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Increase in Old-Age Benefits
And Wider Coverage Voted
By Senate Finance Committee
90 Pet. Average Rise
Asked in Bill but No
Tax Boost for 5 Years
By J. A. O'Leary
Higher pensions and broader
coverage under the social se
curity old-age retirement system
were approved today by the Sen
ate Finance Committee, without
any increase in payroll tax rates
for five years.
For the 2.9 million persons
already retired, the bill would
raise monthly payments more
than 100 per cent in the low
benefit groups, to 60 per cent in
the higher brackets, for an aver
age Increase of 90 per cent.
For those approaching the re
tirement age of 65, the Senate
bill would make it easier to be
come eligible for benefits about
double the amount they could get
under existing law.
The Senate committee esti
mated that, under this new fea
ture, about 500,000 additional
persons would be paid benefits in
the first year of operation. The
Senators are counting on this to
reduce the need for public relief
expenditures by the States.
Highlights of Bill.
With a few details still to be
acted on, highlights of the Senate
bill are:
The minimum primary benefit
of $10 per month under present
law would be increased in nearly
all cases to $25, as in the House
bill, passed a year ago. Any per
son earning less than $34 a month
would retire on a $20 benefit.
(The primary benefit is the basic
payment made to a husband, not
counting the allowance for de
pendents.)
A person now receiving $20 a
month primary benefit would get
$36 under either the House or
Senate version.
From that point on the Senate
payments are higher, as follows:
A $25 primary benefit, under
present law, becomes $44 in
House bill, $48 in Senate.
A $30 benefit becomes $51 in
House, $56 in Senate.
A $35 benefit becomes $55 in
House, $62 in Senate.
A $40 benefit becomes $60 in
House, $68 in Senate.
A $45 benefit becomes, $64 in
House, $72 in Senate.
$150 Top Family Benefit.
As under the House bill, the
maximum family benefit under
existing law of $85 a month would
be increased to $150, but not more
than 80 per cent of the average
monthly wage of the insured
person.
While the Senate draft is more
liberal than the House in bene
fit payments for retirement be
cause of age, it drops entirely the
House plan to establish social
security retirement for perma
nent and total disability.
The Senate committee also
would not bring under the law as
many new voluntary beneficiaries
as the House would. The present
law covers 35 million individuals.
Both the House and Senate bills
would bring 7 million new wage
earners in on a compulsory basis.
The House bill also would bring
in about 4 million others on a
voluntary basis, while the Senate
bill would bring in on a voluntary
basis about 1.5 million State and
(Continued on Page A-7, Col. 4.)
Injuries in Auto Accident
Are Fatal to Gen. Fike
By the Aisociated Press
BYRN MAWR. Pa., May 3 —
Brig Gen. Charles Laird Fike, 48,
retired Marine Corps officer who
led the first air units based on
Guadalcanal during World War
II, died today of injuries he suf
fered Sunday in an auto crash.
In the accident, on a rain
slippery highway in nearby Glad
wyne, another Philadelphia sub
urb, Gen. Fike was thrown from
his car as it skidded into a truck
trailer. He was pinned under one
of the trailer’s wheels.
An Annapolis graduate, Gen.
Fike retired from the Marine
Corps four years ago and has been
with the Budd Co. as an executive
In the railway car division.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Helen L. Fike, and a son,
Robert G., of Los Angeles.
Bandit Posing as Customer
Slugs, Robs Store Owner
Abraham Goldberg, proprietor
of Crown Cleaners, 100 K street
N.W., was slugged on the head and
robbed of $5 today by a bandit
who posed as a customer.
Police said Mr. Goldberg, 53, was
alone in his shop when a colored
man entered and presented a
cleaning slip. When Mr. Goldberg
looked at the ticket, he told police,
the man struck him on the head
with a blunt instrument, knocking
him to the floor.
The bandit rifled his victim’s
pockets of $2 in change, took $3
from his wallet and fled.
Mr. Goldberg was treated at
Casualty Hospital for two severe
lacerations of the skull, police said.
Smothers Defeats Pepper Easily
In Bitter Florida Senate Race
Jacksonville, Fla.—Representative Smathers and his wife
smile happily after his defeat of Senator Pepper in the Florida
Senate primary. Victory in the primary is equivalent to election.
—AP Wirephoto.
By Gould Lincoln
Representative George A.
Smathers, former Marine officer,
has won a decisive victory over
Senator Claude Pepper for the
Florida Democratic senatorial
nomination. *
With returns from 1,466 of the
State’s 1,595 precincts reported,
Mr. Smathers had a lead of 64,657
over Senator Pepper. The total
vote from these precincts showed
Mr. Smathers with 361,021 votes to
296,364 for Senator Pepper.
Mr. Smathers’ victory in the
niminating primary yesterday is
tantamount to election, although
he must run in the general elec
tion next November against the
Republican nominee, John P.
Booth.
The total vote, of more than
650,000, is indicative of the inter
est which the slambang, vitu
perative campaign—the toughest
for years in Florida—held for the
voters.
Four of Florida’s six House mem
jbers were renominated. Repre
sentative Bob Sikes, Crestview,
and Representative Syd Herlong
Leesburg, were unopposed. Rep
resentative Dwight L. Rogers, Fort
Lauderdale, won in the 6th Dis
trict and Representative Charles
E. Bennett, Jacksonville, in the 2d.
William C. LantafT, Miami State
Representative, was nominated to
succeed Mr. Smathers as 4th Dis
trict Representative. He defeat
ed former Representative Pat
Cannon, who served four terms
before losing to Mr. Smathers in
1946.
State Attorney Chester B. Mc
Mullen of Clearwater led four
opponents for the 1st District
congressional nomination, but it
appeared likely a runoff May 23
would be needed to settle that
race. Representative J. Hardin
Peterson did not seek renomina
tion.
No major State offices were at
__[See FLORIDA, Page A-4.)
National Party Wing
Takes Slight Lead in
Close Alabama Race
Truman Democrats Ahead
For 39 Committee Posts,
States' Righters for 32
By the Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., May 3 —
The national party move to smash
the States’ Rights revolt of Ala
bama Democrats was slightly fa
vored today on mounting returns
from yesterday's primary.
With about two-thirds of the
vote in. it appeared that official
Ohio Democrats Pick Ferguson to Oppose
Toft in November. Page A-4
Indiana Renominates 11 Representatives;
Voters Jam Polls. Page A-4
tabulations May 11 might be nec
essary to determine whether con
trol of party machinery had been
wrested from those who led Ala
bama away from the Truman
Barkley ticket in 1948. Opposition
to civil rights proposals was cause
of the revolt.
The battle for party control cen
tered on the State committee,
made up of eight members from
each of nine districts. Senators
Hill and Sparkman led the fight
for party loyalty.
At 10:30 a.m. tabulation gave
(See ALABAMA, Page A-4.)
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Glen Taylor Invited
Aboard Truman Train
To Go Through Idaho
Taft Chosen to Reply
To Speech President
Will Make in Chicago
By the Associated Press
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho,
who bolted the Democrats in 1948
to run for Vice President on the
! Henry Wallace ticket, has been in
vited to ride President Truman's
special train through Idaho.
Senator Tailor disclosed this
today, while in another political
development the Republicans
picked Senator Taft of Ohio to
reply to Mr. Truman's May 15
speech in Chicago. That speech
I will climax the President’s West
ern tour.
Invited by Party Officials.
Senator Taylor told a reporter
that Democratic Party officials in
vited him aboard the train.
Mr. Truman has scheduled six
Idaho stops May 10, none of them
more than brief platform ap
pearances.
The Senator is seeking renomi
nation on the Democratic ticket
with former Senator D. Worth
Clark regarded as his most likely
opponent. If the President boosts
Senator Taylor, an undetermined
number of Idaho Democrats won’t
like it.
The same situation prevails in
Iowa,,where Mr. Truman has four
stops scheduled. In that State his
former Undersecretary of Agri
culture, Albert J. Loveland, is one
of seven seeking the Democratic
senatorial nomination.
Dewey May Be Asked to Reply.
Senator Brewster of Maine, the
Republican senatorial campaign
committee chairman, announced
Senator Taft’s selection to answer
the President’s “Jefferson Jubilee”
speech in Chicago.
Party leaders may invite Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
to sum up the Republican an
swers to the President after the
trip is over.
Most of the Republican replies
will be from Washington, but Sen
ator Morse, Republican, of Ore
gon said he is going to be right
on the ground in Oregon, ready
with an answer to anything the
President may have to say in
seven stops in that State, includ
ing a scheduled major address at
Pendleton.
Lattimore Calls
'McCarthyisnT
Threat to U. S.
Says Query on Wife
Brings'New Low' to
American Politics
By Cecil Holland
Owen Lattimore declared today
that “the shadow of McCarthy
ism” hangs over the country as a
threat to academic freedom.
Mr. Lattimore, Far Eastern
affairs specialist, struck out at
House Group to Hear Norman Thomas'
Stand Against Red Curbs. Page A-26
State Department Officials Pay Porty Bills
To Brief Congress. Page A-19
Senator McCarthy as he faced an
other round of questioning on the
Wisconsin Republican's charges
that he was a Communist and
Russia’s top spy in this country.
He also said “a new low in
American political life” had been
reached in bringing the name of
his wife into the investigation in
connection with a lecture before
the Tom Mooney Labor School
in California in 1943.
“How often does a loyal Ameri
can have to prove his loyalty?”
Mr. Lattimore demanded.
Hickenlooper Asks Explanation.
“Are we to reach the point in
American life when a university
professor can only hold his chair
by being able to produce proof
that he has been attacked by the
Soviet Press?”
When this country reaches that
stage, Mr. Lattimore added, then
"McCarthyism has dominated
America.”
Senator Hickenlooper, Republi
can, of Iowa, who was waiting
ft) question Mr. Lattimore, asked
if the witness was objecting to
the committee’s investigation of
the charges against him.
Mr. Lattimore, a Jot*ns Hopkins
University professor, said he was
not objecting. He added ne was
referring to questions asking if
he had ever been attacked by the
Soviet press.
Lattimore Voiees Concern.
As a professor and researcher,
Mr. Lattimore said, this was a
matter of concern to him since
it reflected practices more olten
found in Soviet Russia.
Senator Hickenlooper retorted
that “the shadow of Communist
activity projected over the coun
try” was a matter of concern to
the committee.
He is a member of a Senate
| Foreign) Relations subcommittee
! studying the Lattimore case as
part of its investigation of charges
of communism in the State De
partment.
Committee’s Duty Stressed.
The committee, Senator Hick-!
enlooper said, has the duty of
probing deeply the questions that
have come up.
Mr. Lattimore said the investi
gation had reached “a new low”
in political life when Senator
Hickenlooper renewed some ques
tions he had asked yesterday on
(See COMMUNISTS, Page A-3.) j
Reds Protest to U. S.
About Bases in Japan
By the Associated Press
TOKYO, May 3.—Russia today
asked Gen. MacArthur to explain
military and news reports that
the United States is rebuilding key |
Japanese naval and air bases.
It charged such rebuilding would
be in violation of Allied occupa
tion policy.
The top general of the Soviet!
mission in Tokyo presented Rus-!
sia's complaint in a letter to Gen.
MacArthur.
The Russian, Lt. Gen. Kuzma
Derevyanko, cited several pub
lished accounts of how the United
States put new sinews in Japan’s!
old naval bases and built “a num-!
ber of airfields from Hokkaio to'
Kyushu” which “can accommodate
the country’s largest bombers.”
Bride Talks in Delirium, Reveals
Secret Marriage to Drug Heir
By th« Associated Press
SANTA MONICA. Calif., May 3.
—A delirious high school bride
blurted out the secret of her run
away marriage last August 6 to
Justin Dart, jr., polio-crippled
hfir to one of the world's largest
drug store fortunes.
Mrs. Roy Sloan, mother of the
17-year-old bride, today disclosed
how her daughter Suzanne in a
delirium from a recent auto ac
cident injuries, told of the run
away marriage to Yuma, Ariz.
Suzanne is a senior at Santa
Monica High School. Young Dart
is the son of Justin Dart, presi
dent of the Rexall Drug Co. The
bridegroom’s mother is Mr. Dart's
first wife, now Mrs. Ruth Wal
green Stephan of New York.
Through her, young Dart is part
heir to the Liggett and Walgreen
drug fortunes.
Suzanne's mother said the bride
is now living at her parents’ home
until she finishes her high school
studies this June.
Mrs. Sloan said both she and
her husband, Maj. Sloan, are “very
happy” about the wedding. The
Sloans notified Mrs. Stephan in
New York.
“The children intended to keep
their secret until after he finished
school next year,” Mrs. Stephan
said. “But now, everybody, in
cluding Suzanne and Justin are
glad it happened the day it did.”
The couple met about four years
ago, Mrs. Stephan said, and when
young Dart was stricken with polio
in California 18 months ago, the
girl visited him every day at the
hospital.
As soon as the drug store heir
was able to drive a specially-con
structed car, they eloped.
The bridegroom now is study
ing theology at La Sierra College.
Arlington, Calif., and plans to be
a minister or social worker.
Doctors say young Dart may be
able to walk in four or five years.
District to Stop Marking Time,
Shift to Daylight Saving Tonight
Capital Clocks Will Go Hour Ahead at 2 AM.;
Residents Slated to Lose Hour of Sleep
At 2 a.m. tomorrow, the Nation's
Capital will unscramble its mixup
in time, bringing it into line with
other large Eastern cities that
went on daylight saving time on
Sunday.
At that moment, 2 a.m. will by
the magic of law become 3 a.m.,
depriving Washingtonians of an
hour of sleep but putting an end
to four days of confusion.
Residents who want to get up
on time tomorrow should simply
set their clocks and watches one
hour ahead on retiring tonight.
Nearby communities in Maryland
and Virginia also are prepared
to advance their clocks along
with the District.
As in past years, when Wash
ington managed to shift to day
light time in unison with other
cities, the lost hour will be repaid
on the last Sunday in September,
the 24th. when the pendulum
swings back to standard time
again.
The city will get its first dose
of daylight time in midweek this
year because of some rapid-fire
legislative action late yesterday.
The Senate took time out from
the ECA foreign-aid bill yesterday
to consider the House-passed time
bill and approved it in one minute
flat.
Within a few hours—an extra
ordinarily short time—President
Truman signed the legislation,
(See TIME, Page A-3.)
Press Spokesmen Hit
Racing News Ban as
Step to Other Curbs
Fast Transmission Bred
Crime Net, Senators Told
By Missouri Official
By Miriam Ottenberg
Press and radio spokesmen to
day opposed legislation barring
interstate transmission of gam
bling information on grounds it
would open the door to other curbs
on news.
Testifying before a Senate-Com
merce subcommittee considering
Testimony in Senate Brings Raid on Office
Of New York Bookie. Page A-3
Ousted Police Officials Charge Binoggio
Put Heat on Them. Page A-21
anti-gambling legislation, repre
sentatives of the Associated Press,
the International News Service
and the Radio Correspondents As
sociation all cautioned against the
legislation. The subcommittee,
however, got the other side of
the story from J. E. Taylor, at
torney general of Missouri, who
declared that the rapid transmis
sion of race results has bred a
crime syndicate.
During the hearing. Chairman
McFarland announced that the
subcommittee has subpoenaed two
of the men who the Federal grand
jury in Kansas City said were
partners of the slain mobster,
Charles Gargotta, in a race news
distributing company in Kansas
City. The grand jury named this
outlet as Standard News Service
and reported it got its information
(Continued on Page A-7, Col. 1.)
Lie to Fly to Moscow
May 10 to Ask Parley
On Ending Cold War
Refers to Hoover Plan
For U. N. by Denouncing
Any Step to Split World
ly the Associated Press
PARIS, May 3. — Secretary
General Trygve Lie announced
today he will fly to Moscow May
10 to try to persuade Russia to
agree to a meeting of world
leaders—with the Security Coun
cil—aimed at ending the cold war
and averting a global catastrophe.
In an obvious reference to
former President Herbert C.
Hoover's proposal to reorganize
the U. N., without Russia and her
satellites, Mr. Lie denounced any
attempt to split’the world perma
nently into two camps. He told a
news conference:
"When the United Nations was
established in San Francisco, it
was created as an organization
for the entire world. Now it is
proposed to split the world per
manently into two camps.
Sees New Splits Created.
"That road will harden existing
divisions in the world, create new
ones, perpetuate and accelerate
the armaments race, make eco
nomic warfare a permanent con
dition, condemn all the poor and
hungry in many parts of the
world to remaining poor and
hungry, bring the propaganda war
and its accompanying hysteria to
new depths of intellectual and
moral degradation, and destroy
the chance for agreement on con
trol of atomic energy.”
Mr. Lie told the reporters he
hopes to see Prime Minister Stalin
and place before him the secre
tary-general’s plan to have the
U. N. Security Council meet with
"heads of states and with cabinet
members of all nations.”
"The most critical situation
isince 1945 has developed this
year.” he said, “not only for the,
United Nations but for the future
of the world itself. We are at the
crossroads.”
Denies Carrying Any Message.
He denied any suggestion that
he was carrying any message from
President Truman to Prime Minis
ter Stalin.
"I am carrying no messages and
no proposals from any govern-;
ment to any other,” he said.
Mr. Lie said he first discussed
the Security Council meetings
with big power leaders in Wash
ington last month and the idea
"was received with enthusiasm
and sympathy.” Such meetings
would be sessions of the Security
Council held outside U. N. head
quarters at Lake Success and at
tended by leading big power
officials and member government
representatives.
Ex-Captain of 'Mo,'
2 Others Reduced
On Promotion Lists
Sentences Set Back
3 Naval Officers
100 to 350 Places
By the Associated Pro**
NORFOLK, Va., May 3.—Three
key officers on the Battleship Mis
souri have ben punished by reduc
tion in ‘ numbers” for the ground
ing of the ship in Chesapeake Bay
January 17, the Navy announced
today.
This punishment lowers the
; officers in. their respective grades
Ion the levy’s promotion list and
retards their advancement in rank.
I Capt. William D. Brown, 47, of
Frostproof, Fla., the Missouri’s
former commanding officer, wasi
reduced 250 numbers. Capt. Brown1
had shouldered sole responsibility
for the grounding.
Comdr. John R. Millett, 38. of
Waterloo, lewa, the ship’s former:
operations officer, was reduced 100
numbers.
Lt. Comdr. Frank G. Morris, jr„ j
34, of New York, former navigator,
was reduced 350 numbers.
Eligibility Relayed.
According to Navy officials in
Washington, Capt. Brown, before
his reduction, was within 400
numbers of the top of his grade
and would have come up for pro
motion either this fall or next
year.
His punishment means that his
eligibility for advancement to rear
admiral’s rank will be delayed at
least four years, officials said,
Comdr. Millett was in about the
middle of his grade and Comdr.
Morris was “fairly” near the top
of his grade, officials explained.
Capt. Brown and Comdr. Mlllett j
are graduates of the United States
Naval Academy. Comdr. Morris
enlisted in the Navy In 1*40 and
received a commission late In that
year.
Punishment of the three offi
cers was announced by Admiral
William M. Fechteler, commander
in chief of the Atlantic Fleet. The
officers were found guilty by gen
eral courts-martial. Capt. Brown
on two charges of negligence and
one of neglect of duty; Comdr.
Millett on one charge of negli
gence and one of neglect of duty,
and Comdr. Morris on a charge
of culpable inefficiency and neg
lect of duty.
Captain Pleaded Guilty.
Capt. Brown pleaded guilty to
all the charges against him and
threw himself on the court’s
mercy. The other two officers
pleaded innocent.
All three have been released
from arrest and restored to duty.
They now await reassignment by
the Bureau of Personnel.
The 45,000-ton Missouri, the
Nation’s only active service bat
tleship. ran aground off Old Point
Comfort. January 7, in an unsuc
cessful attempt to ruh a secret 1
electronic range between the main 1
ship channel and shallow w'ater. 1
She remained hard aground on a '
sand shoal for 15 days before 1
yielding to a combination of an
unusually high tide, a score of :
tugs and powerful beach gear i
cables. i
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Acheson Leaves Saturday !
For London and Paris Talks
Secretary of State Acheson said
today he plans to leave Saturday
for talks in Paris and London
which he hopes will lead to
further strengthening of the West 1
in the cold war with Russia.
He will review the world situa- :
tion with French Foreign Min
ister Schumann and British For- <
eign Secretary Bevin and then <
join in a meeting of the Foreign
Minister of all the North Atlantic I
treaty countries. j;
Shift of 6 Pools
To D. C. Voted
By House Unit
Bill Would End Plans
Of Interior Department
For Bi-racial Use
By Coit Hendtey, Jr.
The House District Committee
today approved a bill to transfer
six Interior Department swim
ming pools to control of the Dis
trict Commissioners.
The Interior Department has
announced that it intends to open
the pools this summer on a non
segrated basis. If this bill be
comes law, these plans would be
canceled as the Commissioners
then would assign the operation
of the pools to the District Recre
ation Board, which has refused
to go along with bi-racial pools.
Chairman McMillan satd he ex
pects to call the bill up on the
floor of the House for debate
Monday if nothing prevents the
scheduled District Day from being
held.
The South Carolinian said that
there was ‘‘no opposition" to the
bill in the committee. It was ap
proved unanimously by the quor
um of 14 members present at
today s closed session.
Sees Commissioners Responsible.
He said the committee decided
not to report the bill out, adding:
“It is not our place to decido
the segregation issue, nor is it tho
Interior Department's. Tha Dis
trict Commissioners are respon
sible for the playgrounds and
recreational facilities in the city.”
The six pools in question ara
Anacostia, Takoma. East Potomac,
McKinley, Francis and Banneker.
Last year, Anacostia. normally
a white pool, was closed after dis
orders broke out there when col
ored swimmers attempted to
enter. McKinley, also a whlto
pool, became one patronised
mainly by Negroes when whit*
swimmers refused to use the podl
jointly.
The six pools have been op
erated by the Interior Department
under a policy of non-segregation
| for several years. But, in prac
tice, until last summer, colored
swimmers used only Francis and
Banneker.
Chapman Letter Read.
Before the committee approved
the bill, it heard a letter from In
terior Secretary Chapman giving
his views on proposed legislation.
Mr. Chapman's letter stated that
he had no objection to the trans
fer of the pools to the Commis
sioners. provided there was a pro
vision in the bill guaranteeing
they would be operated on a non
segregated basis.
The committee made no such
provision in reporting out the bill.
Last month, Mr. Chapman of
fered to turn the pools over to
the Recreation Board under tha
same conditions. The board re
jected the offer, stating it was no*
ready to undertake the bi-raciai
operation of the six pools.
Harry S. Wender, Recreation
Board chairman, stated at tha*
time that the board would be
willing to operate one pool—Mc
Kinley—on a bi-racial ba*i\ but
not all of them.
House Unit Cuts 2.1 Cents
From Cheap Cigarette Tax
ly »W« Associated Press
Ths House Ways and Meant
Committee voted today to cut the
tax on "economy" brands of
cigarettes from 7 cents to 4.9 centa
a pack.
The action raised above the $1
billion mark the total cutting it
has voted in excise taxes.
Makers of the cheaper cigarette*
have said they could sell at 13
cents a pack 'excluding State
taxes) if the Federal tax were
cut.
The Treasury estimated that if
the cut was made cigarette smok
ers would pay (90 million lest
taxes a year.
Jet-Borne Camera
Shows Spade Ace
In Player's Hand
fty the Associated Pratt
PHILADELPHIA, May 3 —An
Air Force officer says a new
camera m a jet airplane flying
at 500 miles per hour took so clear
a picture of a man playing cards
on the ground that “You could
read the ace of spades.”
Col. George W. Goddard, direc
tor of photography and research
development at the Air Force Cen
ter. Wright Field. Ohio, told th*
Philadelphia chapter of the Armed
Forces Communication Associa
tion last night the new camera
was capable of taking clear pic
tures from a low-flying plan*
traveling 3.000 miles an hour—If
such a speed were attainable.
During a recent test, he aaid.
“a jet plane traveling 500 miles
an hour flew over a man holding
playing cards, passing only 50
feet over his head.”
The picture was so sharp you
could read the ace of spades,” Col.
Goddard reported.
He said the camera uses mov
ing film, doing away with the con
ventional type of shutter. ^