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Women'sRightsBattlc
Seen as Report Backs
Constitution Change
By the Associated Pres*.
A battle over equal rights foi
men and women began in Con
gress today.
The House Judiciary Committei
touched off the controversy by fil
ing a majority report urging adop
tion of legislation proposing an equa
rights amendment to the Constitu
tion.
The report said such action ii
needed to halt what it termed dis
crimination against women in th<
form of lower pay schedules, and tc
prevent their exclusion from many
Jobs.
Protesting vigorously, seven com
mittee members filed two minority
reports condemning the suggested
amendment.
Jeopardizes Rights.
They asserted it would take away
many rights women need, such as
special health laws, and that it
would be "mischief breeding” and
“confusing.” It would, they said,
raise such questions as whether or
not a wife should be equally liable
with the husband for support of a
family or paying alimony.
The majority report, unsigned,
recommended simply that Congress
submit to the States this proposed
constitutional amendment:
"That equality of rights under the
law shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or any State
on account of sex. Congress and
the several States shall have power,
within their respective jurisdictions,
to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation. This amendment shall
take effect three years after the date
of ratification.”
The majority stressed that both
political parties had recommended
such an amendment last year and
added that before the proposal be
came law it would require ratifica
tion by 36 States.
Cites Record in War.
"The arduous and efficient serv
ice rendered by women * ** during
the present war has clearly demon
strated that women are capable of
fully participating in the economic
activities of this country',” the re
port asserted. -
One minority report was signed
by Representatives Celler, Demo
crat, of New York; Lane, Democrat,
of Massachusetts; Gorski. Demo
crat, of Illinois; Feighan, Democrat,
of Ohio, and Gwynne, Republican,
of Iowa. The other was written by
Representative Hobbs, Democrat, of
Alabama, and indorsed by Repre
sentative Russell. Democrat, of
Texas. Said Mr. Hobbs:
“The power here sought to be
taken away from the States is to
regulate the home, the marriage re
lation, the welfare of children and
parents, property rights of wives,
widows and orphans and the health,
happiness and morals of most of the
sovereign people. * * * It 1s with
horror that Congress should con
template this proposal.”
McNutt Leaves Today
On Philippine Survey
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.—War
Manpower Commissioner Paul V.
McNutt disclosed last night he will
leave today • for the Philippines,
where he served as high commis
sioner before the war, to make a
survey for President Truman on
health and economic needs.
Mr. McNutt will report back to the
President “early in August."
“Nothing we can do in the way of
relief and rehabilitation for the
Filipino people can begin to repay
them for their magnificent achieve
ment in the war in the Pacific,” he
said in a statement.
He dsclosed that he and his staff
of experts will confer in Hawaii with
territorial and military officials on
manpower problems.
Regional manpower directors will
conclude a three-day conference
here today on the problam of sup
plying workers for repair of war
damaged ships on the West Coast.
The Philippines mission will in
clude Gen. William C. Rose, WMC
vice chairman; Dr. B. K. Westfall
of Indianapolis, consultant for
WMC’s Medical Procurement and
Assignment Service; Dr. Robert H.
Onstott, medical director of the
Public Health Service, and Robert
W. Beasley, relief expert. The lat
ter two will join the party at Hono
lulu. _
Handkerchief Is Firs! Clue
To Missing Hew Jersey Girl
£y the Associated Press.
MILLVILLE, N. J., July 16 — A
handkerchief bearing a military
laundry mark was uncovered late
yesterday to become the first tang
ible clue to the mysterious disap
pearance of pretty Laura Harris,
19-year-old brunette, missing since
Wednesday.
Police were investigating all un
occupied cottages in the area in
the belief that the 5-foot-l, 60
pound girl may have met with foul
play. Soldiers at nearby Millville
Army air base have been asked to
assist.
A girl friend told police she met
Laura at dusk Wednesday on a
lonely road near her home. She
said she talked with Laura for a
moment and then went on. The
handkerchief was discovered a short
distance from where Laura’s wallet
was found near that road Friday.
U-Boat's Crew Interned
With Men of Graf Spee
£y the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. July 16.—All
crew members of the German sub
marine U530 including the com
mander, Capt. Otto Wermoutt, were
brought to Buenos Aires yesterday
morning and placed aboard the
Argentine naval auxiliary ship Cor
moral, which left Immediately for
Martin Gracia Island, where the
U-boat crew will be held as war
prisoners.
Two buses under strong Argentine
guard brought the Germans from
Mar Del Plata, where Capt. Wer
moutt surrendered his 400-ton craft
to Argentine authorities July 10.
Martin Garcia Island is where offi
cers and crew of the scuttled Ger
man pocket battleship Graf Spee
also are held.
Circulation, June 1945
(Average net paid)
The Evening Star.206,751
The Sunday Star..-.214,lit
<90% In City and Trading Zone)
CHICAGO—SKETCH LOCATES CHILD—Mrs. Velma Arnold
embraces her 17-month-old baby, William, found again nine
days after Mrs. Arnold turned him over to a “baby-sitter” she
met on a streetcar. A detective sergeant traced the woman
through a sketch Mrs. Arnold drew of her. —AP Wirephoto.
24,250 Workers End
Walkouts, Reducing
Strike-Idle to 29,750
Ey the Associated Press.
Some 24,250 persons, long idle
through labor disputes, went back to
work today, reducing the Nation's
striking idle to 29,750, its lowest point
in weeks.
And a conciliation meeting was to
be held today in an effort to iron
out a jurisdictional dispute which
caused 874 AFL Bay Cities Metal
Trades workers to leave their jobs in
San Francisco. The men, working
on nine w'ar-damaged Government
ships, were protesting the employ
ment of CIO scalers, cleaners and
painters, but they continued work
on other ships. C
The largest share of the back-to
work movement developed in Akron.
Ohio, where 16,500 employes of the
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. voted
to end their 14-day old strike. The
men decided by a 3-1 margin to re*
sume work this morning, and full
maintainance crews yesterday pre
pared the plants for operation.
6,500 Return to Jobs.
The balance of the renewed pro
duction was at the Spicer Manu
facturing Co. in Toledo, Ohio. Ap
proximately 6,500 members of the
CIO-United Auto Workers returned
to work after 10 days of idleness.
One more note of cheer ap
peared in the production score. In
Syracuse, N. Y., 1,250 members of
the United Mine Workers voted to
return to "work today in the plant
of the Solvay Process Co., ending
a walkout which began last Sat
urday in a dispute over contract
changes and bonuses.
Four soft coal mines were closed
in a walkout of 2,700 members of
the United Mine Workers in Jen
kins and McRoberts, Ky. Dis
charge of a miner was the issue.
At Pittsburgh, however, a six-day
work stoppage ended with the re
sumption of work by 2,850 miners
at three coal mines of Jones &
Laughlin Steel Corp. A fourth mine
remained idle.
At Yonkers, N. Y., approximately
400 members of the Sugar Refinery
Workers' Local 1476 of the Inter
national Longshoremen’s Associa
tion (AFL) failed to report for work;
today at the Refined Sugar and
Syrup Co., Inc.
A new walkout began at Warren
and nearby Newton Falls, Ohio,
where 114 local and long distance
telephone operators of the Brother
hood of Electrical Workers (AFL)
left their switchboards in a wage
dispute with the Warren Telephone
Co.
continuing at warren was a dis
pute of 59 Electrical Tool and Die
Workers (CIO) with the Packard
electric division of the General
Motors Corp.
Other labor difficulties included:
6,000 AFL cigar makers out in
Tampa, Fla.: 2,900 CIO-UAW mem
bers out in the Graham-Paige
Corp., Detroit; 500 UAW-CIO mem
bers out at the American Metal
Products Corp., Detroit.
1,100 Printers on Strike.
Some 1,100 printers remained out
; at the R. R. Donnelley plant, Chi
I cago; 600 CIO-UWA at the Pressed
Steel Car Co., Chicago; 500 Socony
Vacuum Refinery men at East St.
Louis, 111.
At Connellsville, Pa., 1.000 AFL
machinists and glass bottle workers
at the Anchor-Hocking Glass Co.;
187 grain weighers at Minneapolis.
WLB delay and back pay issues
! took out 115 North Hudson County
<N. J.) drivers; 900 at Stran-Steel
' Division of the Great Lakes Steel
Corp., Terre Haute, Ind.; 600 CIO
i UWA members at the Bantam Bear
I ings Division of the Torrington
Co., South Bend, Ind.
German Movies Resume
LONDON, July 16 (f).—UFA, the
German film company which, before
the war exported to America such
Emil Jannings pictures as “Variety,”
“Passion” and “The Loves of Pha
roah,” is resuming production under
Allied supervision, the Paris radio
said today.
Train Kills Soldier
Walking Home to
Surprise Family
By the Associated Press.
WELCH, W. Va., July 16.—
Pfc. Armstrong Dawson, 25,
started up the railroad tracks
to surprise his family on
his 30-day redeployment fur
lough.
His body was found along the
tracks a few hours later. He
apparently had been struck by
a freight. He had not told his
parents of his arrival from Ger
many a few days ago and ap
parently left the train at Iaeger
to walk to his home on Hurri
cane Branch.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Naoman Dawson,
and a brother, Naoman, jr., who
I still is in Germany.
Green to Ask Court
This Week to Declare
Glass' Seat Vacant
Arlington County Treasurer John
Locke Green said last night he will
carry out his plan this week to
ask the Virginia Supreme Court
of Appeals to declare vacant the
seat of Senator Glass and to order
Gov. Darden to call an election to
fill the seat.
Mr. Green said Thursday he was
preparing a writ of mandamus to
order an election.
Declaring the ailing, 87-ycar-old
Senator has not answered a Senate
roll call since June 20, 1942, Mr.
Green told a reporter:
‘ His seat is either abandoned or
vacated. We have courts to decide
just such questions, and I intend
to file the petition and see wrhat
happftis.”
Senator Glass could not be
reached for comment.
Rixey Smith, Senator Glass’ sec
retary, announced recently he would
seek a pair for the Senator in favor
of the United Nations Charter. If
he is unable to secure a pair, Mr
Smith said Senator Glass planned
to go to the Senate and cast his
vote.
Senator Glass, dean of Congress in
service, was a House member from
1902 to 1918, when he resigned to
become Treasury Secretary under
Wilson. Appointed to the Senate in
1920, he was elected in 1924 and for
three succeeding terms. His present
term expires in January, 1949.
In Richmond, Gov. Darden said
he had received a letter from Mr.
Green requesting him to take action
in the matter, but that he had ad
vised Mr. Green he has no authority
to act unti la vacancy actually ex
ists.
“Illness does not constitute a va
cancy,” the Governor said. He indi
cated he had no intention of taking
any action in the matter and de
clined any comment on Mr. Green's
promise to ask the court to act.
Midway Mural to Mark
Navy Academy Centenary
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, July 16.—The Navy
has commissioned Lt. Comdr. Grif
fith Bailey Coale to paint a 25-foot
mural, titled “Victory at Midway,”
to be unveiled here October 10 at
ceremonies marking the Naval Acad
emy’s 100th anniversary.
Comdr. Coale, a resident of Ston
ington, Conn., has been painting a
record of the Navy at war. At the
start of the war he was assigned to
a destroyer convoying ships in the
North Atlantic.
He was only a mile from the sink
ing of the Reuben James, first
American combat vessel to go down,
and many of the survivors were
taken aboard Comdr. Coale's de
stroyer.
After Pearl Harbor. Comdr. Coale
journeyed there to record that fate
ful event for the Navy Department.
His next stop was Midway, where
he spent four months gathering
sketches of actual battle scenes.
On his return, Comdr. Coale fin
ished the pictures and wrote a book
dedicated to Admiral Nimitz.
Printers Hay Answer
WLBToday;LocalAsks
Dismissal of Taylor
International Typographical Union
officials today were expected to
answer War Labor Board action sus
pending consideration of printers’
union contracts now before the
board's Newspaper Commission.
The action, a penalty for the
union’s refusal to end a 30-day-old
strike at two New Jersey papers,
yesterday was followed by passage
of a resolution by the Columbia
Typographical Union, ITU Local
101, of Washington, asking Presi
dent Truman to dismiss WLB
Chairman George W. Taylor. The
Washington printers charged Dr.
Taylor’s "expressions are not im
partial but biased in favor of pub
lishers.”
Following a hearing Saturday the
board said the union’s failure to
resume work at the Jersey Journal,
Jersey City and the Bayonne Times,
unless the owners accept the union's
new by-laws as part of the contract,
is a violation of public policy.
Other Considerations Deferred.
The board ordered its Newspaper
Commission in Chicago to defer con
sideration of about 20 other agree
ments to determine if they were
brought about by the ITU policy the
board questions.
Meanwhile Theodore Lockwood,
president of the New Jersey local,
last night said in a statement he
had appealed to Jersey City officials
to call a conference of publishers
and union representatives.
He said "if the publishers will re
peat at the conference” an offer
made Friday to grant stated de
mands of the composing room em
ployes If they return to work, "the
workers will consider it.”
Publishers Offer Agreement.
The publishers in an open letter
Friday offered to sign an agreement
granting a two weeks’ vacation and
$64.40 weekly wage, which pub
lishers said was the highest wage
permitted under the Little Steel
formula.
The District printers’ resolution,
adopted unanimously, pledged the
local’s support to the union's Exec
utive Council in refusing to make
ITU by-laws subject to arbitration.
It charged Dr. Taylor "has shown
a willingness to coerce members of
the ITU into accepting the ob
noxious conditions proposed by the
publishers.”
Ice Cream Plant Head
Dies in Refrigerator
By the Associated Pres*.
STAMFORD, Conn., July 16 —
Saul H. Perry, 50. froze to death
yesterday when he was trapped in a
compartment of a refrigerator at the
Pickwick Ice Cream Co. plant,
which he operated.
Dr. Ralph W. Crane, medical ex
aminer, said there was evidence of
desperate efforts on Mr. Perry’s
part to escape from the compart
ment where the temperature was
40 below zero.
The lock on the inside of the 10
inch-thick door, which apparently
slammed behind him as he entered
the compartment, had broken a
week ago. authorities said, and
parts of it had been sent away for
repairs. . ■ %
Mr. Perry's body was discovered
by his wife, who herself was trapped
in the compartment last week but
was freed after five minutes when
a workman noticed her plight.
Dr. Crane said Mr. Perry had
ripped the cardboard coverings off
several ice cream containers, had
piled them against the door and had
used an entire box of matches in a
futile effort to set them afire. There
was evidence also that he had bat
tered the door with a 5-gallon ice
cream can and had used his foun
tain pen in an effort to manipulate
the plunger of the lock.
He was wearing a heavy overcoat
when found, and Dr. Crane said he
had been dead from two to three
hours.
Col. Henry Cabot Lodge
Is Here for Reassignment
Lt. Col. Henry Cabot Lodge
former Senator from Massachusetts
and recently returned from over
seas, Is In Washington today await
ing orders from the War Depart
ment.
Col. Lodge said he would return
to his home at Beverly, Mass., to
morrow or Wednesday for 30 days
leave before proceeding to his nevs
assignment. “I am feeling fine,” he
added.
He could not talk about his ex
periences abroad b&ause of Armj
orders, he said. He is staying at
the home of his mother, Mrs. George
Cabot Lodge. His wife and his sec
ond son, Harry, are with him. Hi:
elder son, George, he explained
could not be here to welcome hitr
because he is now undergoing Navj
*boot training.
Wounded Veteran Uses Tractor
To Rescue 2 From Burning Auto
Ey the Associated Press.
CAMDEN, N. J„ July 16.—A
wounded veteran used a tractor yes
terday to rescue a 75-year-old man
and his nephew, trapped in a blaz
ing car under high tension wires.
Pfc. Joseph Sergi, 20, on leave
from Tilton General Hospital, Port
Dix, N. J„ was sitting in his farm
house when he saw the car skid on
the wet highway, crash into a pole,
overturn and send overhead wires
down upon it. The wet ground sur
rounding the wrecked car was elec
trified over a wide area.
Pvt. Sergi quickly got a tractor
from the bam and drove it near the
Following our usuol custom—for
renovizing and to give our staff a
well-deserved vacation—we will be
Closed from Monday, July 16
Reopening Monday, July 30
for Luncheon at 11:30,
Dinner and Supper as
usual. See you then!
! car. He lassoed the rear bumpei
land dragged the smoking vehiclt
beyond the electrified area.
Breaking open a window. Pvt
Sergi pulled out William F. Pierson
34. Police Chief Louis Lynch ar
rived and assisted Pvt. Sergi in re
moving Charles F. Batten, 75. Bott
are from Camden.
Attaches at Cooper Hospital
Camden, said both men were ir
serious condition from burns, shock
and smoke inhalation.
Pvt. Sergi is undergoing treat
ment at the Army hospital foi
wounds of his right arm and hanc
suffered in Germany.
Newspaper Strikers
Stay Out, Ignoring
Dismissal Threat
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 16.—Despite a
warning from publishers that fail
ure to report for work today would
mean their dismissal. New York’s
newspaper deliverymen continued a
strike now in its third week—against
14 metropolitan dailies.
Joseph Simons, president of the
independent Newspaper and Mail
Deliverers' Union, said the members
decided at a meeting yesterday to
stay on strike, although no formal
vote was taken.
Mr. Simons said, “Several unions
affiliated with the newspaper indus
try have agreed to support the strike
financially.” He did not name them.
Edwin S. Friendly, general man
ager of the Sun and representative
of the Publishers’ Association of
New York City, commented in a
radio broadcast, yesterday that the
strikers’ decision “wrote one of the
blackest marks in the history of
trade unionism.”
He asserted that "irresponsible
leaders” had misguided the union’s
1,700 members "to the brink of dis
aster,” and added, “The newspapers
will continue to roll from the presses
and the publishers will see that they
are delivered.”
Last Saturday night, publishers
notified the strikers that Immediate
dismissal would follow their failure
to return to work on their regular
shifts today. The Daily News’ first
shift, which goes to work at 5:30
a.m., did not report today.
The War Labor Board canceled
the closed shop provision of the
union's contract last week. The
publishers then said that measures
would be taken to resume deliveries,
but no further details of the distri
bution plan have been announced.
The WLB subsequently canceled the
union contract in its entirety.
The strike, which Also affects
three racing papers, began when
union and publisher representa
tives were unable to agree on a new
contract to replace one that ex
pired June 30.
The principal issue in the strike
is a demand by the deliverers’ union
that publishers establish a welfare
fund for union members.
Japs' Berlin Embassy
Occupied by British
Special to The Star and Chlcaio Dally
New*.
BERLIN. July 16.—The British
now occupy the imposing Japanese
Embassy on the Tlergartenstrasse,
which miraculously escaped major
damage from Anglo - American
| bombs and Russian shellfire.
Russian guards withdrew from
the Embassy yesterday morning
when Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov,
commander of, Russian troops of
occupation in Germany, formally
turned over the British and Amer
ican sectors for actual mill tar:’ gov
ernment operation.
The Japs conducted a highly or
ganized espionage system from Ber
lin, a survey of the huge Embassy
revealed. Extensive files of Amer
ican and British newspapers and
; magazines, all of fairly recent date,
i were a mere beginning. They had
! both their own reports and Gestapo
records of Allied activities, dossiers
on individuals and extensive radio
monitoring sets. Various libraries
were stocked with thousands of
volumes of current military text
books and contemporary com
mentaries.
Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi
Oshima and 130 of his staff fled
southward into the custody of the
Americans when the Russians en
tered the capital. But 18 remained
behind for some reason. These 18
are reported to have been trans
ferred to Moscow.
Meanwhile, German servants are
still reporting at the deserted Em
bassy because they don’t know
where else to go.
(Copyright, 1945, Chicago Dally New*. Inc.)
Mrs. Deming, Author
On Indian Lore, Dies
| By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 16—Mrs.
Therese Osterheld Deming, author
of 13 books on Indian lore, died
Saturday.
With her husband and six chil
dren she spent much time among
Indians in the United States, Can
ada and Mexico. She was made a
member of the Blackfoot and Pueblo
tribes and counted such figures as
Buffalo Bill and Chief Rain-m-thc
Pace among her friends.
BILOXI, MISS.—BABY COLONEL—Two-week-old Hunter Cecil
Webb III is commissioned a colonel on the staff of his grand
father, Gov. Thomas L. Bailey (right) of Mississippi, thus out
ranking his father, Pfc. Hunter Cecil Webb (left), airplane me
chanics instructor at Keesler Field here.
—Wide World Photo from Army Air Forces.
Oh the Roll of Honor—
Today's Casualty Lists
(National.)
Army wounded ._ 257
Army missing _ SI
Army liberated _ 49
Navy killed . 9
Navy wounded . 753
Navy missing.. 5
Thus far in the war 1,700
men from the District area
have been reported killed.
Killed
Col. John T Ward, whose wife
and son live at 3945 Connecticut
avenue N.W., reported missing since
the fall of Bataan in 1942, is now
known to have been killed in action
in that area, his wife has been noti
fied. Col. Ward was sent with four
other men on a special mission to
the Pacific two weeks before the
outbreak of war. He was seriously
injured February 7, 1942, on Bataan,
but returned to duty. He was later
killed during the Bataan campaign,
the War Department has learned.
A graduate of West Point in 1920,
Col. Ward served in the Philippines
from 1928 to 1930. During that time
he had the job of drawing up plans
and building a model village, which
later was named Wardville in his
honor. Besides his widow and son
he is survived by his mother, Mrs.
B. N. Ward, Shreveport, La . and
I two brothers, Capt. B. N. Ward,
! U. S. N., and Frank Ward of Mis
! sissippi.
Marine 2d Lt. Lloyd Kirk Wyatt,
jr„ whose wife. Mrs. Agnes B. Wyatt,
lives at 4820 Davenport street N.W.,
was listed by the Navy Department
■ today as killed in action. Lt. tyyatt
i was the subject of a story in The
I Star June 25, when his wife was no
I tilled.
Wounded
Pfc. Richard Ellis Jenkins, Jr, 19,
has returned to the United States
after being
slightly wounded
on Okinawa May
23 and is in a
hospital in
Maryland, his
mother. Mrs.
Richard Jenkins,
of 1365 G street
N.E., said today.
Pic. Jenkins
was with the 6tn
Marine Division
and had been
overseas about a
year. He joined
the Marines in
September, 1943, Jmkin*
following his graduation in June
from Eastern High School. During
that summer he worked for tht
Government Printing Office.
Pfc. Harold Ohler McCleaf, whose
wife, Mrs. Dorothy A. McCleaf, lives
at 1514 Wisconsin avenue N.W., was
wounded slightly in action on Iwo
Jima March 11. He is now at a rest
camp in the Hawaiian Islands, he
said in a recent letter to his wife.
A native of Washington, he at
tended Gordon Junior High School,
and was employed at the Friendship
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enlisted in the Marine Corps in
June, 1944. He has been overseas
eight months. He is the nephew of
Mrs. E. S. Ohler of 3241 P street
N.W. '
Pfc. John Moloney, 21, was
wounded in action with the 1st
Marine Division on Okinawa May
23, the Navy Department has in
formed his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John A. Moloney, of 8608 Cedar
street, Silver Spring, Md. Pfc. Mo
loney received shell fragment
wounds in his right forearm and is
in a hospital in the Pacific area.
He entered the Marine Corps June
1942, after being graduated from
Montgomery Blair Senior High
School, and has been overseas 28
months.
Pvt. James H. Campbell, whose
wife, Mrs. Irene A. Campbell, is
' listed as residing at 2220 First street
| N.W., is reported by the War De
j partment today as having been
wounded in action in the Pacific
District Blood Donations
Appointments
Saturday_ 66 persons
Appointments broken
Saturday..27 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center in
the Acacia Building, 51 Louisi
ana avenue N.W., by calling
District 3300 between 9 am. and
5:30 pm. weekdays and 9 a.m.
1 to noon Saturdays.
area. A neighbor said that Mrs.
Campbell moved to Winchester, Va.,
about five months ago to be with her
family while her husband was over
seas.
Corpl. Charles Earle Menges is re
ported wounded in action by the
Navy Department. His wife, Mrs.
Mabel M. Menges, is listed as resid
ing at 7 Compass Green, Bellevue,
but neighbors said she moved sev
eral months ago.
Corpl. Edwin Clay Timanus. II,
whose father is Eugene H. Timanus
of Washington, is reported by the
Navy Department as wounded in
1 action. Mr. Timanus’ address is
given as 2120 Sixteenth street N.W.,
but he no longer lives there.
Margulies Funeral
To Be in Brooklyn
Services for Sigmund Margulies
65, of 6817 Georgia avenue N.W.
who was manager of the Atlanta
(Ga.) office of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. until he retired and
moved to Washington five years ago
will be held tomorrow in Brooklyn.
| Mr. Margulies was bom in Logg.
Poland, and came to this country in
1905. He died Saturday at Doctors
Hospital after a long illness.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Fannie Margulies. and a daughter
Mrs. Minnie Mehl of New York.
Signs of revival are reported by
French industry.
Taff Urges Adoption
Of Bill Now to Reduce
1947 Business Taxes
By the Associated Pres*.
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
today proposed that Congress write
a tax reduction law this year that
will be effective for business in 1947.
The Senate is expected to act this
week on a House-approved revision
of the corporation tax laws de
signed to aid reconversion by
boosting the cash position of busi
ness approximately *5,000,000,000.
While Senator Taft said this
meets his approval, he told re
porters Congress soon should act
to let businessmen know what to
expect in what he believes will be
the first real surge of the civilian
economy after reconversion.
1946 Held Unimportant.
“I don’t think it makes so much
difference whether tax reductions
are made in 1946,” the Ohio Senator
said. “Most business then will be
engaged in getting back to civilian
production and they won’t be mak
ing much money anyway.
"But 1947 should see production
in full swing again and business
men, especially small plant owners
and those who plan to build new
facilities, ought to know in advance
what sort of taxes they are going
to have to pay.”
Senator Taft said he had no spe
cific revenue proposals in mind but
that he believes the subject should
have immediate study.
Bill Provisions Outlined.
The bill which will go before the
Senate this week—possibly today if
Chairman George of the Pin an c*
Committee can squeeze it in, would
make these changes in the law:
1. Boost the specific exemption
from the excess profits tax from the
present *10,000 to *25,000.
2. Fix next January 1 as the ma
turity date for outstanding excess
profits tax postwar refund bonds.
3. Hasten refunds on carry-backs
or net operating losses and unused
excess profits credits.
4. Speed refunds on the recompu
tation of deductions for amortiza
tion of emergency facilities.
Shepherd School to Collect
Wastepaper Wednesday
Shepherd School, one of the lead
ers in The Evening Star-PTA
Salvage for Victory program, plans
a wastepaper collection Wednesday
and anticipates a large collection.
Many of the school’s Papertroopers
signed a pledge to continue their
drive throughout the vacation period
in response to the War Production
I Board's urgent appeal that there be
no important drop in collections
throughout the summer.
Because of difficulties In provid
ing adult committees. Shepherd de
I cided to have two collections during
•the summer, one this month and
' another in August, in the hope
; that the Papertroopers would
gather paper, temporarily hold it
at home and then bring it to school
| in two big collections.
The schedule for tomorrow’s col
i lections follows:
Schools.
i Gage. Langdon.
! Noyes. Woodridge.
Playgrounds.
Douglas- Garrison.
Simmons. Edgewood.
Bundy. Cook.
Howard. New York Avenue.
Langley. Turkey Thicket.
Thomson. Shaw.
Odd 'Rain of Fire'
In Spain Starts
Property Boom
Br the Associated Press.
MADRID. July 16.—A “land rush"*
was reported today around a 2
square-mile area of the province
, of Almeria, where provincial author
ities have reported fire falls from
the sky.
Speculators had staked out more
j than 1,000 land claims on the theory
that radium or some unknown min
eral attracted fire from the at
mosphere.
The phenomenon, first reported
last month, had been confirmed by
scientists—one group said a "rain
of fire” ignited a box of its instru
i ments.
The fires attracted so many scien
tists and tourists to the village of
Laroya, near the area, that a food
shortage developed and prices
soared.
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