Newspaper Page Text
COTTON
|_INCH MIDDLING .... ..87%e
Vol. CXIX, No. 237.
Corruption Among US
tax Gatherers Aired
BY B. L. LIVINGSTONE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. — (AP) — To allegations of
corruption and collusion among the nation’s tax gatherers
j.« been added some colorful information on lush vaca
tions, big race track winnings and multiple bank accounts,
This data was part of the testimony heard yesterday by
. House Ways and Means subcommittee investigating the
nerations of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
111-Ouf War On
"Hot Rods” Is
Uraed By Jury
All-out warfare on “hot rods,”
~ars that have been rebuilt to at
{aipn excessive speeds, not only
locally, but on a statewide basis,
was strongly urged in present
ments returned by the regular
October term Grand Jury of
(larke Superior Court.
Dovoting a sizeable portion of
it« recommendations to the peril
<uch cars constitute on highways
.1 streets, the Grand Jury re
cucoied Clarke’s two Representa
ii.es and the State Senator for
ilii¢ district draw and present a
Lill outlawing such automobiles.
The jury pointed out that not
only is the “hot rod” necessary to
<ccessful eriminal operations, but
.lso that “a large number of
thoughtless youths have these au
tomobiles which they operate on
ihe streets and highways, fre
auently racing each other at ex
{-emely high speeds. This activity
is a grave peril to other citizens
on the road at the same time.”
Routine Inspection
The jury made the customary
routine inspection of all county
property and buildings, as well as
yoads, bridges, schools, ete., and
made certain suggestions which
vere incorporated in the present
ments.
It recommended L. B. Thurmond
be appointed Notary Public and
ex-officio Justice of the Peace
t¢ "~ Sandy Creek District.
The jury complimented Judge
(Continued On Page Two)
Two Atlanta accountants have
teen added to the list of speakers
for the University of Georgia’s
Accounting Institute Oct. 25-26.
They are Roy L. Ward, of
Mount & Carter, C. P. A.'s, and
Harry Mathewson of Ernst &
Ernst, accountants and auditors.
Both will address sessions which
will be attended by accountants
from all over Georgia. Ward will
¢peak Friday afternoon, Oct. 25
on what constitutes adequate
records. Mathewson is scheduled
io speak at an earlier session on
“How Income Taxes Affect In
dependent Reporting of Accounts
of Business.”
The Accounting Institute will be
followed immediately Oct. 26 by
the first Georgia Tax Institute.
This session will be held espe
cially for Georgia attorneys al
though a number of accountants
ure expected to stay over for the
two-day meeting.
Ward, 'a native of LaGrang. and
& graduate ot the University of
Ceorgia, has been with Mcunt &
Carter since 1942, For the past
four years he has been a partner
in the firm,
He is a member of the American
Institute of Accountants and the
Atlanta chapters of the Georgia
Society of C. P. A’s and the Na
nm;al Association of Cost Accoun
tants.
Mathewson is a graduate of Sy
racuse University. For ten years
he worked with the Niagara Hud
son Power Corporation on proper
ly cost analysis work. In 1940 he
icined the staff of Ernst & Ernst
where for five years he devoted
his time prineipally to audit work.
Since that time he has worked al
most exclusively with tax prob
lems.
He is a member of the Georgia
Society of Certified Public «Ac
countants.
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly fair today, tonight and
Saturday., Cooler tonight and
Saturday. Sunday outlook fair
and cool. Low tonight 50. High
tomorrow 68. Sun sets 5:55 and
rises fomorrow 6:42.
G E O R G I A—Mostly fair
through Saturday; cooler Satur
day and slightly cooler in north
portion late tonight.
EXTENDED FORECAST
Georgia through Wednesday:
Little or no rain expected.
Temperatures are expected to
average about five degrees be
low nermal, turning coecler Sai
urday, remaining coce through
Monday with another change to
cooler Tuesday.
TEMPERATURE
Highest . 0t 0, 950008
Lowest. iialios 0.. aO,
Mealh .0 e i
Notmild v 2 e s il
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since October 1 .. .. .00
Deficit since October 1 .. .. 1.90
Average October rainfall .. 296
Total since 'Janusry 1.. ..32:38
Deficit ginee- Jhnflry LT Y 8
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
Reaction to the testimony—
given by four of the Bureau’s New
York Agents—was swift,
One Internal Revenue Agent,
Mordecai Miller, who claimed in
ability to remember exactly how
many bank accounts he had, was
summarily suspended by Inter-
national Revenue Commissioner
John B. Dunlap.
Another agent—whose financial
worth, by his own estimate, rose
from $2,400 to $25,600 between
1946 and 1951 on a $5,000-$6,000
annual salary—was instructed to
come back before the committee
next Tuesday and try again to
explain.
Volunteer Witness
A third, to the open-mouthed
reaction of lawmakers, volunte
ered the information he did not
report some $2,000 of race track
winnings in his own income tax
return for 1946-49 because he was
afraid it would “jeopardize my
pension.” :
The same agent explained a
$3,000 discrepancy in his salary
and his financial outgo for 1950
by a $3,400 winning wager in the
daily double at Belmont Park race
track. He hit it again this year for
$3,216, he testified with cousider
able satisfaction.
Rep. Kean (R-NJ ) wanted to
know more about the daily double
winnings of agent Ralph P. De
mayo, a gray-heired veteran of 32
vears in the Internal Revenue
Bureau.
Demayo said “Royal Bones” and
“Blue Man” won him $3,216 at
Belmont this year, He produced a
photographed copy of a check
from Belmont to prove it.
(Racing records showed that
neither Royal Bones nor Blue Man
‘had figured in a daily double at
‘Belmont Park this year. Royal
)Bones did not win at that track
at all. Blue Man won a race last
week but not in the daily double).
Demayo couldn’t remember the
names of the horses who teamed
}up to hit the $3,400 jackpot for
last year.
Demayo said he acquired a S6CQ
television set and a $3,000 au.-
omobile in 1950, won about $2,000
at the tracks between 1946 and
1949 and kept his $3,400 winnings
in SSO bills kicking around in a
drawer at home rather than bank
it because, as he stated, “my wife
would have found out about it.”
1t was Demayo who said he did
n't report his winnings before
1950 “because I wanted to com
plete my 30 years in the service
to get my pension.”
Miller Suspended
Agent Miller was suspended by
the Internal Revenue Commis
ioner less than an hour after he
contended his memory was ‘“‘very
poor” and he couldn’t remember
how many bank accounts he had.
Miller told the committee he
spent six weeks in Florida with
his wife and children in 1948, and
again took a Florida vacation this
January.,
The agent at first refused to
testify to his financial status on
grounds it would tend to incrimin
ate him.
Later, insisting he had ‘“com
mitted no crime,” Miller was able
to remember accounts in the Dol
lar Bank and the First Federal
Bank in Parkchester, The Lyn
nbrook Savings and Loan at Lyn
nbrook, L. I, and the Union
Sauare Savings Bank in Manahat
tan.
Asked to name “other,” Miller
balked, saying hls memory needed
refreshing.
(Continued On Page Two)
TEEN-AGE CLUB
Athens Teen-Age Center at
Memorial Park will be open to
night between the hours of 8 and
10:30, it was .announced today;
however, the center will be ciosed
tomorrow night because of the
Georgia-LSU game.
First Blast In A-Bomb
Test Series Set Today
! LAS VEGAS, Nev., Oct. 19—
| (AP)—The first blast in the
Atomic Energy Commission’s nu
clear test series at ite Yucca flat
range was set for sometime before
3 p. m. (EST).
The AEC issued a notice to the
aeronautics administration to
warn all pilots not to fly within
| a 200-mile radius of Las Vegas.
The notice said only that a test
would be made on the range 75
airline miles northwest of Las
Vegas, sometime after 8 o'clock
this morning.
An AEC spokesman earlier said
that weather conditions could de
lay the explosion until as late as
S p m
Other details of the start of ex
ercise Desert Rock, the first atom=-
ic test to.utilize Army troops were
cloaked in secrecy.
The AEC did not indicate
whether troops were to be used in
the first test.
Town Prepared
The little town of Indian
Springs, about 35 miles from
Yucea Flat, without receiving of
ficial notification, was prepared
to ride out the blast. Windows
were opened and pictiures and
bric a brac taken down in an at
tempt to keep damage io & m)inl
fimm-‘ gl S R |
N indian (1 Springs | Teceived | fHe
**;“ eAR P <P
gt TAN SRR B ; ! o o Bl 8 by S
O R T RS
§ Ae R b 9 ‘ . y 3/ |
. R s : . 10 ; 8 S L Y v 3
' i’- ol Y R s» i B g.g o!’ ail 0
: SPR 3 v e 3 ,g\ 4: ~ g : “~ ; P - ] ; .45 ) .
AT WO R Y ol
7w AW ol Tardge,
e BN G &(G eod- o 8 @
ai & Sl LT | e % e . b
ow, v R TR W S
o o ; ‘ » . PG . X § : 3 e
3”o~ :' ; ‘.- o V’:; 4%‘ ;* 9 :fik X :
e g W b R o 4 il R e k 5 :
T S ,‘?f T N CE B s iy g
i P SO oi- & £ F N
e& 2 ATI PR RAR LAI , “
EGYPTIANS DEMONSTRATING AGAINST BRITISH
Laughing young Egyptians wave hands
and papers and display signs in a street
at Cairo during pouular excitement over
Egypt’'s abrogation of a 1936 defense
treaty with Britain. The demonstrations
followed a proclamation by the Egyptian
Big Naval Guns Back Up British
Units In Strife-Torn Suez Area
Air Crash Near
Nassau Fatal
To SUS Airmen
NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct. 19.—
(AP)—Five of the nine persons
aboard a U. S. Air Force plane
from the Cocoa, Fla., guided mis
sle base were killed last night in a
crash off Nassau.
Four others were saved by air
sea rescue units and were brought
to Nassau.
An officer at the cocoa base said
the plane had taken off from Nas
sau enroute to Mayaguana Island,
where a guided missile tracking
station is being built.
Only one body was recovered
last night. It was identified as
that of the pilot, Capt. Irving
David Shapiro, San Francisco,
Calif. i
The four rescued were identified
as: Staff Sgt. Morris L. Dove
(hometown unavailable), slight
cuts; Staff Sgt. Jesse C. Neighbors
(hometown unavailable), shock;
Sgt. Edward H. Burkhart (4742
St. Clair St.) North Hollywood,
Calif., shock and slight cuts; and
Corp. James H. Price, Manitou
Beach, Mich., slight cuts.
The plane was a twin-engine
Grumman Amphibian which the
Airforce calls an Albatross.
MIAMI, Fla., Qct. 19—(AP)—A
downed Air Force C-47 plane was
sighted in the marshy everglades
about 25 miles northwest of Miami
today wish five men standing
nearby. % 1
| Air Force headquarters here said
it was believed to be the same
plane overdue at Alexandria, La.
The plane left here last night, cir
! cled Tallahassee and was believed
| to have turned back toward Miami
lfor some reason not immediately
known. S
Two Navy rescue helicopters
were sent to the scene immedi
ately. One reported by radio that
five men, apparently unhurt, were
beside the aircraft. %
~ The plane which left for Alex
andria carried a crew of five.
brunt of the $15,000 damages
caused by last winter’s five blasts.
Those explosions, however, were
set off at Frenchman Flat, at least
15 miles closer to the town.
Les Vegas itself did not take
such precautions this time. The
AEC in fact, did not feel it nec
essary to issue any warning to Las
Vegas residents, such as the ad
monitions of last Jan., 27 to Feb.
6 to stay away from windows.
Speculation
% This led to speculation that the
first detonation in the new series
might not be as big &s some of
the previous blasts.
Exercise Desert Rock, besides its
history making initial use of A
iweapons in tactical support of
ground forces, also wvas designed
to test heat and radiation effects
on animals and buildings.
The AEC disclosed that nearly
150 animals including two dozen
sheep, a like number of dogs, and
100 rats, have been hrough{ from
commission laboratories an d
placed on the Yucca Flat site.
The AEC said it hoped to get
data which might be helpful in
treating human casualties in event
| of enemy atomic atcion.
| The tests on various types of
}construcftion also are ed;})ected ’Eo
i be: helpful to, iv,iL' n defense of
!ficirls!tflrou'ghgut tb‘fiafion‘.*% |
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1951.
British And Egyptian Forces
Said Digging In On Waterway
CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 19.— (AP) —Big naval guns backed
up Britain’s Tommies in the strife-ridden Suez sector to
day as the British tightened their hold on the disputed,
strategic canal.
A British cruiser, apparently H. M. S. Gambia, anchored
last night off Port Said, at the northern end of the canal.
Other sea forces were expected shortly from the Perian
Gulf, and a contingent of 1,000 parachute troops was
alerted at Trieste for a move to the Suez. ;
Sibley, Triebe
To Speak At
Institute Here
Two more speakers have been
added to the roster for the Uni
versity of Georgia’s annual Indus
trial Editors Institute Nov. 8-10.
One is a popular Georgia newspa
per woman; the other is a Ten
nessee book manufacturer.
Both Celestine Sibley, Atlanta
Constitution staff writer and col
ufinist, and E. J. Triebe, vice pres
ident and director of Kingsport
Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tenn., have
accepted invitations to speak at
ithe meeting of Southern Indust
rial editors.
The Insitute, sponsored jointly
by the Henry W. Grady School of
Journalism and the Scuthern In
dustrial Editors Association, is ex
pected to attract a large number
of editors and employees of in
dustrial and trade publications to
the campus.
This is the fifth year that the
editors have met in Athens.
Miss Sibley, a native of Florida,
has been writing for the Consti
tution since 1941. She had pre
viously been a reported on the
Mobile Press-Register and the
Pensacola News-Journal.
Top Reporter
An outstanding reporter, she
has received several awards for
her work including the Associated
Press feature writing award in
1948 and a Pall Mall Big Story
radio and TV award. She is vice
president of the Aflanta Women's
Press Club and is a member of the
board of directors of the Family
Service Society.
Mr. 'l'riepe has been with the
Kingsport Press, book manufact
urers, since 1926. He has held a
number of positions there includ
ing that of planning supervisor,
production manager, personnel
and public relations, and sales.
He is now director, vice-president
and general superintendent of the
company,
Mr. Triebe studied at New Yeork
University and the U. S. Naval
Academy. He is a member of the
Technical Advisory Committee of
the Graphic Arts Research Foun
dation, is vice-president of the
Research and Engineering Coun
cil, and is second vice president of
the Book Manufacturers Institute.
Fair To Include
Hobby Exhibits
Youths from northeast Georgia
will have opportunities next week
during the Athens Agricultural
Fair to carry home prize money
and other awards in recognition
of their hobby work.
The hobby exhibit at the fair is
to be sponsored again this year by
the Civitan Club of Athens which
is eager to increase the interest
among local and neighboring
young people, boys and girls,
through sixteen years of age. The
types of hobbies which may be
entered are not specified and any
worthwhile projects which are be
ing carried on are eligible to be
judged.
. Hoyt Robertson, Civitan presi
. ié@entinued On Page Two) i
parliament, annexing the Sudan to King
Farouk’s empire. By treaty, the Sudan is
administered jointly by Egypt and Great
Britain.— (AP Wirephoto via radio from
London.)
BY FRED ZUSY
Sponsors
Both British and Egyptain forces
were digging in along the water-
Way.
The pro-government Egyptian
newspaper Al Misri reported Brit
ish troops before dawn today
forced Egyptians from a railway
bridge three miles west of the
Canal at Nefisha and took control
of the bridge. The report said the
it and arrestec eight Egyptain pas
sengers.
British Slient
British sources had no immedi
ate comment on the report.
The British already held the El
Ferdan British, which straddles
the Canal Itself about midway be
tween Port Said and Ismailia. Two
Egyptian soldiers were Killed in
the fight there Wednesday, the
first clash between British and
Egyptian troops.
Both British and Egyptian troops
dug in along the highway linking
Cairo and the Canal, setting up
gun emplacements in their re
spective sectors. British Tommies
were posted in rox nmoles along a
ridge near the waterway.
A British spokesman said the
Britions still held the El Ferdan
Bridge late yesterday and he dou
bted the Egyptians would get it
back under present circumstances.
The British said they also still
controlled Ismailia, where the
first rioting broke out Tuesday.
The Egyptians said the British had
withdrawn, leaving Egyptian
police in control.
A total of 12 Egyptians report
edly were killed and scores in
jured in the rioting which broke
out along the Canal after Egypt ¢cn
Monday denounced her 1936 treaty
allowing the British to garrison the
Suez area. Britian reported that
she would not accept the one-sided
(Continued On Page Two)
The following resolution was adopted by the Athens Housing
Authority yesterday and tendered to the Banner-Herald for pub
lication:
“WHEREAS, the Council of the Cily of Athens, a large num
ber of interested citizens of Athens, and the Comissioners of the
Athens Housing Authority did hold a joint meeting, and;
“WHEREAS, the fact was brought out in this meeting that a
large number of families would have to be aisplaced to carry out
present plans to enlarge low rent housing facilities in Athens, and;
“WHEREAS, approximately two-thirds of these families are
home owners, and;
“WHEREAS, these home owners cannot replace their homes
elsewhere for the amount of money which the Authority can offer
them for their present homes, :
“THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, we, the Commissioners of the
Athens Housing Authority, here assembled in special meeting this
18th day of October, 1951, do not believe it is to the best interest
of the community to displace so many home owners for the erec
tion of tenant property,
“BE ;E;FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Commissioners go on
record as opposing the present selected sites, and request permis
sion of the State Housing Authority Board and the Public Housing
Authority to continue our development on land already belonging
to the Local Authority and on additional sites to be selected and
approved, which sites will not disturb so many home owners.
“BE IT FURTHER RESCLVED, that a copy of this resolution be
spread upon the minutes of this meeting, that a copy be furnished
the Mayor and Council of the City of Athens, and that a copy be
published in the Athens Banner-Herald.”
Authority Chairman L. O. Price, sr., when asked how the Au
thority stood on the matter, sazi the vote was 4 to 1 in favor of the
resolution. The board comprises five commigsioners.
Chairman Price said negotiators have been instructed to halt
negotiations with property owners and that attorneys have been
requested to stop tracing tities on property contemplated for pur
yebaseis kbt o tsstaa it ki L s R R L)
Kumsong Is Pounded
By Big Allied Guns
PLEASE
MR. AND MRS.
SUBSCRIBER
If your regular carrier
fails to deliver your
Sunday Banner-Herald
by 10 a. m. kindly call
75 before 11 o’clock
and we will cheerfully
send you a paper. The
office remains open for
that specific purpose
until 11 o’clock. After
that hour, the office is
closed.
—The Management.
Congress Group
Predicts More
Shortages Ahead
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—(AP)
The Congressional committee on
defense production said today that
a period of civilian shortages and
a rising number of bankrupicies
lie ahead.
The Senate-House committee
simultaneously announced an in
quiry into the treatment of small
businesses, schools, and farm ma
chinery makers, in the allocation
of scarce materials, <
Three other investigations—into
the power shortage, the machine~
tool problern, and the supply of
strategic metals—will be under
taken by the committee’s staff at
the same time.
The Senate-House body headed
by Senator Maybank (D.-S.C.)
made few direct criticisms of the
agencies running the mobilization,
in its first annual report.
But it slapped at the adminis
tration for “regrettable delay” in
the freezing of prices after the
Controls Act was approved on
Sept. 8 of last year. Living costs
jumped 5 per cent In that 4%
months, it said.
Added Costs o
“This delay in carrying out the
law added billions of dollars to the
cost of our rearmament program,”
the report added. “It precipitated
many of the difficult obstacles
which the Office of Price Stabili
zation has found to be almost in
superable in the control of our
economy.” : h bk
“"I:}_x'ewr-eport closed with this
forecast: .
“As the military program in the
days ahead pinches our economy
and reduces the amount of availa
ble sivilian goods, the problems
will grow more complex and the
incidence of business failures will
increase.”
The four broad investigations
will seek measures to ease some
of the strain, the committee indi
cated. % i
Heading the list was the inquiry
into the Defense Production Ad
ministration’s trimmed-down al
lotments of steel, copper and alum
inum for several activities—par
ticularly small-scale manufactur
ing, school construction, highway
building and farm machinery pro
duction. i
: Projects Delayed
Some 1,600 school projects now
(Continued On Page Two)
Read Daily by 35,000 fiiP’o;pTonlrthflp:lrliTndo Area
BY ROBERT EUNSON
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY
HEADQUARTERS, Korea,
Oct. 19.—(AP)—Allied big
guns pounded Kumsong to
day as tank-supported U. N.
infantrymen fought to with
in two miles of the former
Red bastion on the central
front.
Reds stubbornly resisted
attacking United Nations
troops in almost every fight
ing sector. Allies failed to
take two hills on the west
ern front in day-long battles.
Planes, tanks and infantrymen
battled fresh Chinese replace
ments deeply entrenched in the
last major ridge line south of
Kumsong. The Reds used heavy
mortar and artillery fire in an at
tempt to slow U. N, infantrymen
pushing northward in the seventh
day of their central offensive.
But southwest of Kumsong, Al
lied ground forces captured two
hills against “surprisingly light re
sistance,” a briefing officer re
ported. Fifty-two Chinese were
taken prisoner,
Artillery supporting the Kum
song offensive fired 1,000 rounds
into the Communist road hub.
They concentrated on stores of
supplies left there by Reds who
appeared to have deserted their
former stronghold.
Fiercest resistance was south
east of Kumsong. Air strikes, tank
fire and infantry assaults failed
to bulge Reds clinging to a sharp,
high peak overlooking a valley.
Entrenched Chinese
Entrenched Chinese on the
western front held two hills north=-
west of Yonchon against day-long
Allied assaults. On one hill troops
fought at hand grenade range for
more than two hours before U. N.
infantrynren pulled back. A ten
hour Allied assault was beaten
off the other hill.
Nearby Red screening forces dug
in on hills less than a mile from
a battle-scarred ridge line they
abruptly abandoned yesterday to
Allied troops after a two week
fight.
The Reds probed U. N. positions
in the eastern mountains with a
series of attacks. All were beaten
back.
A U. S. Eighth Army communi
que indicated fighting was easing
off somewhat along the front as
hopes of renewed truce negotia
tiong revived,
Liaison officers meeting at
Panmunjom agreed on three
mile restricted areas surround
ing peace camps at Munsan and
Kaesong, when the Reds accept
ed a U. N. counterproposal. Only
two security points were re
ported standing in the way of
reopening armistice talks, which
the Reds broke off August 23.
Observers at the U. N. truce
camp at Munsan said negotia
tions might be resumed in a few
days.
Meanwhile U, N. naval and air
forces continued their heavy
pounding of Reds behind the front,
while ground forces pushed the
line slowly northward in the cen
ter and east,
Armor Support
The armor supported attack on
the Kumsong front jumped off at
dawn under cover of a morning
mist,
As the day warmed under an
Indian cummer sun, Allies seized
one hill southwest of Kumsong,
attacked the highest hill in the
area southwest of the city, and hit
a ridge line directly south of Kum
song. ‘
Grenade throwing infantrymen
were met by new Ciinese replace
ments, dug in on the ridge line
two and a.half miles south of the
city. The Reds fought fiercely to
stem the attack. An Allied brief
ing officer said they appeared to
be green troops, getting their first
taste of battle.
To the east, U. N. forces bat
tling through the ridges between
the Kumsong sector and Heart
break Ridge attacked Communists
dug in on high ground.
South Koreans on the coastal
sector beat back five light probing
attacks the Reds hurled at them
(Continued Or Page Two)
University Hit
By Steel Cuts
ATLANTA, Oct. 19—(AP)—The!
University System of Georgia has |
told a congressional committee
that the cut in steel allocation is
endangering a $20,000,000 school
construction program in the state.
The University Building Au
thority complained yesterday to
the House committee on Educa
tion of the 50 per cent reduction
in steel permitted for higher edu
cation. The authority called spe
cial attention to the faet that an
increase of 150,000 tons was per-l
mitted for higher education. The
authority called special attention |
to the fact that an increase of 150,-|
000 tons was permitted in the au- |
tomobile industry. e e
Building Director John Sims!
said the reduction is jeopardizing |
completion of two thirds of the,
$12,000,000 in university buildings
elready under consiruction in the |
stata: VAR A S fi;t;;..e,h:.f;i
HOME
EDITION
Passage Of Tax
Hike Bill Is
Sought In House
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—(AP).
Grim with tension, President Tru~
man’s leaders scrambled feverishly
today for enough House vaotes te
put across a $5,691,000,000 gen~
eral tax increase.
They acknowledged freely fi:fi
were in for a hard fight. The b
coming up for a roll call today
was changed in only a few minor
particulars from the first com-~
promise tax bill which the House
rejected 204 to 157 three days ago.
Telegrams went out to absent
members believed to be faverzlie
to the bill, urging thém to be pres
ent and vote. The 85 Democrats
who voted against the first com
promise were implored to change
their stand for the sake of party
solidarity. - Buttonhole overtures
were made to the 139 Republicans
who voted “no” Tuesday.
Martin View
Rep. Joe Martin of Massachus
etts, the Republican leader, tcld
reporters he believed most Re
publicans who voted against the
original bill would hold fast
against the slightly revised new
version. But Percy Priest of Ten
nessee, the Democratic whip, fig
ured he could put together a win
ning combination by the addition
of Democratic and Republican
converts plus returned absentees.
Months ago—Dback on Jume 22—
the House passed 233 to 160 a
much bigger tax bill, one to raise
an estimated $7,200,000,000. The
Senate trimmed that down and
the compromises resulied,
The revamped bill came out of
a reconvened conference commit
tee shortly after noon yesterday,
reduced In size some $41,000,000
from the first compromise, A few
hours later the Senate md it
by a voice vote, after a ex~
planation of the provisions by
Senator George (D-Ga.) The Sen
ate didn’t get a chance to on
the first compromise wh;eh the
House rejected.
The House was called info ses
sion today to consider the meas
ure. The rules limit debate on a
conference report to one heur,
but before the final vote there
was a good chance a motion would
be made to send the bill back te
conference once more.
In round figures, it calls for a
$2,400,000,000 a year increase in
individual income taxes, a $2,-
100,000,000 boost in corperation
taxes, and a $1,200,000,000 jump
in excise taxes on such things as
liquor, cigarettes, gasoline, mtS
mobiles and househoid electrica
gadgets.
11 Percent Hike
None of the half dozen changes
made yesterday was very econ
sequential from the standpeint of
revenue. The income tax beest
was shaded down a trifle by pro
viding an increase of only 11 per
cent instead of 11 1-2 per cent en
the first $2,000 of taxable income.
Boosts in the other brackets aver
age around 11 3-4 per un:h;:;
cept for persons in the
brackets, who have an option of
paying an increase amounting to
9 per cent of what income they
have left cver after paying their
tax at the current rate,
Yesterday's cut-back ranged up
to $2 a year for single persons and
$4 annually for married couples,
as compared with the first bill.
But a single man making $5,000 a
year before personal exemption
still would pay SIOB more taxes
than he does now. .
The individual income tax in
creases are scheduled to go imte
effect Nov. 1. So are the excise
tax changes, provided the bill gets
to Mr. Truman in time and he
signs it by Sunday.
POSTAL TRUCK
SCHEDULE SET
The order for establishing a
Star Route postal truck serviee be
tween Athens and Atlanta will be
come effective October 22, aceord
ing to the Postal Transportation
Service. All Parcel Post and bulk
mail for Athens and all distriet
offices will be withheld from the
trains and dispatched to the Fed
era Annex for transmission via
this route.
Intermediate stops will be made
at Windter and Lawrencevilie en
the trip from Athens to Atlanta,
but on the return trip, Atlanta te
Athens, no stops will be made. All
preferential mgall should centinue
to be dispaiched to the trains at
the terminal station, and by other
organizations and connections, ex
cept at the time of day this truek
will expedite or be just as good
for delivery.
The postmasters at Athens, Win
der and Lawrencivelle are in
structed to withhold all bulk and
parcel mails for Atlanta and the
Atlanta Gateway from the trains
and dispatch it to the truek. Pye
ferential mails from these thi%e
towns will coniinue to be semt
eitlr;)er ‘li)y trabnnt or tnizlck, and mails
{O, be, distributed will. | !
B% ‘(‘éonuiau. 3-:1-"? m‘
