the
practice in making out their Federal
tax returns. 9
The effect of Senator McClellaffs
amendment would be to extend tie
privilege to all the States, or deny
it to the nine. =
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Game Wurden's Victim
Gets Their Poy Raised
BY the Associated Press

DES MONIES. Iowa.-Republican
State Senator George NJ. Faul of
Des Moines gained Senate approval
OF his amendment to boost the 81 800
salary OF conservation commission
ers to $4,000 after he told his COL
leagues of the efficiency and work
manlike manner of the wardens."
Mr.. Faul said he was fined $500 in
1914 for keeping squirrels in his
locker too long without q conserva-
ton permit.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Truman, Mrs. Meyer Confer
On Health Cabinet Post
From Yesterdays Last Edition. J

(FTom Yesterdays Last Edition.J
BY the Associated Press
Mrs. Eugene Meyer, wife of the
owner of the Washington Post,
discussed with President Truman
today compromise legislation to
establish new cabinet post of
health, education and security.
Mrs. Meyer told reporters after
ward that the President expressed
hope that the post will be estab-
llshed as soon as possible, emphasiz-
ing, however, that the final bill must
be workable from the administrative
point of view.
She said they had discussed a
compromise between the Taft
Fulbright and the Aiken bills, both
aimed at creation of new secre-
tary to have Jurisdiction of health
education and security.
L have reason to hope that the
conflicts between the two will be
worked out and the new bill will
be satisfactory to all the elements
concerned" Mrs, Never said
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Telephone
Continued From First Page.)

q decent standard of living for tele-
phone workers will go on
The settlement with the New
York Bell Telephone Co. was ar
ranged after an all-night meeting
conducted by Cancellation Commits
sioner J. R. Mandelbaum and Ron
aid w. Haughton, special assistant
to Edgar L. Warren, Cancellation
Service director.
It provides for the return to work
tomorrow of $4,000 operators, 10000
installation and maintenance men,
5000 clerks and 5000 accounting
department employees.
Other Issues Settled.
The New York settlement called
for: A general 81 weekly increase
starting tomorrow; maintenance of
dues for members; continuation of
pensions and other benefits; i'm
proved vacations; fringe issues to be
negotiated at departmental levels,
and the authority for either side to
reopen wage question during life of
the one-year contract.
The unions had been out since
April Z, striking in conjunction
with the NFTW and demanding
&12 a week more.
Another settlement involving an
NFTW affiliate and an independent
company was announced in Fort
Dodge, Iowa. NFTW officials here
said the Policy Committee had ap-
proved the settlement-third such
sanctioned for companies outside
the Bell System. 1t gave 100 en-
ployes from 81 to Sc weekly raises
The fourth offer by the more than
70 Bell System companies involved
In the strike was announced in Mil
waukee, Wis. About 1000 workers
were offered from So to IS per week
provided they return TO work by 7
pm. Thursday, The union, the
Telephone Guild of Wisconsin, is
q member of the NFTW and is
expected to submit the proposal to
the Policy Committee.
Reuther Urges CIO Support.
Asserting that communications
workers have had low pay and
miserable working conditions" for
many years. Walter P. Reuther,
president of the United Auto Work
ers (CIO) asked all local unions to
assist in the strike financially, on
the picket lines and in fund raising
drives.
Interest in Washington centered
on meetings between Western Elec-
trio Co. and the Western Electric
Employees Association, involving the
Kearney IN. j. plant and 20 lesser
equipment manufacturing plants in
the New York area.
The Labor Department reported
the group had cleared away all pre-
liminaries and was negotiating on
the issues. Union Counsel MAYER
predicted last night a wage offer
would come in this bargaining ses-
sion today
Three other sessions continued,
Involving Western Electric and an
other union. the A. T. & T.'s long
lines division and the Southwestern
Bell Telephone Co.
In Virginia. where telephone
unions have scheduled a strike Nav
IT, the Chesapeake IL Potomac Co.
agreed to renewed contract talks
next Monday. with the union re-
eucing its wage demands to s6.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Chamber
Continued From First Page.)

rates and establishment OF a cell
ing not in excess of so per cent of
income"
1t recommended repeal of the
transportation taxes, withdrawal of
the Federal Government from the
whole field of State and gift taxa
tion."
Government economy was termed
the key to the problems of lower
taxes, reduced debt, and a stable
fiscal system in the second resoiu-
ton.
Competition of Government cor
porations with private enterprise
should be prohibited, the resolution
said.
Mildred McAfee Horton, former
director of the WAVES and presi-
dent of Wellesley College. told wives
of delegates at special luncheon
they should take on the burden of
citizenship.
Democracy Seen Tested.
Barbara Ward, foreign editor of
the London Economist, said avoid
ing a slump" is the real test of
American democracy and of its Ca
paeity to wipe from the world the
pretensions and the challenge OF
Communism.
Economists, she said, believe there
will be no depression if 10 to Is per
cent of the Nations effort goes into
| the production of new factories,
machines, transportation equipment
and hydro-electric schemes" every
year.
Emory S. Land, president of the
Air Transport Association, said COM
mercial airlines favor Federal over
State regulation because it has
proved itself adequate and compe-
tent"
Wade McCargo, president of H. v.
Baldwin & Co. of Richmond, Va,
told delegates ''it would be sad
day for America if the small retailer
should be forced out of the economic
picture by ruthless competition OF
the chains and large retailers"
Ford Calls for Leadership.
Henry Ford II told the members
at a dinner last night that they
must accept the obligation of leader
ship in tackling economic problems,
because if they do not some one else
willard in my opinion there are
mo other qualified candidates for
the job"
The 29-year- -old head of the Ford
Motor Co. told the Nations business
leaders the public would judge them
on what they accomplish.
When Government steps into our
affairs" he said, I'VE all resent it,
but in democracy, when people
feel that things are not going right,
they turn to Government. Govern
menb interference is, to consider
able extent, an expression of public
dissatisfaction"
Initiative and Work.
Daring initiative" and work,
which is basic to the success of all
of us" are two things necessary for
solution of the economic problems,
Mr.. Ford said in his talk in the
presidential room of the Statler
Hotel to an overflow crowd.
Three speakers-an economist,
banker and an Observation-Disclosures
told delegates to the 35th annual
meeting of the chamber that lower
taxes are necessary for a sound
economy
Fred r. Fairchild, Yale Univer-
sity, criticized what he called the
menace of swollen Government
spending" and said he was con-
vinced the supposed benefits" of
such spending was an illusion.
w. Randolph Burgess. vice chair
man of the board of the National
City Bank, New York, said high tax
rates could not be avoided during
war, but "in time of peace and fac
ing our present tasks they are bad
medicine and ought to be reduced
promptly. Small business would be
Evening star., 1947-04-30

perhaps the greatest beneficiary OF
lower surtaxes."
Harry A. Bulls, president of Gen.
eral Mills, Inc, Minneapolis, said
he thought individual tax rates
upon the little fellow can be cut
by approximately one-half.
The delegates indorsed the Ber-
nard Baruch proposals for the for
nation of an International Atomic
Development Authority. They also
unanimously approved resolution
stating there is .scant hope for con-
tinued world peace" without an eco
nomically sound Germany.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Durunt
Continued From First Page.

Questioned the castle for an officers
club.
She and Dursnt were arrested in
Chicago last June while on their
honeymoon Most of the Jewels,
which had been hidden in the castle.
were recovered in Chicago.
Maj, David S. Watson of Burlin-
game, Calf, was sentenced to three
years in the same case at a trial
which ended last October.
Trial Lasted Five Months.
The long series of trials-Durant' s
lasted nearly five months-produced
charges that American officers
ranking as high as generals had
carried away valuable objects from
Evening star., 1947-04-30
|0yeren 4 ] Prosecutor
Probes Publication
|0f Jail Love Notes
BY fhs Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, April 3o.-state
Attorney General Fred N. Howser
admittedly ''bewildered," sought to-
day to determine how copies OF
impassioned love notes exchanged
in Orange County Jail at Santa
Ana by Louise Overell, II, and
George Gollum, 81, had been OBJ
tanned by a Los Angeles newspaper
which published them.
II don't know what happened, .
said Mr.. Howser, In charge of prose
cutting Miss Overell and Gollum
who await trial May 26 on charges
that they murdered her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Overell, aboard
their yacht in Newport Harbor.
Calling the incident "regrettable, .
Mr.. Howser said he planned to "call
some of my men on the carpet"
Newspaper Won't Reveal Source.
The letters were published by
the Los Angeles Examiner yester-
day morning, but newspaper off,
cials refused to say how they had
been obtained or to discuss the mat
ter otherwise.
The fervent love notes had been
photographed by jail authorities be-
fore they we're delivered to the
young defendants. MIR. Howser told
newsmen he kept the copies in his
Office safe in Santa Ana.
He declared that last Wednesday
he found the safe unlocked, but
with the copies in it. Yesterday,
he added, he again found the safe
unlocked and the copies missing.
Mr.. Howser said he relocked the
strongbox and went to lunch and
when he returned found the photo
graphic copies had been restored.
There is no explanation of how
the copies came into the hands of
newspaperman," the attorney
general said.
Suspension Threatened.
Orange County Sheriff James
Musick professed ignorance of the
matter and District Attorney James
Davis off1ce said he had no COM
ment.
Mr. Howser said that should re-
sponsibility be fixed on a member
of his staff, the person will be
suspended.
The notes were filled with i'm
passioned protestations of love. The
examiner quoted one of Gollum's
notes as saying:
do you realize that if we are
found guilty, I get killed. don't
want to die. have to live for you,
honey and am going to live for
you and with you.
THAT is why knowledge of the
layout of that portion of the jail
is so necessary. If we have to do
that thing. we will have only one
chance. No more. And will have to
make good the first time"
Miss Overell's counsel, Otto ia
cobs, said he was hurt and be-
wildered" over the matter.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Hoover Dam Name Bill
Is Signed by Truman

President Truman today signed
legislation remaining Boulder Dam
Hoover Dam.
The President used four pens for
the signing. These will be sent to
Lawrence Richey, secretary to for
mer President Hoover, and to con-
gressional sponsors of the legislation
as souvenirs of the occasion.
The name of the dam was changed
during the Roosevelt administration.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
tsr.rss1s. ~. :ls,.is;.a i,

hope for about 100 participants at
the outset.
Elected as temporary officers for
the program were Samuel Kostolef-
sky, chairman; Miss Rose Krick,
vice chairman; Mrs. George Gering,
secretary, and Sol Myerson, treas
urer.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
GIenmont P.TA to Elect

Election of officers will feature a
meeting of the Parent Teacher As
sociation of the Glentmont (Md.)
School at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
school. a* T4ts
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Procurement

Continued From First Page.)
Hartford chronicle., 1947-05-03
All Will Lose If American NaZis Win Says Educator

New York, April Special "When the Nazis of Georgia and Mississippi have infiltrat- ed the nation and have des- troyed the American way of life, blacks and whites alike shall have been the 1osers," Doctor Euphe1nia L. Haynes, distinguished Howard Uni versity professor, told a forum at Friendship House here re- gently.
 Although the minority groups may have tess to lose because 1t has less, and al though the dominant group may not deserve to keep what it has, a total loss will be the same for both groups" she said.
 Dr. Haynes described the brotherhood of man as "the condition of survival of the human race and offered sug- gestions for the promotion of this brotherhood. Among these suggestins were 1. the study of the culture of the darker peoples of the world; Z. association with people of other races; and }. sacrifice and cooperation in attaining lnter-group aims.
 Dr. Haynes spoke to the forum of staff-workers and | friends at Friendship House, a Catholic settlement house in Harlem where persons of | both races live together and work without pay in the cause of interracial justice.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-05-03
Adjournment A Won In Brutality Case

New York-The legal staff of the NAACP today announced 1t had won an adjournment, which will give the NAACP an opportunity to intervene, in the case of the People vs. Will liam Dessaure over the opposi- tion of the prosecution. In applying for the adjournment at hearing in Mineola, L.. l., before Nassau County Judge, the Association lawyer explain ed that NAACP help had been requested by the defendant and his attorney, and that the NAACP was interested in the case also because 1t appeared that police brutality against a Negro because of his race was involved.
 District Attorne Gehrig op- posed the application for ad- journment, declaring that he felt the NAACP was acting in bad faith. The NAACP lawyer indignantly stated that the As sociation had been intervening in such cases since 1912 and that to his knowledge this was the first time such a false and baseless charge had been di- rected against it's legal activi- ties. The judge granted the adjournment.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-05-03

of the nationwide membership campaign was Selma, Alabama, which was organized last week by Emory O. Jackson, state president of the Alabama State Conference of Branches. H. lustratvie of the caliber of citi- zens helping to form branches of the Association is Dr. D. V. Jemison, president of the Ma tional Baptist Convention, who is the chairman of the executive board of the Selma branch.
 Preparatory work for the Philadelphia campaign which has a goal of 10000 is under way, under the direction of as- sistant field secretaries Rufus Smith and Marion O. Bond. Magistrate Joseph H. Rainey, president of the branch and Mrs. Elizabeth K. Young, ex- ecutive secretary, reported en- thusiastic response of workers to the campaign which will be "kicked-off'' April Both.
 Campaigning for 5000 mem bers in Newark got underway Tuesday,, April p, under the direction of co-chairmen Wet has Gayle and Harry Hazel wood, Jr.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-05-03
Negro Editor
 Surveys Negro Catholic Relations

Buffalo, April Special "Negro-Catholic Relations in
 Buffalo" will be the subject of an article to appear soon in Opportunity, journal of Negro life. Written by A. ]. Smitherman, editor of the Star, local weekly, the article, will be part of an editorial round table discussion on the subject by prominent writers in several of the larger cities.
Hartford chronicle., 1947-05-03
BRANCHES TOPPING QUOTAS IN MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN

New York, Apr. 24th-Branches in the nationwide NAACP membership campaign for a million members are exceed ing quotas in reports filed with the Associations Depart ment of Branches. Southern branches led off with as high as three hundred per cent in creases in some cases, reported Miss Lucille Black, member ship secretary.
 North Carolina branches set last weeks pace, with Green sboro reporting $50 members. Jumping from 300 members in 1o46, to the new figure, breaks all previous records for Greensboro according to report from Rev. D. w. Boston, pastor of the Russell Temple C.M.E. Church of Greensboro, who served as general chairman. The Dur ham N. C. branch reached 828 members which is more than doubled it's total of last year.
 At the rate branches throughout the nation are reaching quotas in the drive, 1t IS possible we may reach more than a million members, Gloster B. Current, director of branches, pointed out opti- mistically.
 Not only are new members being enlisted in the Associa- tion'', the director pointed out, ''but many new branches are being organized as a result of regional work being done by coordinators Daniel E. Byrd in New Orleans, Donald Jones in Columbus, Noah Griffin or the West Coast and LeRoy in Kansas City"
 Among the new branches ap- plying for charters as a result
Hartford chronicle., 1947-05-03
"You Will Win", Gov. Hastie Tells Youths

the NAACP, and Dr. w. B. B.
 Dubois, one of the founders
 and present director of special
 research, and the late James
 Weldon Johnson, for their fore
 sight and leadership in the de-
 velopment of the Association.
 Calling upon the young peo-
 pie to act wisely, pr. Johnson
 said, ''We have learned how to
 use democratic tactics under
 the law" He urged students
 to support the NAACP ''be-
 cause we are now in a decade
 in which we must put forth
 every conceivable effort to see
 whether democracy can be made to work"
 He concluded by pointing out that "from every point of view
 in regard to the Negro the NAACP is a focal organization with supreme significance"
 Speakers at the first session were Leslie Perry, administra- tive assistant and Clarence Mitchell, Jr., labor secretary, both of the NAACP Washing ton Bureau and Dr. Booker T. McGraw, deputy special assist ant to the Administrator of the National Housing Agency. MT. Perry presented the NAACP legislative. program and dis cussed the status of bills in which the Association is in terested. MT. Mitchell dis cussed the new FEPC billI known as the National Act | Against Discrimination in Elm ployment, which was intro duced in the Senate on March 27 by Senators Irving M. Ives, (R., N. Y.), Leverett Salton- stall (R., Mass.), H. Alexander Smith (R, N. J), Wayne Morse (R., Ore.), Dennis Cha veg (D., N. M.,) James E. Mur- ray (D., Mont.), and Francis J. Myers O., Pal.
 At the evening session, Geo. director of the CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimi- nation and Mrs. Katherine Shryver talked about tech liques of lobbying. In an i'm Dromptu skit a typical dele yation-from the audience a 'senator' and applied what they had just learned.
 On Friday morning groups kept appointments with Carroll Reece, Chairman of the Re publican National Committee and high placed senators and representatives In the after loon each state delegation tried to see it's own senators and representatives.
 Youthful delegates were able to see another aspect of the nations capitol when one of the delegations went to visit 1ael Sullivan, executive direct 0r and vice-chairman of the Democratic National Commit zee, in the Mayfower Hotel. Staff employees at the Hotel attempted to force the dele gates to ride the freight ele- vator. Upon the refusal of the
Hartford chronicle., 1947-05-03

gates to an interracial confer
 ence at Howard University,
 sponsored by the Youth Di-
 vision of the NAACP, that
 "what you are doing is going
 to win within your lifetime .. .
 and you will be able to pass on
 to your children a much better America than it is today.'
 Governor Hastie spoke at the final session held by the en- thusiastic young delegates from NAACP youth councils and col lege chapters, representing 20 states, north, south and mid west, who met here on April 10 to learn lobbying techniques and to press for action on pro- gressive legislation. He said that since they were talking of today and tomorrow he d give them a few footnotes about yesterday. ''The work that is being done in connection with legislation, the political meth ods and techniques as l see it, is something that was going on in this country seventy-fve years ago." the Governor de- clared. "It was easy in those days to forget what was going on in the South, but today we want to fight the battles and see that they are won.
 The Governor went on to out line the fight for equality in ! the 187O's. He concluded, You know that the efforts of 1870 were strangled by force and violence, but I do not think that this time we will be strangled and there is no way of stopping any young people today throug out the country. I think that what you are doing is going to win within your lifetime and I think that you will be able to pass on to your children a much better America than it is today"
 The NAACP Howard Uni versity Chapter and Washing ton, D. C., Youth Council acted as hosts to the conference. Mrs. Ruby Hurley, youth secretary of the NAACP, led the dele gates to Capitol Hill where conferences were held with senators and congressman on the importance of supporting the NAACP legislative pro- gram. The NAACP program stronglay supports FEPC, hous- ing, rent control, additional ap- propriations for school lunch es and federal aid to education, and, just as strongly condemns poll tax, lynching, Jim Crow travel and filibustering.
 Greeting the delegates, Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University, congratu- lated them on their interest. He declared that the NAACP is a great organization" which since the Civil War has taught the people and their friends