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Evening star., 1948-03-05
NAN Praises Congress
For Tax Cut Efforts;
House Bill Indorsed
By ths AsSeeiotsd Press

Congress won a pat on the
back today from the National
Association of Manufacturers for
its efforts to cut income taxes.
But Don G. Mitchell. the NAM
spokesman, quickly added:
"If the Nation does not have q
thorough going tax reform, over
taxation will kill the goose that lays
the golden eggs of better jobs, better
wages, better goods, lower prices" !"
Even before Mr.. Mitchell sub
mitted his prepared testimony to
| the Senate Finance Committee,
which is considering the House.
passed bill to trim individual income
taxes by $1,000, ,000, 900, Chairman
Millikin raised the prospect Of a
second tax measure this year.
Millikin Speaks in New York.
| In a speech before the Economic
Club in New York last night, Sem
ator Millikin noted that the House
Ways and Means Committee is
studying a general overhaul of the
revenue laws. He said this may
lead to Limited additional relief
in 1948.
Mr.. Mitchell is president of Syl-
vania Electric Products of New York
and chairman of MANS Taxation
Committee. In his statement he
termed the $500, 100000 House bill
"the best, in fact the only, tax bill
that can be enacted at this time :"
Noting reports the Senate may
hold the reduction to about $5,000,-
600, 600, he said such a cutback
would do even less toward meeting
| the fundamental needs of the econ
omy.
/ Mr.. Mitchell added that unless
corpora tions and persons with in
comes above $4,000 a year receive
further tax relief there will be less
funds for venture capital" or in
vestments.
] He used Government charts and
data and President Truman's eco
nomic reports to show that business
will be short about $50, ,000, ,000, 900 OF
such capital during the next six to
seven years"
Presidents Estimates Cited.
Recalling that President Truman
had estimated industry would need
this same amount for new invest
ment in the next few weeks, Mr..
Mitchell said:
"It is gratifying to find that our
estimates are so closely borne out
by those of the President
The best way to acquire this ven-
ture capital, he said, is by "dras-
tic revision OF tax rates on both
individual and corporate incomes"
The lack of risk taking capital"
also was stressed by Senator Milli-
kin in his speech. He said:
Our risk capital will have to
come from the Government under
State Socialism or from the middle
and upper income brackets under
free enterprise.
THE open opponents of the free
enterprise system and their cryptic
associates are not unaware of the
alternatives and are highly pleased
with the present situation"
Evening star., 1948-03-05
Alabama High Court Reject!
'Quiekie' Divorce 'cii: Law
Nv fhe Assoejoted Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Mar. S.
The Alabama Supreme Court has
rejected the States "quickie" divorce
law
In a ruling yesterday, the court
held unconstitutional an act Of the
1945 Legislature which said no period
of residence was required If both
the husband and wife in divorce
suit were within the trial courts
jurisdiction.
The ruling came in upholding the
refusal of an Alabama judge to grant
divorce to South Carolina couple.
It was not known Immediately how
many divorces will be affected by
yesterdays ruling.
The courts action revived an old
one-year residence requirement for
divorces granted in Alabama.
Evening star., 1948-03-05
Haywood May Remove
| BRIDGES From Cl0PostTod
BY the Associoied Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 5.-Allan
Haywood, CIO vice president, may
oust Harry Bridges today as CIO
regional director.
Mr.. Haywood, who has authority
to remove the West Coast long
shoremen's boss, said he first would
confer by telephone with CIO Pres
ident Philip Murray.
He personally delivered to Mr..
Bridges this ultimatum: Quit cam
paigning for Henry Wallace for
President and against the Marshall
Plan, in defiance of CIO national
policy, or get out.
Mr.. Bridges refused to comment.
If he is ousted, he would retain his
presidency of the CIO Interna-
tional Longshoremen's and Ware
housemen's Union.
Mr.. Haywood, who went to Los
Angeles on union business, said
Adolf Germer, Tim Flynn and r. j.
Thomas of the national CIO staff
all are potential successors to Mr.
Bridges dictatorship if he is ousted
Evening star., 1948-03-05
First Court Test Of Ban
On Political Spending
by Unions Begins
By Jones Y. Newton

The ban on union political ex-
penditures of the Taft-Hartley
Act was submitted to its first
court test today when attorneys
for the CIO and CIO President
Philip Murray argued for dis
missal of their indictment in
District Court on the grounds
the provisions of the law are un-
constitutional.
Union counsel and attorneys for
the Justice Department filed briefs
of their arguments with Justice
Ben Moore, who is sitting tempo
rarily at District Court. Later, the
attorneys for both sides argued the
case orally before Justice Moore.
The action was on a union motion
to dismiss the criminal charges
against Mr.. Murray and the CIO.
Mr.. Murray last July deliberately
violated the Taft-Hartley ban on
union spending in a political cam
paign in order to obtain constitu-
tional test. He ordered the CIO
News to print an editorial urging
CIO members in Baltimore to sup
port Edward Garmatz in special
congressional election. Mr.. Gar
matz subsequently was elected to
the House.
Trial Set for March ~.
Two weeks ago Mr.. Murray and
the CIO pleaded not guilty to the
criminal indictment and Justice
Holtzoff set trial Of the case for
March ~. It was at that time that
union counsel moved to dismiss
the charges.
In its brief the Government up
held the, right of Congress to say
that labor unions cannot use dues
supported publications to attack or
support candidates in election cam
paigns.
CIO Attorneys Charles J. Margi-
otti and Lee Pressman, attacked the
provisions of the new law on the
following grounds: +
That it restricts freedom Of press
and speech; restricts the right OF
peaceful assembly; ,discriminates
against labor organizations; is too
vague and indefinable";; and re-
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stricts the rights Of union members
to take part in political activity.
Silencing Called Laws Aim.
THE design and aim of (the)
section - (WaS to silence the
press of labor organizations" de-
fense counsel stated. TT is accurate
to state that there has never been
case before the Supreme Court
involving the freedom of the press
in which the motive to restrain has
been SO clear and unadorned."
The CIO argued that to use its
powers to insure free and honest
elections "the Government may not
deny to free people the means for
insuring that elections will be rep
resentative.
ITO suggest otherwise is to sane
ton a form of constitutional canni-
balism under which a power de-
signed to preserve a right is used
to devour it."
Federal attorneys. arguing for the
law, declared that mo man is
silenced by this statute adding that
ehere Is nothing in the Taft Hartley
Act to limit any group of men who
voluntarily united their energies and
their money for the purpose of self
expression in political campaigns"
Voluntary Point Is Stressed.
But" the department added, mo
group will be permitted to throw
the force of this power into politi-
Cal contest except those made up of
persons who voluntarily enter them
and who voluntarily contribute their
funds to their cause"
That, the Government brief said,
does not include the CIO.
"The fact of the matter Is that OF
all unincorporated associations 1t Is
only the labor organizations which
have in any important fashion
taken a unified political position,
"It was for Congress to say
whether that activity required re-
straint."
Evening star., 1948-03-05
Absence of2Key Men
Holds Up Conference
On European Union
BY the Assoeioted Press

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Mar. 5.-A
five-nation conference on a pro-
posed Western European union to
oppose communism skipped today's
meeting because of the absence OF
two key delegates.
An official communique, issued at
the Belgian Foreign Ministry, said
resumption of the conference has
been postponed until 8 am. to-
morrow.
The postponement was agreed on,
the comunique said, because two
delegates carrying instructions from
their governments have not yet ar
rived.
Held Up by Fog.
The two are Gladwyn Jebb, Sec
ond British delegate, and M. Chau-
vel, general secretary Of the French
Foreign Ministry. Both were held
up by thick fog in the North Sea.
The five neighboring countries
previously had intended to take up
a draft agreement today, and some
conference sources had predicted a
general understanding by Sunday.
Belgium, the Netherlands and
Luxembourg presented the draft
yesterday in the first session of
their talks with Great Britain and
France, held at the invitation Of
the two big powers. A communique
said it showed great similarity OF
views"
Diplomatic circles said last night
one outcome probably will be five
nation treaty of mutual defense for
at least so years. The British
French Dunkerque pact is such q
treaty.
Anniversary Of Pact.
Yesterday was the first ami
versary of the signing of that pact.
British Foreign Secretary. Ernest
Bevin and French Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault took the occasion
to plead for union Of Western Eu-
rope. e..
Their correspondence was made
public, in London. Mr.. Bevin wrote
Mr.. -Bidault- that the. Dunkerque
pact now is "even more necessary
to the peace" of Europe. Mr..
Bidault's answer called for "such
a union of the free countries of Eu-
rope, and in the first place of West
ern Europe, as may constitute an
expression Of our faith in the moral
values - of our two peoples and
their neighbors." Mr.. Bevin dis
closed plans for the current talks
in a parliamentary speech Janu-
ary a..
Sources at the conference say any
general agreement here will deal
with political and economic as well
as military questions.
Evening star., 1948-03-05
Are Real Estate Prices Too High?
'o' mas '"s 0o'ue of the dollar decroo,ed,

You're buying it with a unit Of
value whose worth in 1947 was
36.8To less than it was in 1910.
The chart above, based upon
statistics compiled by Roy Wenz-
lick & Co., publishers of the
Analyst Reports, reveals the de-.
cline in purchasing power Of
the dollar since 1850. We believe
it to be of great interest to all
who contemplate the purchase Of
real estate.
find Year of Real Estate Service
Evening star., 1948-03-05
House Vote Expected
Today on Finance Bill
For U. 5. Departments

A final vote was due today in the
House on a bill financing for the
next year the State, Justice and
Commerce Departments and the
Federal judiciary.
The vote was put off yesterday
after the House three times turned
down moves to increase the State
Department appropriations in the
face OF charges that there were "at
least" IA Communists working
there.
The bills total is $503, SOC, 1858, a
cut of approximately IA per cent
from President Truman's budget
recommendations.
The State Departments allot-
ment is $197,217, ,463; Justice, $116,-
330, 700; Commerce, $171 1000, and
the Judiciary, $18, ,785, 100.
The charge that Communists work
in the State Department was made
by Chairman Taber of the Appro-
priations Committee.
THE very least that there are
there now is H." he said.
Representative Cannon, Demo-
crat, of Missouri asked Representa-
tive Keefe, Republican, of Wiscon-
sin why the committee doesn't do
something about it. Mr.. Keefe said
that several years ago, when Con-
gress sought to stop the pay Of three
employees of other departments, its
action was nullifled by the Supreme
Court.
The House beat down by decisive
votes amendments that would have
added Sc, 6,378,0 600 for the foreign in
formation program, 100000 for
State Department administrative
expenses, $2,165, $50 for foreign serv-
Ice salaries and expenses, $3,391 600
for current census work, and $34 1854
for an air control tower at New
Bedford, Mass. D..
It accepted without argument an
addition Of sl7o.00o for the ,f col
lection Of statistics on cotton. .~,
Evening star., 1948-03-05

On an average day there are ap-
proximately 1000, 900 900 temporarily
or permanently disabled Americans.
Evening star., 1948-03-05
SHANNON! E14lll9:S
1906 n Street NV.

vno 100 Cost Of Irving su" ere se
tshs figures from s3 ae ps'' ono " "
Feded Reserve Benk fawes period prior is3
Evening star., 1948-03-05
Prison Comp Inmate Burned

Eugene Pence, 20, an inmate Of
Virginia State Prison Camp No. 13
at Woodbridge, suffered burns today
when a can of gasoline he was using
to start fires at the camp exploded.
He was admitted to Alexandria
Hospital with burns Of the left
hand, forearm and leg.
Evening star., 1948-03-05

9YTGLAesEs-Bifocal In brown case at
1rl. Civic symphony Concert, Feb. Is.
Evening star., 1948-03-05
FOUND.

BLACK COCKER-Two-mo.,ol old female,
white markings. Call GIL. 262a.
f10G. All white, male; good home wsnted,
Evening star., 1948-03-05
BushfieId's Condition
Is Reported Improved

Senator Bushfield, Republican, of
South Dakota was reported in i'm
proved condition at Bethesda Naval
Hospital this morning after "a COM
Portable night"
The 65-year- -old Senator was
stricken i'll Tuesday. Doctors esti-
mate he will have to remain in the
hospital at least two more weeks.
Evening star., 1948-03-05

In boring deep wells, the bottom
of the hole gets one degree hotter,
on the average, for every so feet
Of depth.
Evening star., 1948-01-27

Three new Spring shades Sun Dew Dawnglo and
Brownlite in beautifully sheer 3O-dener nyons
in three perfectly proportioned lengths Allnylon
from top to toe; have seam reminders.
MeC,ay demie, eoase sheer syoSs e1ohe BIse
neutrality-suspicious. Elooe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-08-19
Gas Taxes Pile Up
During Life of Tire

During the lifetime of an auto
mobile tire, the Maryland car-owner
pays $4,000 in State and Federal
gasoline taxes, according to j. c.
Darrell, General Manager of the
Automobile Trade Association Of
Maryland. This tax, he added, would
amount to about nine times the cost
Of the tire.
His figures were based on the esti-
mate that the average automobile
tire travels about 10000 miles before
it is replaced. At an average of IS
miles to the gallon Of gasoline, this
would mean a consumption of about
1000 gallons during the life of tie
tire.
The State tax of five cents and the
Federal tax of u cents add up to a
total of 612 cents on each gallon of
gasoline, or $4,000 on 1000 gallons.
The car owners of Maryland pay a
registration fee ranging from $500
to $500, plus State excise tax of
90 of the value of the car each time
the car is titled. The State collected
during the last fiscal year $18,870,-
900 in gasoline taxes; S9,515,0OO in
registration fees; and $4,440,00O in
titling taxes, for total of 1872 25,-
600.
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higher than in rural areas with farm
income at the highest levels it has
ever enjoyed Mr.. White was of the
opinion that young people would find
it more interesting in staying on
farms, lie recommended that young
people consider dairying as long
range farming operation that has
proved through the years to be more
stable than any other type Of farm
ing.
lie said COW numbers on farms had
steadily declined from the peak in
l945 until at present nationwide
milk shortage is threatened. The
dairy business has gained millions Of
new customers and current reports
show that these customers are on the
average buying more dairy products
per capita than at any time in the
past. This indicates that young peo-
pie should investigate the possibilities
Of operating dairy farm in their
considerations on the type of farming
that will pay best in the long run"
he concluded.
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The Republican is published every
Thursday at The Republican Building,
Second street, Oakland, at the follow
ing rates of subscription, payable in
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here and no suspicion of the extent
to which, beginning, they converged
on Washington and crept into the
Government.
Take, for example, the case of Ma
than Gregory Silvermaster, who was
born in Odessa, came here from
Shanghai, got into the Agriculture
Department under Mr. Wallace, then
into the Treasury, then the Com
merce Department and then-during
the war-the Board of Economic War
fare. After an investigation, officials
of the Civil Service Commission SAID
he undoubtedly was Communist
agent and urged his dismissal. SO did
our Naval Intelligence. But Silver
master went to one Lauchlin Currie,
one of Mr. Roosevelt's intimates and
secretaries, who interceded with
Secretary of War Patterson, and
Silvermaster continued on the pay
roll until 1916. Before the committee,
Silvermaster refused to answer most
questions on the ground that they
might ''incriminate me-" To the aver
age mind this uncontradictsd story
would seem information to which the
people are entitled-the kind that
distinctly should not be brought out
in camera.
This along with a lot of other T.
Eliminating data, makes the squeals,
beats and bellows about the ruin Of
innocent men" seem more than Il
little ridiculous. 1t also makes Mr.
Humans denunciation of the whole
investigation as a red herring" de-
signed, for partisan purposes, to di-
vert attention of the people from the
price control and imitation issues, APP
pear ill-considered and unfounded.
Calling people RED baiters" is no
more of an argument than calling a
man who happens to disagree with
you a Communist. The present prac-
tice of labelling our Investigators
Red baiters" and holding them up,
as Mr.. William Henry Chamberlain
recently wrote, "to scorn and aver
sion as compound of ruthless in
quisitor and congenital moron, WHO
take sadistic pleasure in prosecuting
progressive reformers and social
minded idealists," is very much ove"-
done. "A little rational thought"
continues Mr.. Chamberlain, would
indicate that Red batting, in the in
telligent sense of the term, is one Of
the first obligations of good American
citizenship. 1t is far and away the
most effective means of combating
the Communist germ in our political
organism in its present phase of de-
velOpment."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-08-19
BITTINGER

Mr.. and Mrs. George Stark and
daughter, Mrs. Homer Glotfelty, Of
Grantsville, entertained the Biting
er Lutheran Women's Missionary
Society at their home last Friday
night. Mrs George Shawley and Mrs
Marvin Bethel were leaders Of the
topic The World We Want For Our
Children" Children's hymns were
sung, followed by devotions and
prayer by Pastor Rune. Refresh
ments were served to fifteen mem
bers and several guests present who
also enjoyed a visit with Mrs. Lydia
Stark who is mucn improved III
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Jones ard
daughter Bladwen, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Petty, Mr. and MIS-. c. +.
Jarvis, Mrs. William Hernbrode, Mrs.
John Thomas and Clara Hernbrode
are guests this week in the home o.
Mrs. Silas Beachy. All the above
mentioned are from Pittsburgh
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Prichard re-
turned to their home in Frostburg
last Sunday after spending a week
as guests Of Mrs. Silas Beachy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-08-19
AURORA-EGLON

A chicken pot-pie supper and ba-
zaar sponsored by the Aurora Luther
IAN Ladies' Aid society, will be held
Friday evening, August 27, at the
community building beginning al
$50. Prices: adults $100, children
under 10 years old so per plate. The
public is invited
Mrs. Russell Feather returned last
week to her home from a Baltimore
hospital where she had undergone a
head operation. Her condition APP
pears the same as usual.
Mr.. and Mrs. Galen Mason and son
moved to the newly arranged apart
ment over their store at Aurora.
There will be moving picture,
first aid film Help Wanted" shown
at Maple Spring church Saturday
evening August 81, beginning at s.
Running time thirty two minutes.
The public is cordially invited
In a quiet ceremony performed
Saturday, August IA, at Gladeview
church, Miss Ruth Lantz, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Lantz, Of
near Aurora, became the bride Of
Roscoe Teets, son of Nh and Mrs.
Roy Teets, of near Eglon. The
groom's uncle, Rev. W. L. Teets Of
ficiated.
The wedding of Miss Virginia Lois
,Fike, youngest daughter of Rev.
Ezra and the late Virginia Fike, of
Eglon, and Lawrence Life, of Viz
ginia, will occur today in Virginia
Mrs. Matilda Fike, of Eglon, is
visiting relatives in Morgantown and
Sabraton.
Word was received here of the
tragic death in plane crash of Don
aid Werner, youngest son of DR.. AMI
Mrs. Harry Werner, of Akron. The
deceased was a first cousin of DR..
Harold Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs William Bane, j.,
mad ae short visit Sunday with rela-
tives in Eglon. Mrs Bane is the
former Miss Velma Johnson, daugh-
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Johnson. of Scherr.
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Keeping Young People
"Down on the Farm

The problem of keeping the young
people down on the farm" should not
be so difficult at present, according to
H. j. White, local plant manager of
the Carnation company here.
The farm no longer is the place of
dludgery with low income, but there
is great future for young people
who learn modern methods Of farm
ing, particularly dairy farming" he
asserted.
He called attention to a report by
the Presidents Economic committee
which stated: "In view of the grow
ing population and expanding income,
we should seek within a decade to
raise agricultural production about
10 percent above present levels
With housing in cities almost unob-
tainable, and with costs of living
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Entered at the Postoffice at Oakland,
Md, as second-class mail matter.
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DIED
MILES c. THOMPSON

Miles Clayton Thompson, 70, died
suddenly of a heart attack on Mon
day, August 1G, at the home of his
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Edwards, Grantsville.
Mr.. Thompson, a native of The
Oakland section Of the county, had
been in failing health in recent
months He was formerly employed
as a mechanic by the Kendall Lum-
Der company, Crellin, but moved to
Grindstone, Pa, about 35 years ago.
and for the ensuing 25 years worked
as an inspector for the Frick Coal
company.
He retired about nine years ago,
moving to Grantsville to reside with
the Edwards family.
Mr. Thompson's wife, the former
Alice Goss, died June of this year
at Butler, Pa. Survivors include
three daughters, Mrs Iva Edwards,
Grantsville; Mrs. Rhea Rinehart,
Butler; and Mrs. Olivia Coughenour,
Grndstone; two sisters, Mrs. Alice
Smith, Cherry Tree, Pa; and Mrs.
Fannie Croseman, Hillsdale, Pa; and
a brother, Harry Thompson, Johns
town, Pa.
Funeral services are being con-
Quoted this afternoon at 80 O'Clock
from the Grantsville Methodist
church, of which he was member.
The pastor, Rev. d. J. Combs, Will
otfciate and interment will be in the
cemetery at Brownsville, Pa
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-08-19
MT. LAKE PARK

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Fry, Washing
ton, d. c., returned to their home on
Sunday after spending sometime with
Mrs Fry's sister, Mrs. Raymond Nc
Cutcheon
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Hardesty are
spending few weeks in Romney, w.
Va.
Willard Hayden, who is a student
at Catherman's Business college in
Cumberland, is spending his vacation
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Gay
w. Hayden.
Raymond McCutcheon, D. & f. Col
lege, Elkins. is spending his vacation
here with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond McCutcheon.
Mrs George Right returned home
on Sunday after spending several
days in Fairmont, Grafton and Nor
gantown, visiting friends and rela-
tives.
Mary Lois Crane, Mrs. Mary Ruhl
and Mrs. Rebecca Crane, Washington,
d. c., were recent guests of Mrs.
Julia Ruhl.
Mrs. Edward Curran, Pittsburgh,
Pa, returned home on Sunday after
having spent several days here with
her mother, Mrs. A. L. Rippard.
Mr. and Mrs Geo Right and family
and Lawrence Calhoun were Tuesday
evening dinner guests at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert Hershman, at
which time Mrs. Right and son, Blaine
and Mrs. Hershman celebrated their
birthday anniversaries.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Savage and son
and John Savage, j., Of near Oak
land, visited relatives here Thursday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Crvis Bittinger and
daughter spent Friday in Cumberland.