L.T. SUNOCO. WEDNESDAY. JUL* 5« 1959 GOOD EVENING EVERXB0D2: The Senators in Washington have again ducked an issue, the revision of the Neutrality Bill. Meanwhile, Mr. Roosevelt continues to insist there must be action before Congress adjourns. The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate once more postponed it, much to the disgust of the Chairman, j Senator Key Pitman of Nevada. The meeting had started in his absence and he arrived in committee room (Just as it had ajourned. A reporter asked him: "Did they recess without you?" And he replied, with emphasis, "They sure didl" On top of that he intimated that the Senate would have to stay in Washington until something was done. He was asked what he would do if the recalcitrant Senators just went home. Pitman replied; "We can arrest them." Bring them back. The main fighting issue today was against that m - f - 'i.x-.SHINGTON -2 7 conference report on the money bill. The President has convinced bis followers that if tae conference report is adopted, he can go n for another two years with power to devalue the dollar if he wants to. Senator Austin of Yerront, acting Republican leader, and the other Republicans, say no, that authority is definitely dead. Sven the adopting of the conference report will not revive it. The attitude is that it expired last Friday at midnight and that a completel: new law will be necessary to revive it. f Early today it was said that the Senate is p.uMUflln* conference rerort this evening* - /v a ffn f hmfr- 1 fx ADD SENATE And here it is -- just came over the wire. It1 s a victory for the President The partisans of Mr. Roosevelt won the day by just four votes, The count at th-e end was 43 to 39, W in favor of giving . ^1 the President not only his two billion dollar stabilization fund for two years more, but also power to devalue a gsxxMi^the dollar^ frt thn inin I hn in I y||ji ii»■ »1 ordered L ia llTrypTfa^ ■■ '«■*•~n~p i y min < ‘ Irmn rl^-^r.liu! —r^U3nrerzJ*ll 11 nn A p ^.£03—1 vf y ir,i<rrr»d—In the-Unities St '^here still remains the legal question put forth by the Republicans, the question whether the vote on this ^Hxsjcixx conference report does not come too late because technically those extraordinary powers of the President expired at midnight last Friday. The President's followers say no. ( The act goes to the .Thite House and will be Signed ^ to TP tonightthu^become^ law. mA dramatic surprise^for by this vote the Senate reversed itself. TAXES For most of the years fsi the New Deal, there has ^MLa-v^ :hoTrg:~TH&s~t. between Fresid nt Roosevelt and the A Republican-Fusion-Labor Mayor of New York, Fiorello LaGuardia, In fact, it has been a matter of constant observation that the New York Mayor was able to get all the funds he asked for out of Washington, Today they clashed. Mayor LaGuardia breaks out in flat opposition to one of Mr. Roosevelts proposals, the suggestion to cut out tax exemption on state and municipal bonds. The fiery Fiorello minced no words as he told it to the Ways and Means Committee of the House. He backed his words up with a threat. And he pointed out that he was speaking not merely as Mayor of New York but as Fresid nt of the Conference years too 1 te." Then he explained*- "Had it h®M been part of the fiscal plan* at the outset of the Republic, there would be no argument s no ,, . ** of American Mayors. «Said f&JZ. !*— ’•This oonsfr&eTatiora comes about a hundred and fifty He went on to say that "To remove this TAXES - 2 exemption would bring havoc to every city in the country and disturb our whole financial arrangement.w Then came his threat: "If you tax the bonds of the City of New York, I will tax every bit of real xx estate the Federal Government owns in New 2ork, and IT11 collect it too." TOWNSEND Herefs the latest idea of Dr. Francis E. Townsend, the Old-Age Pension man. He wants Uncle Sam to levy a tax on every ody, a tax of ten per cent on gross income. That means no exemptions, no deductions for expenses, just a flat ten per cent. And he says in explanation:- "That should be considered payment for the privilege of living in America." And he added*- "It would be a fair tax with a millionaire paying as much in proportion as the ditch-digger." And he claims it would enable the government to carry out his pet plan - two hundred a month to everybody over sixty. S.-UTll Down south there’s a gentleman who does not want to be a goat. He made the announcement from a cell in a prison at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Yes, I mean Dr. dames Monroe Smith. He threw out some pretty torrid hints in connection with that goaty statement. He also said that he’d been poorly advised, but he was glad to be back* There was a threat implied in his refusal to be a scapegoat. Behind it there was a clear intimation that if he has to stand for all the blame, he will tear the lid off political secrets in Louisiana. We’ll be hearing a lot about this in the next, few days when Dr. smith tells his side of the story to the grand jury* cn STRIKE another aiitomofclie strike, and aga.A.iigt Goiioxal The C. I, 0. branch of the United Automobile .orkers ordered a walkout at a big Fisher Body plant In Detroit, The strike was called Just- - s General Motors were hurrying to the last stages of getting out their nineteen forty model cars. The union officials said that it would be extended to other G. M. plants^in time. Strikes have been authorized at several other factories, not only in Detroit, but in Pontiac, Michigan. The reply of General Motors to this walkout is that the company cannot negotiate \ new contract with^United .utomobile '/orkers until somebody tells us who the United automobile './orkers is. another consequence of thiii war between the unions* FLOOD A flood in Kentucky, a July flood. Rowan County in Northeastern Kentucky, celebrated Ind :rendence Day by ducking one heavy rainstorm after another. In spite of the heavy rain, there was a fire which destroyed XSXSH kBXKs,x&HgxxKrcxxi xfe®xxxi^ a three-story hotel, seven buses, and several shops in the town of Morehead. For a while it looked as though the entire business district of Norehead would be burned out. The firemen feftgrte came had A hardly got ^ /i the flames Or control, when Triplett Creek, usually a harmless A quiet stream, oversowed its banks and flood waters swept the surrounding countryside. The flood rose so fast that peoole living in the lowlands couldn’t eve get out of their houses, m had to take refuge on the roofs. By nine o’clock tvis norning the business district of I.iorehead was one big lake, four and a half feet deep. Early today, Norehead was cut off entirely from the rest of the world. The telephone service went out at half oast three in the morning. The consequence was that for a while there were no details of the casualties snu damage at FLOOD - S L'orehead. Lack of conununi cat ions gave rise to alarming rumors. One of them, was that twenty-seven peorle teax® Is had been drowned. One division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was washed out in four places. ourteen bodies of ed victLas had actually been^recovered. A later dispate .akes that disasten^ln northeastern &«itucky even wors The reports wer, ot exaggerated/"^the .I..*'* if m. miyw i i + , -.vhen communication was xkx reestablished, the manager of the telephone xxla: exchange at Idorehead reported that to his knowledge no less than thirty- eight people had been drowned and he believed that the total would be at least fifty. The overflow from that harmless little ---- creek swept upon ?.rorehead^ a 1 i5^rs~dX^. We 11 of water, rn —in omell boato early~thib moTningrat "li vea "to rofrouo oome of d-boon-gioroottod^ The whole thing was so sudden that everybody was caught unawares. Triplett Creek normally is no wider than an alley, but after it was swollen by those rains it swept away houses, business FLOOD - 3 buildings, two rwilroad bridges. eSQ ~b£jl Governor Chandler promptly ordered J SS^hway^drti• 3*^ to go to the rescue, and American Red Cross relief workers were sent to Morehead from tfae"iTgd-^To kestKgBPai»twi ^ Louisville, iSsfitedei** Even Washington got on the job. The Red Cross Director of Disaster Relief sent out an order that all available workers and supplies v/ere to go t at once to Rowan County. He also sent a staff from Washington by airplane. ADD DDOOD J A stDtx later dispatclx^f^fom Kentiuiity reports one tl ;e t'.'jer main street of LtOrehead vms^under not foiir and a naif of water bu^'Tifteen fe^rt. J i.jr now iTiibaidlng^. y^t-^or7ii\im4A»*tXu-n-1 ine>»--ore' otill in a ■Bod vmyv One bulletin tells saw teifr of a inan v?ho^|^ his wife and four children swept away on thas* hungry waters. Like many others, the flood descended A upon him before he knew what was up, When he saw what was happening he called his wife and children, tried to t.-ke them out of the house. he opened the door, a torrent swept in, washed them all away. The tsear man saved himself by clinging to a pole, fiat V * He* tried to /frmirv.umSs- his family, the current swept them out of A 4 his reach. c^-trvvrv\ There are now «» thousand flood refugees Huttrerfr- A Z^ '.juberowai^ ^ :/AH SAW There was more excitement over Dan^i^ in London today than in the caoital of Poland. A dispatch from .Varsaw hrings word that the tension there had eased up. There was a three hour conference of the heeds of the government at the Xxssidsxtiiixi Presidential Palace, and correspondents were given to understand that they had decided on what step they would take next, but it won’t be a drastic one. The easing of the tension was reflected in the press. For three days there have be n no attacks on Germany in the Polish newspapers. 1 LONDON An angry House of Commons tired to find out today:- "Will Britain go to war if the Senate of Danzig votes to become part of the Nazi Reich?” The Prime Minister's reply w as that Britain will fight if any aggressor threatens the Independence of Poland. All this aroused the temper of the House. The debate was bitter and sarcastic. One member got angry about the negotiations with Stalin, and said: "These negotiations have been dragging along for months. " Then he asked the rhetorical question: "Does the Prime Minister realize that he has been treated with very great forbearance from this house and the country and that we will have to have a showdown very soon?" After that debate, there was an emergency meeting of the cabinet, the second in one day LONDON - 2 W^xhe standing nl^dge to Poland Great Brit^ffd will f igfr-b- if- T^aad i& 1 -dafQuestion after question about D?nzig failed to produce any definite temper of the rouse. Debate was bitter ; d sarcastic, ^ucg^irm» A t^re-baile»>»"■£a iBDohina i— m >« thout the ea«*» feci>% One member got angry about the negotiations with Stalin, and said: "These negotiations have been dra ing along for months." Then he asked the rhetorical question:—"Does the Prime Minister realize that he has been treated with very great • forbearance from this houoe and the country and that we wi.1 have to s have a showdown very soon?" answer. Th'1 wr i rwi i n it ., rffl -xinr^VSib !!-mi waroused the A TZ*. After that debate, there was an emergency meeting of the cabinet, the second in one day. There’s 4* threat of a oabinet crisis in Japan, a change of governuent that, meanm much to.frhe rrhoio* v/orld.aa4 A- a htty^ ' rrrrcrr '■ t u -u » i n -s »-*A .— ’s <? A fight between the war lor.is and the politicians, ^nd the question at stake is whether Japan shall join the Rome-Berlin axis. Of course the ; ikado is already an ally of Mussolini and Tiitler, a"^-.yuna^. Me signed the anti-Comiiunist pact long ago, But.the war lords demand a strt-ng, fighting alliance. They want treaties with hitler and Mussolini^? as definite atid outright as the military offes sive and defei sive agreement that now prevails between Rome and Berlin, The cabinet of 'rhue 'Minister Baron Hiranuma has stood out against any such definite military alliance with the axis, hiranuma doesn’t want to antagonize "ncle ham. But the military leaders are stronger than ever for the idea. They say nov/ that if hiranux; doesn’t yield within two weeks, he will be txx thrown out and his entire cabinet with h'ra# i c. rue uc Lleanwhile there * s a report of another battle between the Japanese and the troops of the Russian soviet. The soldiers t&jLy turea a of llippon claim %ha:^ they won, captured a strategic hilltop >v frcpi the a 1-Men f ■ ig If ter» of outer Mongolia and Russia. ^ A BUTvD Out in Los Angeles the German - American Bund has a resort called Kindenhurg Park, 'they had a picnic there yesterday, and one of the principal speakers was a Macanatin Indian, named Red cloud. He told the congregation at the pro-Nazi picnic that Indians are ripe fxs for Fascism. And he explalned:- "Sitting Bull was a dictator. Our American indians have had fascism for thousands of years.”, He was aprlauded with cheer when he said that there are three-quarters of a million Yaqui Indian Gold Shirts in X k Hexico waiting for the proper time to fight for Fascism. XfeKti ./hile all this was going on, a red airplane with a loud speaker flew over the picnic, drooping anti- Nazi propaganda. There were no cheers for that. Maybe we’ll soon hav a message from Berlin pronouncing the Yaquis one hundred percent Aryan. Hell Sitting Bull) Heil ’ owhatan/ Hell Hiawatha^ rriEr!'T'TIB Onc:e again an ^uut:rican will be the amateur champion te' . is player o ' all Ingland. That may suund like soothsaying, because both the players wh o reached the finals at Wimbledon today, come from this side of the water* Bobby I.iggs of Chicago will play Elv/ood Cooke of Portsmouth, Oregon. The s.iccess of Cooke is .dramatic, A- Hot even, the most optimistic Aiiieriaan had expected him to do so well. It was his hirst whack at that English tournament Elwood at ' imbledon, actually, yo nf:_ xawxai; Cooke was sent over more or less to season him, give him ex erience for future years. Instead of that, he waked through all the finest amateurs of not only England but the rest of t ,.e world# walked. thyoi*tfh-~t.he«EIike*»a■ rrrn- -e»> The man he beat in the quarter finals was Vre fasrurefc* Bunny ^.ustin, -tta* pride of England. And today in the semi-finals Elwood Cooke defeated Benner Henkel, the teman champion, nf tt; :• that was over, Bobby Biggs, a fellow with experience behind him, took the match from the champion of Jugoslavia in three straight sets, six-two, six-three, six-four. Eo whichever way the finals go, the himbledon crown comes back to America again I# -mmmm JOK' ? At Venice, California, a young man named Herbert Penbrooks had a grand time celebrating the pourth yesterday afternoon. He stood on a corner of that seaside resort, arned with a supply of firecrackers. These he was lighting^ and throwing them at the feet of men and women passed rX- by. As each person jumned with fright, Mr. penbrooks laughed and laughed and laughed like anything. He was in the middle of his biggest laugh when he was slightly interrupted. Three large men walked up to him, and the first took a swing at penbrooks, knocked him down. The second large man picked him up again. Then the third knocked him flat once more. They kept this up until Penbrooks had a broken nose end hx jaw, a broken leg and bruises all over his body. The it dispatch ends on the optimistic note:- ttpenbrooks will recover." Maybe one day he,ll be able to tell his grandchildren what a good time he had on the Fourth of July, /. ^ Nineteenth!rty Nine,