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Evening star., 1947-06-26
January | Tax Slash
Could Hurdle Veto,
New Poll Indicates
By j. 4. oIeory

The income tax cutting Dill
which President Truman vetoed
could be passed even over an
other veto, If revived with the
effective date changed from July
l, 1947, to January l, 1948, in
formal polls at the Capitol indi-
Gated today.
Democrats showed growing in
terest In bringing the bill up again
on that basis, but the Republicans
holding the reins of leadership
have not decided whether they want
to breathe new life into the measure
before the next session.
The House sustained Mr.. Tru-
mans veto of the; original COP
measure by the slender margin of
two votes. 1t would have given
5000 900 individuals income tax
cuts ranging from 80 per cent a
year in the low salary brackets, to-
los at the top. For full calendar
year, it would have saved taxpayers
s., 900, 900 900. For the last half of
1947, the percentage cuts would
have ranged from Is to SIS per cent
Byrd Inclined to Approve.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir-I
giria, WHO voted against the bill,
told press conference late yester-
day he would be inclined to support
it with the January date If Re-
publicans continue to cut expendi-
lures and go through with plans to
fix an overall ceiling on Govern
ment spending for the new fiscal
year.
Senator Johnson, Democrat. of
Colorado, another opponent of the
July tax cut, also told newsmen
he is ready to vote now for 'Janu-
airy tax cut.
COP leaders, however, are not
leaping headlong at the Democratic
invitation to take another vote on
taxes.
Although the Republican head of
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee, Representative Knutson of
Minnesota, made the first move by |
reintroducing the bill with the new
effective date, Chairman Tat of
the Senate Republican Policy Com
mittee said last night he has not
changed his view that the tax mea-
sure is dead for this session.
Speaker Martin said he has not
had definite assurances that enough
Democrats would join Republicans
in the Senate to override second
veto.
Margin Believed Sufficient. i
One reliable Democratic source
took some soundings on the Senate
side, however, and indicated the
two-thirds required to override a
veto would not be hard to get for
a tax cut to start in January. He
counted so votes for such a bill. |
Allowing for the usual average OF
absentees, due to sickness or Off
cial business, this would be enough.
Even if all Senators were present, !
only four more votes would be
needed.
Senator George of Georgia, rank
ing Democrat on the Finance Com
mittee, threw his weight behind the
new January tax plan yesterday. He
voted for the July bill also, but !
was not ready to override the Pres
ident's veto. A Senate vote on that
veto became unnecessary when the
House sustained the President I
Most of the big appropriation
bills for the year starting July l
are still unfinished, and Republicans
may pitt of their final decision on
further tax legislation until they
know exactly how much they have
saved. - T{ta |
Evening star., 1947-06-26
10 Corn Products Firms
Accused Of Price Fixing
BY fhe Associated Press

The Federal Trade Commission
has accused 10 companies which
manufacture and sell corn products
of engaging in a conspiracy to fix
and maintain the prices, terms and
conditions of the sale of their prod
ucts."
The result of the alleged com
bination and conspiracy" the FTC
charged in a complaint placed on
its docket yesterday, is that COM
petition in the industry has been
suppressed. And it added
THE alleged price fixing con-
spiracy has deprived consumers of
the benefit of competition among
the respondent producers"
In a statement announcing issu-
ance of the complaint. the commits
sion pointed out that the 10 firms
ARE said TO account for 95 per cent
of the corn derivatives manufac-
tured and sold In the United States"
Evening star., 1947-06-26
Alexandria Choir to Sina

The choir of st. Paul's Episcopal
Church, Alexandria, will give con-
cert at pm. tomorrow in Norton
Memorial Hall on South Pitt street,
adjacent to the church.
Evening star., 1947-06-26
Connecticut Avenue
Repair Work Put on
163-Hour Day Basis

District engineers have assigned
workers to a 161a hour workday IN
order to reopen Connecticut ave-
nue., above Dupont Circle, to trafic
as soon as possible.
Harold A. Kemp, director of san
itary engineering, said the repair to
the 35-foot-deep sewer which cayed
in and caused 4-inch sinking OF
Connecticut avenue, viii be finished
by Monday.
Actually the old sewer has been
abandoned and the flow Of sewage
has been rerouted to lines on q
lower level, Mr.. Kemp said. What
remains to be done Is to fill In
the break and resurface the street
before traffic can be resumed.
During the tieup automobile
traffic has been routed TO Nine
teenth street from Dupont Circle,
and west on r street to Connecti-
cut from Nineteenth street. South
bound drivers are using Twentieth
street as one-way route from
Connecticut avenue to Massachu-
sets avenue.
Meanwhile. the Capital Transit
Co. rerouted buses d., Glover Park;
D-4, Macarthur boulevard, and LA,
Connecticut avenue, away from the
cave-in area.
Normal routes are for all three to
turn north on Twentieth street from
K street NV, the D-2 and D-4
buses going to Massachusetts, avenue
and the LA to Connecticut. The
new schedule routes the buses north
on Twenty-first street from K street.
Southbound buses will use the one
way Twentieth street route.
Streetcars, will continue to make
the Dupont Circle turn and travel
on Connecticut avenue as the car
tracks are built on a solid concrete
foundation, spokesman for the
company said
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Rev. Merritt Williams
Named VIEW Chaplain

The Rev. Merritt F. Williams
canon of Washington Cathedral has
been named chaplain of the District
department of the Veterans of For
eign Wars.
An enlisted man in the Navy dur
ing the First. World War, Mr. Will
liams served as chaplain with the
rank of commander aboard the bat
tleship West Virginia In World
War II. -. -.
OF 1880 general merchandise
stores In Manila, 3,095 are Chinese
owned.
Evening star., 1947-06-26
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Evening star., 1947-06-26
Schotts to Give TuIk

Claude C. Schotts, former chair
man of the Council of Relief Agen-
cies in Germany, will address a
meeting of the Sandy Spring Friends
tonight at 8 o'clock. The meeting
will be held at the Friends meeting
house in Sandy Spring, Md.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
DiriqibIes Debated

The National Air Co-ordinating Commit
tees adverse report on proposed Govern
ment-sponsored development of lighter
than-air aviation is a serious blow-if not
the coup de grace-to recently renewed
efforts to revive Federal interest in the
dirigible for peacetime or wartime use.
Because of the prestige of the COM
mittee, representing top-level Government
officials and others interested in aviation
progress. the recommendation against any
subsidy to encourage dirigible develop
ment is as debating as any of the natural
hazards which have plagued the lighter
than-air program in the past.
The committee sees no merit in invest
ing further large Federal sums in a type
of aircraft that has proved so vulnerable
to storms and other hazards and that
today would have to compete CONNER
cially with fast airplanes. Moreover, the
committee disclosed that the War and
Navy Departments do not intend to expert
ment any further with rigid airships for
tactical purposes. in view of the superior
qualities of the heavier -than-air type of
aircraft. Even the smaller blimp, which
Evening star., 1947-05-25

served well in antisubmarine patrol opera
tions during World War II, may eventually
be replaced by the helicopter, which can
hover like an airship and maneuver with
greater agility.
Failure of the committee to espouse the
cause of the dirigible does not mean an
end to efforts of the small but determined
group of lighter -than-air enthusiasts to
restore the dirigible to public favor. These
ardent disciples of the airship are not
easily discouraged. They still have faith
in the ability of the big ships to conquer
weather, mechanical defects and other
obstacles which have proved disastrous
heretofore It will be difficult for them,
however, to counteract the committees
verdict and to surmount the lack of sub
sides. And it seems unlikely that private
industry will be willing to risk further
capital in so uncertain an enterprise when
1t lacks Federal interest and encourage
ment The future of the craft pioneered
so auspiciously by Count Won Zeppelin
seems dark indeed.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
u. N. BuIkun Report

The formal report of the United Nations
Balkan Investigation Commission is a
highly interesting document for several
reasons. In the first place, it is a majority
report, agreed upon by nine members of
the commission, representing the United
States, the United Kingdom, France, China
Australia Belgium, Brazil, Colombia and
Syria. That is an impressive list. No
better cross-section of civilized world
opinion could well be imagined.
However, there is militant minority of
two-Soviet Russia and its satellite
Poland The representatives of those two
states have Systematically acted in every
phase of the commissions deliberations in
a manner contrary not only to the major
ity but also to the aims and purposes for
which the commission itself was set up
The minority objective has obviously been
to bring discredit and futility to the COM
mission. Equally obvious has been the
effect of this upon Moscow's Balkan satel-
lites, Yugoslavia. Bulgaria and Albania,
who have virtually defied the commission
and opposed it in every way. III
Despite this internal dissension and ex-
ternal handicaps the majority of the COM
mission, as a result of its on-the-spot
investigation, has found the governments
of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania guilty
in various degrees of aiding and abetting
Greek leftist guerrillas in their revolt
against the Greek government. And the
conclusion is that such conduct endangers
international peace and security in viola
ton of the United Nations Charter. How
ever, in the interest of future settlement.
the report recommends that past offenses
be overlooked provided that they be not
repeated, In which case U. N. action Is
recommended under appropriate Charter
provisions
| The report makes number of specific
ssuggestions for stabilizing the situation
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Unfair to Speeders

Speed -crazed motorists who have been
the loudest complainers in the past about
so-called speed traps" have something
new to worry about. Science Ia field
largely populated by men who would rather
than enjoy the thrills-and dangers-of
the open road has created speed trap
to end all other speed traps.
AS might be expected, the new device is
an outgrowth of wartime research. Radar
is the basis of the thing. Just as the direc-
ton and speed of planes and ships were
recorded in combat operations so the new
pitfall for speeders will betray their every
move to traffic police.
No more pacing of speeding cars by
digilent motorcycle officers, at least in
Connecticut. Police there are being
equipped with little black boxes easily
concealed in a bush on the side of the
highway. A radar set in the box sneakS
look at the speeding car as it zips down
the road, the electrons start their here
it-comes -there-it-goes calculations and,
presto the exact speed of the car is indi-
Gated on a dial. The rest is easy The
officer merely jots down the license num-
ber, picks up his radiophone and notifies
police at the next station to intercept the
luckless motorist. If the latter protests
that he could not really have been speeding
and besides nobody was pacing him, he
can be confronted with the scientific, indis-
putable proof, thanks to radar. 1t will take
another scientist to devise some way of
beating this new system. A radar- -jamming
device might do the trick.
Meanwhile. joyriders in the Nutmeg
State had better take it easy. Connecticut
may even find that speeders will boycott
1t as unfair to reckless drivers. Connect
cuts loss unfortunately will be no gain
for States who tackle the speeding prob
lem less scientifically-and less effectively
Evening star., 1947-05-25

President Roosevelt's Papers
Court lest Seen of Right to Deny Congress Access
Official Documents at HYDE Park
By Jau G., Hauden

II the late Franklin D. Roosevelt had de-
hoerately set out to create an epochal contro-
Versy over disposal of the documentary record
OF his presidency he could scarcely have done
oetter tnan the instruction concerning his per-
sonal and official papers published last week
A legal contest is likely to be instituted by
an impending attempt of the Senate War In
vestigating Committee to subpoena the indexes
OF the Hyde Park Memorial Library, to which
more than Is tons of Roosevelt documents have
been sent. This move is prompted by the re-
cent statement Of President Truman that where
specifically designated paper is sought from
the Roosevelt collection by congressional
committee he will ask for its release but re-
jecting anything in the nature of search of
the papers by Congress.
II the Senate committee succeeds in obtain
ing the index its next step will be to subpoena
the file under particular index item which
seems to describe documents bearing on SUBJ
ject of public business
The highlights of the Roosevelt instruction
are:
l. His reservation Of the right of either HIM
self or ommittee-"Samuel l. Rosenman
Harry l.. Hopkins and Grace G.. Tully or the
survivors thereof"-to comb the papers and de-
eide which should be made public Immediately:
sealed Tor period of time or locked up for
eternity Roosevelt and Hopkins are dead so
the task OF selection devolves upon Rosenman
and Miss Tully, respectively personal counsel
and personal secretary Of the late President
2. The designation of the famous peoples
file" as one to be sifted with special care and
more specifically that 'the longhand letters
between the King of England and myself, or
between Cardinal Mundelein and myself .
should never be made public"
Mr.. Roosevelt was known to have bickered
personally with various foreign heads of state
in the years before Pearl Harbor but the SEEM
ing revelation that he went over the heads
OF the British Prime Minister and Parliament
to deal directly with the constitutionally in
hibited King George VI is, to say the least,
startling
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and preventing future aggression. Among
these are border conventions, q border
commission or commissions serving for two
years, segregation Of refugees away froa
their home border or their repatriation,
and the voluntary transfer of minorities.
These suggestions appear eminently con-
structive. II carried out, they would doubt
less solve the problem.
However, the entire report must be sub
mitted to the u N. Security Council, where
it will run afoul OF the veto power Of the
Soviet Union. BY exercising that power,
Russia can bring the work of the commits
sion to naught. And in view of Moscow S
consistent opposition to the whole business,
such veto appears more than likely. That
would be one more challenge to the COM
petence and prestige of the United Nations
Evening star., 1947-05-25
Protection Needed Now

Senator Cooper of Kentucky is correct
In contending that the illicit carrying of
concealed weapons is a serious threat to
the peace and order of a community. He
believes it is serious enough to warrant
making it felony, rather than mis-
demeanor as proposed under pending leg
islation. There may be considerable merit
in this belief, but the hitch is that there
Is little chance that Congress could give
adequate consideration to Senator Cooper's
more drastic proposal in time for action
at this session.
Under the circumstances, the better
course now would be to adopt a simple
amendment to the existing Firearms Act
as provided by the Hebert bill. That bill
already has been approved by the House.
1t probably would already have been passed
by the Senate but for Senator Cooper's
objections. The Kentuckian has voiced
fears that granting police authority to
search suspected gunman ION probable
cause" might Lead to abuse Of civil rights.
1t is not clear, however, how Senator
Coopers plan for making "guntoting" a
felony instead of a misdemeanor would
OUNldlC dbuoCo VI pO14NC dutAAOA4cJ.
Senator Cooper would best serve the
public interest and the cause of civil rights
If he would support immediate passage
of the Hebert bill and then, perhaps,
assist in arranging for thoroughgoing
study of the advisability of adopting wholly
new firearms legislation for the District.
Proposals, such as Senator Cooper's, for
more drastic handling of the concealed
weapons problem deserve careful consid-
Grafton. Such study might we'll be un
dertaken by congressionally authorized
group of representatives, officials and citi-
zens, including members of Congress and
representatives of such interested parties
as the Police Department, the District
attorneys office, the courts, the Depart
ment of Justice and the National Rife
Association In the meantime the serious
loopholes in the existing law should be
plugged quickly and effectively in the
interest of public safety.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
The OkIuhomo

The great historians of navigation.
including Victor Hugo and Joseph Conrad,
nave realized that ship of distinction is
possessed of an integrity all its own. Ger
talnly, the Oklahoma was such a vessel.
The Star for March %, 1914, reporting her
launching at Camden, New Jersey that
day, referred to her as a "super-dread-
naught." Her displacement would be five
hundred tons more than that Of any other
craft in the American Navy. I'm both
armament and armor," she was to be "far
ahead" of her contemporaries Miss
Lorena Jane Cruce, daughter of the Gov
ernor of the State for which she was
named, was her sponsor. Franklin D.
Roosevelt was one of the officials who
attended the ceremony. The giant of
the waves" slipped into the water with
) grace worthy of the occasion.
That was third of century ago. The
Oklahoma justified her existence in prac-
tical service Until December 7, 1941 She
never fired gun in combat, but it does
not follow that she was not useful craft
The japanese would not have bombed her
at Pearl Harbor had she not been worth
eAACiA rive tOl PCOOcS pierced Qer
frame. She went down almost instantly
Many of her crew died in their hunks. A
few were rescued with the aid of cutting
torches. Eighteen months later the vessel
was raised, broken and battered, to ride
at anchor through the remainder of World
War II. Her neighbors, the Nevada, the
Maryland, the Tennessee, the West Vir-
ginia,' the Pennsylvania and the Cali
fornia, were refitted and sent about their
proper business.
But the Oklahoma was too old for new
career. The Navy decided that the cost
of reconstructing her would be too much
She was offered for sale for the metal in
her. An Oakland drydock company paid
$46,000 for her scrap" Two tugs started
with her on her last journey She was
supposed to be equal to the trip. Then,
suddenly and inexplicably" as the Associ-
ated Press explains, she began to list. A
few hours subsequently, she parted the
tow lines and plunged toward the bottom
of the ocean"
Veteran sailors were not surprised that
the Oklahoma should rescue herself from
the indignity of being knocked to pieces
ounce by ounce and pound by pound as
waste. The way Of ship in the midst
of the sea" was mysterious to the author
of the Proverbs. So Is 1t now and so 1t
will be ever.
Evening star., 1947-05-25
A Divided Indio?

When V1ceroy Lord Louis Mountbatten
recently few back to London for consulta-
ton with the British cabinet, the move was
interpreted as an ayowal of India's des-
perate political situation. This interpre-
tation has been confirmed by reports OF
new British proposals which, abandoning
the principle of national unity, would
divide India into at least two and possibly
five separate and independent nations.
Abstractly considered, this scheme would
appear to involve almost insuperable diff
culties of almost every kind. Geograph-
ically, India is undoubtedly a unit, while
two centuries of British rule has fostered
an economic interdependence whose dis
ruption would be disastrous Last but not
least, the embattled adherents of rival re-
lgions live so intermingled that physical
separation could be accomplished only by
mass transfers of population on a vast
scale.
Yet abstract logic breaks down before a
situation In which reason and enlightened
self-interest have little place. The grim
reality confronting Britain is an India
sundered into complex assortment of
factions whose fanatical hatreds and rival
ries seemingly cannot be either composed
or compromised. The So-called National
Congress Party, dominated by high-caste
Hindus, is out to get form of government
deemed intolerable by nearly 100000 600
Moslems, by some 100000 low-caste
Hindus and by many of the native princes.
The Moslems, in particular, are ready to
rebel against any attempt at forced union
with Hindu-ruled India They want a
separate state, to be known as Pakistan.
But, in order that this Pakistan should be
politically and economically viable large
Hindu minorities would have to be in
cluded within its borders. AS for the
princes, they might decide to federate
separately under the title of Rajistan. But,
since there are nearly 900 of these princi-
pallties, large and small, embedded like
broken mosaic in the fabric of British
ruled India, this would make politico-
economic crazy quilt.
Yet what is the practical alternative.
railing agreement among the Indians
themselves? When Britain promised India
independence in June, 1948, it did not
pledge itself to prescribe or impose any
specific method of divesting itself of it's
responsibilities All it agreed to do was to
hand over power to responsible author
ltles." IT, therefore Congress Hindus con-
troll certain areas, while Moslems and
native princes control other areas, the
British may be compelled to recognize
those various regimes as the authorities
with which they intend to deal. That
would be a highly dangerous step, filled
with possibilities of civil war or complexly
anarchic struggle for power within India.
But weakened Britain may have no
choice. .-