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For Britain
BRITAIN'S new budget, due for
announcement Wednesday in
Parliament, is about to chain the
nation to another year at hard
labor with high taxes.
; Unwritten law! forces the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford
Cripps, and his aides to keep abso
lute secrecy on the budget until it is
presented to Parliament.
I That secrecy has not been broken
but there are enough tea leaves lying
around for observers to read a reason
ably accurate picture. Tax collectors
still must rake in about 40 per cent
of the national income to keep the
government and its far-flung services
going. t
No Big Tax Cuts
It is already clear that no big tax
concessions can be made. There is
some speculation; that Cripps may
have a few small concessions up his
sleeve, for the hard-pressed working
man on a salary in a bid to save the
government's wage-freeze policy.
Estimates for the 1950-51 fiscal
year, submitted to Parliament last
month. ' show government costs run
ning about $8,400,000,000 a year.
Also the Treasury declared in its
annual economic survey some time
ago that the financial and economic
policies worked out in the last three
years must be kept intact.
That means Cripps still is com
mitted, among other things, to his
policy of holding down wages and
profits. This policy has been pursued
more than two years' with a twin goal:
to help hold off inflation and to keep
down prices of hard-to-sell export
goods. .!
Unions Hard Hit
The powerful Trades Union Con
gress (TUC) seeks tax relief for work
ers. The TUC general Council has
worked hard to help enforce the wage
ceiling policy. Rising prices, have
brought strong pressure from rank
and file union menand some of their
leaders-rfor more wages.
TUC chiefs now feel unless they
get relief through taxes che pressure
ior more pay may blow its top.
There is not much room to loosen
up on income taxes. Previous conces
sions have made income taxes fairly
light upon the blackcoated worker and
the working-class family man.
A married man with two children .
earning $22.40 a week (considerably
above the average) pays only 28 cents
a week in income taxes:
Sir I Stafford i might cut .purchase
taxes, which also has been urged by
the National Union of Manufacturers.
He could lower Jaxes on beer and to
bacco. He could extend the children's
allowance of 70 cents a week to the
first child; at present it is granted only
. for all children after the first
If Sir Stafford needs to raise more
revenue to finance concessions to labor
he also may impose a capital gains
!tax. :
Capital gains such as earnings
. from successful stock market specu
lationbear no vtax in Britain al
I though such a tax has been imposed
in the United States for a number of
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STRIKE: Billion
The Case of Homtramck
I The Chrysler strike, which has
idled 140,000 workers across the na
tion, is estimated to have cost more
than a billion dollars in direct losses
to Chrysler, supplier plants, dealers
and employes. j -
Chrysler, one of the Big Three in
the automotive industry, and the CIO
United - Auto Workers Union have
been deadlocked since January 24
over methods of financing a plan to
provide $100-a-month pensions, in
cluding federal Social Security.
What big strike does to national
economy is hard to visualize but its
Impact is sharp and' drastic in Ham
tramck, "a community of 50.000 in the
heart of Detroit Most of its people
are of Polish ancestry, thrifty and
hard-working.
S.00t Affected
: ' About 8,000 of the community's
gainfully employed are affected by
the strike. i
The strike has. partly paralyzed
; business in the community. Business
men, salesmen and landlords are re
calling the doleful days of the 1930
depression. Retail business is off
nearly 2$, perl cent Residents are
cashing in US savings bonds. . !
In Short ...
Subpoenaed: Louis F. Budenz, for
mer Communist leader, as the "mys
tery witness" named by Sen. McCar
' thy to support his Charges that Owen
Lattimore is the No. 1 Soviet spy in
the United States. : -
Ratified: By the Indian Parliament
new Indian-Pakistan agreement to
protect minority groups and end com
munal rioting which has taken thou
sands of lives.
Predicted: By the Federal Reserv e
Board, Americans are going to keep
on buying homes, automobiles and
television sets at & record rate this
year. !
Coafinned: By the Senate, W. Stu
art Symington, as chairman of the
National Security Resources Board, a
post vacant 18 months.
Resraed: By a troop of Georgia Boy
Scouts with -Explorer ratings, a for
mer Air Force veteran pilot who had
spent a week wandering in the Oke
fenokee swamps after a plane crash.
NATION: Truman's Sixth Year
HARRY S. TRUMAN began his
sixth year as President of the
United States last ! Wednesday.
Tanned and refreshed after a
month-long Florida, vacation, -he
faces the prospect of having to
settle for a half-loaf of his Fair Deal
program in the present Congress.
At conferences with Administration
leaders, the President was told the
Senate might have time to take up
only about eight major issues before
Congress quits on July 31 to go home
and campaign. These, include the
omnibus money bill, foreign aid, So
cial Security, rent control extension
and an effort to get action on the Fair
Employment Practices Commission
(FEPC) bill.
Out in the Cold
The list by Sen. Scott Lucas (D-Ill)
the Majority leader, left out in the
old several major Fair Deal pro
posals. These include 1 the Brannan
farm plan, compulsory health insur
ance, federal aid to education, repeal
of the Taft-Hartley Law and expan
sion of unemployment coverage.
The President seems relaxed, fit and
confident for the coast-to-coast stump
ing tours in behalf of Democratic
candidates for Congress. White House
intimates say it will be in the "give
'em hell" manner of his own 1948
campaign. !
But Mr. Truman will make imme
diate use of the olive branch, too. He
is trying to revamp the bipartisan ap
proach to foreign policy and confine
party potshots to the "water's edge"
of this country.
Somey impartial observers feel the
President's attempt to patch up two
party cooperation on foreign policy
'may have come too late to prevent its
becoming a major issue in the cam
paigns this fall. A sizable segment of
the Republican Party is all but com
mitted on trying to capitalize on what
it calls Administration ; "blunders" in
foreign affairs.
Vandenberg in Despair
Cooperation in foreign policy had
reportedly deteriorated so far that
Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, its chief
Republican advocate, was said to have
Quotes
Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U.S.
Army chief of staff: 'Turkey
could give an awfully good ac
count of itself. With additional
aid, it could give an excellent
account."
Robert B. Douglas, president
of the American Society of Tool
Engineers: "While ; Russia -is
probably alueady experimenting
on industrial application of
atomic energy, we are still going
around suspecting each other
rather tham doing something
about it"
Dollar Loss
Strangely enough, only about 10
per cent of the Hamtramck strikers
have asked for welfare aid and only
about four per cent received' it
Cat on Food Bill
Most families concentrate on cut
ting down on the food bill.
One grocer who caters almost ex
clusively to Chrysler j workers said,
"They eat moderately just soups,
potatoes, lunch meat: They try to
keep their bills down but at today's
prices it doesn't take long to run up
a big bill.-
She spread out a stack of adding
machine tapes. j
"Some of these ruh to $150-$160.
How long can a neighborhood grocer
keep it up?
"You can't turn them down. What
can you-do when ' they plead with"
you?"
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of being able to bring it
The key-man in President Truman's
new effort to jevive the bipartisan ap
proach is John Foster Dulles, recently
named as adviser to Secretary of State
Acheson. ,
As a trouble shooter at the United
Nations charter conference in San
Francisco, Dulles showed diplomatic
stature. He lived up to that reputation
at international conferences as ad
viser to Secretaries of State Stettinius,
Byrnes and Marshall and for a time
with Acheson.
But Dulles has a political future of
his own to consider. Appointed to the
Senate by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey,
Dulles was defeated in a special elec
SUBS: Underwater Marathon
Snorkel Feqt
American . interest in submarine
and anti-submarine devices has been
spurred by reports that Russia is
building the world's mightiest under
sea fleet estimated currently at 250
to 300 vessels.
Just a month ago a U. submarine
quietly filled its tanks and submerged
in the Pacific off Hong Kong; it sur
faced 21 days and 5,200 miles later at
Pearl Harbor.
The Navy revealed the trip last
week. It did not claim a record but
officers said it was the longest under
water run they ever heard of.
A German Device
The sub, one of the "snorkel" type,
has a short breathing tube that sucks
air from the surface. The Germans
had the device on their submarines
first but now both the U.S. and Rus
sia have them. The snorkel enables
a sub to run just below the surface
for long periods on diesel engines.
Formerly, undersea craft when sub
merged had to run entirely on elec
tric batteries which required recharg
ing frequently. To do this,1 the sub
had to surface.
With the snorkel, a sub can stay
down as long as its supplies includ
ing fuel hold out. Batteries still are
needed whenever it submerges more
than a short distance below: the sur
face. Fleet-Type Craft
The 1,850-ton Pickerel, which made
the run, is a standard fleet-type sub
marine only streamlined and with
higher propulsive power than others
in her class. The 67 enlisted ; men and
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tion last fall by Herbert Lehman.
Dulles has hot committed himself yet
as to whether he will oppose Lehman
this fall for j a full six-year term.
Momentous Decision ,
Friends insist Dulles is determined
to give his best to the job of advising
Acheson. These same sources say,
however, that when Dulles is con
vinced he is: not being consulted fully
he may step! but and run If or nomina
tion as senator in New York.
Unless he went out of his way to
make it unmistakably clear such was
not the case, any decision by Dulles
to- reenter tlip political ring would be
generally interpreted as evidence of a
breakdown on two-party; cooperation
on foreign policy. ;
eight officers aboard the 300-foot
craft grew beards and mustaches and
saw 30 full length movies for relaxa
tion on the 21 -day cruise
Asked whether the! submarine
could be seen at the periscope depth
at which she traveled, the commander
said, "We had indications to the con
trary." I; f. "
The Navy, is pushing pork on an
atomic power plant for submarines,
which would lift present limitations
on underwater range. For all practi
cal purposes an atomicpoyered en
gine could
operate forever without
refuelling.
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Middle Easl Plant If
The august New YorkTimes pub
lished a Tehran dispatch datelined
April 1 last! week detailing the ex
ploits of one Robert (or Roger) T.
Lincoln, known throughout the Mid
dle East as America's topi-drawer spy.
The dispatch said suspicious Rus
sians and Atabs had woven a legend
depicting Lincoln as ia mystery
shrouded figure who spoke many
tongues and hobnobbed with U.S.
Supreme Court Justice j William O.
Douglas and! top American diplomats.
One Tehran paper wifote of Lin
coln's activities as "by far more ac
tive, more clever and raore skilled"
than those of the late Lawrence of
Arabia and; said he worked to neu
tralize Soviet influence in the north
Iranian province of Azerbaijan.
Actually, the Times said, Lincoln
was invented by U.S. Ambassador to
Iran, John jC. Wiley, about, a year
after the Soviet radio had mentioned
activities ofi a mysterious American
of that name. Wiley's ispoofing job
was thorough, when he set his mind
to it , 1 1 ' . j-
An official biography was drawn up
crediting Lincoln with six languages
and giving him the rank of lieutenant
colonel. 1 1
The biography solemnly described
him as an eX-rum runner, confidence
man and cOUnter -espionage agent It
said he was the son of the noted
American waiter "Booker T. Lincoln,"
and had studied Yogi under the noted
Tibetan scholar "Hi-Lung Hung-Lo."
His political faith ' was given as
"Dixiecrat j
These papers, the Time said, were
"lost in a public place jby an Ameri
can diplomat and it is known they
fell into both Iranian and probably
British hands. f
One of th "lost" papers contained
the following "top secret" message to
Wiley from! Maj. Gea. William J.
Donovan, wartime chief of the Office of
.Strategic Services: r
"For publicity purposes my Visit
(to Iran) is! pleasure; actually I am
out to investigate Lincoln's activities.
Reports of his excesses among the
Kurdish women haven reached the
President and while hej is one of our
best operators, yet he's got to get on
the beam morally." i
Dates
Tuesday, April 18
Anniversary (first), Irish
He-
public.
National Noise Abatement
Week starts.
New Jersey primary.
Wednesday, April 19
Patriot's Day (Mass. & Me.).
Anniversary (175th), Paul Re
vere's ride.
Friday, April Zl
Anniversary (52nd), start of
Spanish-American War.
Appomattox
Lee & Grant
Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
are to meet again at Appomattox, Va.,
this Sunday afternoon under more
pleasant circumstances.
The occasion, 85 years after the first
historic meeting, is the official opening
of the restored surrender housei The
guests of honor are Brig. Gen. U. S.
Grant, IH, of Washington, and Robert
E. Lee, IV, of San Francisco. 1
The direct descendants of the famed
Civil War generals, ere to cut a ribbon
across the porch of the reconstructed
brick farmhouse. Restored by the Na
tional Park Service, the building is to
become a public shrine.
Led by Lee and representing the
Confederate forces, the Virginia Mil
itary Institute band is to march into
the McLean House yard from the final
Southern positions.
Representing the Federal troops and
led by Grant, the U. S. Marine Corps
school band from Quantico will march
into the yard from the site of the
Northern encampment.
The reconstructed house stands on
the exact site of the former McLean
farmhouse, torn down in 1893. Nearby
are several other original buildings of
the old town of Appomattox Court
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FIRE Steeple of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church at Hamlin,
Me., crashes during blaze Which did more than $20,000 damage.
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TIN FISH U. S. Navy submarino Pickerel, vqulpped with a
snorkel, cruised underwater from Hong Kong to Hawaii, a
distance of 5,200 miles in 21 days. The crew grow boards and
saw 30 full length movies to help pass time on record jaunt.
WRECK-More than 100 persons
disaster when a bridge collapsed over the flood-swollen Tangua
Dos Indios River near Rio do Janeiro. Many passengers drowned.
A CH TUNG! Germans in Red-sponsored "Free German Youth"
movement repair gliders at a carpenter shop in East Germany.
After World War I, Germans kept alive the spirit of militarism
by drilling youth in massed work battalions with spades and rakes.
Congress Has Right
To Hold Red Probes
DELICATE legal points in the shadowy area between the powers
of government and the rights of individuals are being defined Iby
the Supreme Court these days as probes of Communism reach full
tide. In one of the first of these, the Court has held that certain civil
rights of individuals, guaranteed by the Constitution, can be abridged
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Tito
Spring in Belgrade
Spring in Yugoslavia brings warm
sun and hot rumors about possibility
of a Cominform invasion against the
country which dared say "No!" to the
Kremlin.
In some ways the
situation is similar
to last fall when
coffeehouse gossip
reached a peak in
reports of Soviet
and satellite troop
movements on Mar
shal Tito's borders.
Tito finds himself
in a somewhat
siruoger posiuon TITO
man last year 10
meet such an attack. He has largely
offset the eastern boycott by obtaining
about 50 million dollars in American
loans and by negotiating about 30
trade agreements with the west
The recent parliamentary elec
tions give Tito added prestige. His
support was greatest in areas consid
ered most vulnerable to Cominform
attack Macedonia, for instance. It
was lowest in areas where Russia
would have least benefit Croatia.
Perhaps the weakest point in Tito's
armor is that Russia and Czechoslo
vakia are closed to him as sources for
new military supplies. Most of his
present equipment came from those
countries.
There has been some hardship and
resentment among the people caused
by rigid efforts of the government to
shift Yugoslavia from an agricultural
and industrially backward country to
a more balanced economy.
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Congress has full power to, ask
whether you are a Communist or be
lieve in Communism. If you refuse to
answer, the penalty may be jail plus
a heavy fine for contempt of Congress.
That's the practical effect of a Su
preme Court decision rejecting ap
peals of two movie writers, John
Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo.
They now face a year in jail and $1,000
fines because they refused to tell the
House Committee on UnAmerican
Activities whether they were Commu
nist Party members.
Test Case for Ten
Eight other prominent Hollywood
figures also refused to answer the
same question for the committee; over
the head of each hangs a charge of
contempt of Congress. In Hollywood, J
one of he ten accused issued a state
ment in behalf of alL It said:
"By. its refusal to review the cases
of Lawson and Trumbo, the Supreme
Court has welcomed governmental
censorship, political blacklist and
thought control into our system."
By its refusal to act the Court up
held without change the unanimous
opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals
that:
"When legislating to avert what it
believes to be a threat of substantive
evil to national welfare. Congress
may abridge the freedom of speech
and the freedom to remain silent"
The appeals by Lawson and Trum
bo involved no question of constitu
tional privilege against self-incrimination.
In a number of other 'in
stances, witnesses refused to testify
on these grounds and were not prose
cuted. 'j
Conviction Set Aside
The Court did, however, set aside
the conviction of Richard Morford for
refusal to show the House committee
- records of the National Council of
American-Soviet Friendship, Inc. j
The Court said Morford's lawyer
was not allowed to question govern
ment employes on the trial jury panel
as to whether the President's loyalty
program would influence their ver
dict -
In a recent opinion, the Court held
a Communist could get a fair trial be
fore a jury which includes govern
ment workers. But the Court said de
fense lawyers at trials must be per
mitted to raise questions as to possible
bias.
Medicine
Wonder Hormone ACTH
ACTH is an abbreviation for adreno
corticotropic hormone, made by the
pituitary gland at the base of the
brain. It stimulates the adrenal gland
to produce some adrenal hormones,
including cortisone.
ACTH and cortisone bring dramatic
relief from rheumatoid arthritis. Fifty
two reports in a new book called
"Clinical ACTH" describes this use
plus experiments on a host of other
diseases.
The studies say ACTH proved effec
tive in treating delirium tremens of
DTS of alcoholism, brought relief in
some Cases of asthma and other aller
gies and was of some help in treat
ing virus and bacterial pneumonias.
Other tests were made on infantile
paralysis, tuberculosis, mental ill
nesses, muscular disorders, high blood
pressure, several types of cancer and
some skin diseases. The early results
were not conclusive.
Dr. John R Mote, director of Ar
mour Laboratories, Chicago, says the
significance of the reports is not ia
hope of immediate curative use of the
hormones, but in understanding how
and why many diseases develop
Much more study will be needed,
he said, before doctors understand the
role of ACTH and the adrenal gland
in health and disease.
Sidelights
Three and a halt years ago, Ken
neth Lyons of Fort Lee, N. J, pumped
six bullets into his sweetheart after a
quarrel. She visited him every Sun- .
day in prison and last week on hi
release they were married.
In Syracuse, N. Yn a housewife
. cut open a chicken she had purchased
from the butcher and out rolled 20
eggs, three the size of duck eggs,
eight of normal size, the other nine
small but completely formed. A poul
try expert said the bird apparently
had a jam on its production line.
Off Okinawa, things looked black
when a 20th Air Force C-46 plane lost
its right engine 300 miles at sea. The
crew jettisoned cargo and radioed for
an escort A voice broke in on the
radio: "I know you fellows would
rather have another engine but wo
want you to know we are pulling for
you." U was the Air Force chief of
chaplains.- The crippled 0-48 landed
safely at the airbase.
At Elizabeth, N. J, an excited
motorist telephoned police someone
had climbed over the rail of the
Goethals Bridge 150 feet above the
waters of the' Arthur KilL Rescue
crews swarmed to the scene and found
,a slightly startled man suspended
under the bridge Sure, he said, he'd
gone over the railing "do it every
day. I'm the welder."
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