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co-operatives enjoy tax advantages
over private business.
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co-operatives enjoy tax advantages
over private business.
Virgins Asks Delay.
On that, Undersecretary of the
Treasury A. Lee M. Virgins sub
mttted report suggesting that a
decision be deferred.
Mr.. Virgins said he thought 1t
would be wise to put off decision
until the Treasury completes a
study it is now making of the entire
tax system. He said the studies
embrace the tax treatment Of CO.
operatives and Of tax-exempt Or
CARNATIONS in general.
"I do not feel that it is wise to
reach firm conclusions with respect
to this part of the postwar tax struc-
ture before we have had an oppor-
tunity to review the entire tax sys-
tenn" he added.
When the Treasury completes its
present general review of the tax
system, Mr.. Virgins said, 1--WE hope
to have the opportunity to submit
our full recommendations to this
committee"
The matter of taxes on farmers
co-ops cropped up as a result OF
contentious from some businessmen
and others that co-ops enjoy an
advantage over competitors because
they have certain tax exemptions.
There are approximately 10,150
cooperative organizations through
which farmer members both buy
and sell. They do $500 ,000, 900
annual business.
Mr.. Virgins presented the COM
mittee with a Treasury study on tax
alton of co-ops which said:
/. Making them pay income tax
on their patronage dividends" or
refunds" would not necessarily
change their competitive position
because many of them could get
around the tax by lowering prices.
2. Repeating the general income
tax exemption now enjoyed by more
than 5000 co-ops would impose
relatively little tax" on them if the
patronage dividends or refunds were
left tax free.
Invasion" of Economy Charged.
An indication of the fireworks
ahead on coop taxation came from
Evening star., 1947-11-04
APP Writer Expelled
By Hungary Expects
To Go 10 Vienna TODAY
By the Associotsd Press

LONDON, Nov. 4.-Jaek Quinn,
81, Associated Press correspondent
IN Hungary for the last % months,
mas been expelled by the Com
munist-doniinate government of
that country and expects to leave
Budapest today for Vienna.
The government notified Mr..
Quinn yesterday that he must leave
Hungary within "a hours or face
charges of espionage and the smug-
Cling of criminals" out of the coun-
try. Mr.. Quinn decided to comply
with the order after conferring
with American Minister Selden
Chaplin.
Mr.. Guinn's wife and two children
will follow him to Vienna shortly
by United States Legation plane.
The Hungarian government action
against Mr.. Quinn followed by a
week the arrest of his American
born secretary, Miss Elizabeth K.
Pallos, 81, and by three days the
expulsion from Yugoslavia of Arthur
M. BRANDED, Belgrade correspondent
+ for the New York Times.
The Hungarian Ministry OF In
terror issued statement saying that
political police had discovered IAN
organization for espionage" in con-
nection with which Miss Pallos and
seven other persons had been de-
tanned.
In connection with the discovery
of this organization, the statement
said, Ministry of the Interior au-
thorities expelled Mr.. Jack Quinn,
Associated Press correspondent, from
Hungary forever"
Mr.. BRANDED and his wife, Mary
Lester, United Press correspondent
left Belgrade yesterday. They were
ousted for what the Yugoslavs
termed offensive" writing.
Yesterdays statement by the In
terror Ministry in Budapest was the
first detailing of any reason for the
detention OF Miss Pallos. She was
born in Pittsburgh of Hungarian
parentage. The American Legation
took up her case with the Hun
garian government, claiming she
was an American citizen. Hun
garian officials claimed she was a
Hungarian.
The statement connected most of
the persons detained with the Cp-
position parties of Deszo Sulyok,
who fled Hungary three months ago
because, he said on arrival in
Vienna, he was Gin fear of his
life" and of zoltan Pfeiffer, whose
arrest the government has threat
ened.
Mr.. Quinn was born at Rusk, Tex,
October 10, 1916, and attended the
University of Texas at Austin. He
served with other news agencies
from 1889 to 1945-much of the
time in the war theaters-and
joined the Associated Press in
April, 1945. He has been budapest
correspondent since January, 1916.
Evening star., 1947-11-04

trying to show it has been providing
an adequate proportion of public
service features in its programming
to obtain a regular license renewal
Public Service Radio, Inc, wants
the renewal denied and wants
WBAL's frequency for station il
proposes to build in Baltimore
arguing WBAL has failed to dis
charge its public service response
bility properly.
Commissioner Rosel H. Hyde is
presiding at the hearing, which
began yesterday in Baltimore and
was transferred to Washington to-
day.
FEC Retraction Demanded.
At the start of yesterdays session
William ]. Dempsey, counsel for
Hearst Radio, Inc, charged the
.FCC's blue Book" published some
time ago.. contained false" and
discriminatory" statements about
WBAL. The Blue Book said that
the station had presented insuffi-
cient public service programs.
He demanded that the FEC re-
tract its charges against WBALs
operations, and at this point Mr.
Hyde denied categorically that any
false statements had appeared in the
blue book.
There are no findings on record
that will preclude the FEC from
reaching fair verdict in the pend
ing case" Mr.. Hyde said. Mr.. Demp-
sey protested the joint hearing, say
ing the two matters should be taken
up separately, but was overruled.
His attempt to have the hearing
postponed while Hearst Radio in
vestigated reports Sumner Welles
was connected with Public Service
Radio also was overruled.
Evening star., 1947-11-04
Eleanor Painter Dies;
Former Opera Star
By the Associo.ed Pres.

CLEVELAND, Nov. 4, Mrs.
Eleanor Painter Strong, former opera
and stage star, who appeared under
the name of Eleanor Painter, died at
Evening star., 1947-11-04

preliminary cannonading between
coop spokeSmen and the Nationa!
Tax Equality Association.
The association issued a state
ment saying the coop invasion OF
tine American economy is fast ex-
tinguishing competing small .busi-
ness"
Roy Hendrickson, representing the
National Federation of Grain Co.
ops, retorted at a news conference
that the association is waging a
tremendous campaign" to raise
funds, concentrating Its public fire
on the tax-eXemption phase, while
1t is interested in crippling co-ops.
Evening star., 1947-11-04
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to bargain with the United steN-
workers as representative of plant
guards.
The Taft-Hartley Act, which be-
came fully effective in August, pro-
vides that a labor organization may
not be certified as representative Of
guards if it also admits rank and
file employees as members.
The Supreme Courts decision, an
nounced May 10, said the firm
should bargain with the United
Steelworkers as the representative
of the guards at two Otis works
plants in Cleveland, even though
the same union also represented
rank and file workers.
TheScourt will announce later its
decision on the Governments posi-
ton,
Evening star., 1947-08-18
Execution Again Delayed
For John Kniqht SIaYers

The execution date for two men
convicted Of the sfirst-degree murder
of John Paul Kaight, "a. A. grocery
clerk. during a holdup in April, 1916,
was postponed today by Justice
Richmond B. Keech of District Court
from September s to Oetobers 15;
pending action Oh a petition FOR ex-
ecutive clemency.
The men are Alfred L. Hawkins,
%. and Laurence I. Prout, 81, both
colored, who were convicted in Dis
trict Court in June, 1916. The Court
Of Appeals affirmed their conviction
in December and the Supreme Court
has refused to review the case. To-
days execution postponement was
the sixth, several others having been
granted pending action on appeals.
Mr.. Knight was killed during q
holdup at Safeway grocery store
in the 1900 block of First street NV.
Evening star., 1947-08-18

that England could use more of her
pounds sterling and fewer dollars
in overseas buying. Some admins
tration officials think the language
of the loan agreement leaves room
for some such change without con-
gressional action.
Second. an easing of the require
ment that England make pounds,
freely convertible into dollars. After
July IS, by the loan terms, any
country which held an excess OF
pounds-as a result of selling to
Britain-could ask England to ex-
change them for dollars. This has
threatened an added heavy drain on
the British dollar supply.
Personnel of Delegation.
Besides Sir Wilfrid, the British
delegation includes Alec Grant and
J. A. Nasmyth of the British treas
ury, Sir Edmond L. Hall-Patch of
the foreign Office, H. j. Lintatt and
G Parker of the Board of Trade,
l.. P. Thompson -McCausland OF the
Bank of England and M. Fleming,
cabinet officer.
The United States is represented
by the National Advisory Council on
Economic Problems headed by Mr..
Snyder. Other members, most of
whom will be represented by subor-
dinates, are Secretary of State Mar
shall, Secretary of Commerce Har-
riman, Federal Reserve Chairman
Mariner Eccles and President Will
liam M. Martin of the. Export-Im-
port Bank.
Evening star., 1947-08-18
PIoeser Sees Inquiry
Showing GreenbeIt
Defects 10 Truman

Investigation Of consumer CO.
operatives in Greenbelt, Md, by a
House Small Business Subcommit-
tee may prove that the early New
Deal public housing project is mot
as pleasant as President Truman
apparently thinks it is" Represen-
tative Ploeser, Republican, of Mis-
souri, predicted today.
The inquiry will be conducted Fri
day and Saturday in closed session
by the subcommittee, headed by
Representative Riehlman, Repub-
lican, of New York.
Representative Ploeser, who heads
the full committee, quoted the Pres
ident as saying recently that 'it's
too bad the story of Greenbelt is
not better known"
The subcommittee will. Investigate
alleged ''monopolistic practices" at
Greenbelt as the first step in a gen.
eral committee study of whether
"tax-exempt privileges of co-opera-
tives are harmful to free competi-
tive enterprise" Additional hear
ings are scheduled in other cities.
The cooperative, Greenbelt Con-
sumer Services, Inc, Issued a state
ment saying that "other free enter
prise can come to Greenbelt if it
wants to-" and added that at first
the Government had tried unsuc-
cessfully to get private business in
to the project.
A liquor stores application IS "the
only significant attempt by private
enterprise" to enter Greenbelt, it
related. The stores application
stirred local controversy and the
Town Council ordered referendum.
"The committee may feel that
this Is an essential service, but the
townSpeople voted it down, 1,106 to
309," the co-operatiYe's statement
said
Representative Ploeser said that
witnesses at the Greenbelt hearing
would include the Maryland Eco
nomic Council, the Prince Georges
County Board of Trade and the
Baltimore Retail Merchants Asso-
citation.
Evening star., 1947-08-18

cetic lives. During the last two years
I have observed at close quarters
the occupation life of Americans,
British, French and Canadians in
Germany, Australia and Italy-and
it is my considered opinion that the
conduct of Gen. Lees command is
no better and no worse than those
of other victorious commands.
On the one hand, it must be ad-
mitted that Gen. Lee eXudes per-
sonal quality Of grand seigneur" to
a much greater extent than Gen.
Lucius D. Clay or his predecessors,
Gems. McNarney and Eisenhower.
This doesn't increase Gen. Lees
popularity among the troops and
tends toward exaggerated stories
about his mode of living.
On the other hand, Mr.. Ruark is
apparently unfamiliar with the Gus
tomary panoply of military life in
an occupation zone and he was out
ragged by it-as every democratic
newcomer must be. The fact is,
however, that it is part and parcel
of every victorious occupation in
Europe that the zone commander
should live in viceregal splendor.
This is due partly to the necessity
of impressing the occupied peoples
with the power and prestige of the
occupying power. Even junior OFF,
GERS here live on a much grander
scale than their pay and station in
life would entitle them at home, and
the lowest enlisted man, who, though
he may squawk about Gen. Lees
spiendor, still lives like an aristocrat
among Italians.
Evening star., 1947-08-18
! Weather :
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and none was in prospect until after
the middle Of the week, with only
local showers predicted then.
The Wyoming Valley near Wilkes
Barre, Pa, received Az inches Of
rain yesterday which flooded creeks
and caused landslides, a Pennsyl-
vania Railroad bridge was washed
out near Nanticoke, Pa, and a
landslide blocked the tracks of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad near Shickshinny, Pa.
Maryland Gets Relief.
Cooling breezes yesterday brought
the first relief in five days from a
Statewide heat wave in Maryland,
and the Weather Bureau promised
continued rather comfortable
weather" today.
A cloudburst Saturday night
swamped Frederick County under
2.25 inches of rain in a one-hour
period. Farmers said the county
corn crop was hard hit. Highways
were blocked for more than an hour.
Route 40 from Frederick to Wash
ington was tied up by near flood
at Benefits Creek, eight miles
south of Frederick.
In Virginia, where rain was still
a hope for some localities, Rich
mond got its first relief from the
willing heat in five days after
light rain began at 6 pm. yesterday.
Rain began in Norfolk shortly after
pm.
A hard downpour overlook Will
liamsburg in mid-afternoon, threat
ening a performance of The
Common Glory" but shortly before
curtain time the skies cleared and
the historical drama went. on before
a normal Sunday night crowd.
Evening star., 1947-08-18
Labor Department Shifts
Child Unit 10 New Division
BY the Associated Press

Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
today announced the transfer of ad-
ministration of the child labor pro-
visions of the Fair Labor Standards
Act to the Wage and Hour Division
of his department.
The 1948 Appropriation Act pro-
vided funds for the Wage and Hour
Division to take over this work from
the Division Of Labor Standards,
which was wiped out by appropria-
ton cuts.
The new unit will investigate oc-
equations considered hazardous to
minors.
The new branch also will make
regulations on special conditions for
employment of IA and IS year old
children under the act.
Miss Elizabeth s. johnson will
head the child labor branch and
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Coleman will be
child labor adviser. Both formerly
were in the Division of Labor
Standards.
Evening star., 1947-08-18
Annual Camp Meeting
Opened by Adventists
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18.-More
than 10000 Jehovah's witnesses
participated in concluding ceremon-
les of their annual assembly yester-
day as Seventh Day Adventists from
throughout the Nation opened their
annual camp here.
The crowd of Jehovah's witnesses
thronged in and around Wrigley
Field to hear Nathan H. Knorr,
president of the Watch Tower So
ciety, declare: mo truth stands out
more clearly than that Christ Jesus
is the one ordained by God to serve
as permanent governor of all ma
tions."
Mr.. Knorr called the United
Nations an artificial human sub
stitute" for the rule of Christ.
A Seventh Day Adventist official
told camp meeting in nearby
Lynwood that Christianity in
America is weak because lay men,
bers are not participating actively
in church program"
The speaker, addressing about
5000 attending day-long worship
services, was A. A. Esteb, Glendale,
Calf, secretary of the home mis-
sionary department for the Pacific
Union Conference.
He said laymen were sitting back
and letting the pastors do all the
work" estimating that about 81
per cent of the population do not
go to church.
J. L. McElhany of Washington,
world president, reported that the
church now has property valued at
$4,000, 900.
Mr.. Esteb said a program for
evangelistic training of lay men,
bers would begin next month in
Arizona, Utah. Nevada, California
and the Hawaiian Islands, with rep
resentatives of each church attend
ing institutions in central cities.
Evening star., 1947-08-18
ITU May: Try 10 Avert
Labor Law Liability
|By Ending Contracts
BY the A..oeieied Pres.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 18.-The In
ternational Typographical Union,
AFL, will decide in convention this
week whether to do away with
future contract-making in an effort
to avert liability under the Taft
Hartley Act.
The law becomes effective next
Friday-60 days after its passage
and the day the printers conclude
their seth convention.
President Woodruff Randolph,
one-time Chicago printer, Is ad-
vising the 435 delegates that the
old policy of negotiating formal
contracts with newspapers and COM
mercial printers be scrapped.
Wages and working conditions
would result from an understanding
between the parties rather than a
formal written pact.
Secs End to Contracts.
Mr.. Randolph, yesterday expressed
confidence to newsmen that there
will be no contracts after August o."
Whether that would mean labor
warfare in the publishing business
remained to be seen. Mr.. Randolph
says the convention itself will have
to decide the major policy problems;
the International Union officials
are merely advising the locals. The
ITU president says labor relations
involving the Typographical Union
have been building up for a century
the International will be 100 years
old in l952-and you can't wipe
that out by law"
These are critical days. No Or
gahization wants to engage in any
Nationwide trouble; no organiza-
ton wants even to engage in indi-
yidual strikes unless it is necessary"
Mr.. Randolph said.
Howard Urges Production.
In much the same peaceful tone
Nat r. Howard, of the Cleveland
News, president of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors, told
the printers that production, among
other things means the secret of how
to expand a craft"
If you raise the production to
the point where people with the
money want to start production
plants, you are enlarging and
spreading your craft" Mr.. Howard
said.
Mr.. Howard, principal speaker
at ceremony honoring printers in
the Cleveland area with 40 and so
years of service, paid tribute to the
craftsmen he had known.
Criticized Guildsmen.
In contrast, Mr.. Howard had de-
livered a highly critical speech to
reporters at the American News
paper Guild Convention in Sioux
City, Iowa, in June. He said Guilds
men were revealing bias in report
ing on labor matters especially.
Mr.. Randolph indicated the con-
vention would take action on
proposal to invite the Amalgamated
Lithographers Union - now in the
CIO-to join the ITU, and he re-
vealed in a speech yesterday that
he hoped pressmen, bookbinders,
stereotypers and photo-engravers
might some day merge with the
ITU.
They were all part of the same
union until early in this century,
Mr.. Randolph said.
Evening star., 1947-08-18
Paraguay Reports Rebels
Are FIeeinq in Disorder


I ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug. ~1s-
The government said in a COM
munique today that loyalist troops
were advancing in all sectors in
tenacious pursuit of the rebels who
are fleeing in complete disorder"
The bulletin said villages around
the capital had been mopped up of
insurgents who threatened Asuncion
last week.
The rebels were said to be "aban-
doning in their precipitate flight
their munitions and food stores
I'm one sector. we recovered II
heavy and % light machineguns
and other material" the COM
munique said. The statement listed
numerous rebel officers killed or
captured.
Evening star., 1947-08-18
NLRB will Certify Union
Al Woodward & Lofhrop

National Labor Relations Board
officials in Baltimore announced to-
day that the Woodward g. Lothrop
employees independent union would
be given formal certif1cation i'm
mediately as the bargaining agent
for the stores workers.
The Baltimore regional office OF
the bosd had SLOWED a five-day
period for any protest by the AFL
Department Store Employees Coun-
Gil following an election by store
employees of the store last Monday.
The employees voted overwhelm-
ingly for the INDEPENDENT union.
Evening star., 1947-08-18

took the children. Maria Teresa,
10, and Maria Antonia, 8, from the
Iturbi home here and few with
them to New York.
Mr.. Hero who returned to Cali
fornia for q concert In nearby Red
lands, was arrested Friday night
when he stepped from the platform.
His bail was fixed at $4,000. The
violinist said his daughters are in
New York.
The children's mother. Maria
Iturbi Hero, shot herself to death
in the Iturbi home here last year.
At the time she had divorce suit
pending against Mr.. Hero.
Evening star., 1947-08-18
Woman Is Found Beaten
To Death in Baltimore
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

BALTIMORE. Aug. 1S. - Seven
hours after she arrived here from
New York to visit sister, a 81
year-old woman was found fatally
beaten on a lawn in Northeast Bal
timore early yesterday.
Mrs. Nina Taylor was unconscious
when found near a hedge with
severe head injuries. She died about
eight hours later at q hospital.
Police picked up two suspects for
questioning.
Mrs. Taylor was found on q lawn
. block from the home Of her sister.
Mrs. George M. Wilmington, who
resides at 44l4 Parkmont avenue.
Evening star., 1947-08-18
Iturbi's S Son-in-Law
Spends Week End in Jail
BY the Associated Press

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Aug. 1s
-Violinist Stephan Hero. SO. spent
the week end in Jail after he was
arrested on a warrant charging him
with stealing his own two daughters,
the grandchildren of Pianist Jose
Iturbi.
He was to be arraigned in Munich
pal Court this afternoon on a COM
plant recently signed by Mr.. Iturbi,
who was in Paris when Mr.. Hero
Evening star., 1947-08-18
U.S.. Production Down
From War Peak, But
Value Sets Record
sy ths Asseesaiss Press


While the United States produc-
tion value Is 1T a record rate of
sat, 900 ,000, 900 4 year. actual physi-
cal volume 'of output is below the
wartime peak, according to Com
merce Department reports.
The difference is in imitation.
ITO . considerable extent" the
Commerce study said, shigher post
war prices account for the new high
dollar values"
In terms Of today's dollars, the
country's production rate is $4,000
O00, 900 higher than the wartime peak
In early 1915 and "far Shove prewar
levels" IL was stated.
Inventeries SIacken.
The gross national product, a
measure OF the market value Of all
goods and services produced, reached
in second lS47 a rate $780,
600 900 higher than in the first quar-
ter and 81 400 ,000, 900 above the last
quarter of 1S46.
A noticeable" slackening in the
rate at which factories and dealers
added to their inventory stocks took
place In the first quarter and was
further accentuated in the second
quarter, the -eport indicated. The
net increase was 81 SOC, ,000, 900 in the
quarter ended June 80 compared
with 81, TOO 900 900 in the quarter
ended March 81 and IS, 400 900 900 in
the final three-month period OF 1946.
Purchases Of. machinery and
other producers durable equipment
increased through the first half OF
this year, but not sufnciently to off,
set the slackening of inventory ac-
cumulation.
Investment Down.
investment in new building fell to
an annual rate of $500. 600 900 in
the second quarter, as against the
$40 800, ,000, 600 rate of the first three
months of the year.
Net sales to foreigners hit rate
Of 310,600, 900 900, more than twice
the value of last-quarter 1916.
Government buying was down
from 1946, though State and local
purchasing pulled the total up as
midyear approached.
THE flow of income has been
maintained at high levels thus far
in 1877" the report went on. Wages
and salaries increased moderately In
each quarter with private payrolls
more than compensating reduction
in Government employment.
increases in average hourly earn
inss contributed to the rise In pay
rolls"
First-quarter profits Of corpora
tions increased to an annual rate
Of SIT 7,400, ,00o, 900 after taxes, a gain
of 81, 800, 600, 900 over the previous
quarter.