Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-24

A subcommittee Of the Senate
Judiciary Committee is gathering
material and may hold hearings on
proposed changes in immigration
laws so that larger numbers of dis
placed people could be admitted to
the United States.
This group, with $4,000 st its
disposal, consists of Senators Rever-
comb, Republican, of West Virginia,
chairman; Cooper, Republican. of
Kentucky; McCarran, Democrat, of
Nevada, and McGrath, Democrat, of
Rhode Island. 1t is to report by
March l.
The Far East, particularly China
and Korea, is the subject of another
authorized Senate investigation. The
committee has not yet been APP
pointed, although SIPS 900 was ear.
marked for this purpose.
Senate and House committees
expect to hold further hearings this
fall on the State Departments in
formation program. The House
group will continue studies OF spe-
ciflc House bills for continuation Of
the program.
Look Into Foreign Trade
A similar but more general study
will be made by Senate committee.
Another State Department &C
tivity undergoes scrutiny as MEM
bers of House and Senate Appro-
priations Committees pursue their
examination of costs in the foreign
service branch. This includes sub
committee and staff investigations
in the field, committee officials say.
Foreign trade, especially the
shortage of shipping and the prob
lens of the sugar industry, are due
for study by the Senate Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Committee,
which has an allotment of 5000.
Exploration of world health con-
dltlons and the International Refu-
gee Organization will take a House
Foreign Affairs Subcommittee abroad
within a few weeks. On the sub
committee are Representatives Boil
ton, Republican, sof Ohio; jackson,
Republican, of California, and Ma
loney, Republican, of Pennsylvania.
Alaska already has received some
congressional investigators this sum-
mer and will see more.
The Aviation Subcommittee Of the
House Domestic and Foreign Com
merce Committee returned this
month and is preparing a report
as a result of it's tour which, men,
bers revealed, showed the need for
more airfelds and greater develop
ment of commercial and military
air facilities in Alaska.
A Senate Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Subcommittee, headed by
Senator Capehart, Republican, of
Indiana, has set September 4 and 5
for hearings in Anchorage and
Fairbanks, Alaska, on proposals to
construct commercial airports there
with Federal funds.
Domestic investigations
The Indiana Senator also is chair
man of the Newsprint Subcommit-
tee of the Senate Small Business
Committee, which late this month
begins an inspection of pulp pro-
duction possibilities in Alaska. SEN
ator Capehart announced recently
that while in Alaska he will study
the Loran system of navigation,
which became involved III contro-
versial action by the House and
Senate Appropriations Committees
during the recent session of Con-
gress.
Others on the Newsprint Sub
committee are Senators Cain, Re-
publican, of Washington; Ellender.
Democrat, of Louisiana, and Muir
ray, Democrat, of Montana. The
group will visit the Tongrass ma
tional forest and Ketchikan.
Alaskan land is one of the sum-
mer studies planned by the House
Public Works Committee with a
$4,000 authorization, but no men,
bers are likely to visit Alaska at this
time.
In the domestic field the follow
ing major committee activities are
scheduled for the congressional re-
cess:
The Joint Committee on the Eco
nomic Report will investigate the
cost of living, especially food prices.
Senator Flanders, Republican, OF
Vermont heads the inquiry in the
East; Representative Bender, Re-
publican, of Ohio in the Midwest,
and Senator Watkins, Republican,
of Utah in the West.
The House Ways and Means Conn
mittee will reopen hearings in No
vember in the hope of having a
general tax revision bill ready when
Congress meets in January. A gen.
eral Advisory Committee, headed by
former Undersecretary of the Treas
ury Roswell Magill, is assisting the
committee.
Labor Problems
The Joint Labor Management
Committee is conducting a contin-
uous study Of the workings of the
Taft Hartley law and labor-man-
agement relations in general. Sem
ator Ball, Republican, of Minnesota
is chairman.
The House Education and Labor
Committee has a subcommittee ar
ranging early hearings on the pos
sible effect of union labor practices
on food prices.
Another subcommittee, headed by
Representative Kearns. Republican,
of Pennsylvania, has been on the
move almost all summer in WASH
ington, New York and California.