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Evening star., 1947-01-22
Portal Claims MokeNovy Liable
For 72O Million, Hearing Told
Payments Con Be
Taken Off Taxes,
Treasury Rules
By the Associated Press

The Treasury ruled today that
employers who have to pay back
wage claims under portal-to-
portal suits may charge the pay
ments off against taxes for the
years involved.
Since corporate taxes were con-
siderably higher through 1945 be-
cause the excess profits tax was
then in effect, the ruling means
much higher refunds than would
be the case if the deductions were
taken from current tax rates.
The excess profits tax imposed a
net levy of 851z per cent on cor
porate earnings above the 1886
1889 average.
The regular income tax for cor
porations through 1945 was 40 per
cent. Effective with 1886 earnings,
corporations pay a regular rate of
80 per cent and no excess profits tax.
Treasury General Counsel Joseph
O'Connell told reporters that en-
ployers having to pay back portal
wages will withhold taxes on these
wages at the time they pay them
Furthermore, he said, employees
receiving such payments generally
will count them as income in the
year in which they are actually re-
ceived rather than as prior year
earnings.
Thus, employees also will get a
better break on tax liability since
individual income taxes were low
cred beginning with 1916, with the
amount of the reduction varying
according to income and circum-
stances.
Secretary Snyder's ruling was
made in response to a request by a
company which was not identified.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Mercury Drops to II Degrees,
Low Mark for Nearly a Year
IS Forecast Tonight
With Temperature
Rising Tomorrow

Washington's long summer"
ended today with a chill that
dropped temperatures to record
low of IL degrees for the winter.
Recorded at ITO am, the read
ing was 8 degrees under the
winters previous low mark of 20
degrees set December 3 and ended
a long stretch in December and
January when the average tempera-
ture was 6 degrees above normal.
1t was the coolest weather in
Washington in nearly year. On
January % of last year the thermo-
meter read II degrees.
With the mercury dropping 80
degrees in Is hours, motorists shoul-
dered the brunt of the sudden
change. The American Automobile
Association reported hundreds of
calls this morning requesting aid
in starting cars with weak bat
teries. A battery shortage added
to the woes, it was said.
At least one person was injured
cae to the cold snap, police re-
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Hoover Accepts Task
Of Surveying Food
Problems in Europe
Truman Requested Study;
Ex-President Denies
Political implications
By Joseph A. Fox

Former President Herbert
Hoover announced after a
White House visit today that he
has accepted an invitation from
President Truman to go to Ger
many "on an economic mission
directed at food and its collateral
problems"
He added that cit is hoped that
methods can be devised which will
relieve some of the burden on the
American taxpayer" explaining that
it was desired to make it possible
for Germany to feed herself.
The former President said he
wanted to emphasize there is mo
political implication in this mission
in the remotest degree"
1t had been made known earlier
that Mr.. Hoover had been asked to
undertake a survey of food problems
in the joint United States-British
zones of occupied Germany.
Mr.. Hoover said he hopes to leave
by plane the latter part of next
week ana ne dOeS not KNOW now long
the mission will require.
| Mr.. Hoover said Germany will not
be able to feed herself for two or
three years, so the primary attempt
of his trip is to find out what she
will need in the meantime.
He was asked the difference be-
| tween this mission and the global
food survey he undertook for Presi-
dent Truman last spring. Mr.
Hoover said on that occasion it was
a case Of getting some 40 countries
to agree to reduce their own food
consumption and increase exports
where possible so famine countries
could keep going for the six or seven
months before their harvest comes
in. Now" he said, "the program
is one of greater depth"
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Marine Is Convicted
|0f Assault in China
BY the Associated Press

PEIPING, Jan. 22.-Marine Corpl.
William G. Pierson was convicted by
United States naval court today
of attacking a 19-year-old Chinese
coed but will not learn the penalty
for some time.
After announcing its verdict, the
seven-man court adjourned to de-
liberate on the sentence. 1t will not
be announced until passed on by
Mai. Gen. Samuel L. Howard, COM
mandant of United States Marines
in North China. Life Imprisonment
is the maximum.
Pierson, %, had sat stoically
through four days of testimony and
| argument but did not testify.
When 1t. Col. Thomas B. Hughes
who headed the court, instructed
military police to remove the pris-
oner. Pierson dashed headlong from
the room, mumbling to himself, as
guards followed him.
Shen Chung, Pieping National
University student who testified
Pierson attacked her twice on
Christmas eve, was not in court.
Both the conviction and sentence
are subject to review.
The court acquitted Pierson OF
two charges and dropped two other
charges.
The corporal had pleaded inno-
cent.
The case created great furore
among Chinese University student:
who three weeks ago staged violent
anti-American demonstrations II
Shanghai, Nanking, Peiping ane
elsewhere.
| Still to be decided is the case o1
a second marine-as yet unidentified
by marine observation-disclosures
with assisting Pierson in attacking
the coed.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Corning to Ask Teachers Raise
Of$25OOyer Temporory$450
Increase Would Total $500 After Expiration
Of Congressional Appropriation on July

would run from 6 per cent to 13 per
cent over their 1945 salaries. Pro-
visions for promotions would be lib
eralized.
The fiat $700 raise will give teach
ers $3.50 more than they are getting
at present as the 1945 salary does
not include the $3.50 temporary in
crease granted by Congress last year
and due to expire July l.
A preview of the plan which would
add $2,50O,000 to the District budget
5000, 900 more than appropriated
by Congress last year to grant the
$3.50 increase-was given to the
teachers in two meetings yesterday
afternoon and last night at Arm.
strong High School and Mckinley
High School.
DR.. Corning outlined the proposal.
to the two groups, totaling more
than $500 teachers, and was greeted
(See TEACHERS PAY, Page A-60
Evening star., 1947-01-22
.TWA Pilots Awarded
Increased Pay Rates
By vArbitrdfion Panel
International Service
Men Get $100 and $50
Per Month Raises
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Jan. 22.-Increased
wage rates were ordered by a
three-man arbitration panel to-
day for Trans World Airline
pilots flying four-engined Con-
stellations and Skymasters.
The labor member Of the pane
which reached it's findings unani-
mouly, Robert NJ Buck of Westfeld
N. j., said that under the new for
mula first pilots in international
service would receive an increase OF
$10O a month and co-pilots $50.
Domestic service pilots will be paid
$50 month more and co-pilots $40,
Mr.. Buck said.
The findings will raise overseas
first pilots pay to 1925 to $1,100 q
month, depending on length of serv-
ice; co-pilots to $500 to $500. In do.
mestic service the boost will increase
first pilots pay to about $1,000 g
month, co-pilots to $3.50 to $3.50.
Pilots of the big ships termed the
arbitration award "a slight increase
over current salaries. The boards
findings are binding on both the
Aft Air Line Pilots Association ane
management.
Strike Lasted Is Days.
The union and the airline agreed
to arbitration of their dispute No
vember Is, after a 15-day strike by
the company's 1,400 pilots grounded
lis TWA planes, the first such
strike in airline history.
Earlier, threatened strike last
spring resulted in establishment o1
presidential fact-finding board
which proposed upward revisions
of pay and new working rules fol
pilots on international routes. The
pilots union rejected the boards
recommendations, and the strike
was called.
The Arbitration Boards findings
today increased the pilots base pay
$50 over the Mediation Boards
recommendations; the hourly rate:
Evening star., 1947-01-22

Wilkes and French Capt. Durville.
The coast was crossed today on part
of the French discovery about 300
miles west of the Wilkes landfall.
Heavy ice bordering the coast
makes impossible an approach by
ship and no effort has been made
in a century to survey the interior.
All that is known to date is that
high snow-covered hills stretch in
definitely southwark.
The fight was made today in ex-
cellent weather for automatic
photography by six cameras in each
plane taking pictures simultane-
ously.
The entire section is marked on
most maps as Wilkes Land, most
mysterious part Of the Antarctica
A clearer picture OF the topography
lsee HENRY, Page xA-4)
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Pictures and summary OF pay
proposals on Page BIZ

Recommendations for a fiat
$7O0 increase for all District
teachers and officers over their
1945 salaries-$250 more than
they now are getting under a
temporary raise-will be made to
the Board of Education today by
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning.
Also to be recommended will be
complete overhauling of the pres
ent pay schedule with changes in
procedure as well as an increase in
salary scales.
Under the proposed new salary
scale-as differentiated from the fiat
$700 raise-3,320 teachers would
have their wages increased about q
per cent over their 1945 salaries
For 211 school officers the increase
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Boby Saved in Carton
As Fire Ruzes Clinic
BY the Associated Press

TTTUSVILLE, Pa, Jan. pa
newborn haby, among seven patients
rescued when fire destroyed an
osteopathic clinic near here today
was placed in a cardboard box and
carried to safety in near-zero tenn
peratures and a biting wind.
Other patients were taken out in
their beds-the handiest way of
keeping them warm. Insurance men
said the five-story Bashline-Shrum
clinic was valued at about $4,000
1t was formerly the Fieldmore Hotel
well known as resort in this
Northwestern Pennsylvania area be-
cause of its mineral springs.
Firemen drained a we'll dry in a
fut4e effort to halt the flames.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
SchweIIenbach TO Appoint
Cafeteria Issue Arbitrator

Commissioner Richard Goodrich
of the United States Cancellation
Service announced today that dis
putants in the recent strike at Gov.
ernment cafeterias had asked Sec
retary of Labor Schwellenbach to
appoint an arbitrator in the matter.
Government Services, Inc, and
the United Restaurant and Cafe
terra Workers, Local All, had agreed
to the Labor Department appoint
ment if they were unable to select
| q mutually satisfactory arbitrator.
lMr. Goodrich said the selection
probably will be made within the
lrext few days.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
U. S. and Iroq Elevate
locations to Embassies
BY the Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraa, Jan. 22.-The
government announced today that
the Iraq Legation in Washington is
to be raised to the status OF an
Embassy in reciprocation for sim
liar action taken by the United
States with respect to its Legation
in Baghdad.
It was expected that Ali Jawdat,
the present Iraq Minister in Wash
ington, would be designated as the
first Ambassador.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
District Temperature
OF ID Is IS Below
That at Little America

It's a lot warmer around the
South Pole these days than in
many spots of the United States.
Alton L. Blakeslee, Associated
Press staff writer with the Navy
Antarctic expedition, sent word
today from Little America that
the temperature there yester-
day ranged from a low of 20 to
a high of 81 above zero.
At the time his message ar
rived, it was an icy IA in Wash
ington. And that was balmy
compared to "a below zero
registered in Minnesota.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
William S. Hart Estate
Has 81 ,O44,919 Value
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22.-The
estate of the late William S. Hart
idol of Western films, has valua-
ton of $1,044,919, it was shown in a
first accounting of the estates exec
utor's which was approved by Supe-
rior Court Yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-01-22

ported. George W. Eichenberg, AZ
of 2504 Thirty-third street Sc.
manager of a garage at 2319 Penn
sylvania avenue Sc, suffered Sc
rious burns of the head, arms ano
chest this morning when an cx-
plosion climaxed his efforts to blow
out a frozen automobile gasline.
Police said Mr.. Eickenberg was
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Trumun to See Press

President Truman will hold q
news conference at 4 pm. tomor-
row, it was announced at the White
House today.
Evening star., 1947-01-22
Late News
Bulletin
Senate War Probe Unit
Voted One Year Extensio,

The Senate today ordered a
one-year extension of its spe-
ciaI War Investigating Com
mittee after a bitter Today
fight. The final vote, 49 to 43,
came after the Democrats
failed to have the investiga-
ton of war contracts trans
ferred to the regular Senate
Committee on Executive Ex-
penditures.
Earlier Story on Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-01-22

(See SUGAR, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-01-22

(See GEORGIA, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-01-22

(See TWA, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1947-01-22

(See SHORTAGE, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-01-22

7See SUFFRAGE, Page A-60
Evening star., 1947-01-22

tSee PORTAL PAY, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1947-01-22

(see WEATHER, Page AS.
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2. Public war housing, built
and owned by the federal gov
eminent. In the AZ Pacific
Northwest communities which
have local authorities war
housing projects We're leased to
and managed by the local
authority. Otherwise they were
directly managed by FPHA.
During the war nearly $4,000
such housing units were built
in this region and they hous-
ed a cumulative total of near
ly 100000 people. Most of this
housing was of temporary type
construction but some was not.
Many units are still in opera
ton in communities where the
housing shortage is still acute.
BY comparison with the war
time figures, there are now
only $4,000 war housing units
in active use, housing about
100000 people as of a given
time-mostly veterans and SER
vicemen.
3. Tempory emergency hous-
ing for homeless veterans. These
are known in most communities
and on most college campuses
today as veterans. housing pro-
jectS". They have been provided
by FPHA through reuse of
terminated war housing pro-
jects of a temporary type. For
the past year this has been
F'PHA's major job. Surplus war
housing units have been torn
down, moved to communities
and colleges in dire need of
housing for veterans, set up
again, and then turned over by
FPHA to community or college
ownership and management.
Because the demand for this
type of housing has far exceed
ed the federal funds available
to cover costs of moving and
remodeling, FPHA in some in
stances has simply given the
units to communities and COL
leges which would underwrite
the other costs. So far 1882
units have been made available
for veterans emergency houS-
ing under this program and
there will be 1883 such units
in the Pacific Northwest when
the entire program is completed
by the end of March. They are
located at 10 cities and 10 COL
leges
Combining these three pro-
grams we find that the present
public housing program in the
Pacific Northwest totals about
$4,000 units only slightly less
than our wartime peak. The
reason is that to date, because
of the acute housing shortage
very little war housing has been
removed-it simply has been re-
shuffled and moved to meet
veterans housing needs. But it
is not here to stay. The bulk
of it must and will be removed
from our housing supply-and
communities must plan now
against that day.
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tration which permits a private pilot
to take up passengers (but not for
pay), the would-be aviator first takes
a minimum of 10 hours of dual in
struction and flies solo for 80 hours.
The physical requirements for a Ger
tificate are simple. Your own family
physician can fill out the necessary
form. Ordinary physical defects, in.
GLIDING the wearing of glasses, are
no bar to flying. Even the written
examination is not difficult to pass
and involves no complicated knowl.
edge of meteorology or navigation.
One of the biggest aids to safety
and convenience in private flying is
radio communication. For example,
with the latest transmitter and re-.
ceiver designed by Lear, Incorpo-
rated, the pilot has available COM
plete two-way communication at all
times. The entire set, including power
supply, weighs only fifteen pounds.
It picks up radio beacon signals, and
furnishes navigational aids on. radio
ranges. It can even be used for direc-
ton finding when tuned to standard
broadcast stations.
With such radio equipment at his
command, the private plane pilot can
anticipate the weather ahead and can
feel completely free of any possibility
of getting lost on the skyroads of to-
day. and tomorrow.
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Fucauc Northwest

As a result of federal war
housing programs, most people
in the Pacific Northwest today
are familiar with some aspect
of public housing.
They are familiar too with
the severity of the present
housing shortage and are
pretty well in agreement with
their 140,000,000 fellow Amer
leans that housing is the ma
TONS number one domestic
problem today.
Public housing isn't, by a
long shot, the answer to our
housing shortage. But if we are
to solve our housing problems
we need to understand where
public housing fits into the
picture-(wl1at tits doing, what
it can do, and what it cannot
do.)
Right now public housings
main job is to provide stop gap
housing, until private housing
can catch up, for people who
cannot find homes of any kind.
Beyond that, it serves only in
the field in which private en-
terpriSe is unable to operate
profitably: providing decent
housing for people who cannot
afford it because their incomes
are below the level of the econ
omic market-the market to
which private housing, for rent
and for sale, must be geared if
builders and landlords are to
secure a fair return on their
investment.
Most public housing in this
region Including Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyo-
ming and Alaska) is related at
the federal level to the Federal
Public Housing authority be-
cause it either (a) receives fl
nancial aid from FPHA to en-
able it to operate on a low
rent basis; Or CO. is directly
owned by FPHA; or (c) has
been provided by FPHA.
Present public housing pro-
grams are of three main types:
1. Public low-rent housing
projects built and owned by
local communities Through local
housing authorities, and opera
ted with the assistance of fed
eral funds provided under eh
U S. Housing Act of 1887. To-
day there are only 10 such
loW-rent projects in the Pacific
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"Radio today is far from per
feet" syas one committeeman
This is the understatement of the
generation.
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How about some listeners on that
board, including some top showmen,
a couple of family people and the
guy who just split his radio into
pieces with a Ratchet?
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expand. And as planes become easier
to operate, they can take advantage of
smaller airports and of the landing
strips that will soon appear alongside
many highways and convenient to fill
ing stations, resorts, and so on.
Anyone with reasonably good men
tai balance and muscular coordina-
ton can learn to fly. In fact, the
requirements for private plane
pilot, aside from sufficient training
and adaptation to three-dimensional
instead of two-dimensional travel,
are no more than those for good
automobile driver:
To, obtain an Airman Certificate
from the Civil Aeronautics Admins
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HORSES AND HOLLYWOOD

Shop in Hardin!
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Northwest, comprising a total
of 1850 housing units. Six of
them were built for low-rent
use originally. In accord with
terms of the U. S. Housing Act
they represent elimination OF
an equivalent of substandard
dwellings in the community
The other IL were built to
house war workers but with
federal funds which required
postwar conversion to low-rent
use.
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7IDbM&h'
Mailbag

As a service to veterans IN the
community. this newspaper will pub
from the Veterans Administration.
For further information, veterans
should contact or write their near
est VA contact office at RIM. 327,
Veterans Admission hospitals
in the Pacific Northwest adj
m1tted 1894 patients during
1916, the VA announced recent
ly.
General medical and surgi-
cal hospitals in Portland, VAN
couver, Boise and Fort Har-
rlson, Mont, admitted 8155 of
the total. Admissions to the
neuropsychiatric hospitals at
American Lake, Wash, and
Roseburg, Ore, numbered 1923.
The VAS only tuberculosis hos
pltal IN the Northwest at Wal
Ia Walla admitted GIG patients.
Veterans with service-con-
rected illnesses are given pri-
or1ty on admission, the VA
stated. However, when beds are
available, veterans whose dis
abilities were not incurred in
military service may be hos
pitalized. The VA stressed that
non-Service-connected cases, are
admitted to VA or other gov
eminent hospitals only and are
not eligible to receive treat
ment at government expense In
private hospitals under con-
tract to the VA.
Questions of The Week
@. I was wounded in action
IN World War I and have a
Servic e-connected disability.
rated 20 per cent. I am now to-
tally disabled because of a nom
servlc e-connected condition.
Can the Veterans Administra-
ton change my rating to nom
service-connected total disabil-
ity?
A. A World War I veteran
receiving compensation for par
tlal disability due to disease or
injury incurred in service who
is rated permanently and to-
tally disabled for pension pur-
poses, Is awarded the larger
monetary benefit, if his claim
is otherwise appropriate. AN
Lual income must not exceed
$1,000 if single, $4,000 if married
or with minor children). If the
SerVlce-cOnnected disability sub
sequently becomes even more
disabling and represents an adj
ditional benefit, the payments
can be made on that basis.
Benefits to World War II
Veterans and Their Dependents
Assistance to the Blind
Description: VA furnishes
seeing-eye or guide dogs and
pays veterans necessary travel
expenses incurred in adiustin,
10 their use. Helpful mechan-
lcal devices (braille typewriters,
etc. and electronic equipment
are provided
Requirements: Servics-con-
nected blindness
Vehicles for Handicapped
description: Up to $1,000 for
an automobile or other convey
ance., includes equipment with
vices. o oe-
requirements: Active service
curing World War II period
Entltlement to compensation
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Your America and Mine

Squddyhunk Creek. - The Boz
Wintergreens have separated. Mrs.
Wintergreen was chosen queen on
the Queen for Day radio program
recently and never got back to
earth, says Boz.
"Dopey" Clinghammer, who has
always been town problem, even
more so since he got married, is
laughing at folks who had said he
would never get anywhere. He won
a 1O-roOm house completely fur
nished and $4,000 cash the other
night by giving Napoleon's first
name and telling why he preferred
Tizzie-Wizzie Toasties.
Bing Boggs had a windfan this
week. His pa died and left him a
hog.
CAN YOU REMEMBER
AWay back Wben THE major auto.
mobile COMPANIES saw to it that the
customers could get an essential spare
part .Vben needed
When you could scare The landlord
into Painting THE house and fixing The
roof by threatening to more?
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within the mex t
ten years there
will be over 5000
civilian airports
and more than
400, 900 private
airp1anes in use in
the United States,
Mr.. Burdens fig
ures seem likely
to be realized. As
more and more
airports open fol-
business, the pos
sibilities Of pri.
vate hvinp will