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Stassen Is 'Delighted'
At Winning Majority
Of Maine Delegates
•y tho Associated Pross
PORTLAND, Me., April 3.—
Maine’s 13 new delegates looked
today toward the Republican Na
tional Convention—a 'substantial
majority” of them apparently friend
ly to Harold E. Stassen's presidential
aspirations.
(In Milwaukee Mr. Stassen told
. a reporter he was “delighted with
the news from Maine.” The for
mer Minnesota Governor said
available information “indicates
that 10 or more of Maine's dele
gates will be with us on the first
ballot at Philadelphia.")
William S. Linnell, Maine Repub
lican national committeman, said
after the State convention ended
last night that “a survey of the dele
gates indicates that the number who
nave declared themselves as favor
ing Harold E. Stassen constitutes a
substantial majority."
Mr. Linnell is a' Stassen adherent.
Alan L. Bird, State Republican
Chairman, himself a delegate, said
■that “in all probability” delegates
:Would go to Philadelphia with open
minds, in view of changing world
conditions.
The 13, uninstructed in keeping
%ith Maine Republican tradition,
Include seven delegates who have
expressed support of or leanings
toward Mr. Stassen and two gen
erally tabbed aa favoring Gov.
Dewey.
Another leaned toward Senator
Vandenberg of Michigan. Three
said they were open-minded, but
some Dewey sentiment was seen
among them. One was nominated
by a supporter of Senator Taft of
Ohio.
Pour are members of the Young
Republican Council, which recently
favored Mr. Stassen.
Police Continue Quizzing
Lotito Murder Suspect
By Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 3—Detectives
eontinued their questioning today'
of a 39-year-old ex-convict who was
■eized yesterday after police said he
pawned jewelry and clothing stolen
from the apartment of slain Mrs.1
Vera Lotito.
The man. identified by Police In
apector Abraham Goldman as
Ramirez Perez, was taken into cus
tody yesterday when he entered a
Columbus Circle pawnshop carrying
the dead woman’s raccoon coat.
All-night questioning of Perez, of
ficers said today, failed to shake his
story that he had bought the cloth- j
lng and jewelry from a man he:
knew only as “Danny.” He denied j
any knowledge of the murder of;
Mrs. Lotito. a 36-year-old bride, who j
was stabbed and garroted in her!
midtown apartment last Tuesday.
Police Commissioner Arthur Wal-!
lander said the articles pawned by;
Perez included the slain woman’s
wedding and engagement rings,'
suits belonging to her husband,!
Robert, and a suitcase and an alarm
clock taken from the Lotito apart-j
ment.
Italy
/Continued From First Page.)
—... - ... - «■»
Uni's picture. Fights broke out and
police made some arrests.
Arms Cache Uncovered.
Near Rome government troops
and police uncovered a cache of
arms which they said was sufficient!
to equip a battalion. Between 30
and 40 Communists were arrested.'
Over the past two months au-|
thorities have seized weapons in
various parts of Italy. Officials said
yesterday's haul was the largest yet
made.
The Rome rightist newpaper,:
Giomale della Sera, said there was
considerable arms traffic in strongly
Communist Northern Italy. The
paper said the traffic was designed
to equip underground forces to
isolate the north.
A week-old strike of government
civil court and justice department
employes ended yesterday.
Cargo of Munitions
Is Uncovered at Bari
BARI, Italy, April 3 liP).—Customs
police today uncovered a cargo of
guns and ammunition aboard a
motor vessel which arrived in nearby
Molfetta from Fiume, a Yugoslav
port,
The cargo was listed as earthen
goods. Inspectors found 400 cases
of rifles and 4.000 cases of ammuni
tion in the hold of the 400-ton ship.
Police blocked off the port of Mol
fetta while naval authorities investi
gated. The ship will be escorted to
Bari.
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Sunny and
windy with highest temperature in
the middle 50's this afternoon. Clear
and colder with frost tonight and
lowest about 36 in the city and 28
In the suburbs. Tomorrow mostly
sunny and warmer.
Maryland and Virginia—Clear and
colder tonight with heavy frost in
the interior and light frost near the
coast. Tomorrow partly cloudy and
warmer.
Wind velocity. 18 miles per hour;
direction, northwest.
River Report.
(From United States Engineers )
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Perry
and muddy at Great Falls; Shenandoah
muddy at Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday— Pet. Today — Pet
Noon _64 Midnight _ 59
4 P.m- 32 8 a.m _•_49
* p.m.-41 10 a.m , *_42
High and Low for Yesterday.
High, 62, at 12:20 a m.
Low. 48. at 11:58 a m.
Record Temperatures Thit Year.
Highest. 86. on March 21.
Lowest. 5, on January 26.
Tide Tables
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High - 3:1S a.m. 4:19 a.m.
Low -:_10:19 am. 11:13 a.m.
High _ 3:40 p.m. 4:41 pm
low - 10:53 p.m. 11:43 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today _ 5:49 6:33
Sun. tomorrow_ 5:48 6:34
Moon, today.. 3:20 a.m 12:50 p.m
Automobile lights must be turned on
ene-hall hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month fo date):
Month. 1948 Aver. Record
January _ 4.57 3.35 7.83 37
February_ 1.68 3.27 6,84 '8*
March_ 3.66 3.75 8.84 ’91
April_ 1.70 327 9.13 ’89
May _ 3.70 10.69 89
June _ 4.13 10.94 011
July _ 4.71 10,63 ’86
August - 4.01 14.41 ’28
September _ 3.24 17.45 '34
October ___ 2 84 8.81 ’37
November_ 2 37 8.69 '89
December _ 3.33 7.56 '01
Degree Days.
"Degree days " yesterday... 10
Accumulated "degree days’’_4,091
0
NEW YORK.—CIRCUS PREVIEW CREATES TRAFFIC JAM—Elephants from the Ringling Bros,
and Barnum & Bailey Circus created “heavy” traffic on Fifty-seventh street at Fifth avenue yes
terday as they arrived from Florida winter quarters. The big show’s curtain-raiser will be in
Madison Square Garden next Wednesday. —AP Wirephoto.
Margarine
(Continued From First Page.)
of signers, made public after the
last name was added, showed that
66 Republicans had joined with 150
Democrats and the 2 American La
bor members to put it over.
The fact that so many Republi-*
cans signed the Democratic-spon
sored petition was a source of con- \
siderable political embarrassment to!
the House majority leadership. But
the Republicans, flooded with mail
and phone calls from back home,
apparently felt it would be political
suicide not to sign.
Suspension of Taxet Discussed.
Republican leaders were seeking
a way out of their political em
barrassment, but they failed to
agree yesterday on any plan before
the petition obtained its last signa
ture. One plan under discussion
was to have the Agriculture Com
mittee reverse itself and bring out
a bill to suspend all the taxes and
license fees for one year.
Current taxes are 10 cents a
pound on colored margarine and
a quarter cent on the uncolored
type. License fees range from $600
for manufacturers down to $48 for
retailers of colored margarine and
$6 for uncolored. All these taxes
and fees would be repealed by the
Rivers bill.
It seemed possible today that the
bill finally adopted by the House,
if it is, would set'a quarter-cent
tax on all margarine, colored or
uncolored. This was the proposal
of Representative Corbett, Repub
lican, of Pennsylvania, who has;
said he will offer it as a substitute
on the House floor.
The House must first vote to dis
charge the Agriculture Committee,
then vote on the Rivers bill itself.
There appeared to be no doubt to
day that a margarine tsjx repeaJqr
would pass the House. It may run
i into trouble in the Senate, where
j a possible filibuster by dairy State
I Senators could defeat it. Sena
1 torial backers were reported as say
I ing, however, they were sure of
! passage once the bill gets through
i the House.
The names of those who signed!
the petition, including 66 Repub
licans, 150 Democrats, and two
American-Laborites, are:
Republican.
Andrews. (N.Y.) McConnell
Angel! McDonough
Auchinclosa McDowell
Bakewell McGarver
Bender McMillen (111.)
Bolton Maioney
Buck Mathews
Busbey Meade (Ky.)
Canfield Merrow
Case. (N. J.) Miller (Conn.)
Chadwick Mitchell
Clason Muhlenberg
Cltppinger Nicholson
Coffin Nixon
Corbett Owens
Crow Patterson
Fsaesser Potts
[Elston Ramey
I Fenton Reeves
Fetcher Rohrbough
Foote Sgrbacher
Fulton Scobllck
Gallagher Hardle Scott 'Pa.)
Gavin Hugh Scott (Pa >
Hand 8mTfh (Me.)
Hartley Tibbott
Herter Towe
Hess Twyman
Hinahaw Vail
Javits VanZandt
Jenkins, (Pa.) Welch
Kunkel Wojverton
Dodge Youngblood
Democrats.
Abbitt Kennedy
Abernethy Keogh
Albert Kerr
then. (La.) Ring
arden Klein
Battle Lane
Beckworth Lanham
Bell Larcade
B and Lesinskl
Bloom Lucas
Boegs. (La ) Ludlow
Bonner Lurk
Boykin Lyle
Brooks Lynch
Brown, (Ga.) McCormack
Bryson McMillan, (8. C.) I
Buchanan Madden
Buckley Mahon
Bulwinkle Manasco
Burleson Mansfield
Byrne (N. Y.) Miller, (Calif.)
Camp Mills
Carroll Monroney
Celler Morris
Colmer Morgan
Cooley Multer
Cooper Murdock
Cox Murray,! Tenn.)
Cravens Norrell
: Crosser Norton
Davis, (Gs.) O Brim
Davis. (Tenn.) O'Toole
, Dawson, (HI.) Passman
Deane Patman
Delaney Peden
j Dingell Peterson
Domengeaux Pfeifer
I Donohue Philbin
! Dorn Poage
! Douglas Powell
Durham Preston
i Eberharter Price, (Fla.)
Engle, (Calif.) Price. (111.)
I Fallon Priest
i Feirhan Rains
Fernander Rankin
Fisher Rayburn
Piannagan Redden
Fogarty Regan
Forand Richards
Garmats Riley
Garv Rivers
Gathings Rogers. (Pla.)
Gordon Sabath
Gorski Sadowski
Gossett Sheppard
Hardv Sikes
Harris Smathers
Hart Somers
Havenner Stigler
Hays Teague
Hebert Thomas. (Tex.)
Hedrick Thompson
Heffernan Trimble
Hendricks Vinson
Hobbs Wgiter
Holifteld West
Huber Wheeler
Johnson. (Okla.) Whitten
1 Johnson (Tex.) Whittington
Jones. (Ala ( Williams
Jones. <N C.) Wilson, (Tex.)
Karsten. 1M0.) Winstead
Kefauver Wood
Kelley Zimmerman
American-Labor.
Isacson Marcantonio
j
Congress in Brief
Senate.
In recess until Tuesday.
Armed Services' Committee winds
up hearings on universal military
training and revival of draft.
House.
Adjourned until Tuesday.
How to Figure Reduced Tax
By th« Associated Press
If you want to figure your reduced tax under the new law—which,
among other things, allows husbands and wives to split the family in
come equally for tax reporting purposes—here's how to do it:
1. Your income (including income of your wife, if any) $..
2. Deductions (if deductions are itemized for such things as other
taxes paid, contributions, etc., enter total of such deductions;
if deductions are not itemized enter 10 per cent of line 1, up.
to a maximum of $1,000) $
3. Subtract line 2 from line 1. Enter the difference here. This
is your net income. $
4. Exemptions ($600 each for yourself, your wife or husband, and
I for each person dependent upon you for more than one-half
of his or her support*. $
5. Subtract line 4 from line 3. Enter the difference here. $
6. If you are married and want to take advantage of lpwer tax
rates by splitting income between husband and wife, divide
line 5 by 2. Enter here. (Single persons must enter here
the amount of line 5). $
7. Use tax rates following to figure your tentative tax. Enter
tentative tax here. $
If amount on line 6 is: Enter on line 7:
Not over $2,000 20% of the amount on line 6
Over $2,000 but not over $4,000.. $400 plus 22% of excess over $2,000
Over $4,000 but not over $6,000.. $840 plus 26% of excess over $4,000
Over $6,000 but not over $8.000.. $1,360 plus 30% of excess over $6,000
Over $8,000 but not over $10,000.. $1,960 plus 34% of excess over $8,000
Over $10,000 but not over $12,000.. $2,640 plus 38% of excess over $10,000
Over $12,000 but rjot over $14.000 .. $3,400 plus 43% of excess over $12,000
Over $14,000 but not over $16,000.. $4,260 plus 47% of excess over $14,000
Over $16,000 but not over $18,000.. $5,200 plus 50% of excess over $16,000
Over $18,000 but not over $20.000.. $6,200 plus 53% of excess over $18,000
Over $20,000 but not over $22.000.. $7,260 plus 56% of excess over $20,000
Over $22,000 but not over $26,000.. $8,380 plus 59% of excess over $22,000
Over $26,000 but not over $32,000.. $10,740 plus 62% of excess over $26,000
Over $32,000 but not over $38,000.. $14,460 plus 65% of excess over $32,000
Over $38,000 but not over $44,000.. $18,360 plus 69% of excess over $38,000
Over $44,000 but not over $50.000.. $22,500 plus 72% of excess,over $44,000
Over $50,000 but not over $60,000.. $26,820 plus 75% of excess over $50,000
Over $60,000 but not over $70,000.. $34,320 plus 78% of excess over $60,000
Over $70,000 but not over $80,000.. $42,120 plus 81% of excess over $70,000
Over $80,000 but not over $90,000.. $50,220 plus 84% of excess over $80,000
Over $90,000 but not over $100.000.. $58,620 plus-87% of excess over $90,000
Over $100,000 but not over $150,000.. $67,320 plus 89% of excess over $100,000
Over $150,000 but not over $200,000..$111,820 plus 90% of excess over $150,000
Over $200.000..$156,820 plus 91% of excess over $200,000
8. Enter here:
<a) 17 per cent of the first $400 on line 7 $
<b) 12 per cent of the amount shown in line 7 in
i excess'of $400 but not in excess of $100,000. •
(c) 9.75 per cent of the amount in line 7 in excess
of $100,000. $.
9. Add lines (a) (b) and (c). $-..
10. Subtract line 9 from line 7. Enter the difference here. This
is the tax on one-half the family income under the com
munity property principle. ■ $
11. Double the amount in line 10. Enter here. This is the actual
taif on your family income. Line 10 would be the actual tax
for a single person. $
(The law specifies cuts of 12.6 per cent, 7.4 per cent and 5 per cent for
items "a,” "b” and “c” on line 8 But a flat 5 per cent reduction which went
into effect in 1946 still applies, so the 17, 12 and 9.75 per cent reductions listed
are an official telescoping of the old and new cuts, for simplicity purposes, t
Politics
(Continued From First Page.) _
strong because it went Republican
when Gov. Dewey headed the
ticket).
Of the delegate-at-large candi
dates, Gen. MacArthur and Mr.
Stassen have candidates who top
the Dewey candidates in personal
appeal. For example, Gen. MacAr
thur has on his slate Fred R. Zim
merman, Secretary of State and for
mer Governor; former Gov. Phil La
Follette and Madge R. Goodland,
widow of Gov. Goodland. The'Stas
sen slate is headed by Senator Mc
Carthy, Walter J. Kohler, jr., son of
a former Wisconsin Governor, and
State Senator Arthur Lenroot, Jr.,
son of former Senator Lenroot. j
Thompson on Dewey Slate.
Perhaps the most widely known
Dewey delegate candidate is Vernon
W. Thompson, who has been speaker
of the House. However, many of
the candidates on the Dewey slate
were elected delegates to the 1944
Republican National Convention
pledged to Gov. Dewey. In that year
Mr. Stassen won four delegates and
Gen. MacArthur three—and in the
districts where they won, no Dewey
delegate candidate was entered.
Most observers give Gen. Mac
Arthur the edge in number of del
egates. Some say he will have as
many as 20 out of 27. Even Gov.
Dewey's close advisers have ad
mitted that Gen. MacArthur may
win a majority of the delegates.
Such an admission may be a wise
political move to break the impact
of a MacArthur victory on the
Dewey candidacy. Some observers
place Gov. Dewey in third place,
which might have considerable ef
fect on the Nebraska primary April
13
The Stassen campaign managers,
and Mr. Stassen himself, however,
make no admission of defeat. Mr.
Stassen claims at least 14 of the
delegates, a majority.
Mr. Stassen, however, runs the
risk of the same kind of sentiment
that was the undoing of the late
Wendell L. Willkie. a candidate in
the 1944 primary, who did not win,
a single delegate. Mr. Willkie was
a foremost internationalist—and
Mr. Stassen is the same.
Gov. Dewey is in the same posi
tion—party—as was Mr. Willkie in
1944. He is a defeated candidate
I for President In the most recent
election. He h^s the advantage,
1 however, of having staged a remark
| able comeback in his own home
State, where two years ago he was
re-elected Governor by a tremen
dous vote.
Wisconsin law in addition to the
election of delegates provides for a
presidential preference vote in the
primary next Tuesday. None of the
three presidential candidates have
entered this popularity contest—
l
land the spaces for candidates are
I left blank. The voters, however,
can write in the names of their
! choice, if they wish.
Two D. C. Students Head
New V. P.l. Radio Station
fty th« Associated Press
BLACKSBURG, Va., April 3.—
Two Washington students were
elected to top positions for the oper
ation of Virginia Polytechnic Insti
tute's new campus radio station,
WUVT.
They are Bennett Nathanson, who
was chosen business manager, and
Thomas M. Blaisdell, program di
rector. Edward O. Talmadge of
Petersburg was elected director of
the station.
C. P. Mills. jr„ of Merrifleld, Fair
fax County, was elected editor of the
1949 yearbook. "The Bugle.’’ Robert
C. Reid. Amherst, was named busi
ness manager.
Brooks Hilton, Norfolk, chairman
:of the Student Publications Board,
announced the selections. He said
W. L. Dudley, jr„ Pulaski, was
elected editor, and L. L. Trower,
Easterville, business manager, of the
student weekly newspaper, "The
'Virginia Tech.”
U.S. Asks Czechs to Recall
Two From Embassy Here
By the Associated Press
The United States has tusked
Czechoslovakia to recall two officials
of its Embassy here.
A State Department spokesman
said last night the Czech Embassy
has been informed that Theo H.
Florin, first secretary, and Evzen
Syrovatka, attache, are “persona non
grata.”
Since nations do not ordinarily
keep diplomats on duty in capitals
| where they are not wanted, the
spokesman said, the recall of the two
Czechs is expected within a few
! days.
No reason was given for the Amer
| ican action.
H. C. Havighurst Named
Northwestern Law Dean
By the Associated Press
EVANSTON, 111., April 3.—North-j
western University today announced^
the appointment of Harold C. Havig-1
hurst as dean of the school of law.;
A former New York attorney, Mr.
Havighurst has been on the North
western faculty since 1930.
A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity, Mr. Havighurst, 50, is a
former faculty member of West
Virginia University. He served as
,an assistant United States attorney!
general in 1939 and 1940 while onj
leave from Northwestern.
Dewey Heads Home,
Uncertain About Fate
In Wisconsin Tuesday
•y »h» Assoctcrtid Prtii
EN ROUTE WITH GOV. DEWEY,
April 3.—Gov. Dewey headed home
from Wisconsin today uncertain
how he will fare in that State's
presidential primary Tuesday. i
Gov. Dewey made no claims or
predictions. But it is known he is
confident of polling a large popular
vote against his rivals, Gen. Mac
Arthur and Harold E. Stassen. J
It is also known he Intends to
stay in the race for the Republican
presidential nomination regardless
of the Wisconsin outcome.
Dewey strategists said the New
York Governor would be pleased if
he won more of Wisconsin’s 27 dele
gates than Mr. Stassen.
They echoed Gov. Dewey’s ex
pressed belief that Gen. MacArthur
would capture the majority of the
State’s delegates. But they pointed
out that on the same day. New
York’s 97 delegates would fall into
Gov. Dewey's lap—uncontested.
Gov. Dewey ended his two-day
tour of Wisconsin last night with a
speech at Appleton in which he de
manded reduction of Federal spend
ing and debt to curb inflation.
At the same time he praised Con
gress for overriding President Tru
man’s veto of the tax-cut bill, "it’s
a mighty good day for the Ameri
can people,” the Governor said.
Gov. Dewey will fly to Nebraska
next Wednesday and campaign
there Thursday and Friday. He is
one of seven entered in the State’s
preferential "free-for-all” primary
April 13. He expects to campaign
further into the West, probably to
Oregon, in the next two months. !
Gov. Dewey told reporters at Ap
pleton he was *very grateful for the
generous reception the people gave
me in Wisconsin.”
He packed them in at the five
halls where he spoke. He also drew
hundreds at brief platform and bus
stops along the route.
The central theme of all his talks
was that President Truman was
bungling foreign policy and that
a lasting peace could be won without
war if the Nation had a "courageous,
strong, firm leadership.”
California Group Files
Slate for MacArthur
LOS ANGELES, April 3 OP).—The
name of Gen. Douglas MacArthur
was bubbling atop the California
political pot today.
A Republican group—acting con
trary to the general’s stated inten
tions—filed a list of 53 delegates
pledged to Gen. MacArthur yester
day with the county registrar of
| voters.
The petition which Allen H. Wor
cester said contained the required
i 7.352 signatures was designed to
place Gen. MacArthur's name on
the State presidential primary ballot
June 1.
Mr. Worcester, Los Angeles hotel
man, filed despite the general’s mes
sage to him and Secretary of State
Prank M. Jordan that he did not
wish to oppose Gov. Earl Warren in
I the California test.
'Draft-Eisenhower' Drive
Urged by Berle on Liberals
ALBANY. N. Y„ April 3 HP).—A
“draft Eisenhower” drive was urged
today on the State convention of
Americans for Democratic Action.
A. A. Berle, jr., state chairman of
the Liberal Party, said Gen. Eisen
hower could not be expected "to give
the final word” now his avail
ability as a presidential candidate.
But “neither he nor any man is
big enough—or small enough—to
decline a nomination for the presi
dency fairly tendered in time of
crisis,” Mr. Berle added in a speech
prepared for a “progressive political
action” meeting.
Henry A. Wallace “has proven
himself a plain traitor to the lib
erals who made him.” the former
Assistant Secretary of State de
clared.
The 250 delegates had been asked
to indorse a presidential candidate
for the guidance of the ADA Na
tional Board, which meets next Sat
urday in Pittsburgh.
Mr. Wallace, in his third party
candidacy, “has cavalierly dismissed
momentous matters by flippancy and
evasion,” former Gov. Herbert H.
Lehman told them last night.
2 D. C. Utility Men Elected
By Maryland Association
Two Washington public utility
officials were elected officers of the
Maryland Utilities Association at
the organization’s meeting yesterday
in Baltimore. Adrian Hughes, vice
president of the Baltimore Transit
Co., was elected president.
R. Roy Dunn, vice president and
: treasurer of the Potomac Electric;
Power Co., was elected vice presi
dent and Raymond C. Brehaut,
manager of suburban properties of
i the Washington Gas Light Co., was
named secretary, the Associated!
Press reported.
Mr. Dunn lives at 2737 Devonshire I
place N.W. and Mr. Brehaut at 205!
| Uhler terrace. Alexandria.
Principal speaker was Gov. Lane,
who expressed i confidence that j
Marylanders realize the necessity of!
| providing adequate revenues to keep
the State “in the van of progress.”
The Governor predicted that con
struction of a bridge or bridge-tun
nel across Chesapeake Bay would
begin this! year, “barring presently
unforeseen world conditions.”
Judge Lewis is Nominated
I For Robsion's House Seat
Sy the Associated Pro**
LONDON, Ky., April 3.—Ninth
District Republicans last night
nominated Judge William Levels, 79,
of London as their party's candidate
for Congress, to fill the unexpired
term of the late John M. Robsion.
The nomination came on the
eighth ballot, after delegates to the
district convention had been dead
locked between Judge Lewis and
John M. Robsion, jr., of Louisville,
son of the late member of Congress.
Judge Lewis was nominated by a
vote of 27 to 4 over Charles L. Seale
of Booneville, after Mr. Robsion
withdrew “in the interests of party
harmony.”
Democrats have not yet nomi
nated a candidate. A special elec
tion has been called for April 24.
Six Children Killed in Blast
METZ, France. April 3 WP).—Six
children. 10 to 12 years old. were
killed by an explosion yesterday
after they Jit a fire in a section of
Fort Belle Croix used as a store
house for old German shells. All
were from the nearby village of St |
Julien-les-Metx.
t
Rose Growers Told How New.
Chemicals Doom Insects
Insects haven't a chance now
adays, since roses are "co-operating”
with some new bug-destroying
chemicals.
This was explained last night by
Dr. Freeman Weiss, plant patholo
gist and chairman of the Potomac
Rose Society's Instruction Commit
tee. He spoke on "Winning the
War Against Rose Enemies'* at the
annual Rose Institute in Usner
Auditorium of George Washington
University.
The chemicals, developed during
the war, are placed around the rose
| bushes. Even a tea spoonful is po
| Congress Vote
The Rouse vote overriding Pres
i ident Truman's veto of the tax-re
duction bill:
Soiklicui far Ortrrifini (Ml).
ALLEN. Calif.
ALLEN. 111.
ANDERSON. Calif.
ANDRESEN. Minn.
ANDREWS, N. T.
ANGELL _ IN, Wit.
AREND6 KILBURN
ARNOLD KNUTSON
AUCHIN CLOSS KUNKEL
BAKEWELL LANDIS
; BA NT A LATHAM_
! BARRETT LE COM PTE
BATES, Maaa. LEFEVRE
ii^LER aȴ
BENNETT. Mich. L1CHTENWALTER
BENNETT, Mo. LODGE
BISHOP i LOVE
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Total membership. 435.
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of Illinois: Sikes. Democrat, of Florida:
Rirlev. Republican, of Oklahoma: Shafer.
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crat. of Pennsylvania: Dintell. Democrat,
of Michigan: Lesinskt. Democrat, of Michi
gan: Buckley. Democrat, of New Tork:
O'Toole. Democrat, of New Tork: Bland.
Democrat, of Virginia.
Absent or not voting. 12.
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tent. The rose bushes then “pick
up" the chemicals, and any bug
that alights on the plant during
the entire summer hasn't a chance.
Moreover, the chemicals cant hurt
the roses.
‘Another speaker was Mrs. Jon
Otto Johnson, writer, who discussed
“The Romantic Rose.’’ She ex
plained the rose existed some 35.-:
000,000 years ago, before the ad
vent of mankind.
Lt. Col. R. K. Windham, president
of the society, directed the meeting, i
The speakers were introduced byj
Mrs. Lillian W. Smith, chairman of j
the institute. j
' on Tax Veto
■ vi.nwvio Colo.
JOHNSTON, & C.
LUCAS
MAYBANX
McCARRAN
REPUBLICANS AGAINST OVERRIDING
DEMOCRATS AGAINS^OVERRIDING—1*.
BARKLEY HATCH
FULBRIGHT McFARLAND
GREEN MYERS
„ **lr *“ announced:
MAONUSON. Democrat and TOBEY. Re
Subllcan. for. and THOMAS. Oklahoma.;
lemocrat. against.
HcSaS!“o&«i“wa«
Democrats.
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Taxes
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removed from the tax rolls com
pletely. t
2. On May 1 tax withholding* from
all wages and salaries will be re
duced. And next year million* of
taxpayers will get refunds from the
Government on the overpayment of
taxes between January 1 and May 1.
Mr. Truman failed to stop the tax
bill with his warning that such a
“reckless” measure would sap Amer
ica's strength at a time of world
crisis, that it would fan the flames
of inflation, and would put thb
Treasury to using red ink again.
Mere Inflation Discounted.
Commenting on the President’s
fears that tax cutting will make
more money available to bid up
prices, thus spiraling Inflation. Sen
ator Flanders, Republican, of Ver
mont, told reporters:
"I think we probably can absorb
this $4,800,000,000 without more in
flation if we don’t get into heavy
military expenditures we cannot
now foresee.” He added:
"If we embark on a heavy military
program it will mean higher taxes
and complete control over the econ
omy."
Speaker Martin also argued that
"tax reduction will strengthen the
economy of the country.” •
"It will stimulate expansion,
bringing greater business activity
and more jobs for the people,” he
added. “It will help relieve some
what the strain of high living costs.
It will increase the take-home pay
of millions of workers.”
Truman Calls Bill Unfair.
In arguing that fhe cut is unfair
and untimely, Mr. Truman set out:
“Nearly 40 per cent of the reduc
tion would go to individuals with
net incomes in excess of *5,000, who
constitute less than 5 per cent of
all taxpayers.’’
He noted a *250,000,000 cut in
estate and gift taxes and said nearly
all of it would go “to only about
12.000 of the most wealthy families.
House Minority Leader Rayburn
went along with Mr. Truman. He
said he sees no way to cut taxes
“and at the same time do the hon
est and straightforward thing and
make our Nation secure from attack
and stop the aggression of despera
does in the world.”
Probably the happiest person over
the tax cut was Mr. Knutson, who
saw Mr. Truman kill two of his
*4.000,000,000 tax-slashing bills last
year.
“This is the crowning feature of
my life," he said.
Exemptions Raised.
The new law accomplishes tax
cutting primarily by:
1. Raising personal exemptions
from $300 to $600.
2. Applying the community prop
erty principle to all States, permit
ting husbands and wives to split the
family income equally for tax re
porting purposes.
3. Granting percentage cuts rang
ing from 12.6 per cent in the low
income area to t per cent in the
higher brackets.
4. Giving special exemptions to
persons 65 and over and to the blind.
Passage of the bill came on the
same day as a Treasury report show
ing the Government took in $7,777,
669,794.82 more than it spent in the
first nine months of fiscal 1948.
Treasury officials estimated that;
the new tax bill would reduce May
and June tax receipts by $600,000,000
and drop the year end budget sur
plus below $7,000,000,000.
That amount would far exceed
the record past surplus for any one
year. The record is about $1,155,
000,000 set 21 years ago during the
Coolidge administration.
Howard
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them from the university files but
that he could not produce them.
The student arrested was identi
fied by police as Carl Prince, 21,
colored, a war veteran and law
student who lives in a Howard
dormitory. He was charged with ac
cepting money under false pre
censes and was released on $300 bond
set by Judge Ellen K. Raedy in
Municipal Court today.
Prince’s attorney, Wesley Wil
liams, told reporters that Prince
told him he was the "innocent
victim of circumstances and a tool
of higher ups.” He refused to
elaborate.
Complaint Signed by Girl.
The complaint against Prince was
signed by a girl student. Brutise
M. Smith, who said she paid him1
the $100. Detective Apostolides said
the girl reported Prince had prom
ised to change a failing grade for
her in exchange for the money. {
However, the detective said, she
received a notice from the univer
sity dropping her from classes fori
failing the &urse involved. She
went to Prince, the detective said,
and he demanded another $100.
She refused to pay and instead
informed the university registrar,
Frederick D. Wilkinson.
Truman Names Rosenthal
President Truman yesterday nom- j
inated Sanford M. Rosenthal to be
a medical director of the Public
Health Sendee. He is now attached.
to the National Institute of Health)
at Betbeada.
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Slock Market Takes
Irregular Course,
500,000 Traded
ly Victor Eubank
Auaciatcd free* financial Writer
NEW YORK. April I. —Leading
stocks tilted higher here and there
in today’s market although many
pivot&ls did nothing or edged into
minus territory.
Hopes that the ooal mine Im
passe would be broken, following
word of John L. Lewis to union
members that they could do as they
please about returning to work,
propped bullish sentiment to some
extent. Rearmament prospects aid
ed scattered favorites.
Skeptics regarding disturbing in*
temational affairs and labor situ
ations generally continued to hold
aloof. Belief that passage of the
tax cut law and European relief
program had been pretty well dis
counted marketwlse also caused
further profit cashing.
Dealings quickened at Intervals
after the opening. Mild irregularity
persisted near the dose. Transfers
for the two hours ran to about 500.*
000 shares.
Ahead most of the time were
Douglas Aircraft, Glenn Martin,
Montgomery Ward, Dow Chemical,
Owens-Illinois, American Tobacco
“B,” Southern Railway, Great
Northern Railway. Skelly Oil, Mis
sion Corp., Gulf Oil and Paramount
Pictures.
Lacking much climbing stamina
were Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler,
Goodrich, Deere, Kennecott, Phelps
Dodge, Philip Morris, U. S. Gypsum,
Northern Pacific and Illinois
Central.
Bonds were narrow.
Resistant in the curb were Amer
ican Gas, Kirby Petroleum and
Ryan Consolidated Petroleum.
Hesitant were Solar Aircraft, Cities
Service and Adam Hat.
Isacson
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gathering would bring together
members of committees organized in
"most Eastern European countries
with the official sanction of those
countries” to supply material and
morale assistance to Greece's guer
rilla forces.
Mr. Isacson had planned to at
tend the Paris parley as an observer
for the American Council for Aid
to Democratic Greece.
The council, a department spokes
man said, is not in sympathy with
the United States program of aid
to “the government of Greece in
order that that country might
maintain its sovereignty against at
tack from guerrilla forces assisted
from abroad.”
“It is obvious, therefore,” tha
spokesman added, “that the issu
ance of a passport for the purpose
stated is not in the interests of tha
Government of the United States.”
Would Investigate Charges.
Mr. Isacson, referring to reports
of Greek Army “brutality,” said
his sole purpose in applying. for
a passport was “to investigate these
charges and the conditions which
actually exist.”
"Earlier this week on the floor
of Congress,” he said, "I proposed
that before our administration
i lightly tossed hundreds of millions
of dollars into the mire of corrupt
Greek politics and carelessly
jeopardized the lives of Americas
youth, that we give the most search
ing thought to conditions in Greece.
“I urged that we should not be
stampeded into undeliberative haste
to commit the lives and resources
of the American people to the per
petuation of a discredited monarchy
in Greece.”
Even President Truman, Mr. Isae
son declared, has acknowledged “th*
poor military situation ^and eco
nomic conditions" in Greece.
Blasts Foreign Policy.
Mr. Isacson, blasting the admin
istration's foreign policy during his
campaign, was victorious over Dem
ocratic and Republican candidates.
The district normally is Democratic.
Both he and Mr. Wallace have
urged that new efforts be made by
the United States to reach an un
derstanding with Russia.
Althougn ,Mr. Wallace was not
available for comment on the State
Department’s action, his national
campaign manager, C. B. Baldwin,
termed the passport denial '‘an af
front to all decefit American peo
ple."
"This denial of his (Isacson’si
and his constituents’ rights is in
j perfect accord with the loyalty
program of the Truman adminis
| tration,” Mr. Baldwin said.
Representative Vito Marcantonlo,
New York State chairman of the
American Labor Party and the only
other ALP Representative in Con
gress, commented:
"Nothing democratic can be ex
pected from a State Department
that is permitting Jews to be killed
in Palestine, Greeks to be killed in
Greece and Chinese to be killed in
China.
"So the denial of a passport la
simply an incident in a program in
support of tyranny and dictator
ships everywhere in the world."
End of Painters' Strike
Appears Likely Soon
A strike of 1,100 painters, demand
ing $2.18 an hour, appeared on the
way to settlement today when 1,000
of the strikers returned to work.
C. H. Rhodes, secretary of Paint
ers’ Union Local 368, AFL, said con
tracts covering the remaining 100
striking painters would probably ba
signed by Wednesday.
The painters in Local 368 went on
strike last Thursday for a 33-cent
wage raise. The old contract called
for $1.85 an hour.
Divorced Father
Of Eight Denied
Tax Exemption
ly th« Auociot«d Prn*
A man can have eight children,
contribute *1,458.50 a year to their
support, and still not be able to
claim a single income tax depend
ency credit—if they live with their
mother who contributes more.
A United States Tax Court deci
sion today was made in a case un
der the old income tax law, but it
holds just as good for the new lower
taxes: You can't claim a dependent
without furnishing more than half
of the support.
The father of eight, Ollie J. Kot
lowski of Milwaukee, was ordered
by the court to pay the Government
an extra *1,048 in taxes for 1944 and
1945. *
He admitted that his wife con
tributed more than half to the chil
dren's support by taking a job and
renting a part of the house—this in
addition to handling household
tasks and caring for the eight chil
dren.
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