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Communists Defeated
In Attempt to Modify
Anti-Inflation Bill
Taris, Jan. 3 M" The na
tional assembly upheld Premier
Robert Schuman today against
a combined communist-De Gaul
list attempt to modify the anti
inflation bill upon which he
staked his government. The vote
was 322 to 262.
The vote came on a proposed
amendment to an article in the
125,000,000,000 franc ($1,000,
000,000) savc-the-franc tax bill
dealing with taxation of small
shopkeepers and craftsmen.
Schuman immediately an
nounced he was asking a vote of
confidence on five other amend
ments, and declared he would
resign if the article was not
adopted as he submitted it.
Vote Again Monday
Under assembly rules, this
postponed further voting until
Monday.
Schuman had summoned the
.ASSCIUUIJ U bill nviuiuoy
session with the announcement
ne wanicu a vine oi commence
on every proposed major change
in the measure.
Communist deputies were de
feated 340 to 183 in attempts
to force debate on American
stop-gap aid to France. The
maneuver was aimed at delay
ing debate on the anti-inflation
program;
Although rightists and other
members of the assembly have
voted with the communists
against Schuman's tax measures,
every party in the assembly to
day joined to defeat the com
munist maneuver.
Red Leader Rebuked
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ducios demanded publication oi
the agreement text, signed last
night by French Foreign Min
ister Georges B i d a u It and
American Ambassador Jefferson
Caffcry, and Immediate debate
thereon.
"This agreement amounts to a
grab by American capitalism at
France's expense which the
French people cannot accept,"
Ducios said. He was voted down.
Schuman himself curtly re
buked the communist leader.
"It is lamentable to hear cri
ticism in inadmissablc terms of
this American act of generosity
to us," he said.
Text to be Published
He said the text of the agree
ment would be published and
then called upon the national
assembly to return to considera
tion of his anti-inflation bill, on
which he has staked the life of
his government.
The 125,000,000,000 franc
($1,000,000,000) program pass
ed its first test in the assembly
finance committee, which ap
proved it without important
modifications, 22 to 19. The bill
also provides for the economy
dismissal of 150,000 civil ser
vants. NLRB Hearing
Set (or ITU
New York, Jan. 3 (IP) - The
national labor relations board
yesterday issued a complaint
against the AFL International
Typographical union and five of
its locals in New York, Detroit,
Chicago and Pittsburgh, charg
ing violations of the Taft-Hartley
law in negotiations with
some 500 commercial printing
firms.
A hearing on the charges was
set for Feb. 4 at NLRB offices
here. The action, based on the
complaint of five employer asso
ciations of printers, was an
nounced by John J. Carmody,
acting NLRB regional director.
WThe com plaint embraces
these accusations:
1. That the locals refused to
bargain in good faith, insisting
on a contract that would main
tain their closed shops are out
lawed by the Taft-Hartley act.
2. That the ITU and its locals
"restrained and coerced" em
ployes in job-printing houses by
insisting on a closed shop, thus
infringing on employes' unham
pered collective bargaining
rights.
3. That the ITU and the locals
attempted to force these employ
ers to discriminate against non
ITU printers.
Carmody said the union would
have 10 days to answer the com
plaint. Should the charges be sus
tained by a trial examiner, Car
mody said, the NLRB could-or
der the union and its locals to
bargain collectively with the
complaining employer associa
tions. The board is not empow
ered to take punitive action.
Ohio Governor Weds
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 3 (IP)
Gov. Thomas J. Herbert of
Ohio and Miss Mildred Helen
Stevenson, his Indianapolis fi
ancee, were married today be
fore members of their imme
diate families and a small group
of friends.
apital
59th Year, No. 3
Afflee Attacks
Soviet Russia
For Imperialism
London, Jan. 3 U.R Prime
Minister Clement R. Attlee said
tonight that Soviet communism
was threatening the rest of Eu
rope with a new form oi im
perialism. Attlee's attack on Russia and
Russian communism, as distinct
from the more generalized term
communists," was the strongest
by a member of the labor gov
ernment. It came in the midst of
his nationwide labor party po
litical broadcast on his 65th
birthday.
Freedom Renounced
" "Today in eastern Europe the
communist party while over
throwing the economic tyranny
of landlordism and capitalism
has renounced the doctrines of
individual freedom and politi
cal democracy, and rejected the
whole spirtual heritage of west
ern Europe," Attlee said.
"The history of Soviet Rus
sia provides us with a warning
here a warning that without
political freedom collectivism
can quickly go astray and lead
to new forms of oppression and
injustice."
Threat to Europe
"There there is no political
freedom, privilege and injustice
creep back. In communist Rus
sia, privilege for the few is a
growing phenomenon, and the
gap between the highest and
lowest incomes
constantly
widening.
'Soviet communism pursues a
policy which threatens with a
new form of imperialism ide
ological, economic and strategic
the welfare and way of life of
the other nations of Europe."
Debris Found
In Plane Hunt
Anchorage, Alaska, Jan. 3 U.Ri
Air force officials today
studied small bits of scattered
wreckage found on the shores
of Knik arm believed to be part
of a B-29 missing since Wednes
day with nine crewmen aboard
The wreckage after being
spotted by a helicopter was
found by army ground parties
yesterday two miles north of
Elmendorf field, from which the
missing plane took off on a rou
tine weather observation flight
to Fairfield-Suisun field near
San Francisco.
Included in the wreckage
brought here for inspection were
two badly burned gas tanks and
a nose wheel assembly. Officials
said the wreckage showed defi
nite scarring by flames.
Shortly after taking off the
pilot reported one of his four
engines was out. Several wit
nesses reported seeing a blind
ing flash in the sky about time
radio contact with the plane was
lost.
Austin Appointed
UN Representative
Washington, Jan. 3 W.R)
President Truman today ap
pointed Warren R. Austin, to
be U. S. representative on the
interim committee of the UN
general assembly.
Austin also is the U. S. repre
sentative to the United Nations
Mr. Truman also named Pro
fessor Philip C. Jessup of Co
lumbia university as deputy rep
resentative on the interim com
mittee. The interim committee was
created to assist the general as
sembly by considering matters
referred to it by the assembly.
Work Underway on Laying
Bailey Bridge on North Fork
Work started Saturday on laying the Bailey bridge which will
temporarily replace the old Lumker bridge near Elkhorn on the
little north fork of the Santiam which was destroyed by a log
truck recently. County Engineer
Hedda Swart with a representa
tive of the state highway depart
ment went to the scene of the
bridge laying Saturday morning
to get progress under way. Three
loads of materals were sent Fri
day, three more are going up
Saturday and another three
loads will move Sunday and this
is expected to lay on the spot
all the materials needed and it is
hoped to have the bridge finish
ed by early next week. It was
stated that Horton Hughett,
bridge superintendent for the
state highway department, will
lend his knowledge to the plac
ing of the Bailey bridge. He was
a wartime army engineer with
combat experience with this type
of bridge.
In the meantime no word came
of the stork fluttering toward
Entered leeond elku
mutter at Salem, Oregon
Salem,
Cordon Forces
Reclamation
Bureau Reform
By Charles D. Walking
Washington, Jan. 3 Pl The
reclamation bureau has taken
steps to comply with suggestions
advanced by a senate committee
which criticized particularly the
bureau's method of apportioning
funds and accused it of failing to
keep contractors advised as to
the status of funds for individual
projects.
Orders for meeting the com
mittee's criticism, it was learned
today, were issued nine days af
ter congress granted supplemen
tal funds for continuing work on
western projects for which pre
vious appropriations were run
ning out.
Cordon Forces Reform
A copy of them was made
public by Senator Cordon (R
Ore), who wrote the committee
report. The report accused the
bureau of failure to apportion
funds among existing contracts
and to notify constractors when
funds were nearing exhaustion.
As a result, the report said,
some projects have been forced
to close down on short notice,
throwing workers out of jobs
and leaving machinery idle on
the job.
Cordon's report, based on a
hearing by the senate appropria
tions committee, also charged
the bureau had disregarded "the
clear intent of congress" in not
apportioning its funds over the
year and by contracts.
System Defective
"If such a policy is followed
in the future, it would take out
of the hands of congress and put
into the hands of the bureau and
contractors the control of the
rate of expenditures on reclama
tion projects," he said.
Cordon said the investigation
"clearly indicated that the whole
accounting system of the bu
rcau needs complete overhaul
ing."
Bureau officials in instructions
to all regional reclamation of
fices said it is the bureau's policy
"to voluntarily adjust its proce
dures to the requirement of
changing conditions to the end
that closer programming (of
work) and scheduling be attain
ed."
(Concluded on Pane 9, Column I)
Film Stars Fined
For Poaching
Bakersfield, Calif., Jan. S IIP)
Four film figures Clark Ga
ble, Frank Morgan, Johnny.
Mack Brown and O. O. Dull
producer, were fined $200 each
today by Justice of the Peace
Frank Noriega after pleading
guilty to violation of the game
laws.
Michael Cohen, MGM attorney
who appeared for the actors and
Dull, said the studio deeply re
gretted" that the party had vio
lated the law restricting posses
sion of ducks to four to a hunter
Gable, a crack shot, originally
was charged with possessing 25
ducks, but after a conference be
tween Cohen and the court it
was acknowledged that there
had been a mixup and that he
had only six and the additional
ducks belonged to another actor
who left before Game Warden
Les Arnold made the arrests last
Sunday at a private club, seven
miles south of Bakersfield.
Brown, former Alabama foot
ball star, pleaded guilty to pos
sessing 12 ducks; Dull 13 and
Morgan 13.
any of the three homes above
the bridge where babies are ex
pected. One of the women is
said to be Mrs. Roy Roberts, 25,
wife of a lumberjack; another,
Mrs. Gordon Knox, 25, wife of
a sawmill worker, and the third
one is unidentified.
Kenneth Randall, operator of
a guest ranch at Elkhorn near
the bridge, said that the Knoxes
have one child, a little girl, and
the Roberts have two children,
both girls.
He said there are about 100
persons marooned beyond the
bridge including ranchers, min
ers and lumber and sawmill
workers. The only other possi
ble means of egress from the
locality is over a mountain road
crossing a ridge, but a portion
of this road is impassable unless
to horses or mules.
Oregon, Saturday, January
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Shuttle Bus
South, East Monday
Shuttle bus service to accommodate suburban residents south
and tast of Salem will start Monday morning with the same fares
as are charged on city lines, according to R. J. Davidson, manager
of the Oregon Motor stages.
The southbound bus will leave
Paroles Given
18 War Brides
New York, Jan. 3 (JP) Tem
porary paroles have been grant
ed 18 European war brides-to-be
who came here to wed their ex
GI sweethearts only to be hus
tled off to Ellis island by immi
gration authorities because they
arrived a day too late.
Their release was announced
yesterday by W. J. Zucker, act
ing district director of the immi
gration and naturalization ser
vice, who said they would be
permitted their freedom under
$500 bond "pending adjustments
of their immigration status."
The girls, most of them from
Italy, arrived here Thursday
shortly after expiration of the
time limit set by congress for
entry of fiancees of ex-soldiers.
The prospective bride grooms,
who appealed to President Tru
man to intervene, said plane de
lays caused the girls to miss the
deadline.
Immigration officials indicat
ed the paroles were in effect i
belated Christmas present to the
girls, since all they have to do
to remain here now is get mar
ried. After that, their cases
would be decided under another
law, effective through 1948,
which provides for admission of
veterans brides.
Marines Sent
Mediterranean
Washington, Jan. 3 (IP) A
group of marines whose num
ber the navy declines to disclose
will sail next Tuesday to
strengthen U. S. forces aboard
the aircraft carrier Midway,
three light cruisers and 10 de
stroyers now stationed in the
Mediterranea sea.
The cruiser Little Rock and
two of the destroyers are based
at ports in Greece, which this
country has been trying to bol
ster against communist en
croachment. The other craft are
in Italian waters.
The only clue to the size of the
marine force given in the navy
announcement last night was
that the men, all from the sec
ond division, will make the trip
on a "normal size transport of
12,000 to 15,000 tons fully load
ed." They will leave from More
head City, N. C.
The men are being sent, the
navy said, for shipboard train
ing and to "restore the total
personnel on board to approzi
mately the normal over-all com
plement" of the carriers and
three cruisers.
Carriers in the Midway class
normally carry 2,200 men, in
cluding 100 marines, and cruis
ers 1,000 men, of whom 50 are
marines.
However, the navy said Amer-i
ican navy ships have been un
dermanned for some lime, ap
parently a hint that it would
take more than the ordinary
number of marines to bring the
four ships up to their "normal
over-all complement-"
The navy turned aside ques
tions whether it has plans to
send additional marines or ships
to the Mediterranean later.
3, 1948
on a gun carriage through the streets of Alexandria, Egypt
Service to
from the Pioneer Trust building
and go south on Commercial to
Fairview avenue and also the
Liberty street bus. with the jog
up Saginaw and back on High
eliminated. Both buses will be
marked with the one with Han
sen avenue on the side taking
care of the jog eliminated from
the Liberty street bus.
Ihe run will continue on Fair-
view to 12th street and on the
cut-off back into the city by way
of highway 99. The first bus wiil
leave at 7:58 a.m. on week days
and continue on the hour
through to 5:58 p.m. when the
last suburban run bus leaves.
Coming back on the cut-off the
schedule will be from 8:15 a.m.
through ,6:15 p.m. also on the
hour with all runs to be.an hour
later on Sundays and holidays.
After the 5.58 p.m. bus the
outbound buses will leave at
7:05 p.m., 8:05 p.m., 8:45 p.m.
and 9:45 p.m. with the last out
bound trip starting at 11:05 p.m.
Both the Swegle district and
Fruitland road buses will start
from Hollywood drive and Sil
verton road with the Swegle bus
traveling over Hollywood drive
south to the continuation of Sun
nyview avenue, to the Swegle
school, down Market west to
Lancaster and south to "D"
street, down "D" to 17th and
back on "D" to Lancaster, south
to the Fruitland road about a
mile and back on Auburn road,
making connections with the
Chemcketa and 17th and Market
street buses, which will bear
signs for the connecting buses.
The inbound service starts at
6:30 a.m. at Lancaster and Sil
verton road and continues at
7:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 9:40 a.m.
and 10:40 a.m., and from Fruit
land at 7:10 a.m., 8:10 a.m.. 9:15
a.m. and 10:20 a.m. and 3:50 p.m.
and 8:50 p.m.
Outbound service to the Swe
gle district on Chemeketa is of
fered at 7 a.m., 8 a.m., 9:05 a.m.
and 10:10 a.m. and from 2:40
p.m. through 6:40 p.m. and to
Fruitland on the 17th and Mar
ket line at 6:35 a.m., 7:30 a.m.,
8:30 a.m. and 9:40 a.m. and from
3:10 p.m. to 6:10 p.m.
Milan Chilly to
Friendship Train
Milan, Jan. 3 (IP) America's
friendship food experienced the
thinnest welcome yet in Italy
when the Treno DellAmicizia
pulled in here this morning.
Milan sent none of its top of
ficials, who are all communist
or socialist, to greet the train
in contrast to other stops yester
day in the communist north at
Florence and Bolgona.
At Milan's huge central rail
road station a little crowd, which
might generously have been es
timated at 500, was almost lost
beneath the great domes of steel
and glass that arch over the
trackways.
The Weather
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Partly cloudy with a few
light showers tonight. Fog in
valleys Sunday morning. In
creasing cloudiness Sunday with
rain expected late in day. Lowest
expected temperature tonight, 35
degrees: highest Sunday, 45.
Minimum yesterday 49 which
was 4 above normal. Total 24
hour precipitation to 11:30 a.m.
today .06. Total precipitation for
the month 1.78 which is 1.28
Inches above normal. Willam
ette river height at Salem -Saturday
morning, 13.7 feet, rising.
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Cancer Expert
Flies to Moscow
Stockholm, Jan. 3 UP) Prof
Elis Berven, Swedish cancer falling Saturday. .
specialist and radiologist, left' Only .06 of an iifth of precipi
by plane today for Moscow forjation was recorded for the 24
,, ,. I hour period ending at 10:30 a.m.,
consultation on a serious can-j(he wea,her bureau reported,
ccr case." i
"I cannot tell you who myj
patient is because I don't know
myself yet."
newsmen. He
request from
Dr. Berven told
received a cabled
"the Russian au-
thorilies." I
Mrs. Berven said her husband
had no idea how long he might
be in Moscow. She added that his
assistance had been requested
"not for an operation, but only
for consultation."
Dr. Berven, 62, is chief phy
sician of the Stockholm radium
hospital.
Before the war a Swedish
brain surgeon, Prof. Herbert
Olivccrona, was called to Mos
cow lor consultation under sim
ilar circumstances. Later it de
veloped that he had performed
an operation on a high Soviet
official.
Hans Olov Berven, 20-year-old
son of the Swedish specialist,
said the sudden call of his father
to Moscow was "fantastically
mysterious for him and for us."
He said the cable from Mos
cow came on Dec. 31, and that it
was signed by four Soviet phy
sicians who had visited Stock
holm and Dr. Berven's labora
tories at the Radium hospital
early in December. The Soviet
consulate promptly issued a Rus
sian visa.
Asked whether the cable con
tained any information as to the
patient, young Berven replied
"nothing whatsoever."
The Stockholm press, without
citing any authority, speculated
that Dr. Berven's patient might
be Prime Minister Stalin
8th Mass Grave
Found at Belsen
Berlin, Jan. 3 (IP) A new mass
grave the eighth so jar has
been found at Belsen, notorious
nazi concentration camp in the
British zone, British officials an
nounced today. Officials esti
mated it contained 2,000 bodies.
German workmen exhuming
the bodies of two Poles for re
burial uncovered the grave. Of
ficial estimated at least 30.000
Jews died in the camp before
and after liberation.
Ban on Canadian Vessels
In Alaskan Shipping Kept
Washington, Jan. 3 (IP1 The maritime commission has turned
thumbs down on legislation to amend the Jones act to permit
Canadian vessels to carry passengers and freight between Alaskan
ports.
Bills designed lo amend the
law to permit foreign vessels to
serve Alaskan ports were sent
lo the commission for comment
by the congressional committees
to which they were referred. Ad
miral W. W. Smith, chairman of
the commission, opposed the pro
posals in a report to the house
merchant marine and fisheries
l committee.
"The enactment of this bill
would have the effect of permit
ting foreign operators of foreign
flag ships, particularly Canadian
ships, to participate in this traf
fic because of lower operating
costs," Smith said.
"It would also make it desir
able for United States ship
owners cither to substitute for
eign flag ships or seek author
ity to transfer their own ships to
Flood Crest of
15 Feet Due at
Salem Sunday
Danger of Willamette
Rampage Disappears
As Upper River Drops
The danger of a Willamette
river flood disappeared today as
headwaters continued to fall and
the river crest rolled toward the
deeper channel of the lower ri
ver.
The Willamette crested at Eu
gene last night more than two
feet below flood level, then
swept downstream, causing only
minor erosion damage.
Harrisburg had the crest this
morning 2.4 feet over flood stage
of 12 feet. At Jefferson, where
the swollen Santiam joined in.
it licked a few inches above
flood level.
Flood Crest Sunday
The crest was expected to
reach Corvallis tonight, far be
low flood level. It will be at Sa
lem Sunday morning, also far
below flood level, the weather
bureau forecast. It is expected
to crest at 15 fect ending the
present high water period which
followed the torrential rains ov
er the New Year's holiday. The
river here Saturday morning
had reached 13.7 feet. Flood
stage here is 20 feel.
Santiam Falling
In the Jefferson region the
Santiam was falling Saturday
morning after reaching a crest
of 14.6 feet. Flood stage there is
13 feet. To the south the Wil-
lamctte and tributaries also were
Truman Names
Control Group
Washington, Jan. 3 U.R Pres
ident Truman today issued ai
executive order delegating re
sponsibility for administering
the republican anti-inflation act
Responsibility was assigned to
Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton
P. Anderson, Secretary of Com
merce W. Averell Harriman, At
torney General Tom Clark and
Defense Transportation Direc
tor J. M. Johnson.
The act was signed "reluctant
ly" this week by Mr. Truman,
who called it "pitifully inadequ
ate" to combat inflation. It pro
vides for extension of export
and transportation controls
through February 28, 1049, vol
untary agreements to allocate
scarce industrial materials and
authority to restrict use of grain
by distillers during January.
The five officials will consult
with representatives of indus
try, business and agriculture in
reaching voluntary agreements
to carry out provisions of the
act.
In leller to each, Mr. Truman
asked them to "collaborate as
closely as possible in develop
ing plans and carrying on activi
ties to implement their respec
tive responsibilities under the
executive order."
As a first step, the president
asked each to appoint immedi
ately a principal member of his
staff "to constitute a working
committee to study operations
. . . and to make recommenda
tions from time to lime1' on pro
cedures to be adopted.
Oregonian Building
Sells for $800,000
Portland, Jan. 3 (IP) Store
Properties, Inc., of Los Angeles,
is the new owner of the Ore
gonian building here, The price
was $800,000.
Sale of the nine-slory build
ing was announced today by the
newspaper, which is to move to a
new building, now nearing com
plelion. foreign registry in order to ob
tain reduced operating costs.
"Such results would be con
trary to the declaration obtain
ed in the merchant marine act
of 1936 and in the merchant
ship sales act of 1946 that it is
the policy of the United States
to foster the development and
encourage the maintenance of a
merchant marine sufficient to
carry our domestic water-bourne
commerce and a substantial por
tion of our export and import
commerce."
The bills lo amend the law
wore introduced in the senate by
Senator Butler (Fl., Neb.) and in
the house by Delegate Bartlctt
(D., Alaska). The commission's
disapproval of the legislation is
merely advisory and will be con
sidered by the committees when
they take up the bills.
Season's Worst
Storm Leaves
East Under Ice
Clearing But Freezing
Weather in Snow
bound Atlantic Area
(By the Ag&ocialcd Prtai)
The season's worst storm,
which left a crippling cover of
ice and snow over the eastern
half of the country, died out to
day. Only a few light snow flur
ries In Maine remained of the
tempest which silenced commu
nications, halted business and in
dustry and disrupted transporta
tion in communities from th
Panhandle to the North Atlantic
seaboard.
The section east of the Appa
lachians faced a week-end of
clearing weather, but several
days of considerable cloudiness
were in prospect for the Great
Lakes region.
Temperatures mild enough to
soften the snow, but not warm
enough lo melt it, were predict
ed for the storm belt over the
week-end. No further rain or
snow was in sight, however.
Floods in Indiana
In Indiana, two days of heavy
rains brought the threat of
floods on the Wabash and White
rivers. Six families were evacu
ated in Anderson.
Highways in 1hc path of the
storm remained hazardous, and
ice continued to strain trees and
overhead wires.
The storm brought death to at
least 16 persons in the New Eng
land states and the New York
metropolitan area. Other fatali
ties attributed to it were report
ed in the midwest region.
Property damage was expect
ed to total millions of dollars.
Wires Disrupted
Hundreds of communities re
mained without telephone or
light service, which was disrupt
ed by the snapping of wires from
the weight of ice or from the
strong winds which accompanied
the storm. The break In power
lines also left thousands with
out heat or cooking facilities.
Railroad, motor and plane tra
vel also was disrupted, but was
returning to near normal in ma
ny midwest cities.
New York City, hit by the ict
storm, escaped a heavy snow
fall as the storm swept out to
sea. However, thousands in the
metropolitan area suffered th
discomforts of darkness and cold
from the icy siege which hit th
nation's largest city one week af
ter its record-breaking snow
fall.
In the heavily populated New
York-New Jersey area hundreds
of wires were down and the New
York stock exchange, the curb
exchange and the cotton ex
change suspended today's busi
ness because of the storm condi
tions. The Chicago and Boston
stock exchanges also were clos
ed today.
Tax Cut Bill
Gets Priority
Washington, Jan. 3 iP) -"quickie"
lax cutting bill
A
and
a short-term foreign aid measure
were marked for first attention
in the house as republican lead
ers laid plans today for the new
session of congress.
Speaker Joseph W. Martin,
Jr., of Massachusetts coupled
I hose two items with rent con
trol extension and federal bud
get reduction as part of the early
"must" program for the legisla
tors convening Tuesday.
He said he expects the house
to pass a tax reduction bill this
month just to let the Whita
House know what is on the way.
There are no plans for such
rapid action in the senate,
where some republicans and
many democrats favor delaying
tax legislation until the federal
fiscal picture is clearer.
Martin said he has no parti
cular measure in mind, but
Chairman Knulson (R., Minn.),
of the house ways and means
committee has ready a bill lo
cut $5,600,000,000 off the pre
sent tax load and knock an es
timated 7,400,000 people off tin
rolls.
The extent to which taxes can
be cut, Martin said at a news
conference yesterday, will de
pend in large measure on "the
co-operation of the administra
tion in helping cut expenses."
But he declared "it is absolu
tely essential lo have tax reduc
tion this year."
He said congress must act soon
on rent control legislation sine
the present law expires at the
end of February. Indications are
I hat it will be exlended with no
major changes.
Theaters Raise Prices
Portland, Jan. 3 lU.R' A five
cents hike in admission prices
to Portland's downtown first
run theaters was in effect today.
The raise brings the fare to 85
cents. Rising costs was given
as reason for the boost by thea
ter operators.