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Evening star., 1947-01-19

affiliates and subsidiary companies
Of the parent concerns.
The wealth represented in these
firms was enormous. soap officials
estimate their total paid-in capital
at $4,000 ,O0o, 900 yen and their total
net assets at 1876, ,OOO, ,oO0. 900 yen.
With formation of the restricted
list the Japanese began to maneu-
yer. Directors Of holding COM
panies not yet on the list started
transferring holdings from parent
concerns to the second-lne COM
panies-the subsidiaries and afil-
iates.
They ran headlong into the De-
Evening star., 1947-01-19

outlined, will make this country a
land in which great financial insti-
tutions never will attain their
former power.
The steady movement has been
divided, roughly, into three phases
dissolution of the Zaibatsu holding
companies, the skeins which knit to-
gether the financial empire, decon-
centration of Zaibatus firms, close
corollary of the dissolution move,
and finally, the imposition of re-
strictions on the Zaibatus families
which had supplied the brains and
the cash.
zaibatsu organizations were COM
parable roughly with a suspended
chain The holding companies
were the pegs from which hung the
Ilinks-the subsidiaries and affiliates
From the holding companies ran the
orders, instructions, the plans which
gave the chain its cohesion and
strength.
Aided War Effort.
The holding companies were first
to feel the pressure which they knew
meant dissolution. 1t long had
been an allied plan to smash the
Zaibatsu which through industry Of
every kind contributed heavily to
Japan's war effort.
The largest Zaibatsu-the Mitsui,
Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda -
moved first. On November 6, 1945,
the heads of those companies pre-
sented to the Supreme Command
of the Official Power (SCAP) a
plan for dissolution of their holding
companies.
The plan was approved in prin-
ciple and the Japanese government
followed with a plan for formation
of the Holding Company Liquida-
ton Commission (HCLC) to which,
under soap supervision, would go
the, actual dissolving job.
To prevent any financial manipu-
lations between that time and the
time when the HCLC became opera
tive-July, 1946-SCAP' established
list CT restricted concerns.
On this list first went zaibatsu
holding companies which now had to
submit reports of every transaction.
They could not spend, loan, borrow
or give away even one yen without
soap approval.
The restricted list grew steadily.
BY December, 1916. it contained IS
holding companies marked for dis
solution, together with some 1900
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Continued From Page C-1.)

(CONC1I1ueQ rIOli rage VIZ
tax to 20 per cent and normal tax
of 5 per cent. Garner favored a 70
per cent maximum surtax and re-
duction of estate taxes to a maxi
mum of 20 per cent.
The final bill provided for a
normal tax of IL per cent on the
first $4,000 of taxable income, 3 per
cent on the next $4,000 and S per
cent on the remainder. The surtax
rate began at l per cent on income
in excess of $4,000 and increased
gradually to a miximum of 20 per
cent on all above 100000. The
personal exemption for single
person was increased from $1,000
to $500 and for head Of family
living with husband or wife from
$500 to $500. Earned income"
was given Is per cent credit with
the upper limit raised from $4,000
to $4,000. The corporation income
rate was raised from 121a per cent
to 1872 per cent to compensate for
repeal of the capital stock tax. The
gift tax was repealed. The maxi
mum estate tax was reduced retro
actively to Is per cent and for estate
of decedents who died after the
1926 became effective to 20 per cent.
Depression Was Factor.
Having obtained a reduction, If
not the desired repeal of Federal
estate taxes, the Republicans began
working for change in the corpora
ton income tax. The 1923 act en-
bodied a corporation tax reduction
from 1872 per cent to IL per cent
with a fiat exemption of $1,000 If
a corporations net income was $25,-
0C0 or less. The individual rates OF
the 1925 act were retained except
for the raising Of the earned in
come" ceiling from SIC, 900 to $50, 900.
Although the stock market crash
came in September and october OF
1929. President Hoover and Secre-
tary Mellon recommended in De-
cember of that year further reduc-
ton of personal income taxes to Il
per cent, 2 per cent and per cent,
and in corporation taxes from II to
II per cent. This program was ap-
proved by Congress without delay.
In the Senate it was criticized only
by the late Senator Couzens and the
younger Senator La Toilette.
The depression soon made itself
felt on the Governments finances
and for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1881, the deficit was 1908 900 900.
The Republicans were forced to raise
taxes in 1882. First Mellon and
then his successor, Ogden L. Mills,
broadening the tax base
and imposing q sales tax on certain
The 1882 bill was the fore
runner of the high taxes voted by
the Roosevelt Congresses.
The Congresses which voted the
tax reductions in the 20s contained
militant .minorities In both houses
which were able to distribute the
benefits to the largest number Of
rather than to those pay
ing the highest taxes, as recon-
mended by President Coolidge and
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Move to Ban Filibuster
Faces Verbal Fireworks
Majority Rule Champions Gird for Battle
With Unlimited Debate Supporters
Over Marathon Oratory
By J. A. O'Leary

drive outlaw the buster of Senate
minorities-is way in the Congress.
occasions almost certain to provoke battle
royal schools thought side win be
hold majority foundation
country and that the Senate elsewhere majority should
Evening star., 1947-01-19
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.
SUNDAY. JANUARY -, lsH.
Would Unlimited Money
Spell Defeat of Cancer?
Congress Wonders if Success With Bomb
Means Science Could Do Quick
Job With Greatest Killer
Bp Robert E. Geise,

virtually available to the worlds
medical specialists could they find quickly
as United States scientists produced an atomic bomb?
question placed before the seveny-ninth Congress-
Eghteh Democrat of Alabama
odud his bwhich failed of approval in the Seventy
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Lincoln

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The union times., 1947-04-05
A Lesson From The Dead

Connecticut Labor learn valuable lessons from the recent mine tragedy in Centraia Ill., which took the lives of III miners think back the uprOar that raised when miners asked for living wage benefit fund and safety conditions.
 Now the voices that loudly protesting with base less like sWhy those miners're maxim 800 m $7O week and be paid for doin nuhin strange y silent Those few that aren't silent have the nsolence offend the memory of abors dead by claiming the soppage do mourning is but political trick of John L. Lewis.
 It would decent join with the bereaved fam lies of the fallen miners the stoppage and nze the grievance rather than figure how of coal would be lost in the observance
 The lesson for Connecticut Labor his The rights of labor sacred and the attempts insure safe working conditions will always be attacked because elimination of hazards But think of the soberng sence of the unabahed with financial loss rather than the horrible tragedy only realize what awaits labor if it relaxes its fight for improved conditions.
 Connecticut Labor rearmation in the truth of its in the behaviour of abOrs this hour of tragedy The lives of III miners expensive way says T told expensive to be paid again. Labor fight for safe conditions all industries will renewed vigor. Labors dead will have perished
The union times., 1947-04-05
Calling Elm Straight By BILL MAHONEY
 Federated Press)
Federated Press

Here is springtime and we've got job do. We have to find right how the baseball will Don't move don't breahe don't think Act like sports nerf.
The union times., 1947-04-05

See it now? It is sunny September after a middling rainy summer and a lot of baseball Two managers have been fired. Attendance is off sharply from the 1946 season. Tempers in Brooklyn are volcanic and throughout Bumdom there are drawn pinched faces and hoarse voices. Down the stretch in the National league the Dodgers and Cardinals are battling it out for the bunting. Leo Durocher, he who reformed early in the season, has un- dipped the Lip and is tossing five to eight pitchers into every game. But the Cardinals are moving along solid1y behind the booming bat of a citizen named Musial, pushing their cham pionship noses steadily in front and due to win by five games.
 But what about the American league?There's big news here. It isn't the 1946 champion Red Sox in front. It isn't the Yankees either. The Red Sox are strong second, the Yankees a slightly battered third. The Browns and Senators are paired behind them, the Indians next, and then the White Sox and the Athletics far back in the dust.
 That leaves only one club to be &C., counted for, the Tigers. And here they are, coming in three games ahead of the Red Sox for the American league pennant!
 They do it on the strength of the best pitching in baseball. Newhouser, Trout, Trucks, Hutchinson, Benton, Overmire and some others. The in- field is only cut above average Cullenbine on 1st Mayo on End, Lake at short, good George Kell on 3rd The outheld is young, fast, hardhit-
The union times., 1947-04-05
SPRING CLEANING
AS WE SEE IT
National Labor Service
STzxD<

WHEN the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Press undertook to take the Phil0- delphia Record to task in an edi- tOrial recently, the result was amusing, due to garbled lines:
 HIGHWAY HELP"
 The Philadelphia Record is complaining that Pittsburgh is get ting more State highway projects than Philadelphia. Without going into the merits of the complaint, if who had ever experienced one of our traffic any, we feel sure that any Philadelphia jams would be inclined to let us have any help we could get.'
 EQUAL division of community property was sought by Mrs. Ty Cobb, the story said. The headline in the Hauana (Cuba) Post read:
 MRS. TY COBB WANTS
 DIVORCE, SPLIT POT A SPRINGFIELD, Mass. house. wife was indignant when she re- ceived a telephone call from the classified advertising department of the Springfield Newspapers. She sputtered on at length about hav- ing paid her 84-cent bill until the ad taker finally got in a word, ''I know, Madam,'' he said, s'but you sent us check for $84 not 84 cents."
 IN connection with the Schenec- tady .(N.. Y.) Gazette's contest, ''What I Want in My New Home," one of the first entries was a one- word essay: ''Me.''
 FIVE YEARS AGO IN THE UN- ION TIMES: NEW HAVEN MANU- LECTURERS refuse to meet with LabOr Committee to discuss joint problems. JOSEPH M. TONE, ad- visor to Secretary of Labor, Per- kins, is principal speaker at quar- terly meeting of New England Con- ference of Machinists. BUILDING TRADES Unions in Bridgeport suc- cessfully conclude negotiations for higher wage scales. YALE & TONNE MFG. CO.,, Stamford, sign first bOnafide union contract with Int. Association of Machinists. 10. CAL B-9O hold ''victory'' meeting to celebrate Rockbestos triumph.
 TwO-thirds of the usable manu- featuring facilities in the US. are controlled by 25O corporations.
The union times., 1947-04-05

ting-Wakefeld, Evers and Mullin. The catching, headed by Birdie Teb- bets, is real professional.
 Behind the Dodgers and Cardi- nals in the National league, the Braves and Cubs are battling it out for third, and we'll behind them, panting and weary, the Phillies, Pi- rates, Giants and Reds, in about that order.
 The Cardinals? They can't miss, pal. Too many musclemen-Musial, Kurowski, Slaughter, Moore, Schoon- dienst, Dusak and company. Garagiola is better catcher this year, Munger is better pitcher, Pol1et is the best lefty in the loop, and there are Breechen and the others who took up all the marbles last year.
 Pull up the blind now and pack away that crystal for another year. l don't need it to tell you about boxing. Joe Louis, that's all.
The union times., 1947-04-05
(Contipued from Page One)


 If you ever apply for a job as a salesman, on commission, be pre- pared for this story when the bright and ambitious youth steps up to tell you how to sell the product.
 There was a chap who had flat tire on a road one night and found that he didn't have jack in his car.
 ''Wel," he unused, ''I guess I'll have to walk back to that house passed about three miles down the road"
 He started to walk and then sud- denly thought, ''But supposing when get there, he doesn't have a jack"
 He continued to walk but was worried. He stopped again and then said to himself, ''Or maybe he does have jack but he won't lend it to me.'
 He went on further muttering to himself, ''How do you like that here l walk three miles and the guy won't even lend me his jack.''
 He finally arrived at the door and knocked and when the man opened it, he exclaimed, .'Keep your damn jack"
 JUST before the United Nations Assembly began in New York, a Chinese and an American delegate spoke on the radio and told the American people:
 For months, the various United Nations bodies have been working up to 16 hours a day. They have reached agreement for peace and the benefit of mankind.
 American newspapers, however, have said practically nothing about this good work. Instead; they have played up any signs of ssdisagree. ment" that could be found.
 Then there was the. fellow who walked into bar one day and saw an acquaintance order a beer and then quickly gulp it down. He sidled over to him and was about to engage him in conversation when the man ordered another beer and again quickly gulped it down.
 What's the idea," he asked. drinking so fast?''
 ''Oh, he explained, ''I've been doing that ever since the accident"
 Accident? What accident.''
 Somebody knocked over my glass of beer.''
The union times., 1947-04-05
49 Seymour Teachers
 Vote Delay In Strike

The impending strike of the 49 teachers in Seymour three schools was postponed for at least two weeks last week when a special meeting of the Teachers League voted to accept a proposal presented by State Commis- sioner of Education Dr. Alonza c. Grace earlier in the afternoon.
The union times., 1947-04-05
VOTE REYNOLDS STRIKE

Louisville (LPA)-Fourteen plants of the Reynolds Metal Co. are threat ened with a strike by members of the Int'1 Council of Aluminium Workers AFL. The unions officials have set no date pending outcome of negotiations.
The union times., 1947-04-05

Isn't it good to know what's going to happen?
 Oh, yes, about those eerie tap pings. It's probably the landlord at the door again. He's an obstinate guy about the rent.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Luckiest' Flyer Crash Lands
InFront Yard Near College Park

Georges County fire companies and
an emergency unit from Anacostia
Field were en- route to the scene.
Meanwhile, traffic was jammed on
the busy boulevard.
Ensign Lang said he and two other
pilots off the carrier Franklin D.
Roosevelt, now in drydock at Nor
folk, were en- route to Aberdeen, Md,
and had stopped at Anacostia for
gasoline just before his motor began
to misSfire.
The ensign began to look for an
emergency landing field and was
heading for one near College Park
when his engine went dead. He rea-
lized the he could not make the fad
and pulled his plane into as steep
turn as he dared, seeking the big
gest free spot" in the residential
area whirling beneath his wings.
The plane skinned over the
boulevard, clipped through several
power lines and began to crash
through the tops of tall trees when
the pilot could not pull it high
enough to reach small clearing be-
yond. Meanwhile, Ensign Lang had
radioed his two companions, Its.
Jack Waits and Sonny" Morris, that
he was going in for an emergency
landing.
What happened when the heavy
fighter plunged to earth. was a blur
in the ensign's memory. He still
was wearing his parachute when he
ran clear of the wreckage.
|. Next to the ensign's concern for
the welfare of civilians on the
ground where his plane hit was his
worry lest his wife be upset by news
of the accident. She is expecting
a baby soon, the pilot explained. :
Evening star., 1947-05-04

tan baptlSI c1uICH.
Harold Stassen, former sGovernol
of Minnesota and candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination
who recently returned from several
months abroad, heads the list OF
speakers scheduled to address the
assemblage. He will speak Saturday
evening.
A record breaking attendance Is
anticipated when DR.. Louie D, New
ton, president of the convention,
calls the meeting to order at 10 am.
Wednesday. Sessions will be held
mornings, afternoon and evenings
Wednesday through Saturday, with
q concluding Mothers Day gather
ing scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
DR.. G. Oscar johnson, pastor of the
Third Baptist Church and q former
president of the Northern Baptist
Convention, viii welcome tAe dele
gates and visitors at the opening
session Wednesday.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Broken Bed Spring One Cause
OF Home Accident in Week

Taking nap or scrubbing clothes
can be hazardous, too, the Red Cross
Accident Prevention Service noted
yesterday in its survey Of the week S
home accidents.
The man who suffered home ac-
cident in bed reported to the hos
pital with an infected wound. 1t
seems broken bed spring projected
through mattress and scratched
his back.
Doctors had to use microscopic
observation to remove a broken
needle which had become in1beddcd
in . woman,s hand while she was
scrubbing clothes.
A l2-year-oh boy learned more
than he wanted to about solidified
carbon dioxide when bottle Of dry
ice with which he was experiment.
ing exploded IN his hand.
Evening star., 1947-05-04

persons suspected Of carrying dan
gerous weapons.
The Federation indorsed a pro-
gram for improving progressively
the principal hot spot intersections
either by grade separations or by
channelization." It also urged the
Commissioners eto encourage the
greater use Of public transportation
facilities by the public ID order to
reduce the number Of private
vehicles on the streets.
Al House bill transferring juris-
diction over the Recorders Once
to the District was favored. William
J. Bartle, chairman Of the organiza-
tons Law and Legislation Commit
tee, declared such a move would do
much to overcome the considerable
backlog" of work. He said the Re-
corder'S Once was 21,713 cases be-
hird on December 81, 1916.
Evening star., 1947-05-04

Children, as usual, were numerous
among the 124 Washington residents
given hospital treatment for nom
fatal accidents during the week.
One boy lost an eye when struck
by stone tossed into the air by q
playmate. A 2-year got pepper
in his eyes while playing with a pep
perpot, and another of the same age
cut his arm while playing with a
milk bottle. A 3-year -o1d stuffed q
lollipop wrapper in his ear, young
ster suffered second-degree burns
when he stepped into q tub Of scald-
ing water while running through the
kitchen and baby ate rat poison.
Three persons lost their lives In
falls and So Of the nonfatal cases
were caused by falls. Two persons
were injured by the accidental dis
charge Of firearms.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Citizens Federation
Asks Speed on Bill
For Charter Board

The Federation OF Citizens Asso-
Citations last night called on Con.
gress to pass the Federal City char
ter commission bill "at the earliest
possible date"
The Federation also urged Con-
gress to devise plan whereby the
proposed commission, to be com
posed of eleven local citizens, all
bona fide residents of the District
for not less than five years prior to
their selection" may cooperate
with the home rule subcommittee
of the House District Committee in
drafting the proposed new home
rule charter.
It was further urged that the form
of city government to be created
under the charter be ''based upon
the nonpartisan council-manager
plan
Attendance at Hearing Urged.
Wilbur S. Finch, former president
of the Federation, urged members
of citizens associations to appear
at the daylight savings hearings at
10 am. Wednesday at the District
Building to show their interest in
home rule.
People from outside the District
against daylight saving will be
there" Mr.. Finch declared, "and
1t is UP to us favoring it to appear, !,
He also called on those opposing
daylight saving to appear as q
means of showing their interest in
a problem directly concerning the
District. The Federation has al
ready gone on record fayoring day.
light saving.
A long discussion preceded the
passing of a resolution asking defeat
of the bill before the House pro-
viding that undertakers In the Dis
trict be licensed.
Mrs. Leslie B. Wright OF the For
est Hills Citizens Association, de-
clared tthe costs of funeral services
would go up tremendously" If the
bill were passed.
The federation indorsed the soap
box Derby sponsored by The Star
and the American Legion as "a
youth program Of great value" The
resolution was introduced by Jerome
Lynch, president Of the Northeast
Citizens Council.
Weapons Bill Indorsed.
Many Of the murders in the city
in recent weeks might have been
prevented If the police had the
power to search persons suspected
of carrying dangerous weapons,
said Harry 8. Wender, former fed
Grafton president. He spoke before
the federation indorsed House
bill permitting the arrest, search
and seizure Of and for dangerous
weapons by police officers upon
probable cause, as though the viola
ton was felony =
Mr.. Wender declared it was b
stupid and asinine" situation where
police officers were unable to search
Evening star., 1947-05-04

A Navy carrier pilot guided his
fighter plane to a crash landing In a
front yard near College Park yes
terday rather than bail out and al
low the heavy ship to plunge into a
residential area.
Ensign w. o. Lang, 81, of North
Weymouth, Mass. although pain
fully burned on the face, arms and
ankles, said later he was not only
"the luckiest man In the Navy" but
"the whole world With motor
dead, his Corsair had skinned
heavy traffic on the Baltimore boule-
ward and sheared the tops off trees
before breaking apart and burning
beside a home at College Heights.
How he managed to walk away
was as much mystery to Ensign
Lang, who couldn't remember climb
ing out of the burning wreckage, as
it was to residents startled by the
suddenness and violence of the
crash.
Concerned About Civilians.
At Leland Memorial Hospital,
Riverdale, where Ensign Lang was
given first aid before being removed
to Naval Hospital. Bethesda, the
pilots first concern was to learn if
any one in addition to- himself had
been hurt. The first thing he re-
membered after stumbling from the
burning wreckage was to warn civil
ians to get back because a gasoline
tank might explode.
This tank did explode a moment
later in the front yard of Maj.
Claude H. Marshall, an Army Re-
serve officer, at $500 Pineway drive,
scattering flaming gasoline over an
ares where Mrs. Marshall had been
working in her garden just before
going in to lunch with her husband
and son.
The big engine had torn free and
rolled to within a few feet of the
Marshalls front porch, where it
strated a fire. which Maj. Marshall
was able to extinguisi3 with garden
hose while half a dozen Prince
Evening star., 1947-05-04
B'nui Birth Head Mourned

In respect to the memory of Henry
Monsky, national president of B'nai
Birth who died in New York Friday,
the Benjamin N. Cardozo Lodge of
B'nai Birth, Arlington, has indefi-
nitely postponed its dinner and in
stallation of officers, scheduled for
TODAY in the Burlington Hotel.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Eyictions to Be Discussed

Eviction proceedings recently
started in the Southwest area by the
National Housing Authority against
residents of Federal housing projects
who keep pets will be discussed at
La special meeting of the Bellevue
Citizens Association at pm. to-
morrow at 211 Boyer road S.W.