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The union times., 1947-03-22
BEWARE!!

Statistics show that women have a better chance to Outlive their spouses than the men have to be widOwers. According to the Ency- clopaedia Britannica, among cen. tenarians, women Outnumber men three to one.
The union times., 1947-03-22
Walling Resigns

Washington, D. C.-President Tru man has accepted the resignation O Administrator L. Metcalf Walling O the Wage-Hour Division of the Labor Department, and has appointed Will liam R. McComb, deputy administra tor, to succeed MT. Walling.
The union times., 1947-03-22
To Our Readers:

Because of the paper short age. soe are forced to publish too pages this ,Oeek. For details Of this situation, ,Uhich is threat ening aH labor and sOeekIy PG- pers, see Washington story On this pGge.-EditOr.
The union times., 1947-03-22

According to the Women's Blu. reau, U. s. Department of Labor, the percentage of women workers in Australia who belonged to trade unions increased from B to 51 from l930 to 1914.
The union times., 1947-03-22
Sabath Wants Investigation Of
 Cost Of Living
Points To Promises Made By Packers And Mer-
 chandisers

WASHINGTON = (FP) - Con. gress should investigate the causes of the amending raid no the pub. lie" represented by the tremendous increase in the cost of living in the last six months, Rep. Adolph J. Sabath CD, ILL., told the House this week. He offered a resolution to empower the House agriculture committee to do just that, and re. port back within 60 days.
 Sabath's resolution asked that special reference be made to such foods as meat, dairy products, fruit and veg etableS, the greatest factor in the cur rent high cost of living.
 HIGHEST IN HISTORY
 Pointing to the Dun & Bradstreet index showing 31 principal food items at the highest point in history, Sab ath told the House that prices are still rising.
 "We are now told blandly by the packers lobby" he said, (which six months ago was shouting that the way to get the meat we wanted at prices we wanted to pay was to wreck the price control act, that current record high prices on the wholesale market will not reach consumers for two or three weeks.
 Eight months ago the Natl. Assn. of Manufacturers and other powerful producers. and merchandisers 1obbies ran full page ads to tell the American people, at $2,0O0 a page and more in hundreds of newspapers, that the American housewife would be her own best price control law. But people must eat. Consumers can't strike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
By Joseph YOUNG

Asserting he was amazed at
the dishonesty practiced by so
many Americans in filing income
tax returns, Joseph D. Nunan,
jr., commissioner of internal
revenue, today declared it was
absolutely essential that his staff
of $1,000 tax enforcement agents
not be cut by one-fourth.
Mr.. Nunan pleaded with Senate
Appropriations subcommittee to re-
store the funds slashed by the House
from his agency's 1913 appropria-
ton request.
The witness said the House cuts
would force the disrnissals of 1000
agents. He estimated a loss of tax
revenue next year of "at least $780,
100000" The House Topped off $780,
600 900 from the bureaus original
$208 900 900 request.
Based on the agency's past tax
collecting record, Mr.. Nunan said it
expected to collect $500 ,0o0, 900 in
taxes which would otherwise not be
paid. The House cuts, however,
would force one-fourth reduction
in enforcement personnel and a
consequent fourth reduction In
revenue, the committee was told.
These are hard facts which
have given you and we must make
up our mind as to policy" Mr.. Nu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
DriverIess Car Closes Streets,
Rips Fences, Tears House Steps

missing several cars stopped for a
red light, and slammed through a
fence and front yard at the home
of Mrs. Faith Coleman, SIC Rhode
Island avenue NV. Mr.. Stevens
gave chase but became a casualty
Immediately when he fell. He was
taken to Sibley Hospital for treat
ment of cuts.
The car picked up speed, police
said, and crossed to the south side
of Rhode Island avenue where it
ran UP on the sidewalk and plowed
through front yards and fences at
the homes Of Mrs. Anna Reed, SOC
Rhode Island avenue, and Mrs. Mol
lie Downs, 504 Rhode Island avenue.
Then, according to witnesses, the
car smashed the front steps of the
home of Mrs. Lucy Bell, 500 Rhode
Island avenue, and ground to a
stop against her house. Police said
the rear wheels continued turning
for several minutes, burning the
tread of both rear tires. A pass
erby switched OF the ignition.
No estimate Of damage was avail
able Immediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
6OO-MiIIion Loss in Collections
Seen in Firing Of Tax Agents

nan told the committee. do we
want half-hearted, slipshod and
sieve-like system of revenue collec-
ton, or do we want at least a bare
minimum of administration suffi-
Gent to maintain the respect Of the
people and the integrity of our reve-
nue. service?"
I'VE can talk all we like of the
inherent honesty of the taxpaying
public, and I subscribe to it whole
heratedly, as we are entirely de-
pendent on it for the preponderance
of our revenue" Mr.. Nunan contin-
ued. But do we have the right to
depend solely upon the honest to
pay the taxes of the dishonest?
Frankly, have been amazed and
also disappointed In the dishonesty
that has been practiced by so many
of our people"
At present the bureau is able tc
investigate only three out of every
100 tax returns filed. and reduc.
ton in its staff would decrease ever
this low percentage, Mr.. Nunan de.
clared.
At one point Senator Gordon, Re-
publican, Of Oregon, chairman Of
the subcommittee, asked:
We'll. would you contend that Il
we tripled your enforcement staff
you would triple the amount Of I'm.
paid taxes you now collect?"
Eyes, sir, I believe we would,
answered Mr.. Nunan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
picture ON Page AL

A driverless automobile, travelling
at more than 80 miles per hour,
ran across two busy streets and
plunged through three fences this
morning before ripping the front
steps of a fourth house and COM
ing to a halt against the front OF
the building.
The freak accident occurred at
about Z am. while a mechanic, Ben
jamin Stevens, As, colored, of ZOOS
Fourteenth street NV. was work.
ing on the automobiles accelerator
in a gas station at Sixth street and
Rhode Island avenue NV, accord
ing to police.
Some one apparently left the ig-
milton key turned on in the car, a
Buick, owned by Louieco Loman
$3.50 Jay street NE, police said
When the mechanic pushed toe
hard on the accelerator, the same
pedal as the starter In Bucks, the
automobile started of.
Careening out Of the station, the
car crossed Sixth street, narrowly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31

JERUSALEM, Mar. 31.-Black
smoke lowered thousands of feet
over Haifa today from oil fires
set by explosions last night and
the British were rescuing 1,570
Jewish refugees from a rotten,
laundering schooner built TO
years ago.
Company technicians estimated
the damage at around $4,000, 600, but
said the fires in the oil installations
along the Haifa waterfronts might
continue several days. Earlier I'M
official estimates were that the dam
age might approximate $4,000, 900.
Nearby buildings were damaged
severely. The Shell Oil Co. alone
said it's loss was 100000. The
underground Irgun Zvai Leumi had
claimed responsibility for sabotaging
the oil installations earlier.
The fires, blazing along a quarter
mile of the waterfront, were de-
scribed by British authorities as
"the biggest ever in Haifa." Eight
storage tanks we're demolished and
six others were burning out. An
official statement said the entire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Felony Prosecutions
OF D. T.. Income Tax
Vio|ators Are Upheld
Appeals Court Rule Based
On School Teacher Case;
Years Term Possible
By William c. PoIIord

The United States Court of
Appeals today affirmed a Mu-
nicipal Court of Appeals decision
holding that persons accused of
willfully violating District in
come tax laws are subject to
prosecution under a statute Sec
ton providing a $4,000 penalty
or a years Imprisonment or both.
The ruling was made in the case
of two junior high school teachers,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Rick, 1900
block of Massachusetts, avenue Sc,
accused OF filing fraudulent District
income tax returns. The charges
against them had been quashed in
Municipal Court, but the Municipal
Court of Appeals reversed the lower
courts decision. 1
In Municipal Court, q motion to
quash the information was filed on
the ground that "the power to prose-
cute was not in the United States
attorney, but was vested in the Office
of the corporation counsel for the
District of Columbia" It was on
this latter motion that the charges
were quashed in the lower court.
Two Law Sections Discussed.
Prosecution under the District in
come tax act under the title of
negligence" carried with it only a
$500 fine as penalty. Prosecution
under that section providing for the
lesser penalty provides that the
corporation counsel shall prosecute
An amended section providing for
the greater penalty provides for
prosecution by the United States at
torney.
The United States Court of APP
peals. in its decision, commented at
length on the two sections of the
statute and at one point said:
1--WE are of clear and firm opinion
that to say that Congress by the
amendment of 1912 made the Of
tense of willfully attempting to
evade a tax by filing a fraudulent
return punishable by a minor pen
atty only, where such willful attempt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
William Shirer Resiqns
From Chs Network
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK. Mar. 31.-William
L. Shirer. news commentator, has
resigned from the Columbia Broad
casting System as a result of his re-
placement as news analyst on the
Sunday 5:45 pm. program.
Although Edward r. Murrow, CHS
vice president. said in a statement
last night that Mr.. Shirer would be
offered another program time, Mr..
Shirer issued a statement after his
final program saying he felt CHS
has brought my usefulness on Its
network to a sudden end after 10
years Of regular broadcasting from
here and abroad"
Mr.. Murrow denied Mr.. Shirer's
contention he was being replaced
because Of his liberal views"
Asserting the change was made by
CHS and not the program sponsor,
the j. B. Williams Co., soap manu-
facturers, Mr.. Murrow said, "Mr
>Shirer doesn't like it, and that's all
there Is to it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Mayor Of Tel Aviv Files
Appeal 10 Save Gruner
BY the Assoeiated Press

JERUSALEM, Mar. 31.-Mayor
Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv fled with
the Palestine Supreme Court today
an appeal from the death sentence
imposed on Dow Bella Gruner, So
year-old Jew convicted Of anti
British violence.
The appeal, filed by Mayor Ro-
kach on behalf of the Jewish COM
munity, maintained that the death
sentence violated the terms of the
mandate under which Britain adj
ministers Palestine and asked for
an order directing the British mill
tary commander to show cause why
the sentence should be carried out.
Hearing on the petition was
scheduled for tomorrow.
Gruner, a veteran of the British
Army, was sentenced January !.
after his conviction for participant
ing in an attack on the Ramat Gan
police station year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Outlook Is Sunny All Day,
But Rain Is Due Tomorrow

Sunny weather with the tempera-
ture rising to the Sos this afternoon
was forecast by the Weather Bureau
this morning.
The buds on the cherry trees still
are pretty tight" and no blossoms
have been reported as yet, Irving G..
Root, superintendent of the Ma
tional Capital Parks, said today. He
added that some cold weather would
be needed to hold the blossoms back
if they are to be at their best during
the festival on the weekend of
April 10.
The Weather Bureau predicted
fair weather tonight with the tenn
perature dropping to 81 degrees. To-
morrow will be warmer, probably
with some rain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Hoifo Explosions and Oil Fires
Cause $4,000, 900 Damage
British Rescue $50 Jewish Refugees
From Foundering Ancient Schooner

harbor area was "blackened by
smoke from a blazing mixture of
kerosene and fuel oil and at noon,
smoke still was rising thousands
of feet into the air and darkening
the CITY,"
Two miles offshore, the unauthor-
lied Jewish immigrants saved from
the 700-ton schooner San Felipe,
renamed the Moledeth Gather
lanO were transferred to the Brit
ish transports, Empire Rival and
Ocean Vigour, and headed to de-
tention camps on Cyprus.
Troops carried some Jews of the
San Felipe and threw tear gas bombs
to dislodge others who refused to
leave.
Some 10000 Jews in Haifa were
placed under technical house ar
rest at 7 am, but the curfew was
lifted at noon.
The fire was the second in four
days at the Haifa terminus of the
Iraq Petroleum Co.'S 800-mile pipe
line. The destroyed tanks mostly
were of 9,000-ton capacity. The fire
burned about two miles from the
business district. Arab buildings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Utah Man Appointed
Envoy 10 Yugos|avia;
{ Other Posts Filled
Cannon, Balkan Expert,
To Succeed Patterson:
a Go to Latin America

President Truman today
named Cavendish w. Cannon of
Utah to be Ambassador to Yugo-
slavia.
Mr.. Cannon's name was sent to
the Senate along with the nominal
tions of six other Ambassadors, in
GLIDING Stanton Grifiis of Connecti-
cut to be Ambassador to Poland. Sc
lection of Mr.. Griffis previously had
been announced. a.
Four were ENJOYS to Latin Amer
lean countries. ..
Mr.. Cannon Is a veteran career
diplomat now serving as first Sec
rotary of the American Embassy at
Portugal One of the State Depart
ment's best known experts on Bal
kan affairs, he succeeds Richard c.
Patterson as Ambassador to Marshal
Tito's Soviet-dominated govern
ment. Mr.. Patterson has been In
this country for consultation for
some time.
Mr.. Griffis succeeds Arthur Bliss
Lane, who is resigning as Ambas-
sador to Poland in order to speak
more freely as a private citizen
about conditions in that Soviet
dominated country.
John c. Wiley of Indiana, a vet
eran foreign service officer who has
been Ambassador to Colombia since
1914. was nominated to be the new
Ambassador to Portugal.
Three Of the four new ambassa-
dorial appointments in Latin Amer
lea are from the ranks of career
diplomats. The exception is Will
hanson S. Howell, jr., of Texas,
named Ambassador to Uruguay.
The other nominations we're:
Walter j. Donnelly of Washing.
ton, now serving as counselor of the
American Embassy in Peru, to be
Ambassador to Costa Rica.
| Albert F. Nufer of New York, now
economic counselor of the American
Embassy at Havana, to be Ambassa-
| dor to Ell Salvador.
Fletcher Warren of Texas, a vet.
eran foreign service officer now serv.
ling as Ambassador to Nicaragua, to
be Ambassador to Paraguay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
AttIee Defends Probe
Of Employees Loyalty
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

LONDON, Mar 31.-Prime Min
lister Attlee defended secret military
investigation of government en-
ployes in the House Of Commons
today. -r
Mr.. Attlee said it Is the govern
ment's duty Ito see that those who
serve the state are loyal to the
state"
Three scientists and two woman
clerks, identified by their own labor
organizations as members Of the
Communist Party, were involved In
the investigations. Two members of
the House Of Commons are Conmu-
niStS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
10 Drown in Rhine

DUISBERG, Germany, Mar. 81
P.-A motor ferry capsized in the
swift current of the Rhine today
and 10 of the 81 persons aboard
were believed to have drowned. So
far as is known, no Allied personnel
was involved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Author Howard Fast
And Is Anti-Fascists
Indicted in Conspirac,
District Grand Jury
Accuses All Of Barring
Records to Red Probers

Howard Fast, the author, and
16 other persons described as
members of the Joint Anti
Fascist Refugee Committees
governing body today were in
dicted by a District grand jury
on a conspiracy charge.
Specifically, they were accused Of
conspiring to prevent the House
Committee on Un-American Activi-
ties from gaining access to records
Of the anti-Fascist group. They
were also charged with failing to
produce the records before the
House Committee.
Besides Mr.. Fast, author Of recent
biographies of Themes Paine and
John Peter Altgeld, the indictment
named DR.. Edward &. Barsky, de-
scribed as chairman of the group;
Jacob Auslander, Lyman r. Bradley,
New York University; Marjorie
Chodorov, Ernestina G.. Flieshman,
Leverett Gleason, Harry M. Justiz,
Mrs. Samuel Kamsley, Ruth Leider,
James Lustig, Manuel Magma,
Louis Miller, Herman Shumlin,
Charlotte Stern, Jesse Tolmach and
Mrs. Bobbie Weinstein. All except
Lustig, who is of Newark, N. j., are
from New York.
Defendants Lost Motion.
The members of the COMMITTEES
recently lost out on motion in
District Court through which they
sought to have the grand jury in
structed that they could not be
indicted for failure to produce the
records before the House commit.
tee. Through their attorney, o
John Rogge, the committee mem.
bers had maintained they did not
have the records and therefore
could not be held in contempt Of
the House committee for not pro.
ducing them.
Miss Helen r. Bryan, said to be
executive secretary of the joint
Committee, was named in a sepa.
rate indictment for failing to pro.
duce the records before the House
committee last year. Her name
was not, however, included in the
conspiracy indictment.
In February, 1916, DR.. Barsky
was subpoenaed and failed to pro-
duce the records and thereafter the
other defendants we're subpoenaed
in April, 1916, and failed to pro-
duce them. Miss Bryan was not a
member of the governing body OF
the Joint Committee, it was said.
Also indicted today on a single
charge of failing to produce records
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31

TOKYO, Mar. 81 (Pl.-Gen. Mac
Arthur, reading Madrid dispatch
today in which he was quoted as
calling Spain "the only bulwark
against communism In Europe, !"
seized q pencil and wrote across the
bottom Of the copy: The quotation
Is incorrect-possibly due to Ian
guage difficulties" He did not elab-
crate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Late Bulletins
Pullman Co. Sale Upheld

The Supreme Court today
approved sale of the Pullman
Co. sleeping car business to a
group of 43 railroads. The sale
was opposed by the Justice
Department on the ground
that it would merely substitute
a more powerful monopoly"
for one which had been adj
Indicated illegal under the
Sherman Antitrust Act. The
sale was approved by a 4-to-4
decision. No opinion was writ
ten. Justice Jackson took no
part in the case.
Congress to Hear Alemon
President Aleman of Mexico
will address a joint meeting
of the House and Senate May
l at 1890 PM, Eastern stand
ard time. The announcement
was made to the House today
by Republican Leader Halleck
of Indiana. President Aleman
will be the first Latin Ameri-
can President to address a
joint meeting.
House Votes Sugar Control
Racing to prevent expiration
Of sugar rationing at midnight,
the House today approved
compromise legislation con-
tinuing sugar ALLEGATION and
price control until October 81.
Immediate action will be
sought in the Senate to send
the bill to the White House
today.
Maryland Asks D. c. Tax
The Maryland House Of Del
egates today adopted a reso-
luton requesting Gov. Lane to
urge Congress to enact a sales
tax for the District. A 2 per
cent sales tax on certain goods
becomes effective in Maryland
July 1. A proposal for . Dis
trict sales tax, also Of 2 per
cent, is pending In Congress
and hearings are being held
on 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31

FAYETTEVILLE, N. c., Mar. 81
R.-Gen. Eisenhower, Army Chief
of Staff, arrived here by automobile
from Washington today to begin an
inspection of Fort Bragg. He will
be here until Thursday. His itin-
erary calls for visits at Fort jackson
S. c.: Fort Benning, Ca, and Max
well Field, Ala.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Rent Control Extension
Without Blanket Rise
Voted BY Senate Unit
National Legislation
And D. c. Law Would
Expire Feb. 70, 1e4s

Legislation continuing rent
controls through February 90
1948. without a blanket increase
in rents was approved unani-
mously today by the Senate
Banking Committee.
(The measure as reported con-
tains a provision extending the
Districts separate rent control
system to next February 20. The
District law now would end next
December 81. Chairman Buck of
the rent subcommittee of the
Banking Committee recon-
mended this provision as q means
of making rent control here uni
form as to date with the Fed
eral system0
Man Local Boards.
The bill provides for:
/. Establishment of hve-man To-
cal advisory boards In each renta.
area with authority to recommend
decontrol or rent increases on ar
area basis.
2. Transfer Of the rent program
from OPA to Housing Expeditel
Frank Creedon. Unless reversed BY
Mr.. Creedon, recommendations sub.
mitted by local boards would 60 into
effect automatically after 80 days.
8. Decontrol of new housing
dwellings rented for the first time
houses renting for more than 500!
1Caa q IAIfT ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Treason Conviction Upheld

The Supreme Court today
upheld the treason conviction
of Hans Max Haupt, father of
one of the German saboteurs
executed here during the war.
Haupt, . Chicago resident, was
sentenced to life imprisonment
and fined $4,000. Justice
Jackson delivered the courts
81 opinion. Justice Murphy
dissented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31

(See RENT, Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Macarthur Denies Quote

tSee MINERS. Page A-5.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31

(See FAST, Page A-4D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31

(See PALESTINE, Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31

See TELEPHONE, Page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31

(See FOREIGN, Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Raps
Red UItimatum
On Preparations
Says No Agreement
Is Preferable to One
On Such Terms
BULLETIN

MOSCOW R.-Soviet For
eign Minister Molotov, re-
portedly subdued, today ex-
pressed hope that differences
among the delegations" to the
Foreign Ministers Council
could be reconciled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31
Eisenhower at Fort Bruqq

1See. MOSCOW, Page A-4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-03-31

ee INCOME TAX, Page A-4D