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Evening star., 1949-07-03
Many Unincorporated
Businesses in Capital
Must Obtain Licenses.

Many unncorporated business
establishments will be required for
the first time to obtain licenses to
operate here under the recently
amended Income and Franchise
Act. the tax assessors office
warned yesterday.
TIL act creating the Districts S
sales tax. effective August l,
amended the franchise tax law on
unincorporated businesses by re-
ducing the exemption from $40, 900
to $4,000, effective last January !
All unincorporated businesses
operating here whose gross re-
cepits exceeded $4,000 for the cal
endar year 1948 must obtain the
license for the calendar year 1949
The license costs $40.
Must File Tax Returns.
Besides obtaining a license, such
businesses operating on a fiscal
year basis must file franchise tax
returns for the portion of their
fiscal year after last January l If
gross receipts for the entire fiscal
year exceeded $4,000.
This return must be filed by the
18th day of the fourth month fol-
lowing the termination Of the
taxable year. In the cases of un-
incorporated businesses filing such
returns, the $4,000 exemption will
be prorated on a daily basis.
Applications for licenses are
available in Room 8 of the District
Building, and forms for the filing
of returns also may be obtained
there.
The applications must be filed
with the Assessor by September
/, 1949.
Penalties and Interest Waived.
Tax Assessor Edward A. Dent
has been authorized by the Com
missioner to waive penalties and
interest for the late filing of re-
turns in the case of those bust
nesses which until now have not
been required to file. but are
obliged under the amendment to
file through September Is, 1949.
Businesses which already have
licenses for the calendar year 1949
under the former law need not file
another application for license.
Evening star., 1949-07-03
First Building Code
Reprinting Since 1941
Will Come Out Soon

The Districts building regula-
tions will go to the printer this
week for the codes first reprint
ing since 1941.
Assistant Engineer Commis-
sioner Thomas j. Hayes III said
the new edition. Incorporating all
the changes which have been put
in effect since 1941, is expected
to come out within q month.
Meanwhile. the Commissioners
Building Code Advisory Group
will go to work on the means of
egress regulations for existing
buildings.
The sections in the code per-
tanning to egress will apply only
to new buildings. as a result of the
Commissioners recent decision to
start all over again on the fire
safety regulations for present
buildings, approaching the mat
ter from a more realistic angle.
New Regulations Approved.
They approved the proposed new
regulations which had been under
study, but only for new building.
The advisory group which will
start on the initial proposals for
requirements on existing build
ings includes citizens representa-
tive of those primarily concerned
with building regulations, as we'll
as Col. Hayes and two members
of his staff.
Washington property owners
had protested that the proposal
regulations would have meant
expensive and unnecessary re-
modelling and alterations had they
been enforced for buildings al
ready in existence.
First Adopted in 1914.
The representative citizens COM
mitttee which helped in the work
on the revised regulations for
egress had given its tentatiye ap-
proval to the proposals but on
further study found them un-
sound for existing buildings, En-
gineer Commissioner Gordon R.
Young reported.
It was the fifth time the regula-
tions had been deferred.
They were first adopted in 1914,
relaxed to a great extent last year
and technically went in effect this
January /. The Commissioners,
however, held up enforcement
until printed copies of the new
rules could be provided.
Evening star., 1949-07-03
Air Show at Falls Church

The Vienna Volunteer Fire De-
partment will sponsor an air show
at 2 pm. next Sunday at the Falls
Church air park. Among the fea-
lures of the show will be aero
batic flying, parachute jumps. a
spot landing contest, flying
clown and an exhibition by Navy
r,ilots
Evening star., 1949-07-03
Dr.. Jett Will Speak

Historian T. Sutton Jett OF the
National Capital Parks will speak
before the Oxon Hill Citizens As
sociation at 8 pm. Tuesday. at the
Oxon Hill High School.
Evening star., 1949-07-03
Police Go on 8-Hour Shifts

WINCHESTER. Va, July :
(SpeciaD Members of the police
force here who have been on 12-
hour shifts for many years. today
went on 8-hour shifts. Four new
officers were sworn IN.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-27
Gifted Reader
LUCK! madame Lee
First Time Here
Reader and Adviser

Gives advice on all affairs Of life,
business, love, marriage, divorce,
health and family affairs. Price
in reach of all. Located in trailer
at city limits of Franklin, Ohio,
north on U. S. 25. Look for sign
at Smiths Trailer Camp, Hours:
10 q. m. until 10 p. m.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-27
Southern Churches-

concluded from page ~
"The term "Souther tradition
is misused and disho& red when
it is employed to justify a con-
tinued state Of unjust treatment
to the Negro laborer and priva-
ton Of the Negro of the opportuni-
ty for higher education and pro-
fessional training"
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-05-27

PHONE YOUR NEWS TIPS to
the Daily Express. 1907 German
town street. by calling Unlock
1915.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25

ident Norris, the outstanding sena-
tor of so years, fought long, and
procured a one-house legislature in
Nebraska. About the only forward
looking idea sprung in the recent ses-
sion of our legislature was by Trip,
that the two houses commit institu-
tional suicide, a referendum to the
people to amend the Constitution,
substitute for both branches, one
house of Is or 20 members. Many
believe our method of two houses is
dead, and would love a chance at an
election to bury the putrid corpse.
Exhaustion of National Resources
Perhaps the folly Of not paying
our national debt with the billions
placed in foreign rat holes under the
Marshall Truman Plan will not have
such lasting effects as sending the
fertility of our soil abroad in wheat,
corn, tobacco, cotton, beef.
The beds of phosphate rock in
Tennessee are approaching the end.
The New York bankers forbid our
developing the phosphate beds, 100
miles long, crossing the Saltwater
river, with the sulphuric acid read
lily available in billions of tons of
pyrrhotite at our phosphate beds.
Sugar beet and wheat crops are rap
idly exhausting our bottom land.
Fertilizer, more fertilizer, is already
the cry of the farmer in Montana.
To prove that our system in South
Korea is better than the Communist
system of government in North Kor
ca, we sent (donated) to South Kor-
ca, last year, $4,000 tons of ferti-
lizer. California has more people
than South Korea, but all in the
mountain states could move into
California and make good living
if the Marshall-Truman Plansters
would donate every year, $50, 1000
tons of fertilizer to Californians.
The Brass Hats never tried to earn
a living on land, after six years Of
beet cropping, without fertilizer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
200 Million Gallons of Oil
Supplied By FUCE In 1913

The Petroleum department of the
Farmers Union Central Exchange
supplied local affiliated co-ops with
approximately 200 million gallons of
motor fuels and burner fuels during
the 1948 season. This gallonage rep
resents $4,000 tank cars of fuel, an
increase of 1000 tank cars over 1947
volume.
Since July the supply situation had
eased so that ALLEGATIONS were no
longer necessary.
In 1948, 70 per cent of FUCE's
distribution came from our co-opera-
tive-owned refining facilities. 1t was
necessary to purchase the balance
from outside sources.
Scarcity of petroleum products in
early 1913, coupled with unreason-
ably high prices asked by suppliers,
led the Central Exchange to make in
vestments in additional refining ia
cilities.-F.U. HERALD.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
FARMERS PURCHASING
POWER STILL SLIDING
DOWN HILL

A report which came out last week
from the Department of Agriculture
indicated that farm prices are still
sliding down the hill.
According to this report, the ratio
of prices farmers received to the
prices paid, now stand at los, a drop
of 4 points over the previous month
and the lowest since July 1912. Act
ual prices received by farmers were
in many instances below the prices
which are supposed to be guaranteed
by the government. Examples of
such prices are wheat, which stood
at 1870 of parity, corn at ITO, oats
at 10; barley, 60; sorghum, 70; soy
beans, 81; peanuts, 81; and eggs, 81.
-NFU Washington.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25

Does the American voter want to
have his money spent for such a
project?
The Presidents excuse for the
military alliance and the expenditure
of billions of dollars to furnish mill
tary equipment to the western Euro
pean nations is: that we must give
them sense of security.
But when did preparedness for
war ever give anybody a feeling of
security?
This preparedness is based on fear
and all governments must continue
to appeal to this emotion of fear to
continue the enlistments of men, and
appropriations of money. The way
it works is this: One side makes
an extra provision for ornaments.
The other side follows suit, and then
the first party feels it necessary to
increase it's ornaments. This proc
ess goes on until the military burden
becomes unbearable and war results.
That has been the history of man
kind, and Europe in particular. The
present plight of Europe is very
largely due to colonial exploitation
and militarism. Now, another dose
of this kind of medicine will kill the
patient: that is, ruin what is left of
European civilization.
The only hope for Europe is to
practice Christianity: to apply the
Golden Rule, and to cooperate in
dustrially, and in international rela-
tons.
Now the question before the
people is care me going to
back up these old outworn methods
of exploitation, fear and war, as our
administration seems to propose, or
shall we throw our influence behind
the way of righteousness that leads
to safer world?
The question is up to us, the
people.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
The Atlantic Military Alliance !.

ey for the military, is like giving
more water to a drowning man.
Miltiarism has about gotten them
sunk as it is. A number of these
countries are spending much more
money on their military establish
ments than we are giving them in
Marshall aid.
1t is reported that Britain is spend
ing more than four billions of dollars
a year on her military and is keep
| ing in excess of one million men in
the armed forces.
France, likewise, is maintaining an
army in excess of one million men,
and is spending better than one-third
of her entire budget on her armed
forces, while, at the same time, it
seems impossible for her to keep her
budget balanced and to stop infla-
ton.
[ haven't any figures on Hollands
military expenditures, but presume
her adventure in Indonesia amounts
to, at least, what we are giving her
under Marshall aid.
Now, remember, that all these
ornaments are for the purpose of
holding their colonial empires. Bri-
tain has troops stationed in Egypt,
Arabia and Transj and is fight
ing civil war in the Malay PENN
sula.
A few days ago, l heard it re-
ported that the French were spend
ing more than million dollars day
on their civil war in Indo-China.
Last year they were engaged in put
ting down an instruction in NADIA
gascar, and there have been reports
of trouble in the African colonies.
All these military activities and
expenditures by these European
countries makes it look as though
our Marshall plan aid is just a plan
to help uphold colonial empires
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
SIashing Attack Delivered
On Telephone Monopoly

A slashing attack on the telephone
monopoly which has kept three-fifths
of us. farms without telephone serv-
ice was delivered last week before a
house agriculture committee in the
national capital.
Executive manager Clyde t. Ellis
of the National Rural Electric Coop
association said:
''I believe the most powerful mon
opoly ever known in the world is the
AT&T and it's international empire,
including the Bell systems, which
control $3.50 of the long distance tele-
phone communication facilities and ap-
proximately $50 of all facilities for
local telephone communication in
this country"
Under consideration before the
subcommittee was bill to give the
REA authority to grant loans for
phone lines jim rural areas. FARM
Frs UNION HERALD.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
USE CARE IN DIsPOsING OF FLUoREsCENT TUBES
This You Should Read

When it shattered, particles of glass
cut the side of his face and neck.
He was given immediate medical at
tention, but three months later a
large cancerous growth on his face
had to be removed by surgery. A
second operation was required two
months later.
Death by Inhaling
Another medical journal reports
the case of Miss w. o., a young en-
ployee of the Owens-Illinois Glass
Co., who in 1947 received a small
cut from a piece of fluorescent tub
ing. A company nurse applied ordi-
nary aid treatment but months later
the girl was hospitalized for the re-
moval of a cancerous mass of tissue
caused by the cut.
A number of deaths caused by in
inside of fluorescent tubes have been
reported in medical journals.
Against Publicity
Recently some large industrial
concerns have posted warnings to
their own personnel concerning their
newly discovered danger. But no
effort has been made to warn the
general public. In fact, there seems
to be an effort to prevent warnings
from being publicized.
One large company, the Pan
American Petroleum & Transport
Co., through it's safety department,
sent warning dated November A,
1913, to all its executives. But the
communication bore this restriction:
Not To Be Posted On Bulletin
Boards"
The insurance department of the
Edison Co. of New
York on December Is, 1913, issued
4 two-page warning to its depart
nent heads, which included these
'ules for the disposal of burned-out
'luorescent tubes:
. Never place them where they
night be picked up by children.
q Do not place them in an in
inerator; the resulting fumes are
hazardous.
. For best all-around safety in
disposal, tubes should be broken in
tightly-woven sack, preferably un-
Ter water. The thoroughly wetted
Iown particles can then go the way
f other refuse.
. Handle all tubes with care.
md if you accidentally cut yourself
nth broken tube, seek medical at
ention promptly, no matter how SUI
CRITICAL the wound. And tell your
octor what caused it. - From Ma
onal Guardian, II Murray Street,
lew York z, N. Y.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25

An accidental cut from broken
fluorescent light tube can cause a
malignant tumor.
Accidental breathing of dust from
the inside coating of a fluorescent
tube can cause a fatal illness.
The danger is particularly acute
for children, who consider discarded
fluorescent tubes fascinating play
objects. In the July, 1948, issue of
the Journal of Industrial Medicine
and Toxicology is the story of a small
boy who used an old tube for bat.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
Farmers Must Have
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prices, Bean says.
eve thus face today the same bat
tie we faced 20 and 80 years ago
in 1929-30 and 1920, when there
were also ample supplies of farm
products and great question mark
with regard to the ability of industry
and the export market to hold up
their end-the consumer demand end
of the farm price problem"
Bean is best known to the public
as a political analyst and as author
of "Ballot Behavior: A Study of
Presidential Elections and How to
Predict Elections which pointed to
a democratic presidential victory in
1948.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25

U. S. farmers use electricity in
more than $50 different ways.
All wiring on electric systems fl
nanced by the REA must be installed
in accordance with the National
Electrical Code.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25
By JOHN McGUFFEY, Roman

Editors Note: Publication Of
Mr.. McGuffey's comments is some
what delayed because of emphasis
placed on the legislature the past
couple of months. However, these
comments seem even more time
ly now then when written, because
of the attention currently being
paid to the proposed Atlantic Mill
tary Pact by the nations press and
radio.
President Truman in his recent in
augural address recommended that
we the U.S.A. enter into a defensive
alliance with the western countries
of Europe. | hardly see how he ex-
poets to- get around the constitu-
tional provision which, says that con-
gress shall have the power to declare
war. That, no doubt, means the ex-
isting congress at the time we go to
war. How does he expect his adj
or the present congress
to bind the actions of some future
Who will have any faith
in such an alliance?
This is certainly reversal of our
American policy. George
in his farewell address
warned the nation against entangling
alliances. That has been our fixed
American policy since then.
Then, as to the wisdom of such
an alliance, he proposes that we fur
nish arms for the nations of western
Europe. Militarism has, certainly
been the bane of western Europe
for long, long time. They have
been spending their substance and
man power on INFLAMMATION rather
than raising their living standards.
In fact, they are doing that very
same thing, today.
Giving these countries more mon
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-03-25

PATRONIZE THE CO-OPS-THEY
BELONG TO THE USERS.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-06-02
No Bias at
Missouri u.

JEFFERSON CITY, June 2 "a
NP)-The Senate Education COM
mittee heard Allen McReynolds,
president Of the University of Mis-
SQUIRE board of curstors, say that
Negroes would not be segregated
as students at the university if
the legislature authorizes their ad
mission to the school. However,
he recommended that their admis-
sion be limited to those of gradu-
ate and professional courses of
study not available at Lincoln uni
versity, the state maintained Ne
gro school.
McReynolds pointed out that
segregated classes and special in
structors had been provided for
the few Negro students admitted
to the state universities in Okla
homa and Arkansas, but declared
II can say for the curators that
we are not in sympathy with that
plan. If Negro students are ad-
mitted to the university, there
shall be no line of demarcation."
His recommendation for limit
ing courses was based on the over
crowded conditions at the school.
He also said it would be a mistake
to abandon Lincoln, because the
educational standards of it's
schools and colleges are exception
ally high"
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-06-02
|Non-Bias Area
Starts War

CHICAGO, June 2. CAMP
The idea Of an interracial COM
munity in the York Center
township, south of Villa Park in
Du age County near here has
brought about "a situation which
threatens to cause quite a commo-
ton, it was learned recently. Fig
uring in the dispute are the white
residents of York Center who are
opposed to an interracial communi
ty, and the York Center Communi-
ty Cooperative, Inc, hackers Of
the cooperative housing project.
The coop community is located
south Of Roosevelt road and just
west of Meyers road. Eight fam
lilies are living there and II houses
are under construction. There
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-06-02
Two Jailed in
Hit Run Death

CHARLOTTE, N. c., June 2.
(ANP)-Robert Banks, FL, and
Joseph Carraway, 228, both white
were jailed here last week in the
hit and run death of a Negro. Vic
tim of the accident was Arthur
White, 38, who was found dead
in a city street.
Witnesses had jotted down the
license number of the auto which
ran over Whitpe. ETAINNNV
ran over White, and police picked
up later the two men riding in
the auto.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-06-02
McCray Defies
Ku klux Plan
Plan to Get Him

COLUMBIA, S. c., June 2. "a
NP)-John N. McCray, editor of
the weekly Lighthouse and In
former, voiced open defiance
against a reported Ku Klux Khan
plan "to get him., here last week.
The declaration was contained in
a recent editoria lcolumn in his
paper, which also said he had re-
ceived indirect reports that the
hooded outlaws planned to give
him "the ride and treatment" it
had given James M. Hinton.
"I dislike violence and have al
ways lodged it," McCray wrote.
"I would do the same now and run
only l don't believ that is the way
to solve problems which stem
from traditional human relations"
"You can't solve the Khan prob
lem anymore by running away
from it than you can solve the
complex problem Of race relations
He called upon "citizens of all
races, shades and creeds, to stand
by as a posse, ready to go into &C
ton at the signal of law enforce
ment agencies in giving US the
protection we need"
He related there is "grave dan
ger in trying to match violence
with violence" but declared he is
in favor of a posse or groups OF
men, "who if necessary will be
ready to protect themselves in
cooperation with and with the ap-
proval of law enforcement officers
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-06-02
Jake Bird Wins
80 More DAYS

WALLA WALLA, June 2
(ANP)-Jake Bird, convicted
of the ak Staying Of a white wom-
an and her daughter won his third
stay Of execution here Thursday
when, the Circuit Court of APP
peals granted him an additional
80 days reprieve. >. He was sched-
uled to be hanged at the state
prison Thursday night.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-06-02

According to State Prison War
den Tom Smith, Justice William
Denman at San Francisco tele-
phoned him that the court would
hold a hearing within 10 days on
the question of whether a certifi-
cate or probable cause should be
issuer. This certificate is neces-
sary before the court can enter
tain an appeal.
If the court approves the certi-
ficate, Bird will have additional
time to perfect an appeal.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1949-06-02

are about so members in the CO.
op who are scheduled to build on
o 65 acre tract within the next
few years.
Residents living east of Mey-
~ road are against the coop
project because of a stipulation
that there will be no ban on race
color or creed in the community.
A meeting of representatives Of
the two factions was held last De-
cember to thrash out the inter-
racial situation. The coop rep
resentatives formally acknowledge
ed that there would be no ban
against Negroes, Japanese Ameri-
cans or any other racial or reli-
gious group, eff the individuals
themselves were acceptable"
For the opposition, Mrs. William
Meskan, secretary of the York
Center Mutual offered to raise a
fund and buy out all the coop
property held by non-Caucasian
The coop refused the offer.
In her denunciation Of the in
terracial community, Mrs. Meskan
said: "The presence of non-Cau-
casian families is deteriorating the
value o f our real estate. We
don't want to live with them and
we don't want our children going
to school with theirs. But there
is nothing we can do legally.
"The only thing we can do now
is to move out, and a number of
us are planning to do so. Houses
are being put up for sale, but the
real estate agents, knowing the
situation don't seem too interest
ed"
The residents meanwhile circu-
lated a petition to have their part
of York Center transferred from
School District 40 to school dis
trict 49,, so that their children
would be segregated from the CO.
op youngsters. However, the CO
op learned of this and filed a pc
tition with the township board,
pointing out that if one part of
the town was taken out Of the
school district, the rest of it must
be also. The township school
board has taken the matter under
advisement.