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RE. 5262 Branch Takoma Park »——ggHimgm— Pocked in ( Ibot-Seoled Double CeBopbone Buss a. Downey to Let Nixon Take Seat on Nov. 30, Giving Him Seniority Senator-elect Richard M. Nixon of California will get seniority over six, and possibly seven, other new Republicans as a result of the de cision of Democratic Senator Downey to let Mr. Nixon take his seat November 30 instead of Janu ary 3. Senator Downey did not try for another term this year, and would have stepped out of the Senate at noon January 3. His generous of fer to resign a month earlier will mean a great deal to Mr. Nixon in later years, since the Senate at taches so much importance to seniority in picking its leaders. Mr. Nixon defeated Representa tive Helen Gahagan Douglas, the Democratic senatorial nominee, on November 7, but under normal circumstances would have begun his term simultaneously with six other new Republicans in Jan uary. May Also Outrank Carlson. The are Senators-elect Dirk sen of Illinois, Duff of Pennsyl vania, Butler Maryland, Case of South Dakota, Bennett of Utah and Welker of Idaho. Republican Gov. Frank Carlson of Kansas is eligible to take his Senate seat on November 27, when the lame-duck session of this Congress starts, because he is filling out an unexpired term. He has indicated to friends here that he may not be able to come to Washington until early in De cember. If he waits that long Mr. Nixon may also outrank him in seniority. Charles Watkins, veteran par liamentary expert of the Senate, said today that when a man is appointed to the Senate his sen iority starts from the day of his appointment, and dispatches from California report that Republican Gov. Warren will appoint Mr. Mixon as soon as Senator Downey resigns. Action Has Precedents. Senator Downey’s action is not : without precedent. The most re cent similar case was in 1946 when former Democratic Senator Hugh Mitchell, now a member of the House, resigned from the Senate on December 25 to let Senator Harry Cain, Republican, get the seniority benefit of taking office before other newcomers in January, 1947. Back in 1933 the late Democratic1 Senator Hawes of Missouri, did: the same thing to help his Demo cratic successor, Bennett Champ Clark. Former Senator Clark is now a judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Two of the incoming Republican ; Senators — Case and Dirksen — I have had service in the House. Mr. Case still will be a member of the House during the coming short session. When a group of new men enters the Senate at the i same time, they are given senior ity credit for former public serv ice in the following order: 1, ex Senators; 2, ex-Representatives, and 3, ex-Governors. When sev eral men with no prior public service are sworn in the same day, their seniority for committee as signment is determined by draw ing. Mr. Nixon also is a present House member, but Senator Dow ney’s move will give him Senate seniority over other House mem bers sworn in as Senators in Jan uary. Philippines Recalls Commander in Korea By th« Associated Press MANILA. Nov. 21.—Lt. Col. Mariano C. Azurin has been re lieved as commander of Philip pine forces in Korefa and ordered home. Defense Secretary Ramon Mag saysay said today he took the action after consultation with Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters, President Qulrino and Maj. Gen. Mariano N. Castaneda, Philip pine Army Chief of Staff. “The relief of Col. Azurin was wholly a Philippine action,” Mr. , Magsaysay stressed in an inter view. He said Lt. Col. Dionisio Ojeda, a United Nations observer, will re place Col. Azurin. Col. Ojeda was promoted today from the rank of major. Until Col. Ojeda reaches the 1,200 troops, Lt. Col. Gamaliel i Manikan, former executive officer of the Philippine 10th Battalion Combat Team, will be in com mand. Girl Leaps to Her Death In Mountain Crevasse By th. Anociat.d Pr.<» GARMISCH - PARTENKIRCH EN, ^Germany, Nov. 21.—A girl jumped to her death today in a I 260-foot-deep crevasse from near ' the top of Germany’s highest mountain. German police said the 23-year old girl, whom they did not name, committed suicide presumably in a fit of lover’s grief. Her jump was observed by customs officials from a mountain hut on the 9,700 foot-high Zugspitze. Phhups MILK OF MAGNESIA THE SCENE IS A HOTEL LOBBY—Reno, Nev.—Grinning guests wade through Truckee River flood waters in the lobby of the plush Riverside Hotel here today. The water did untold damage to hotels, business houses and private homes within two blocks of the river on each side. —AP Wirephoto. Floods (Continued From First Page.) 45.7 feet at 8 a.m.—almost 8 feet above flood stage and a new high. But upstream at Folsom, the Weather Bureau said, the river was starting to recede after re maining at a record 29.7-foot crest for four hours. The heavy rain in the hills had stopped and theie was little more than a drizzle there in the city. The big Sacramento River, ^ith its elaborate flood control facilities in full operation, was running at 29.5 feet at Sacramento and rising very slowly. Its danger point Is above 30 feet. More Rain Predicted. The Weather Bureau at San Francisco predicted “moderate to heavy rain" for the High Sierra today—the ninth straight day of storms. Reno, gaudy little city of casinos and quickie divorces, reeled under the Impact of the flood. Muddy water raced through the business district in a stream three blocks wide, sweeping trees, benches, cars in its rage. The plush Riverside Hotel had 5 feet of water on its main floor. The ultra swank Mapes Hotel’s basement was flooded to the. ceil ing. A 6-foot wall of water was kept out of the lobby by sand bags. Merchants reported thou sands of dollars of damage to Christmas merchandise stored in flooded basements. Highways Washed Out. United Air Lines scheduled a special plane to evacuate strand ed travelers, but canceled it be cause only two wanted out. Both main highways to Cali fornia, 40 and 60, were washed out in places across the Sierra. They were blocked by slides in others. Washouts between Reno and Truckee, Calif., disrupted trans continental rail traffic through the divorce capital. Eastbound trains were held at Truckee and westward. Westbound trains were held at Sparks, Nev. However, Southern Pacific Rail way crews expected to restore washed-out roadbed today. The Nevada National Guard was called out to prevent looting and keep residents from danger zones. All of the city’s eight bridges across the Truckee were complete ly under water. Two big sewer mains over the river on the east side of Reno were broken. Two Dead In Reno. One man died as a result of the Reno flood. He suffered a fatal heart attack while attempting to save the stock in the basement of a department store threatened by rising water. The biggest threat in California was in the Sutter-Yuba County area. Dikes along the flooding Bear River broke, sending streams of water into the towns of Ham monton and Marigold. Sheriff’s officers reported a number of Hammonton residents had huddled in the upper stories of an office building there. They were in no immediate danger. In the Marigold district scores of persons were stranded on gold dredging piles along the river. They were reported to be safe. No casualties were reported in the Hammonton-Marigold area. The current was too strong for boats to maintain rescue opera tions. Full Equality Asked In Western Defense By German Socialist By th« Associated Press STRASBOURG, Prance, Nov. 21.—Karl Mommer, German So cialist, demanded complete equal ity with other nations as the price of participation in joint Western European defense at the General Affairs Committee of the Euro pean Consultative Assembly today. Persons present at the closed committee session of the unoffi cial parliament said Mr. Mom mer asserted Western Germany must have complete political, eco nomic and military equality with in a real European organization before she could contribute man power to defense. These informants explained that by military equality he meant German units in a European army must be on an equal footing with those of other nations, though not necessarily in equal numbers. Want Defense on Elbe. He declared “We want Europe defended on the Elbe, not on the Rhine. We do not want Germany to become a scorched earth.” Backed by his party’s victories in state elections in Hesse and Wuertemblrg-Baden last Sunday, Mr. Mommer criticised the project for *a European army presented by Duncan Sandys, British Con servative. German Socialists have opposed raising a new German army until the West has massed enough troops to defend Western Germany from any Soviet attack. The Sandys project, still offi cially a secret document, is re ported to stress linking the projected European army to the Atlantic pact as a basis for com mon defense. It would give con trol of the army to the various national defense ministers at pres ent, rather than to a European defense minister. Purchasing Pool Proposed. British Laborites and European Socialists called on the United States yesterday to help set up an Atlantic purchasing pool to beat down soaring living costs. They framed a proposal for the Assembly urging quick joint ac tion by the Western governments to slash commodity prices by bulk buying. British Laborite Maurice Edel man, who helped draft the pro posal said booming living costs caused mainly by Western re armamment “throw open the door to communism.” Richmond-New York Flight Sets Record By th« Associated Press NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Aided by an 80-mile-an-hour tail wind, the pilot of an Eastern Air Lines twin-engine DC-3 flew the 293 miles from Richmond, Va., to La Guardia Field yesterday in one hour and 12 minutes air time. The usual schedule for the flight is an hour and 55 minutes. The flight was said to be a rec ord for this type of plane for the company between these two cities, but a spokesman for the airline said no cc mparative flight times were available. The company representative said that the plane averaged 244 miles an hour. ✓ Baptist Convention Adopts 1951 Budget Totaling $176,500 The annual meeting of the Dis trict Baptist Convention today adopted a budget of $176,500 for the coming year. The budget will be allocated as follows: District Baptist Conven tion, $78,900; American Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist Convention, each $34,450, and for joint administration and opera tion fees, $28,700. The meeting, 74th session of the District Convention, also voted to try to raise $84,000 above the $176,500 voted. If the funds are raised, they will be allocated as follows: Church establishment. $7,500; development of assembly grounds, $6,500; obligation pay ments, $10,000, and for the Amer ican Convention and Southern Convention, $5,000 each. Debts May Be Wiped Out Soon. George B. Fraser, treasurer, told the gathering at Chevy Chase Baptist Church that the debt on the District Baptist Headquarters Building at 1628 Sixteenth street N.W. will be completely wiped out within a few months. Mr. Fraser noted that at this time last year a debt of $56,000 was owed on the building. The amount due now is $2,066. The treasurer also reported that a total of $252,315 was raised dur ing the past year for all purposes of the local convention. Dr. N. Chandler Stith, executive secretary of the District Baptist Convention, told the gathering this morning that more than $2 mil lion has been spent during the past year by Washington Area Baptist churches on new buildings or renovation of old buildings. He said further that both in individual churches and in the convention as a whole there has been a consistent gain in member ship and financial support. Speakers Listed. Tonight’s meeting will be ad dressed by Dr. Wilbour E. Saun ders of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School and Dr. Everett Gill of the Foreign Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Clarence W. Cranford, pas tor of Calvary Baptist Church, told the gathering last night that "if merely adding members to our churches is our goal, our evangel ism will fail. Our mission is to carry the message to every per son but we must work for a deep ening of our commitment. The trouble with the church in Amer ica since the great awakening is that it has tried to extend itself institutionally rather than the deepening of Christian characters by commitment.’’ High Court in Virginia Studies Holober Plea ly H*» Attocialad Preu RICHMOND, Va.. Nov. 21—The Virginia Supreme Court of Ap peals today studied, an appeal by Carles Francis Holober, former1 Washington taxicab driver who was sentence*, to death lor killing his wife.' If the court follows Its usual' procedure, a decision will be re turned at the next term. Holober was convicted in Fair fax County Circuit Court. His counsel yesterday asked that the verdict be reversed on the grounds that he was Insane when he shot his wife and buried her and their 10-month-old baby — the latter still alive—at an abandoned Fair fax County nudist camp In Feb ruary, 1949. Macyr Dewey Foe, Quits County Chairmanship ■y Hw Atsociatad Preu GREAT RIVER, N. Y.. Nov. 21— Representative W. Kingsland Macy, beaten for re-election in his traditionally strong Republican district, has resigned as Suffolk County G. O. P. chairman, a post he had held since 1926. Mr. Macy, an intra-party foe of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, announced last night he was stepping out of party leadership In the Eastern Long Island county. He was nosed out of his con gressional seat at the November ’i election by Ernest Greenwood, s retired schoolmaster. A recanvass, completed yester day, showed that Mr. Greenwood Democratic-Liberal Party nominee won by 138 votes out of more than 150,000 cast. Mr. Macy, who served four jrears as Republican State chairman in the 1930s, is rounding out his second term in Congress. The 61-year-old House member has charged that some Republican leaders didn’t work very hard for his re-election. 45,000 Red Agents Rule China U. N. Told by Nationalists (Continued From First Page.) he said, there were only some 395, 000 men operating against the regime of Mao Tze-tung, but now there are about 1,667,000. About 15 per cent of these, Dr. Tsiang said, are Communist troops who have swung their allegiance to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The Nationalist delegate urged the U. N. to create a special com mission of inquiry to look into Russia’s alleged aggression against China and to report back to the 1951 Assembly. He said the mat ter was urgent but that he real ized a thorough, systematic study is called for. Dr. Tsiang charged that the North Korean attack on South Korea and .the Chinese Commu nist invasion of Tibet were parts of the same problem. He proposed that the Assembly consider the Tibetan question along with his own charges of Soviet aggression against China. Gives Up Council Presidency. Dr. Tsiang told reporters he was prepared to step down as Decem ber president of the Security Council because he considers him self an interested party in the Formosa question which is ex pected to be under discussion most of the month. Dr. Tsiang’s decision will elim inate a touchy problem, since Rus sia probably would object strenu ously to having him in the chair. The problem would have been fur ther complicated by the presence of the Chinese Communist dele gation which is now en route t< Lake Success to take part in th« discussions. Dr. Tsiang and the Communist delegates are not expected to rec ognize each other. The specific question before the Security Coun cil is the Peiping regime’s charge that the presence of the United States 7th Fleet in the Strait of Formosa constitutes aggression against China. The debate will begin as soon as the Chinese Com munists arrive here, probably Fri day. Russian Proposal Rejected. The Assembly yesterday rejected Russian conditions for co-operat ing in the development of Secre tary-General Trygve Lie’s 20-year peace program. One of those con ditions was Chinese Communist representation in the U. N. A nine-power resolution calling on various U. N. organs to work for development of Mr. Lie’s plan was approved, 51 to 5, with Na tionalist China abstaining. The Soviet bloc cast the negative votes. At the heart of Mr. Lie’s pro gram is a proposal that special Security Council meetings, attend ed by high level officials, work through the years for an easing of world tensions. The Assembly’s 14-nation Steer ing Committee met briefly, but postponed action on El Salvador’s request that the Tibet case be added to the agenda. The com mittee authorized Assembly Presi dent Nasrollah Entezam of Iran to fix its next meeting date. Taxes (Continued From First Page.) the administration’s program, the Demorcatic majority of the Tax writing Committee held firm against persistent Republican de mands for consideration of pos sible substitutes for an excess profits tax. The committee is un der a congressional mandate to report an excess profits tax bill “as soon as practicable” and Pres ident Truman is urging action dur ing the remaining short session starting Monday. Mr. Alvord’s views and those of other business organizations were presented as the committee planned to wind up public hear ings not later than tomorrow. It hopes to have an excess profits bill ready.for House consideration by December 1. “As the first step in preparing to finance the military program,” Mr. Alvord testified, “the adminis tration and the Congress should reduce non-military expenditures by at least $6 billion. “The administration and the Congress should guard zealously against waste, whether in the military or non-military.” Saying the taxation of “paper profits” resulting from inflation is a tax on capital and “must be avoided,” the witness added: “A Federal tax in excess of 50 per cent upon the normal profits of corporations cannot be justi fied, and -a 50 per cent rate can be carried for only m limited period pi time. There is no neces sity for, and no justification of. an excess profits tax applicable to anv portion of 1950 or 1951.” Mr. Alvord said the “conse quences of Inflation are too grue some to play with” and urged that the military program be kept on a pay-as-you-go basis for “as long as possible.” Despite the committee’s ban on proposals for other forms of taxa tion, Mr. Alvord offered for the record the Chamber’s suggested tax program adopted at a meeting last Friday. It included^ 1. An over-all 50 per cent cor porate income tax rate estimated to produce $2 billion a year. 2. Additional excise levies to bring in another $5 billion. A manufacturers ’excise or consumer sales tax were suggested as pos sible methods. 3. No increase in individual in come tax rates, but possibly low ered exemptions from the present $600 for each individual. Mr. Alvord offered numerous suggestions about an excess profits tax, if the Congress insists on con sidering one at this time. 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