Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - March 9, 1948, Reno, Nevada A Newspaper For the Home Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY SEVENTY-FIRST 281 RENO EVENING GAZETTE Nevada's Greatest Newspaper RENO NEVADA TUESDAY MARCH 9 1948 WEATHER Considerable cloudiness night and Wednesday with occasional light showers moderate temperatures 18 PAGES 5 CENTS MACARTHUR BIDS FOR Internal Revenue Bureau Under Fire Change Wanted In Selection Of Collectors to Provide Department Funds Goes to Congress WASHINGTON March 9 The internal revenue bureau came under sharp fire of the house committee today The committee said the political tronage system of picking federal tax collectors should be abolished The recommendation was made in a providing funds for the treasury and ments for the year starting July 1 CUT IS SLIGHT But the committee made only a 1.7 per cent cut in the 200 President Truman had asked for the two departments It posed a total of in cash appropriations Of this the treasury would re- or a 5.6 per cent cut and the postoffice or a 1.1 per cent re- duction The president had asked for the treasury and for the postoffice department Left completely out of the was the customary appropriation for tax refunds The committee decided to put off action on that until pending tax legislation is out of the way In addition to the new cash the committee recommended in trust fund tions and in general and special fund appropriations This boosted the gross total to SI The trust eral and special funds include such items as interest on the national debt and the old-age fund Over these congress has only nominal control FIRE IS LEVELLED The committee levelled most of its fire at the internal revenue bureau It made public its own in- reports complaining of inefficiency and citing a case where no action was taken to prosecute an individual alleged to owe in taxes and ties The most serious defect in the organization and operations of the the committee said is the fact that the men who are charged with the actual collection of the revenue the collectors are political appointees The commissioner who the entire bureau does not have effective control over the collectors throughout the country Whether collectors of internal revenue actively attend to the fairs of their offices or merely bask in their patronage appears to be largely a matter of their own volition Collectors ought to be under civil service the report said LAX ADMINISTRATION The committee said there was lax and inefficient tion in the Boston office it cited the indictment of two officials of the Hartford Conn office for Hatch act violations and it re- called that two employes of the Newark office flushed several bundles of income tax records down a drain This testimony by George J Schoeneman head of the bureau was called to congress Equitable tax collections is pure fiction without adequate en- forcement We do not have quate enforcement today Indirectly the committee also criticized President Truman It recalled that the president last year said a cut in enue bureau funds for this year might result in a loss of 000 in tax money through im- proper enforcement But the committee added the president himself cut from the bureau's budget requests before they reached congress Using the same arithmetic the committee said the president caused a loss of in revenues by his own action For the coming year the dent asked for the bureau the same amount it re- this year The committee cut that by but said the cut should not apply to field forces handling enforcement NEGOTIATOR Premier Mauno Pekkala who was chosen head of a tinged delegation today for the Moscow talks on a Finnish treaty of friendship and mutual assistance British Economy Faces Collapse Standards Hinge On Marshall Plan LONDON March 9 Stafford Cripps told parliament today British economy will col- lapse unless substantial United States aid comes this year The chancellor of the exchequer said in a white paper that only the Marshall plan can prevent sale unemployment distress and dislocation of production The mary predicted Britons would get less food and clothing It said that without the Marshall plan there is no prospect of a decent dard of living for years COLD DROUGHT The cold of the winter of and the summer drought were blamed for impending re- The white paper ed net national income for year at and said Britain is likely to another from abroad Imports from the western will be cut still further in the first half of 1948 to save gold and dollars Thc white paper said the imports will be no more than sufficient to maintain the nation in health and working The government estimated tish spending in Germany during the first half of 1948 at 000 In all of 1947 the British spent there but the ij S now has assumed 80 per cent of the costs of the American and British zones EXPENSES DROP Overseas military expenses will drop from for all 1947 to in the first half of 1948 The year is bound to be one of great the paper said But we can help make it the first year of a great upward turn in the European economic ery This year will beyond doubt be dominated by the decisions of the U S congress on the grant of aid to Europe for reconstruction Without further substantial ex- ternal aid we can have no hope of recovering equilibrium at a sonable standard of life within the next few years IN DEEP FREEZE CHICAGO March 9 Minn sometimes called the nation's ice box by weather fore- casters reported a deep freeze early below zero Finland Names Delegation for Talks With Russ Socialist Union Party Member Heads Conferees By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Finland named a seven man delegation today to negotiate over a treaty with Moscow while ern European nations polished up a pact to balk the westward spread of The Finns will negotiate in cow on Prime Minister Stalin's proposal for a friendship and tary treaty like those which bind other eastern European countries to the Soviet union Negotiations are expected to begin about March 20 Premier Mauno Pekkala heads the delegation He is a member of the Socialist Union party which is affiliated with the Communists in the Democratic Union bloc The social Democratic Agrarian and Swedish People's parties all arc represented in the delegation All three oppose a military tie to Russia Five western European powers meeting ai Brussels Belgium proved seven articles of an eco- pact Delegates from Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg ex- pressed hope the economic phases of the pact would be ready for signing by the end of the week Roland dc Margerie French declined to comment on re- ports thai the western union would seek backing of the United States military might for its structure Hugh Mal- lard U S charge d'affaires in Brussels said the United States is standing aside from the tion talks In Paris a French diplomatic source had said the conference may ask Washington to pledge automatic American aid if the western bloc is attacked A French foreign spokesman said the request had not been made and declined to pre- dict whether it would be A conference on the European recovery program will open m Paris Monday and 15 of the 16 Marshall plan nations already have indicated they will attend In Washington house and senate Republican leaders took steps to speed up the Marshall plan time table acting on Secretary of State Marshall's urgent plea for ment of ERP by April 1 Russia meanwhile has issued a new protest charging that arc engineering a western power scheme to divide Europe and increase military strength in Germany for aggression against the Soviet Union The note to Britain France and the Uniced States declared the western powers are trying to build up a military potential in the Ruhr valley so as to turn Europe into a strategic base for American im- in Europe The three western powers agreed Saturday on future international control of the Ruhr and a federal form of government for western Germany In Czechoslovakia latest nation to come under Communist tion a parliamentary action com- formed to purge parliament was ready to get down to business Its announced plan is to weed out of parliament members who refuse to pledge loyalty to the new Leaking Pipe Delays Meet For Plumbers PORTLAND Me March 9 Reuben vice dent of the Maine Association of Master Plumbers was 45 minutes late today for the annual con- vention The a leaking pipe in his home It happens in the best of families said Reuben Exciting New Shove Given Atomic Science BERKELEY Calif March 9 science got off to an exciting new start today with man made mesons mighty particles which heretofore have been only by nature The achievement ends a notable race among scientists in America Europe and perhaps elsewhere They agreed that artificial tion of a meson would be the greatest thing in atomic research since the discovery of uranium fission in 1939 which led to the atom bomb Production of mesons in the oratory for the first time was an- yesterday by Dr Ernest O Lawrence famed atom er and James B Fisk research director of the atomic energy com- mission The potent particles which eventually may point the way to atomic energy far greater than that produced by the atom bomb were produced in the University of California's cyclotron Dr Lawrence said laboratory mesons will give scientists their best tool for finding out just what particles there are in the nuclei of atoms However there will be no immediate practical tion he added Despite the atom bomb little is known about the insides of atoms Dr Lawrence giving credit to his staff and to British ers termed the accomplishment one of the great milestones of all time in fundamental atomic research Mesons are important because they are the most powerful cles known to science and because they have something to do with nuclei which researchers must learn about before they can solve any remaining atomic mysteries In nature they come from the upper air Presumably they are Born when the nucleus of a ing hydrogen atom hits an atom of oxygen or some other matter in the air and explodes it Mesons are products of these explosions Some have been as having energies of hundreds of billions of volts The energy produced in uranium atom explosions is only 200 million volts The cyclotron mesons are feeble about 4 million volts Bigger atom smashers will be needed to produce the more ones Dr Lawrence said He added that the atomic energy commission was interested in plans for building still larger atom busting machines MERGER IS URGED BY WHITNEY DENVER March 9 F Whitney president of the Brotherhood of Trainmen today called on farmers to join with labor to drive the speculators exploiters and money changers from the temple They should work for the same candidates he told the National Farmers union annual convention in a prepared address because their welfare destiny are identical The white-haired union leader attacked the colonization policy of Wall street through freight rate differentials time is coming when thc people of the south and west will rise up against their elected representatives in congress and demand statesmen who will represent the people instead of being of financial overlords in Wall he said He spoke out against greedy monopolists and financial who he said undertake to make the farmer believe that his cost of living is high because of labor's wages and then try to make the industrial worker believe that his cost of living is high because of the prices the farmer receives for his produce Whitney called the recent steel pric boosts mor than a and asked for a more stringent enforcement of Australian Visit Planned by King LONDON March 9 ingham palace disclosed today that the king and queen and cess Margaret Rose will go to Australia and New Zealand next year by way of the Panama canal The voyage of almost miles probably will be made in Britain's mightiest battleship the Vanguard which carried the royal family to Africa last year A palace spokesman said the decision to travel via Panama was made because the admiralty feared the battleship might have trouble squeezing through the Suez canal Court circles said it was un- likely the party would stop at Panama or elsewhere during the roundtrip which will take four or five months The royal family probably will depart some time in January Senate Receives Different Views On Cutting Taxes Commerce Chief U S Chamber Positions Told WASHINGTON March 9 Senators got conflicting advice on cutting taxes today Secretary of Commerce man said the country still is in an inflationary position and the chief effect of a lax cut would be to raise demand and thereby prices But the United States chamber of commerce contended that a tax slash would be the best way to avoid a slump in business CONSIDERED Both Harnman and Ellsworth C Alvord representing the chamber testified before the senate finance committee which is considering the to cut taxes by Indications are that the senators will whittle down the cut to attract Democratic votes which would be needed to override President Truman's ex- veto Sen Edwin C Johnson said he thinks a cut would be Other matters occupying con- gress included foreign aid the loyalty investigation of Dr Edward U Condon cotton prices garine and transportation Rep Keefe told the house he believes certain big in- are forcing up the price of cotton He said huge ore see in the proposed ment purchases of cotton an op- for another colossal cleanup CARRIERS ON ROCKS J Monroe Johnson director of defense transportation told a ate commerce subcommittee that every common carrier of persons or property in America outside of buses and pipelines is on the rocks He urged approval of a resolution which would establish a department of transportation at cabinet level The butter vs oleo controversy got going full swing before the house agriculture committee Dr H J Deuel jr a California college professor testified that butter is in no way superior to and urged the tee to approve legislation ing restrictive taxes on margarine Secretary of State Capital Hill yesterday to urge speed in setting up a European recovery program As a result not only Democrats and Republicans but members of both houses worked side-by-side to hurry the measure through MEETING ARRANGED Chairman Eaton of the house foreign affairs committee arranged a meeting with top ate man of the senate for- eign relations dis- cuss the matter attending Eaton told re- porters would be House Speaker Martin House Majority Leader Halleck and eral equally important senators The senate is in its second week of debate on the program to held sixteen western European nations The house has not started debate yet The house un-American committee began hearings be- hind closed doors on the loyalty of Dr Condon director of the government's bureau of standards The committee ordered three government officials member and a former member of the com- merce department's loyalty board and the pear today to answer a questions The loyalty board investigated Condon last month and said there was no reason to consider him disloyal to the government But the commerce department has refused to give up the records on which that decision was based be- cause they are confidential The un-American activities com- has charged the ment scientist with having or I a suspected Russian spy MISSING AT SEA Albert Snider one of the country's loading jockeys is missing with two other men in a boat off the Florida coast A two-day by air and soa has brought no results Snider born in Canada has boon riding for Calumet farm in the big stake races Banned Truman Forecloses On Democrat Spot Twin Announcements Overshadow Primary Race in New Hampshire WASHINGTON March 9 Mac Arthur bid openly for top place on the Republican ticket today even as President Truman foreclosed his mortgage on the cratic nomination The two hours apart in Tokyo and overshadowed today's New Hampshire primary the first actual voting for delegates to the national party conventions in phia reporter there isn't a chance in message he world for Mr Truman to win ing he is available but will in November not actively seek the estimate was regarded as significant because Thomas has dency caught professional not in thc outcry of his GOP politicians by surprise Dixie colleagues against the anti- It put the five-star lynching tax general in the positive candidate discrimination and Crow class along with Gov Thomas E measures the president has asked Dewey of New York Senator congress to pass Robert A Taft of Ohio former Thomas keeps his finger on the Gov Harold E of of a border political sota and Gov Earl Warren of the kind Mr Truman must carry California TIMING SURPRISES Mr Truman's word if he wins a close race over his un- named Republican opponent The Oklahoman said he is for that he would accept the Democratic a made UP of Dwight mation was hardly surprising but D Eisenhower and James A the timing of the announcement i however have said they was In its wake reporters asked Teaching White House Secretary Charles Ross today what campaign plans have been made He said none as yet editorial Is on page 6 Some of MacArthur's admirers started talking again about ung him back to this country soon Rep Miller said T o i he had definite information WASHINGTON March 8 W MacArthur would come to Wash Eight supreme court justices agree f to to con Ruling Is Made By Supreme Court that religious sects may not use America's public schools to teach their beliefs But in voicing their decision they disagreed among selves as to exactly how much ground their ruling will cover Justice Black author of the gress on matters dealing with Japan lie did not say the source of his information The supreme allied commander i in Japan named no party in his I announcement that he would cept any public duty to which I in hf n d fa t American jonty opinion upheld an Atheist fe J mother's complaint that religious education classes held in Ill schools the con- REPUBLICANS But statement took note of name has been Asked whether Mr Truman's announcement was the result rumors that some of the big city bosses want to dump the McGrath I'm glad as national chairman that this statement puts at rest all these rumors But there was nothing In the president's declaration to give the southerners any comfort on the civil rights issue As he emerged from a ute conference in Mr Truman's office with Gael Sullivan the Democratic committee's executive director McGrath said on this The president's position is un- changed since he delivered his message to congress and I might say that in my view his position as expressed in the message is as the constitution itself and as new as the 1944 Democratic platform McGrath already has offered to return to the 1944 civil rights form plank It merely pledged requirements for -n the the party in a general way to work tion of church and state Only Justice Reed to the lican primary next month only 10 days ago uu mps t GOP in isn't enough Black said rests for equal rights for all But southerners have said that Their contention is upon thc premise that both religion which he The Republican party has never from i A uv A i i and government can best work to proposition that all political achieve their lofty aims if each is jn left from the other The first amendment has erected a wall be- tween the church and the state which must be kept high and im- pregnable i many Of rny fellow representative told the United i asn zens Of Wisconsin presenting my tions security council last month it brought the original against electorate for must act to restore peace in the he Champaign school boaid sad Q IM I people In his announcement last night MacArthur I have boon informed that have been filed in Madison that no matter what the party says Mr Truman will be running on his own civil rights platform McGrath also took notice of the criticism that has been directed against the administration's ling of the Palestine problem Warren R Austin American dence Qf M No man could fail to be of Palestine A s styled Atheist had Profoundly stirred by such a We the president to ex- thai her eldest son He in this hour of plain thc present status of the now 19 was em- and in Palestine situation and he did because thc only I temporal and spiritual McGrath said The president will one hf nta S who take While it seems lor continue to handle the problem religious instruction me lo thal r do not without consideration of its effect Under the Champaign plan a local or covet any office and have on politics The chairman council Protestant no Plans for leaving my post in The president has assured me Catholic and Jewish faiths pre- Japan I can say and with due that our original position of announcement sented religious education classes humility that I won d be once a week in the public schools to all my concepts of good l to shrink because of with parents permission the school the hazards and responsibilities in- board explained It said there was from accepting any public no extra cost to taxpayers duty to which I might be called by John Franklin attorney for the the American people Champaign school board said the FIELD WIDENED high court by its decision has en- acted into law its philosophy that cned still further an already religion should be quarantined to ing Republican field the home and the church And Mr Truman's decision to I do not believe that this de- run drove a new wedge into the will live in our he said Democratic party split over his This view was by Rep rights program Landis who I'm in His action killed any practical favor of religious education in hope of Dixie party members for schools It will not hurt anybody a compromise candidate We may need a constitutional Politicians generally agree that amendment to clarify the now the president has spoken the Hon AGREE WITH BLACK Chief Justice Vinson and Justices nomination cannot be denied him The president's availability was made known by Democratic Douglas Murphy Jackson man J Howard McGrath Rutledge and Burton agreed In the lobby outside Mr Tru ing up decisions of the United tions has not and will not be changed McGrath said he had asked Mr Truman about his intention to run in response to numerous requests of Democratic leaders throughout the country He added that lace and his candidacy weren't mentioned at all To a question whether a vice presidential candidate had been Turn to Page 9 Col 1 Sent to Prison LONDON March 9 Kovacs Hungarian ist arrested by the Russians last year is reported here to have with Black man s White House office bcen sentenced to four years im But Jackson and Frankfurter Grath gravely told a ring of re- wrote separate opinions ing with some of Black's The president has authorized Frankfurter said there may be me to say that if he is nominated other plans of co-operation between school and religious groups which are constitutional But he insisted that if nowhere else in the tion between church and state good fences make good neighbors by the national Democratic con- vention he will accept and run The announcement had none of the drama that marked the late prisonment by a Soviet military court in Germany Word reached London last night through trustworthy channels that Kovacs and several other Hungarians were tried at Baden in the Soviet zone of Germany Kovacs former President Roosevelt's statement at i erai of the Smallholders party a news conference in was charged with conspiracy Justices Rutledge Burton NAME OFFICERS PHILADELPHIA March 9 Officers of the Republican national convention will be selected April 19 chairman Walter S Hallanan of the convention arrangements com- announced today LAUREL CANDIDATE MANILA March 9 Jose P Laurel wartime puppet president tonight announced his candidacy for president of the Philippines If nominated he probably would op- pose President Roxas who last month cleared him by presidential proclamation of charges of having collaborated with the Japanese The i election will be next year 1944 that he would seek a fourth against Russian occupation troops Jackson supported Frankfurter's term I reports said stand i But Mr Truman's decision to go hey added that the convicted Jackson while going along with after his first full four-year term J Hungarians will be transferred to Frankfurter and Black's opinion in touched off even greater Hungary to serve their sentences general said he felt it might bring i within his own party a deluge of suits BRIDES BANNED Canberra Australia March 9 Menaced by Henry Wallace's in- Authorities list 256 separate and dependent bid for the presidency substantial religious bodies in the that party has shown signs of Immigration Minister Arthur United he said If we are ing apart at the seams because of well announced today Japanese to eliminate everything that is ob- i southern anger over Mr Truman's brides of Australian soldiers or to any of these warring civil rights proposals I civilians will not be permitted to sects we will leave public education With all of this in mind Senator enter Australia He also banned I in shreds Thomas told a children ol such unions
