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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
Third Tax Cut Bill Seen
Certain in Next Session
Special to Central Press

Observation-Disclosures is vir-
tually certain to be presented
with another tax reduction bill
at the next session beginning
January 3.
The House ways and means
committee is now holding hear
ings preparatory to drawing up
an overall tax adjustment
measure. The plan is to of
fer this bill in the House next
February.
This bill has been termed a
tax adjustment measure. But
Chairman Harold Knutson
CR). Mimi. of the ways and
means committee, has already
promised that it will contain
one important tax reduction
feature. This is an income
splitting provision for married
couples. It will probably also
contain others.
Couples in the 10 states with
community property laws are
now allowed to split their in
comes to cut down taxes. The
plan is to extend a similar pri-
lege to couples in the 80 nom
community property states.
This cut will be important to
many couples in the middle and
higher income brackets.
Strong pressure is on to in
crease personal exemption in
order TO give a substantial tax
cut to low-insome groups. De-
mands are also being made for
reduction in wartime excise
and corporation, estate and gift
taxes.
Atom Battle-The prolonged
struggle which gave a civilian
commission rather than the
armed forces control of atomic
energy NAV break out anew.
Four of the seven bills now
before the House atomic
committee would return control
of the A-bomb secrets to the
Army.
Even though the theft of the
atomic secrets at Los AlamoS
took place under Army con-
troll. some House and Senate
members still say that the safe
ty of the country demands that
the civilian commission be "a
polished.
Money For Mexico - Con-
gresssmen back from inspect
ing the joint U. S.-Mexiean
battle against the dread hoof-
and-mouth disease in cattle
south of the border are agreed
on one thing-more money is
needed to complete the job.
Responsible sources estimate
that roughly IS million cattle
must be slaughtered and buried
before the extremely contagious
disease is eliminated.
Prime reason for keen u. S.
concern about the Mexican cat
tie situation is fear that the
disease will spread northward
into the great southwestern
cattle states.
Untold sums of money
maybe in the billions-would
be needed to combat the
Scourage once it got a foothold
in the United States.
Congress Hits Back Al Truman
Torrid Spuds-Hot potatoes
are being passed back and forth
between Capitol Hill and the
White House at an almost IN
preeented pace.
President Truman vetoed the
COP tax slash with a sizzling
message and was upheld! he
vetoed the labor bill with even
more vehement denuneiation
and was overriden. The pres
ident signed the rent control
law but did so with a blast of
condemnation. saving II was
the lesser of two evils
Politically, all this proved
- au.- Il.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
OIdster Finds
Flying Is Not
For Youth Only
AP NeWsfeatulres

Delta, Colo.-It just made
Starr Nelson, an old Texas
coWhand. plain mad when one
young squirt after another
told him he was too old to
fly.
So he kept on trying until
he found one who would teach
him. Now the tall, spare ex-
railroad engineer and one-time
cowboy has been flying for
five years, owns a plane and
has logged more than 700 hours
i'll the air.
He will be 81 next Nov. %.
Another World
To Nelson flying is the door
to another world. It's the most
thrilling thing that can happen
to man.
II Nelson isn't the oldest flier
in this country. he'd like to
meet up with the man who
is. Much of his FLYING has been
done over the nigh ranges of
the Continental divide where
the doWn-drafts often are haz-
ardouS.
Guess that itchin' foot be-
gan when was punching cows
down in Texas back in the
'80's,' Nelson said. He herded
cattle to Colorado and decided
to stay awhile.
Nelson retired and had been
retired for 30 years when he
thought it would be fun to learn
to handle an airplane the way
he used to handle a ''spooky''
range morse.
Builds Airport
Once he got his pilots license.
Nelson proposed that his home
own Of Delta, on Colorado's
western slope, build an air
port. But he didn't get action
fast enough to suit him so he
built one of his own on a $40
acre parcel of land.
Nelson, one of the few citi-
zens ever granted permission
to land at Lowry Army Air
Field at Denver, calls his pres
ent plane the little fellow"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08

"Siam"-the elephant died
last winter, some said Of hung
er.
But he wasn't the only vic
tim of the savage winter. The
zoo has only one goat now and
a lot fewer birds. Thieves got
the others and they landed in
the cooking pots.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-08-08
CONSUL. FINDS LOVE is
PART OF BUSINESS

Tihwa, China-AP-Playing
adviser to the lovelorn in a no.
mantle scandal which threaten
ed the life of his cook was a
recent extra-curricular duty of
the American consul, J. Hall
Paxton, of Danville, Va, in this
far remote capital of Singiang
province.
One morning, when his strap
ping blonde Russian cook,
Maighile. did not appear to
serve breakfast. Paxton went
to investigate. Her husband.
Maighile sobbed, had accused
her of flirting with the Chin
csc Air Force and was going
to kill her. A Moslem, the hus-
band. usually a timid. brow
beaten fellow. had suddenly as
serted himself. Under Moslem
rules he had his choice of for
givenesS, divorce or killing,
and strongly favored the lat
ter.
Paxton, moved to save an
exceptionally good cook. as
well as by humane considera-
tions, invited the husband to
come and see him and persuad-
ed the suspicious Moslem that
his doughty wife was true to
him.
hausted Ii would be killed and
eaten raw.
They no longer eat raw
meat" Smith maintains.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16
Denhom Reversal
Brings Threof Of
New Legislation

Washington-(LPA)- Reaction
ary Republicans in Congress made
it clear last week that they were
dissatisfied with the National La
Dor Relations Boards action in
overruling General Counsel Robert
Denham's decision on anti-Com-
munist affidavits under the Taft
Hartley law.
In fact, the anti-labor Republi-
cans, headed by Rep. Gerald Lands
(R., Ind.) who is the second ranking
member of the House Labor Com
mittee, declared they would ask
Congress to amend the ft-Hart-
ley law to require all top AFL and
CIO officials to sign the anti-Com-
munist affidavits.
Lands, who was considered the
right t-hand man Of Rep. Fred Hart
ley (R., N. J., indicated that his
proposed legislation would even go
so far as requiring shop stewards,
business agents and perhaps union
attorneys to sign the affidavits.
The Lands idea was quickly en-
dorsed by Rep. Clare Hoffman (R.,
Mich.) and Rep. Graham Barden
d., N. CO., both members of the
House Labor Committee.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16

ed from taxes on sales. State fed
erations and local central bodies
should vigorously oppose current
campaigns that are being waged to
decrease federal and state person
al and business income taxes based
on ability to pay, thereby throwing
the burden for necessary govern
mental support increasingly on
sales, excise, and nuisance taxes
which are most burdensome to tax
payers in the lower income groups.
"In considering future tax meas
ures as they apply to business it
should be borne in mind that busi-
ness has been relieved of a con-
siderable tax burden much sooner
after the cessation of hostilities
than many economists thought ad-
visable. In the face of definitely
favorable postwar market for both
durable and non-durable goods, the
removal of price controls combined
with the repeal of the excess prof
it's tax and reduction in the surtax
bringing about the inflationary
rate contributed considerably to
conditions now prevailing. Discus
sions of further reduction in cor
porate tax rates at this time we
consider premature and ill-advised.
1T seems to us advisable that So
cial security income and expendi-
lures should be segregated from
the remainder of the federal bud
get. A re-examination of the whole
social security revenue policy is
overdue.
present estate and gift tax
schedules and laws should be re-
studied with a view to increasing
revenue. Loopholes made possible
by the creation of trusts, gifts,
and powers of appointment should
be closed.
eve would point out in conclu-
sion, that the present high level
of federal tax revenue emphasizes
the need for serious consideration
and action on studies that have
been made carrying recommends
tion for integrating Federal and
State policies and programs in GER
tian fields. Such integration could
result in eliminating much needless
overlapping and duplication, would
make for high degree of pro-
gression, and could do much to
eliminate conflicts among states,
and between states and the Feder-
al Government, in the tax field"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16
Fourth Largest +
Union S oys OK
To Affid uvifs

Boston - (LPA) - The CLOS
fourth largest affiliate, the Textile
Workers Union of America, decided
here this week that it would COM
ply with the TIL law and file the
anti Communits affidavits, thus be-
coming the first major CIO union
to make such a decision.
Following a meeting of the TW
VA executive board, President
Emil Rieve wrote the NLRB Cen
eral Counsel Robert Denham that
that the TWUA protested against
his ruling but failure to file would
be an open invitation to unaffiliated
labor organizations and company
unions to begin campaign of raid
ing that would disrupt the orderly
processes of collective bargaining"
More than 10000 members of the
American Federation of Hosiery
Workers, TWUA affiliate, were
suspended by board action.
The suspension was caused by
failure of the AFHW to agree to a
SOC increase in per capita. AFHW
President Alexander McKeown de-
clared that the Refusal of the
AFHW to pay the increased per
capita was the sole issue in dispute
and both organizations parted with
the pledge that future relations
would be friendly and most har-
monious."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16
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7 eSfS AW ait
Supreme Court

Washington - (LPA) - Legal
tests Of the Taft Hartley law are
listed high among the 400 cases
pending before the Supreme Court
but there was no indication when a
decision might be reached on any
of them.
Cases pending include the right
of foremen to bargain collectively,
use of injunctions, and the collec-
tive bargaining right of union
which the employer contends does
not represent majority.
AS the court opened it's 1947-
194S term, evidence mounted that
the Supreme Court by its decisions
early this year is showing increas-
ingly little regard for civil liber-
ties. In a review of the Courts
decisions so far this year, billiard
Stokes, writing in the Guild Re-
porter, semi-monthly paper of the
American Newspaper Guild-CIO,
declared that "Our new u. S. Su-
preme Court is clamping down on
civil liberties. Three times out of
four the court rules against them.
"That means we are getting a
new bill of rights in this country"
said Stokes. Because our rights
are not what we read in the Con-
stitution, no matter how plain we
think the words are. They are what
the court reads in the Constitu-
tion."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16
AFL Executive Council Recommends
Notifications In Govt Tax Program

San Francisco. - The Executive
Council, in a section of its report
devoted to the subject of taxation,
recommended that the federal tax
structure Should balance the bud
get and yield substantial surpluses
during periods of high employ
ment."
While seeing no immediate relief
from the high level of taxation,
the Council said that certain modi-
fications in the tax structures may
be made that will Contribute much
toward determining the degree of
prosperity we maintain" The re-
port declared:
"Any and all such notifications
in the federal tax structure should
be made with the following OBJ
jectives in mind:
1. The proposed taxes should be
adequate to provide for necessary
services and to maintain the federal
credit.
2. The proposed taxes should be
equitable, increasing progressively
as individual income increases with
due regard for the necessity of ex-
empting the incomes of those at
below minimum-subsistence levels.
3. The proposed taxes should op-
crate so as to keep the buying pow
er of consumers at the highest pos
sible level, so that production and
employment may be maintained.
a. The proposed taxes should not
combine with other economic meas
ures to depress or retard the devel-
opment of any area, or place it at
an economic disadvantage in rela-
tion to other areas.
"In line with these detectives, we
believe future federal tax programs
should be based on the following
considerations:
"The graduated personal income
tax should continue to provide the
bulk of the national revenue. Any
changes adopted should not jeopar-
dize this basic tax source to our
revenue system. If and when total
revenue needs permit reductions,
we favor increasing the exemption
for those in the lower income group
until income Of a family of four is
exempt up to $500.
"As total revenue needs will per-
NIT we urge the repeal Of all excise
taxes except those on liquor, to-
bacco, and gasoline providing in
come from gasoline tax is needed
and used for highway develop
ments). These reductions in excise
taxes which should be second in
priority to income tax reduction
for those at below subsistence level
income, would mean tax savings of
approximately $3.3 billion dollars
based on excise tax revenue esti-
mates for 1947.
"New and increased taxes levied
by state and local governments
have in many instances taken the
form of sales taxes, cigarette taxes,
and other taxes that still further
increase the load of taxes on con
levied at the local, state,
and national level. Approximately
20 per cent of the $4S billion in
taxes collected by all levels of gov
ernment are currently being deriv-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16
us. Govt Workers Union
Program G. dlls For Higher
Pay, Shorter Work Week

Washington, d. C.-QLNS)-An
8-point major legislative program
for 1948 outlined here by the AM
erican Federation of Government
Employees stressed higher pay and
shorter working hours for federal
employees as imperative needs.
President James B. Burns of the
union announced cost-of living pay
raises for federal workers will be
the unions No. l legislative goal
when Congress reconvenes.
3O-HOur Week Ultimate Goal
"The majority of government
employees simply can't get along
Burns declared. "The cost of living
these days on their earnings" "
is so high that they need raise
an they need it fast"
The shorter workweek resolution
calls for a 35-hour, 5-day week "at
an early date" with a 30-hour7week
"as the ultimate objective" Gov
erpment employees now work s.
day, 40-hour week.
Other AFGE legislative goals in
clude:
Dismissal pay for laid-off gov
ernment employees, commensurate
with the rate generally accorded
workers in private industry.
Passage of the LANCER Chavez
retirement bill increasing annui-
ties to federal employees on retire
ment as well as increasing pay
ments to those employees already
retired.
Better promotion System
Modernization of the promotion
system in the government with
promotions to come "from within
the service wherever practical, and
with general recognition of senior
ity in all personnel transactions"
Other planks in the AFGE pro-
gram call for strengthening Of the
merit system, increased benefits to
employees, increased sick
and annual leave for postal en-
ployes and greater participation in
personnel matters by employees and
unions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16

all at home; six brothers, Edward
Mandley, Thomas Mandley and
Charles Mandley, all of Cleveland,
Howard Mandley of Parma, John
Mandley Of Carrollton, and Rob-
ert Mandley Of Coshocton, and two
sisters, Mrs. Lena Guess of Car
rollton, and Mrs. Horace Ray Of
Canton.
Services were held by Rev. Paul
F. Obenauf of st. Johns Lutheran
Church. Burial was in Columbiana
County Memorial Park.
X X X
EDWARD j. KETES
Edward John Ketes, 81, died Oct.
9 in his home in the Rauh Build
ing, at Fifth and Washington Sts.,
Newell, following a long illness.
Mr.. Ketes was a native of Stoke
on-Trent, England, and came to
the district about IL years ago. He
was II caster and was employed
at Plant of the Homer Laughlin
China Co. for about 10 years. He
was a member of Local Union No.
4, National Brotherhood of Oper-
ative Potters.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mary
Manteer Ketes; two daughters,
Miss Peggie Ketes at home, and
Mrs. John Crawford of Newell;
three brothers, Lorence Ketes of
Cambridge, Tom Ketes of Crooks
vile, and Fred Ketes of Schenec-
tary, N. Y; sister, Mrs. E. j.
Adams of Nutter Fort, w. Va, and
three grandchildren.
Services were from the Martin
Funeral Home by Rev. w. ID. Lew
is, pastor Of the Newell Presbyter-
ian Church. Burial was in River
view Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16
AFL Gains 2 New
National Unions

San Francisco - (LPA) = The
AFL Executive Council recorded
the chartering of two new interna-
tional unions-the Air Line Dis
patchers Assn and the Railroad
Yardmasters of America-and the
reaffiliation of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Signalmen in it's report
to the AFL convention here last
week.
At the same time it admitted
that its efforts to bring the Int'l
Association of Machinists back into
the AFL fold were stalemated.
The lam, with 624,000 members,
voted by national referendum
against reaffiliation after it's sus-
pension in a jurisdictional dispute.
The suspension followed refusal of
the lam 10 pay per capita when
the AFL failed to resolve a long
standing quarrel with an affiliate
in the Building Trades Dept.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16
Food Drive l ogs
Locking Controls

Washington-UPA)-The drive
to get more adequate controls over
food distribution and prices = to
feed both U. S. and European peo-
pie fairly and without profiteering
- was gaining momentum last
week.
Admittedly, the Citizens Food
Committees drive for voluntary
saving of meat, poultry, eggs and
bread, and to get farmers to stop
feeding so much wheat to livestock,
was meeting with only half-hearted
acceptance.
Major achievement of the week
was the voluntary acceptance by
81 distillers of a 60-day shutdown
in their brewing plants, thus saw
ing from 10 to 20,00O,OO0 bushels
out of the 100,000,000 needed to
meet the u. S. goal. Citizens Food
Committee Chairman Charles Luck
man announced the agreement here.
Meanwhile, demands that the
government begin now to plan
some form of rationing of grains
were being voiced by such conserva
tive Washington columnists as Ar
thur Krock of the N. Y. Times, who
predicted that "the time may come
when the resistance of some groups
will persuade the administration
and Congress that Mr.. Luckman
will need a club" The National
Planning Association, impartial
economic research outfit that in
cludes farm, labor and business
leaders on its board, urged that
the government should be prepar-
ed to ration food to American con-
sumers," and take steps to allocate
the maximum amount of grain for
human consumption.
Newspapers, including the Chica-
go Sun, commented that at is not
clear that voluntary conservation
program, apparently to be borne
mainly by consumers, will turn the
trick" Commerce Secretary Averill
Hartman, who previously had re-
fused to commit himself on the need
for government controls, said to
the Food Committee that "there
should be some consideration of
what controls might be- established
once Congress can be called into
session."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16
R.R. Labor Poper
SIops An+i-T oft
Demonstrations

Washington UPA) - Sharp
criticism of the anti-Taft ,picketing
and demonstrations during the
Ohio Republicans western tour
was voiced last week by Labor, ma
tional weekly of the Is standard
railway labor organizations.
In an 8-column page-1 editorial,
Labor declared that "Sen Taft's
western trip would have been a
complete flop if it hadn't been for
the rowdy tactics of small groups
falsely claiming to represent the
American labor movement. They
picketed his meetings and mingled
with the audiences to heckle and
boo him. W
Labor feels it is safe to say the
demonstrators belong to three
classes-members of the Conmu-
mist Party, 'crackpots' who imagine
they are doing something smart,
and agents provacateurs, who are
on the payroll of anti-union organ
izations. 81
"Trade unionists are too intelli-
gent and levelheaded to imagine
they can defeat their enemies by
booing them. Such tactics always<
have, and always will, aid the oth-'
er side. American labor expects to
beat it's foes at the ballot box in
November 1948. That's the Ameri-
can way. It's the only way to pre-
serve democracy and the workers
rights"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16

Men can't get used to women
who think and talk like men.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16
LABOR PRESS EXEMPT
FROM TIL LAW, SAYS
BALL WHO ISN'T SURE

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will
be no attempt to interfere with
freedom of the labor press" under
the Taft-Hartley law, Sen. Joe Ball
tR., Minn.) said here last week.
But Ball wasn't sure. "The ques-
tion is involved only where a union
paper is supported by the union
treasury, instead of subscriptions, +"
said Ball. The entire question may
have to be solved by the courts,
he added.
Neither Ball nor the Justice Dept
would comment on the fact that the
FBI has been investigating paid
political ads by the Connecticut
AFL in August. Presumably the
FBI has finished its Investigation
of this deliberate test case of the
Taft-Hartley law but will not make
any comment on its findings. The
ads were placed in Hartford daily
paper.
Balls statement was considered
important because he is chairman
of the joint House Senate watch
dog committed on the Taft Hartley
law. Disagreeing with the interpre-
tation of the law by other Con-
gressmen, Ball said, "We don't care
who publishes record on Con-
gressmen. They can also publish
any resolutions about anyone"
Labor lawyers saw this as pos
sible cue to the FBI's failure to
prosecute the Connecticut AFL and
the many labor papers which have
not only printed the records of
congressman who voted for the
Taft Hartley law but also openly
asked that Taft run for the presi-
dency with the promise that he
would be overwhelmingly defeated.
But Ball, apparently, did not like
the action of the NLRB in voting
four to one to override the Boards
general counsel, Robert Denham, in
his rule on the Taft Hartley anti
Communist affidavits. He summon
ed the five NLRB members to
closed session of the watchdog
committee"
Ball claimed that this Enquiry"
would not put the Board members
on the spot but it was clear that
the secret session would do just
that, Sen. Allen Ellender 3D., La.)
contended that the NLRB's decision
was wrong and that the AFL ex-
ecutive board members should have
been forced to sign the affidavits.
Ellender, thoroughly angered,
pointed out that two members OF
the Board and Denham are "on pro-
baton" while Congress is in recess.
"If Denham is going to be that
soft, | doubt that he is the man
Tor the job" said Eliender. Still
to be confirmed by the Senate in
addition to Denham are former
Sen. Abe Murdoch 3D., Idaho) who
lad an excellent voting record for
labor in Congress-, and j. Cope
lend Gray, generally acknowledged
as the Industry representative" on
the Board.