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O'Leary Efforts to cut the $5,300,000,000 European Recovery Program probably will fail in the Senate today, while the House Foreign Affairs Committee begins draft ing one over-all foreign aid bill. Senator Taft of Ohio, an active Republican candidate for President, will pit his strength against Chair man Vandenberg of the Foreign Relations Committee, by urging that only $4,000,000,000 be spent during the first year of the Mar shall Plan. Senator Vandenberg, regarded by many as a possible dark horse Re publican nominee, will have the advantage as leader of a strong bi partisan bloc of Democrats and Re publicans who are going down the line for the administration’s foreign policy. Taft Expected to Speak Today. Senator Taft is expected to take the floor this afternoon for one of the major speeches of the two week debate. The Ohioan is not Opposing ERP, but reflects the sen timents of a group of Midwestern Republican "revisionists” who think the bill goes too far. Senator Taft, who heads the 8enate Republican Policy Com mittee. announced before the Sen ate convened that the Senate For eign Relations Committee will pro ceed next week with separate bills for China, Greece and Turkey, de spite the decision of House leaders to throw them all together. Senator Taft said after a meeting of the policy group this morning that, “we hope they (the House) will not put military aid in with the European Recovery Program.” Senator Taft made it clear, how ever, that if that course is followed the Senate will reserve its right to a separate debate on military aid for China and further military aid for Greece and Turkey. Further Delay Unlikely. This may not cause any further delay in foregin aid, however. Sen ator Taft said he thought the Sen ate could finish its debate on China, Greece and Turkey by April 3. It is doubtful if the House will have passed its combined bill before that time. Having discussed the whole prob lem separately, the Senate could then agree to let all phases of the foreign aid program go to confer ence between the two houses in one catch-all bill. There was division of opinion at the Capitol whether the pro gram would be slowed down by the Hpricirm nf Phikp 'Rpniihliran 1a»H. ers for a “one-package” bill. The Senate started out on the theory it would be better to clean up the European bill and then tackle the separate administration esti mates of $275,000,000 for further military aid to Greece and Turkey,; and the $570,000,000 of additional economics aid for China. There were two reasons for this course: (1) That economic and mili tary aid should not be intermingled: <2) that ERP should be made a law in time to help keep Italy from go ing communstic in the April 18 election. While all three foreign aid funds have the same goal—to check communism—ERP and the China money is entirely economic, and the budget for Greece and Turkey is military. Halleck Favors One Bill. House Majority Leader Halleck made clear his belief, however, that the entire question of foreign aid can be settled as quickly in one bite as three. Mr. Halleck and Speaker Martin sat in with the Republican members of the House Foreign Af fairs Committee when they made their decision. Mr. Halleck pointed out that the additional money for Greece and, Turkey can be covered by adding one sentence to the ERP bill, chang ing the total in the original Greek- j Turkish bill. He also reminded critics of the House program that the administration put an April 1 deadline on Greek-Turkish as well as European aid. The House Republicans are going further than the administration by ~ (See FOREIGN AIDTPage A-4.) Anderson Won't Quit Post in Cabinet Now By the Associated Press Secretary of Agriculture Ander *on said today he will remain in the cabinet at least until the end of the present session of Congress and “may not get out at all.” Mr. Anderson has considered running ior tne eenate sear now held by Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New Mexico, who said he will not seek another term. The Secretary told reporters, after a cabinet meeting, that President Truman had repeated his desire that Mr. Anderson stay in the ad ministration. Mr. Truman told a news confer ence yesterday that Mr. Anderson had done an excellent job,at the Agriculture Department and ex pressed hope he would remain. Mr. Anderson said today he hopes that Senator Hatch will change his mind. Senator Hatch, who has been in the Senate since 1933, has said he had definitely decided to accept an appointment to the Federal court in New Mexico “in the event it is offered.” Secretary Anderson said many friends in New Mexico have urged him to seek the Senate seat, and the final decision has not been reached. “I want to think about it a little bit,” he said. "I want to find out more about what's going to happen, at home in New Mexico.” Dairy Interests Move to Cut Ofl Red Cross Gifts in Oleo Fight Pamphlet Attacked Suggesting 'Fair Exchange' in Foods Dairy interests have moved to withhold support of Red Cross campaigns unless the organiza tion withdraws a pamphlet sug gesting oleomargarine as a “fair exchange” for butter, it was learned today. While the fight for repeal of the tax on oleo continued in Congress, a spokesman for the American Red Cross gave this outline of the situa tion: Livingston Blair, chairman of the Red Cross Food Conservation Com mittee, received a letter from D. H. Henry, manager of a large Chicago creamery, dated January 26. At that time, Mr. Henry was*quoted as say ing he would encourage 14,000 pro ducers and 60,000 dairy farmers “to refuse to support programs of the Red Cross.” ** On February 12, Mr.‘Blair sent a strong letter to Mr. Henry in which he said: “Only through misrepre l sentation of the facts dbuld substan tial support be gained for this fan tastic attempt to involve the Red Cross in this controversy.” On Tuesday, according to the spokesman, Red Cross headquarters received a telegram from the Amer ican Dairy Association protesting the pamphlet in which oleo was mentioned and demanding to know (See BUTTER, Page A-67) Congress Members Unable to Tell Products Apart By Chalmers M. Roberts Twenty-three members of Con gress today tried—apparentlj without success—to tell buttei from margarine. Samples of both were passec around at a House Agriculture Cor" mittee hearing by Mrs. Stella £ Barker of Des Moines, Iowa, whc appeared as a homemaker, club woman and former restaurant owner She offered the samples to provi her contention that no one can tel the difference and, therefore, mar garine should not be permitted t< be sold colored because it would de ceive the public. The committee ii considering bills to repeal Federa taxes on colored margarine. Representative Abernethy, Demo crat, of Mississippi asked: "Do you mean that margarine i: so good you can’t tell the difference between it and butter?” “I can’t. That’s why I feel sc helpless,” Mrs. Barker replied. Mrs. Barker produced pound pack ages of both spreads to show that the containers were labeled properly But she said diners in restaurants would not know if margarine were substituted for butter. Mrs. Barker said "the only dif ference in the pats I have put on the plates before you and the ones (See MARGARINE, Page A-6. > U. S. Consulate Office In Jerusalem Emptied After Threat of Blast Staff Leaves for Hour, But Search Fails to Locate Explosives Iy the Associated Press JERUSALEM, Mar. 12.—An anonymous bomb threat today emptied the United States Con sulate Building, 300 yards from the blasted Jewish Agency head quarters, where 13 were killed and nearly 100 were injured yes terday. American personnel returned to their offices after an hour-long search by police failed to turn up any explosives. The consular staff had moved out after a telephone caller said in English: “Get out of the building—it will blow up in five minutes.” The building also is used as a residence by Consul General Robert B. McAtee, Consul William Porter and Vice Consul Wells Stabler. Three Women Among Dead. The death in a hospital of another victim raised the death toll to 13 in yesterday's bombing of the Jewish Agency building. The agency says an Arab, driving a car stolen from the American consulate, entered the Jewish compound and ignited a bomb. Three of the dead were women. Ill Tel Aviv, the Jewish Agency announced its ratification of a merger of two Jewish fighting forces, Hagana and Irgun Zvat Leumi. Final approval depends on a referendum of agency members in London and New York. David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the agency executive, opposed the merger, but conservative Jewish leaders backed it to strengthen the Jewish fight against the Arabs over partition. Hagana previously has assailed Irgun for terroristic acts which it charged were hurting the Jewish cause. Jewish sources say Irgun has agreed to cease its at tacks on British forces now with drawing from the Holy Land. Widespread Shooting. Hagana, the official militia of the Jewish Agency, has a shock force of more than 10.000 paid soldiers. Irgun, an underground organiza tion, is reported to have more than 1.000 men. The commander of the Arab vol unteer army, Fawzi Bey A1 Kaukji, opened his ''martial law courts” in Northern Palestine. He has estab lished headquarters in the Nablus area. A spokesman said he plans to purge his ranks of Arabs who have been dealing with Jews. Charges have been preferred against about 100 Arabs on infor mation obtained from Jewish sources in Jerusalem, the spokes man said. An Arab army commando unit of 200 men specially trained in Syria entered the all-Arab city of Jaffa, neighboring Tel Aviv, this morning to bolster the coastal community's defenses, informants at Fawbi Bey’s headquarters reported. There was widespread shooting in Jerusalem most of last night but no casualties were reported. Automatic weapons and grenades were used by Jews, Arabs and British in clashes in the Holy Citys suburban Sheikh Jarrah quarter. Two-Mile-Long Line Of Mourners Files Past Masaryk Bier Reds Report Suicide Of Another Leader After Confession of Plot By th« Associated Press PRAGUE, Mar. 12.—A line of weeping mourners nearly 2 miles long filed through Czernin Palace today to place flowers on the bier of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. Mr. Masaryk's body lay in state from 9 p.m. until 5 p.m., but the throng was so vast the doors of the palace opened an hour early to per mit school children to pass through. As the mourners filed through the huge square in front of the palace where Mr. Masaryk fell to his death Wednesday, others queued up below _II._TT_I_««_ *«* aut/ftiljr WUUUtOUl. Red* Strengthen Controls. Meanwhile, the Communists were strengthening their control of Czechoslovakia with a program of reorganization and legislation in a dominated Parliament. They also claimed new evidence of opposition plotting against the gov ernment in a report of the con fession and suicide of a non-Com munist political leader, Josef Herod. Parliament was slated in today's session to go ahead with committee organization giving Communists powerful posts and to legalize the work of Action Committees which prepared the way for the new gov ernment, sworn in just two W'eeks ago. Reds Get Key Posts. Communists already had been made *chairmen of the important Budget and Foreign Affairs Com mittees. Rudolf Slansky, a Czech organizer of the Communist Inter national Information Bureau (Com inform), was emerging as floor leader. Premier Klement Gottwald had a unanimous vote of confidence meaning, in effect, approval of his program to make the state all powerful in industry and trade and give every farmer more than 100 acres. Sixty-seven—more than a fifth—of Parliament’s 300 members liraisa oKcant iirhon irnta rtrn c taken yesterday by a show of hands. The latest suicide was reported last night by district police of Eastern Moravia. Their statement said Mr. Herod killed himself in his jail cell in Moravska Ostrava after confessing to participation in a military plot to overthrow the republic. They did not specify how he ended his life. Mr. Herod was secretary of the local branch of the anti-Communist National Socialist Party, lately brought under Communist influence and, renamed the Czech Socialist Party. The Communist interior ministry had the party's Prague headquarters raided a few days before President Eduard Benes was induced to approve Gottwald’s new government. The ministry said the raid turned up evidence of a revolutionary conspiracy. Mr. Herod’s reported confession gave Gottwald a ready-made case against opponents as his Com munist justice ministry brought people's courts back into existence to review sentences passed on persons accused of collaborating (See PRAGUE, Page A-6.) Committee Gets Turkey Lunch With Trade Demonstrations Things were pretty routine at a Senate Public Works Subcommittee hearing today when a bell rang and the following happened: 1. A 21-pound turkey, ready for the table, was hauled into the room, carved in expert fashion and served to the committee members, who partook of it with relish. 2. Vacuum cleaners were set into motion over the rugs, throwing up a din exceeded only by a sanding machine in action at another corner of the room. 3. At another spot were demon strations of typing and type-setting. It all started when Dr. S. J. Phillips, president of the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial, sought dramatically to present his case for the transfer of two Defense Homes Corp. dormitories in Wash ington to his Virginia institution. He wanted to show the Senators a realistic demonstration of how Negro youth were advancing there in industrial training in the work demonstrated. The subcommittee is considering two separate bills for disposition of the dormitories. One, sponsored by Representatfre Miller, Republican, of Nebraska would give them to Dr. Phillips' institution, the National Institute of Industrial Training ol Negro Youth. The second, advocated by Repre sentative McCormack, Democrat, of Massachusetts would make Howard University the recipient. One of the buildings in question is; Lucy Diggs Slowe Hall, a woman's dormitory at 1919 Third street N.W., and the other George Washington Carver Hall, a dormitory for men at 211 Elm street N.W. Seven witnesses during the morn tSee PUBLIC WORKERS, Pg. A-3.J I 50-Year Treaty Completed tor West Europe Five Foreign Ministers Will S gn Pact in Brur.»els Wednesday r ly the Associated Press ,| BRUSSELS, Mar. 12.—Britain, France and the Benelux nations today adopted a 50-year treaty for a political, economic and mil itary union of Western Europe jintended to check the march of 'communism. | Conference officials said the ac cord and allied documents will be signed here next Wednesday by the Foreign Ministers of Belgium, Brit ain, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The text of the agreement will not be released until the signature ceremony, to give the five govern ; ments of the negotiators opportun w V.AHUUUC XI/ UWCIJ1, UlC OlilCiaiS said. Terms to be Revealed Later. Delegates from the five countries, including four of the world’s great est colonial powers, completed their efforts—on ’the Western European Union suggested in January by British Foreign Secretary Bevin— at 11:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. EST), after more than a week around the con ference table. Sir George Rendel, chief of the British delegation and Britains Ambassador here, said on emerging from the conference room that the delegates had agreed among them selves not to communicate any of the substance of the treaty before their governments approve it. Questioned as to whether the treaty provided for a permanent five-power commission to carry out its provisions, Sir George shook his head. “That,” he said, “is one of the things I just cannot talk about.” 10 Clauses Reported. The treaty,, reportedly containing a preamble and 10 clauses, was be lieved to bind the five countries to mutual assistance in the face of ag gression, mutual aid in the economic field, co-opieration in improving their living standards and a meas ure of co-ordination of colonial re sources. One of the final points before the conferes, it was learned, was wheth er the treaty should name Germany as a possible aggressor. There was no definite indication as to the de cision reached. A short communique issued after the final session said the delegates, meeting here since March 4, have “drawn up a draft treaty which they will be recommending to their respective governments and which will include clauses dealing with economic, social, cultural and de fense matters within the scope of the Charter of the United Nations.” “It is hoped the treaty will be signed in Brussels next week by the foreign ministers of each country. It will be for the governments con cerned, after finally approving the text, to publish its substance in such j a manner as they decide in com mon.” Conference officials said the text; would be released simultaneously in j the capitals of all five countries on the day of signature. British Delegate Gladwyn Jebb left immediately for London, taking a copy of the completed text with him. Sir George said the conference was a “very satisfactory meeting. It shows the posibility of working to gether in a way which is a good augury for the future.” Diplomatic officials earlier had expressed hope that the pact could be completed and signed before Monday, when the 16 Marshal Plan nations meet in Paris for their sec (See BRUSSELS, Page A-5.) Landing Collision Kills Man: And Injures Paul Mantz i ly the Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif., Mar. 12.— ! Speed Flyer Paul Mantz, 44, nursed] cuts today after an on-the-ground ] plane collision which killed a Santa Ana businessman and injured two; women. Mr. Mantz, flying from Burbank, en route to his home at nearby I Balboa Island, had landed his two-; place plane at Orange County Air-' port last night. He was parking: the ship when it and a. light plane! which also had just landed crashed, propellor-to-propellor. Bulletins Two Robbed in Home Forcing their way into a home at 40 Crittenden street N.E., two armed men robbed Samuel Kaufman, 62, and his son David, 42, of $2,500, a dia mond ring and watch today. The robbers knocked at the door and pushed aside David Kaufman's 6-year-old son and a maid, Teresa Hardey, 24, all of whom they locked in- an upper-floor bedroom after the robbery. Girl, 10, Wins Law Suit Monica Mulevy, 10-year-old defendant in a $10,000 damage suit, today won her case in District court when a jury of four women and eight men re turned a verdict in her favor after deliberating 20 minutes. The suit was brought by Janet Gamer, 9, seeking damages for a broken front tooth, and Ja net’s father, S. Richard Gamer, asking $5,000 for expenses. (Earlier Story on Page A-20.) * Young Seeks to Speed Hearings on Prisoners Held at Gallinger Meeting Called on Plan To Send Difficult Cases Direct to St. Elizabeths MASON STUDIES PLAN lor D. C. hospital department. Page B-l. DETAILS WORKED OUT for Negro internes at Gallinger. Page B-l. By Miriam Ottenberg Commissioner John Russell Young has asked the courts to speed up legal action on prison ers committed to Gallinger Hospital’s psychiatric ward for observation, instead of making them stay In the mental wards for weeks after they are found to be legally sane, It was learned today. In another development affecting the load of Dltients in Gallintrpr’s understaffed psychopathic division, Commissioner Guy Mason called a meeting for Monday to look into the question of sending patients requiring long hospitalization direct to St. Elizabeths Hospital. The plan to by-pass Gallinger, when patients are known to have suffered for a long time from a mental disorder, was advocated by Dr. Samuel B. Wortis, Public Health Service consultant, in his survey of Gallinger’s psychopathic division last fall. Young Writes to Judge Barse. Dr. Winfred Overholser, super intendent of St. Elizabeths; Chair man Miller of the House District Subcommittee on Health, Education and Recreation; Corporation Coun sel Vernon E. West and Assistant Corporation Counsel Ralph Quinter have been invited to meet with Mr. Mason at 3:30 p.m. Monday. The request that the courts take faster action on the prisoners they have committed for mental obser vation came in a letter from Mr. Young to Chief Judge George P. Barse of Municipal Court. Mr. Young pointed out that the courts commit prisoners for 30 days and then do' not call these cases for n month pvpn t.hnmrh rioter. mination of their mental condition may have been made in five days. "The interest of justice could be better served," Mr. Young wrote.) 'by immediately ordering a person' reported to be of sound mind be fore the court for trial or sentence as the case may be, and in the case of persons reported to be of un bound mind, immediately impanel (See PSYCHIATRicTPage A-6.) Soviet Bid to Norway For Pact Is Reported By th« Associated Press LONDON, Mar. 12.—Wide circula tion was given today to a rumor that British officials expect Soviet Rus sia to ask Norway for a treaty of friendship soon. There was no con firmation of the report, and both the British Foreign Office and the Norwegian Legation said they know nothing of such a move. Under the Finnish peace treaty, Russia has a short frontier on Norway. A denial of the report was carried by the Copenhagen newspaper Nationaltidende, quoting Halvard Lange, Norwegian Foreign Minister. The report apparently first ap peared in Nationaltidende and an other Copenhagen morning paper, the Socialdemokraten, under a Lon don dateline quoting “informed pv/iuitai wuitra *uiu prominent British politicians." A similar report was carried later by the Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem. It said British officials expect Prime Minister Stalin to ask Nor way lor a pact. It added that Nor wegian Defense Minister J. C. Hauge made a "secret” trip to London and talked two days with War Office officials. The official Norwegian spokesman here said that Mr. Hauge's trip here was "far from being secret": That it was announced in Oslo at the time of his departure. The trip took him to Germany to inspect Norwegian troops stationed in the British zone of occupation, and his talks later here were in that connection, the spokesman said. 1 Sunny and Cold Weather Is Due to Continue The clear and cold weather, which came to the District instead of pre dicted snow, is scheduled to continue tonight and tomorrow, the Weather Bureau reported this morning. The rain which fell from time to time yesterday had been expected to change into snow during the night. But, the bureau said, the storm the storm veered off to the North, missing Washington. West Virginia, Pennsylvania and parts of New York got a touch of snow instead. The prediction called for cold and windy weather today with the tem oerature staying in the 30s all day. Tonight it will remain clear and cold and the temperature will drop to about 20 in the city and as low as 14 decrees in the suburbs. Tomorrow will be fair and a little warmer. Yesterday's high was 52 degrees recorded at 2:52 p.m. and the low of 24 degrees occurred at 7:06 o'clock this morning. Williams Is Sentenced To 4 to 18 Months For Housing Frauds Court Criticizes Lack Of Laws for Realty Men Like Those for Banks George H. Williams, bankrupt real estate promoter, who was convicted of defrauding veterans in connection with his housing projects, was sentenced today to serve from 4 to 18 months in Jail. In pronouncing the sentence. Dis trict Court Justice Alexander Holt zoff said he took into consideration that during his trial Williams made no attempts to conceal any facts about his abortive housing efforts. Williams was convicted on charges, of using the mails to de fraud veterans and sending forged checks in interstate commerce. The maximum sentences possible on the charges ranged up to 75 years in jail or fines up to $71,000. Justice Holtzoff said it was “un- ’ fortunate’’ that the law does not put real estate men under the same re strictions as are on banks. He said i this is “something Congress might; want to takp linrfpr rnnsiHprnHrn " Idea Held All Right. "The court has no doubt that Williams started out with the idea of building houses,” the justice de clared. "But it seems he has no idea of the ethical importance" of his missteps. Justice Holtzoff said it was all right for a person to take chances with his money, but that Williams “took his chances with the money of others.” Defense Attorney Robert W. Mc Cullough said he had not decided whether to appeal the case. Immediately before being sen tenced, Williams told a reporter that if he were sent to jail his four children would have to become wards of the State of Maryland. He said he was divorced. His two sons, 16 and 10 years old. and two daughters. 14 and 12, now are living with his parents at his home, 103 Everett street, Kensing ton. Williams said his parents, both more than 70 years old, have no income. Mr. McCullough told the court (See WILLIAMS,"Pag7X-57» Meyers Case Is Sent To Jury After Charge Lasting 55 Minutes Decide Only if General Induced Witness to Lie, Justice Holtzoff Orders By Robert K. Walsh The case of Maj. Gen Bennett E. Meyers went to a District Court jury at 11:40 a.m. today. In a 55-minute charge, Justice Alexander Holtzoff instructed the 10 men and 2 women to disregard “everything extraneous" about the retired Army Air Forces officer and to decide only whether he induced a witness to testify falsely before a ornate war luvesugaung BUDCOm mittee last fall. If convicted, Meyers, who is 52, faces possible Imprisonment from 2 to 10 years on each of three counts charging that he caused Bleriot H Lamarre to tell the subcommittee that Meyers had no financial in terest in the Aviation Electric Co of Dayton, Ohio. Owned Concern, Witness Says. Lamarre, 36, wartime president of the company, testified at the trial that Meyers really owned the con cern and received approximately $150,000 of its funds, including $3, 000 for an automobile and $10,000 for redecoration of his apartment here in the Hotel 2400 on Sixteenth street N.W. Justice Holtzoff cautioned the jury not to draw “unfavorable in ferences" from the fact that Meyers did not take the stand at the trial. It was for the jury to determine, Justice Holtzoff said, whether the Government proved beyond a rea sonable doubt, first, that Lamarre actually and willfully gave an untrue story to the Senate subcommittee and, secondly, that Meyers per suaded him to commit perjury. The court formally announced its ruling, given at a bench conference with attorneys yesterday, that the full Senate War Investigating Com mittee and its subcommittee had legal jurisdiction to investigate the activities of Meyers. The ruling held also Senator Ferguson, Repub lican, of Michigan, the subcommit tee chairman, had authority to ad minister oaths to witnesses and to take testimony. Def^ns^'s Atfflrlr Legality of the subcommittee and of Senator Ferguson s membership were attacked yesterday in an un successful motion by the defense to obtain a directed judgment of ac quittal. Justice Holtzoff referred to testi mony of a surprise Government wit ness, Calvin Mettee. wartime chauf feur to Meyers, that the former AAF purchasing officer offered him $2,000 last October to lie to investigators if asked whether Meyers owned the < SeeMEYERS7~Page~A-67i American Plane Missing On Geneva-Rome Flight By th* Associated Press GENEVA, Mar. 12.—Officials at Cointrin Airport said today a United States plane with "four or five Americans" aboard is unreported on a test flight from Geneva to Rome. The plane left here yesterday after stopping briefly en route from Shannon, Eire. There were no radio communications after it left here. Names of the crew members were unavailable. MacArthur s Key Aides Protest News of U. S. Opposition Clubs By Th* ASSOCIQTM rr«*» TOKYO, Mar. 12.—Gen. Mac Arthur's key staff officers com plained today about a news broadcast that “anti-MacArthur” veterans’ clubs are being organ ized in the United States. Then they announced a policy of lim iting broadcasts by the armed forces radio here to “factual events” in their chief’s presiden tial campaign. Organization of United States clubs opposing Gen. MacArthur’s candidacy was reported in a news summary broadcast last night by the armed forces radio in Japan, Station WVTR. The summary also included news of activities by Mac Arthur supporters. I i formation oi organizations “against MacArthur" by former servicemen and students has been reported from Chicago. Boston, Cambridge, Mass., and Berkeley, Calif.) The officers said the new policy will not apply to a regular 10 p.m.; iTokyo time) shortwave broadcast; from Los Angeles, which is heard' throughout Japan through WVTR. They acknowledged the policy might bring criticism that military and civilian absentee voters in Japan—of whom there are tens of thousands—are being deprived of a :hance to weigh all issues. Round lps of opinion on both sides might je used later, they said. Allied headquarters censorship (See MacARTHUR, Page A-5.J * Senate Passage Of Tax Cut Set For Next Week Committee's Figure Is Nearly Two Billion Below House Bill's (Tax Table on Page A-15.) By tht Associated Press Senate Republican leaders to day tabbed their $4,700,000,000 i tax cut bill for action next week, i Chairman Taft announced that goal was set at a meeting of the Senate Republican Policy Commit tee. Debate is expected to begin Tuesday or Wednesday, but the aim is to get final action by the week’* end. The Senate Finance Committee approved the new bill, 10 to 1, last night. Senator Corinally, Democrat, of Texas, cast the lone opposition vote. The Senate committee whittled $1,800,000,000 from the $6,500,000,00# tax bill passed overwhelmingly by the House February 2. The DUrnnse nf thA Rsmi. is to try to win enough Democratio votes to pass a bill over the presi dential veto the Republicans expect. That would take a two-thirds ma jority in both the Senate and House. Other Provisions Intact. Except for one major change which trimmed the amount of the cut, the Senate measure is practi cally the same as the House bill. The Senate bill provide* for per centage tax cuts ranging from 12 6 per cent for those with net incomes of up to $2,000: 7.4 per cent on in comes of from $2,000 to $136,719, and 5 per cent on incomes over $136,719. The range of House bill reductions is 30 per cent on incomes up to $1,000 ; 30 to 20 per cent between $1,000 and $1,395; 20 per cent be tween $1,395 to $4,000; and—over $4,000 — 20 per cent on the first $4,000 and 10 per cent on the rest. In all cases these cuts are applied to income after deductions and exemptions. Senate Finance Committee Chair man Millikin said 70.5 per cent of the tax relief provided by the Senate bill would go to persons making $5,000 or less after deduc tion, but before personal exemptions. Retroactive to January 1. The House bill would give 71.81 per cent of the $6,500,000,000 cut to those earning less than $4,000. Under both the Senate and House bills: 1. The cut would be effective as of last January 1. 2. The personal exemption for each taxpayer and each dependent would be increased $100—from $500 to $600. 3. Husbands and wives in all. States could split their income for tax purposes. This now can be done only in the 12 so-called community property states. This income split ting plan would benefit to anv py | tent only those who make more than $5,000. 4. Increase the maximum stand ard deduction for contributions, medical and certain other expenses to $1,000. It is $500 now. On income of less than $10,000 the top deduc tion would continue to be 10 per cent. Higher Exemption From Blind. 5. Raise the exemption for blind persons to $600 from $500. 6. Allow persons 65 or older an extra $600 exemption. 7. Apply the income - splitting principle to estate and gift taxes. On the final 10-to-l vote, three Democrats joined the seven Finance Committee Republicans in balloting for a $4,700,000,000 cut. The Democrats were Senators George of Georgia, ranking minority member; Byrd of Virginia and Johnson of Colorado. On the Republican side, in addi tion to Senator Millikin were Sena tors Taft of Ohio, Butler of Ne braska. Brewster of Maine, Bush field of South Dakota, Hawkes of New Jersey and Martin of Penn sylvania. Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky and Lucas, Democrat, of Illinois were not present for the final vote. Earlier, Senator Barkley had of fered a substitute proposal to hold (See TAXES, Page A-2.1 Short-Measure Probe OfLiquorStoresBegun A campaign against short meas ure in package liquor stores was announced today after District in opwivio uuw*ucu £i taace wi u^uui with less-than-full bottles in one store. J. Thomas Kennedy, director of weights, measures and markets, said he has asked the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for a list of 388 liquor package stores in the District. His inspectors, he said, will examine the stock in every Store. Mr. Kennedy said his inspectors found 27 short-measure cases of gin. rum and alcohol in one store and a case and a half in another store. The 27 short-measure cases, he said, were mostly in half pints. In addition to the District liquor stamp, the bottles bore Florida stamps. All the revenue stamps were intact. Evaporation was con sidered as a possible reason for the shortage. The dealers were ordered to re move the goods from stock im mediately. 4 States Feel Earth Shock Centered in Oklahoma By the Associated Press BOISE CITY, Okla., Mar. 12.—A Bugm earuiquaae apparently cenier ing on Oklahoma's Panhandle shook parts of four States last night. Mrs. Fred Southworth, chief tele phone operator here, said the tremor lasted only a second or two, but waa felt in towns 50 to 60 miles away in ill directions. She timed the quake it about 10 p.m. No damage waa reported at any spot.