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Evening star., 1947-03-23
House Insistence on Tax Cut
Blocks Agreement on Budget
Conferees Want Any Savings Eormorked,
Also Favor Raising Goal to 512 Billion
By J. A. O'Leory

Failure of House and Senate
oonferees to agree yesterday on
a $5,250,00o,ooO cut in President
Truman's budget is understood
to have been due in part TO
House efforts to earmark a def
mite part of the saving for tax
reduction.
1t was learned also last night
that House spokesmen wanted the
economy goal raised to $780,
100000. ,
Regardless OF what is done with
the budget resolution, Republican
leaders will put before the HoGse
Wednesday their separate tax-re-
duction bill, looping $3,840, ,000, 900
off personal income levies. In
formed sources were. confident last
night the House would pass it.
AS approved by the Ways and
Means Committee Friday, the bill
cuts by 80 per cent the taxes OF
20,000,000 persons in the low-wage
brackets, and gives a 20 per cent
reduction to most Of the other 49,
100000 income taxpayers. Floor
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amendments will not be in order,
which means the House must vote
the bill up or down, probably Thurs
day. .
Democratic leaders are expected
to continue their fight to put debt
retirement ahead of tax reduction
this year, but Republican Floor
Leader Halleck has predicted the
tax-cutting bill will pick up more
votes on the Democratic side than
it loses on the Republican side.
In the Senate the tax bill must
undergo Finance Committee scru-
tiny before it is voted on. That
committee has been marking time
on the issue, because revenue bills
must originate in the House.
The House voted originally to
slash $4,000 ,0O0,0 900 from Mr.. Tru-
mans requested budget total of $37, :
500 ,000, 900 to: run the Government
for the year commencing July l.
The Senate, fearing this deep 9
cut might impair national defense
raised the budget ceiling by indors.
ing a cut of only $4,500, 900 900. The
Senate also put greater emphasis
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providing money for the program is
problematical, even though the
President acted on the Recommended
tions OF his Temporary Commission
on Employe Loyalty, an interdepart-
mental body, set up last November
Is at the instance of the House
Civil Service Committee.
Mr.. Truman said those provisions
of his executive ORDER requiring more
funds will not be operative until the
appropriations are available. 1t is
assumed that he will ask Congress
for supplemental funds, without
delay.
The Presidential order requires
the Attorney General to make and
keep up to date a list of all subver-
sive organizations. A persons
membership in, afflliation with or
sympathetic association with" one
of them would be grounds for bar
ring him from a Federal job as dis
loyal.
The blacklist would include not
90. rTCT ~xY a rvxy na.o
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Martial Law Imposed
On Southern Greece
By the Associoted Press

ATHENS, Mar. 22.-The Greek
Cabinet imposed martial law
throughout the prefecture of La
coma at the southern tip of the
Greek mainland tonight as result
of the tense situation created by the
massacre of 80 Communist convicts
Friday in a prison at Ghythion.
The cabinet decided also to take
measures against civil and military
authorities in the area where the
mass Staying occurred, to hold mill
tary trials for those responsible
for the massacre and to have the
prefecture cleared of armed bands.
The attack on the prison was made
by neighboring villagers in repri-
sal for the murder of the leader
of rightist band, the Ministry of
Public Order said.
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Truman Orders FBI to Weed Out
All Dis|oyal Federal Workers.
Bars Jobs for Fellow Travellers
Action Wins Praise in Congress;
Some Call 1t Long Overdue
Others Declare Real Test Of New Policy
Will Be Manner in Which 1t Is Executed

House Civil Service Committee In
the last Congress.
Speaker Martin of the House COM
mented: "!t is good to see that he
(the P2esident) has finally awak-
ened to the truth of what we have
been telling him for the last few
years"
Other comment:
Representative Mundt, Republi-
can, of South Dakota: "If the Presi-
dents mandate is carried forward
faithfully it will tremendously
strengthen the security of the
United States. The Residents pro-
gram is almost precisely that which
the House Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities has been advocating
for at least four years."
Senator Ellender, Democrat, of
Louisiana: I'm hopeful every effort
will be made to rid not only our
Government but the whole country
of men and women who are in any
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(Picture on Page A-5.)
By the Associated Press

DETROIT, Mar. %. Louis "
Thompson, wealthy Highland Park
auto dealer, and his second wife
were charged today with the mutt
lation murder of his first wife 1e
months after Thompson was cleared
in the original investigation.
The one-man grand jury of Cir
cult Judge George B. Murphy in
dicted the middle-aged Thompson
and his bride of a year. accusing
them of murder in the hatchet-slay-
ing of Mrs. Lydia Thompson in
October, 1945. Mushroom. hunters
found her body, the head almost
severed, in lonely lane in Oakland
County, near Pontiac. The case be-
came one of Michigan's greatest
murder mysteries.
The Thompsons were arrested to-
day at their elegant home in Or
chard Lake. near Pontiac. Brought
to Jail after indictment, they re-
fused to talk. They were held with
out bond for arraignment Monday
on two counts, one of which charges
them with numbering Lydia Thomp-
son ION or about" October II, 1945.
The second count charges them. and
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Second Senate Group
May Air Questions
On Greece and Turkey
Appropriations Chairman
To Act if Hearings Leave
M-:~.Oueries Unanswered

Chairman D,.~geS of the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee
said last night his group may re-
view plans for aiding Greece and
Turkey if current hearings by
the House and Senate commit
tees on foreign affairs leave any
pertinent questions unanswered.
His statement came as the Sena.S
Foreign Relations Committee pre-
pared to start hearings. tomorrow
morning, with Acting Secretary OF
State Dean Acheson as the first
witness.
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, which heard Mr.. Acheson
last week, will resume Its hearings
tomorrow, with Undersecretary of
State Clayton, in charge Of eco
nomic affairs, on the stand.
Both committees have before them
the bill to authorize the admins
tration to extend 100000 of aid
to Greece and Turkey to maintain
a democratic front in that part of
Europe.
eff all the facts are not brought
out" said Senator Bridges, refer
ring to the present hearings, they
certainly will be in the Appropria-
tionss Committee"
The New Hampshire Republican
said he subscribes generally to the
view that this country cannot sit
still and let Communism spread"
but added that he wants Congress
and the people to be fully advised
on the policy of aid, land to know
where we go from here"
Chairman Vandenberg of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee early last week invited all Sen
.ators to list any questions on which
they want more light, SO that he
could submit them to the State
Department. The Michigan Sena-
tor said he expects the complete
Gee EODFTCN Dooo A51
Evening star., 1947-03-23
.Mo|otov Urges
|Pre.Nazi Plan
For Germany
Weimur Constitution
Suggested as Model;
Western Ideas Hit
By NewboId Noyes, Jr.
Sior Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, Mar. %. - Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov today
lambasted western proposals for
a federated Germany and out
lined Russia's idea of a proper
state setup for the Reich. What
he proposed sounded to Ameri-
cans at the conference table sus-
piciously like the federal form
of government he had just fin
iShed criticizing.
IT am sorry Mr. Molotov spoke so
strongly against federalism in Ger
many Secretary of State Marshall
told the Conference of Foreign Min
listers. Il hope we may be able to
avoid arguing over words to which
each of us may attach a different
meaning.
"The proposals of Mr.. Molotov, for
example, would be regarded in
America federal form of govern
ment as we understand the mean
ing of the term"
Weimar Urged as Model.
Mr.. Molotov proposed that 1--WE
take the Weimar costitution as a
basis on which to work" 1t was
the Weimar republic which Adolf
Hitler used to climb to power and
then destroyed.
Mr.. Molotov did not go into pre-
else details in presenting Soviet
views on the provisional German
government. 1t is expected that
plenty of difference between the
American and Russian positions
may still be developed when he does.
But as the conference finished its
general discussions this afternoon
and went into a two-day recess be-
fore entering Tuesday into it's ne
gotiating stage, the situation was
that the Russian and western posi-
tions, as SO far developed, seemed
closer than had been anticipated
all along the line. 1t was felt here
a firmer American attitude, coupled
with the Russian need for a solu-
ton to the reparations question,
had a lot to do with it.
In general, both the United States
and Britain are supporting the idea
of federaHzed Germany, while
France is for loose and decen-
tralized regime. The Russian pro-
posals were subjected to an imme-
diate attack by Britain and France
Separate Legislative Bodies.
AS prescribed by Mr.. Molotov, the
German state would have separate
legislative bodies for each land
the component states into which
Germany is now divided-as we'll
as a two chamber national parlia-
ment.
Each land also would have its
own constitution. These laender
constitutions would be in addition
to a permanent national constitu-
ton drawn up by a national parlia-
ment and adopted by the German
people.
The great question left unan-
swered by Mr. Molotov-and his
colleagues will be anxious to know
the answer when the Council gets
down to brass tacks on the subject
is the classical one. as to where
(See MOVES PAGE A-5)
Evening star., 1947-03-23
CITY Needs New Low
Police Arresting Pistol Carriers
Despite LoophoIe in D. &. Code
Doing Duty to Protect Life and Property
Although Court Throws Cases Out

in court because the law says they
cannot arrest a man for carrying
concealed weapon unless they
see him committing a crime or swear
out a warrant for his arrest.
A bill to plug this gap in the law
by permitting police to arrest sus-
pected pistol carriers ION probable
cause" comes up for hearing BE-
fore the Judiciary Subcommittee of
the House District Committee to-
morrow at 10 am. in Room AS of
the old House Office Building.
Representative O,Hara, Republi-
can, Of Minnesota, chairman Of the
subcommittee, told The Star last
night that well try to put some
hooks in the law" He conceded that
1see FIREARMS. 4 Rge A-5J
Evening star., 1947-03-23

The law says a policeman can
not arrest a pistol carrier just
because he knows the man is
carrying a weapon, but Wash
ington police are doing it be-
cause the law also says a po-
liceman is sworn to protect life
and property.
That is what a check of the po-
lice precincts revealed last night.
Police captains, corporals and desk
sergeants admitted that loophole
in the law is forcing them to make
what the courts call false arrests"
and illegal seizures"
If they know a man has pistol
they said, they are going to take
it away from him. The rub comes
when they see their E.isoner freed
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Man, q. Shot in Back
On Sheridan Circle;
Police Start Inquiry
p Bank EmpIoye Picked Up
By Youths in Car Who
Heard Two Shots Fired

Picked up from the Sheridan
Circle sidewalk with a bullet
wound in the back, a man iden-
titled as William A. Ransom, %,
of 2O17 Kl1ngle road NV, was
taken to Emergency Hospital
early today.
The shooting was similar to the
March II Staying of Frank c. Kelly,
of 1904 New Hampshire avenue
NV, by three holdup men.
Mr.. Ransom was brought to the
hospital by three teen-age boys in
an automobile. The hospital said
his condition was undetermined.
The boys, who told police they
heard two reports that sounded like
shots Just before they went to Mr..
Ransom's aid, were Orman Muller,
16, of 1896 Nineteenth street NV;
Charles Bainbridge, II, of 173C
Church street NV, and Robert
Mcneil, IS, Of TITS Church street
NV. ......
Mr.. Ransom who roomed at the
Klingle road address, had attended
choir practice at the First Baptist
Church at Sixteenth and o streets
NV, according to Robert Spencer
his landlord.
Police Begin Investigation.
Police began an investigation
while doctors worked over the
wounded man in the hospital ad-
mitting room.
Police at the Sd Precinct said Mr..
Ransom was talking to man whom
they identified as Capt. Richard
Harding, 2128 Florida avenue NV,
when man, believed to be colored,
ran close to them and started
shooting.
The captain and Mr.. Ransom
were standing on the north side of
Sheridan Circle near r street when
the man dashed up, police said.
The, captain said the man cried
Halt" and then shot.
He said he believed the man shot
-four or five times" but the boys
who took Mr.. Ransom to the hos
pital said they heard only two
shots. Mr. Ransom was struck by
only one bullet.
The assailant fed up r street
police were told. He was described
as 8 feet tall, of slender build and
as wearing brown suit with Navy
blue overcoat.
Earlier Alteration Reported.
The boys who took the victim tC
the hospital reported having had an
alteration with a colored man in
the vicinity short time before Mr.
Ransom was shot.
Young Bainbridge said that he
had been accosted by man who
threatened him with a knife ane
said something about shooting"
The Mcneil lad then knocked the
man to the ground, the boys said
and they went to the car driven by
young Muller. They said the mar
got up from the ground and fled.
| AS they started their car the.
heard the shot-like reports, they
told police.
At Mr.. Ransom's address it wa!
learned that he is an employe of ths
Washington Loan & Trust Co.
Ninth and F streets NV. He il
believed to have come here from
Montreal, Canada, and has lived a
the Klingle road house about {
month.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Dewey Backs Truman
On Help for Greece,
Asks u. 5. Support
Coils Nation BuIwurk
Against Oppression
Seeking to EnquIf World
By the Associated Press

ALBANY, N. Y, Mar. 22.-Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey today Endorsed
President Truman's proposal of
United States aid to Greece to
halt the spread of communism
in Europe and said the program
should have "the full support of
the American people"
Gov. Dewey, possible candidate
for the 194S Republican presidential
nomination, described the Greeks
as "a brave bulwark against tides
Of oppression which would engulf
the world"
He said American help was "nec-
essary" to assist the, Greeks in ire
sisting the forces of armed and
theological aggression ." en-
deayoring to create chaos and dis
ruption among them"
TIE statement came in a routine
proclamation designating Tuesday
as Greek war relief day in New
York.
Gov. Dewey made no mention of
Turkey but Executive Assistant
James C. Hagerty said last week
"the Governor has expressed him
self strongly to number of people
that we must do all in our power
to prevent the collapse of the free
countries of Europe"
The 1914 Republican presidential
candidate did not mention Com
munism specifically. in his procla-
nation nor did he refer to the
amount of financial assistance
President Truman has proposed
$400 100000 in aid to Greece and
Turkey
Gov. Dewey touched on cultural
and spiritual ties" between Greece
and the United States, and said:
"At a grave hour in world affairs,
the Government of the United
States has proposed to bring its
great strength to the aid of the
stricken people of Greece. This help
is necessary in order to help them
in their epic struggle to recover
from the desperate ravages of war,
meanwhile resisting the forces of
armed and theological aggression
which are, at this moment, endeav-
oring to create chaos and disruption
among them.
"Once again the Greek people are
standing as brave bulwark against
tides of oppression which would en-
gulf the world and our Nation
should and. I am sure, will give
them the assistance with the full
support of the American people"
Governor Dewey's support of the
Truman program marked the sec
ond time in six months that he has
aligned himself with the admin
istration on major foreign policy
question.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Polar Flagship Is Due
In Washington April ID
By the Assoeiated Press

ABOARD MT. OLYMPUS, Mar
22-This ship, returning from South
Polar explorations, is scheduled to
dock at Washington the morning of
April IA.
Original plans had called for the
flagship of the Navy's expedition to
put in at Norfolk, Va, but Rear
Admiral Richard H. Cruzen, task
feet commander, said today that
Washington had been chosen for
greater convenience. No ceremonies
are planned, he said.
The Mt. Olympus, now travelling
alone, is due at Balboa, c. e., April
f. or April S and is scheduled II
xtransit the canal April Z.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Illinois Coal Contract
Extended to June 30
By the Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, H., Mar o.
The Progressive Mine Workers an
nounced today the union and the
Coal Producers Association of Il
linois had agreed to extend to mid
night June 80 their contract which
would have expired March 81.
The agreement was reached last
night during discussions on a new
contract. The union demands had
included a 1882 daily basic wage
and 30-hour, five-day week.
Union members now work seven
hour day, 42-hour week. at a basic
hourly rate Of $l.1s1a.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Venezuela Cabinet Quits

CARACAS, Venezuela, Mar. 22.-
R,-The entire cabinet voted today
to resign for the purpose, a COM
munique said, "of leaving the rev.
olutionary junta free to reorganize
the executive cabinet The junta
will meet Monday to select new
ministers.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Lewis Local to Help
Puy Leaders Fine
By the Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Mar. 22-Local
764 of the AFL United Mine Work.
ers-the home town local of John
L. Lewis and one in which he holds
card-voted tonight to assess each
of it's 4s0 members So to help pay
the S76O, 600 in fines imposed on the
union and the miners chief
Evening star., 1947-03-23

(See FOREIGN, Page A-5.)
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Radio Programs, Pe. CO
Complete IndeH Ps. Az
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(See REACTION, Page At
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(See MOVES, Page AS
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Considerable cloudiness this morning:
sunny this afternoon, highest, upper COS.
Tomorrow sunny, warmer.
Yesterday, high, At, at $40 pm; low,
81, at 1890 am
Gull Report PAGE A-z)
United States Weather Bureau Report.
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(See BUDGET, Page A-4.)
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(see DIsLOYALTY, Page A-6)
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(See CONTROLS, Page A-6D
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City Needs New Law

(See BEHRMAN, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1947-01-23
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