' TAXfi' ----- ! ~ n e w s on he new t a x bill is not so encouraging. Ever sinc e t ~ b eg1nn ing of the year, the H~!L!. has wanted to make it p ossible for income tax payers to pay less than before, with reductions retroactive back to January First. But the Republican Senators -- they are not so generous:.lr -,._•••••••~ They want the reductions to apply only from July First on. In other words, that half a reduction is better than none. Nevertheless, the Representatives, especially Congressman Inutsen of innesota, Chaban of . the ays and Means Committee, say they will fight on a for ~ i • tax cut to cover the whol~ year. Evidently there will be weeks of argument after the Senators pass their bill with the committee• of both Houses trying to reach a compromise. I The Senate won't get around to voting on the tax bill until next week. ' enator Taft of Ohio wants the Republicans, in both Rouses, to agree on the amount they want to rim off President Truman's budget. The Lo er Bouse, of course, already has voted for a six-billion-dollar reduction, and the S nate for only four-and-a-half billion. 0. N. ----- The sparring over Palestine continued t Lake uccess today. Arab and Je ish s okesmen continu i ng their discussion. A Syrian delegate told the olitical Committee of the General Aasembl1 that Zionisa was nothin g but _ a fatal dream, vowing that the Arabs would never p ermit it to succeed. On the other hand the Jewish Agency came forward today with a demand that neither British nor Arab representatives be on the commission to inYestigate the ialestine issue. Said Fadhil Jamali, Foreign Minister and delegate from Iraq: "The National aspirations of Jews in Palestine constitute a 'declaration or war by one people over another.•• And he added: "We cannot support any p lan wh ich might lead to a foreign bridgehead in the Arab w orld." Further, that "no al ■ self-respecting Arab wi 1 ever agree to the creation of a Je ish state in any form." 0. • - 2 ------ 1h Jewish A ency countered ith a bitter censure of the man o he ad s t be Ar ab Co mm it tee , t he Grand .!ufti of Jerus a lem, once proscribed by the B ritish as an enemy of the Em ire. The Jes say the Gr a nd Yufti was directly involved in the extermin a tion of European Jews by the Nazis. Carlos Romulo, dele g ate from the Philippines, and Lester Pearson of Canada, Chairman of the Policy Committee, complained today that newspapermen are featJring disagreements, whereas actually the atmosphere at Lake Success has been quite aaicalle since the special assembly began. ADD U.N. __ ___,_...., __ _ At the en d of th e day, the Politic a l Committee decided to eliminate the q uestion of Palestine ~ in its investigation of the issue. The instructions from the Committee to the Investigating Commission will not even contain the orda •Palestine independence•, eitner from the Jewish or the Arab point of view. The Committee decided this by a vote of twenty-nine to fourte n. Both Uncle Sam and John Bull were with the majority, voting against Russia and the S 1 av b l o c as we 11 as the Ar ab n at i on a . However, thia does not mean that the question ,""'\ of independence for the Holy Land is dr•opped. It merely le a ves it tothe Investigating Commission itself to decide whether the Commission should recommend independence, how and when. 'l ' RKEY ------ The Tu r ish ov e rn . ent will use all of its hundred-million-dollar-gift from Oncle Sam to build up its military establishment. Although the country needs economic help, it will ap ly to the International Bank for that.' So says President Geoo ral Ismet Inonu. At the same time the Turjisb President announces that his people intend to hold onto the Dardanelles. And nof even disr.uss any question· of leasing any air bases to any foreign power on Turjish territory. The Ankara government is convinced that the present control of the Straits is the best system for everybody. M aning the system devised by the Convention at .ontreux in Nineteen Thirty-six; under which agreeaebi, merchant vessels of any country, and even certain kinds of warships, may pass back and forth through the D a rdanelles, in peacetime. Turkey, however, has the right to close the traits to warships in c a se of wa r or threat of war. T h e lat _ st r oi es t a ains t the hu nd re d-m il lion - ollar i t t o the Turks com e s fr om the A ~ m niaos. TURK Y - 2 -------- - - The Armenians a re highly in d ignant a bout it. In f a ct • their National Council in Egypt (although they have no n a tional government) sent a cable to peake r Joe ~a rtin of our Lower Bouse. In the cable they accuse Turkey of having secretly helped Nazi Germany durin g the war. General Inonu, on the contrary, declares that ~~ longer is any Armenian there ~x• ■ xl ■•g•zxa■Jxiz■ •••i-r-- q uestion in Turkey. That in bis country every citizen today enjoys equal rights. regardless of race or creed; that bis p eople are earnestly ~nd sincerely trying to develope a de ocratic way of life, and have already succeeded in large measure. An American mission of military experts is expected to arrive in the Turjish capital on Yay ineteenth. ome thirty of them, including staff officers; to consult with the Turkish ge ner a l staff and inve tig a t e what ty p es of war materials are most needed in the co untry that u ards The Golde n Horn. A stran e u tim tum isaue rl in D ue seld r , Germ an , to day , an ultim tum from t he co q uered erma s t o t'lieir Briti and A e ric c o u erors. G rm Labor Oni 1 r er .. ave • a s ed on ~ ~ d e ' l l a n d t British officials: iore fo d wit in n da s or now rkl - nd re p orts from the American zone say that even the black market cupboard is almost bare • ..,,-, ... r~'~ f "-'e ~ t e first such German action since the occupation. German union • • • leaders were docile and coo erative at f i ~ ~ docile and coo erative no longer in the face of wide p read and continuing hunger. They told British authorities today that t ey oul no longer be res nsible for a y action taken b Ger · n orkers if food rations in the British zone were not increased. Duesseldorf Labor leaders are threatenin ~ to • resign t h ir est.St i ht, I nn th e a r n t h t e rm a a : n in i tr a iv e of i c i a 1 s ay follows it. ACH ES ON __ , _ __ For ~ore th a n two y a r s , D e an Acheson h a s b e en tryin to resign as On er-Secret a ry of St a te. Soon after the pa s ing of President ~oosevelt, ~e wrote to Yr. Truman, asking to be released from public service. The President urged him to atay on, on the grounds that he was badly needed. Last year, in April, again he tried to retire; and again the President urged him to stay on a bit longer. In Decem er, when once more he made his request, Mr. Truman then agreed that he could step out on January Tenth. But in January it became evident that if the new Secretary of State, General arshall, had to go to the Moscow Con~erence, so~e man of top experience should be in Washington, in charge at the State Department. deferred. o a ain Dean Acheson's retirement was Now, at lon last, he is to b~ allowed to go back to the ractice o law at th e end of June. ACHE ON- 2 ----------- A nd today he received a glowing letter conveying the personal thanks of President Truman. The P re s ident also announces th a t Dean Aeheeon's successor is to be Robert A. Lovett of Ne York, former Assistant ~ecreta of ' ar for Air -- a man who has been given great credit for the progress we made in wartime aviation. Dean Acheson, one of the earliest of the New Dealers, was Onder-Secretary of the Treasury for six months during F.D.R.'s first year in office. Th en in February, Nineteei Forty-one, r. Roosevelt made him A 9 sistant Secretary of State um.er Cordell Bull. Since the retirement of Mr. Hull, Acheson has been invaluable in the State Department as the Number One adviser,first to Secretary Byrnes, and more recently to Secretary Marshall. P ITI C ------ Two a t i nally kno n , ol i l ici a s a re e se a r a te audi noes t day , ex re s i n op po it e views. Both me ~e e it a are t, i f it' s not a p ar ent al read y , t ha t Radicalis in Pner 1 and Communism in particular will play a major rt in the i1eteen Forty-Ei h t . . . natio wide elections. In Providence, Rhode I sland , toni gh t Republican Nati o nal Chair an Carroll Reece told a Republican mass e ~ tin 5 that Preside t Tru man is now mobilizing the "radi~al votes" in a bi for election in Nineteen Forty-Eight. Reece in irectly a cused the Presi en t and other top-ranKing De~ocrats of failing to r a ctice w~at they p reach -- es eci a lly ith re ga rd t t e eliminatio of Commu i s t s in Federal bure us. ai d Reece: "On lrc h T ent y - S econ d , Pre s i ent ruma o r de re a ur f a 1 Com u u ist s ad ot h e r subversive e loy e e o n the Go ver n ent p y r 11. An t he ay af t er th or e r, a of ici 1 f t he i i str t im es ti nte that n t ~or e t a n iv Je rce t t1 LITI CS --- - - - Fe e r 1 r o L w ul be un · t o be Co m u i t . " "However," Reece o i ted o ut, "o t h at basi s alone, five . e rcent o . m e a n a hundre thousand subversive elements r i g for t h e Gover met." wAnd," he asked, "have we rid our s elve s of those hundred t . ous nd p ote tial s p ies? No !" -----· M nwhile in Min eapolis today, Henry Wallace, charged int the field again. Declared Wallace: "The nation's anti- Communist talk i a isgrace." ~allace went on t, denounc~ President Truman's orooosed loyalty -te st for Govern~ental e loyees as a wTwenty-Five . il lion Doll a r w itch hunt." ',,, 'To.l>"~ _ ., 5-) W a llace al so~ e coy references ' -/IN~owN _ o Nin e ee n Fort - i ht ,~x ex ecte L•- o l itical r o 1 e • • .S id j, ;I• ■ v q g u L "f-- " The P re s i e n c y h o 1 s n 1 C U ou r f' r , I w ould b e u tJ L it u 1 i l lin 0 t o rn h e l t he Liberal o r it." l~ EISE BO " ER --- - ----- Chief of Staff General £isenbower wants to pry a lot of able-bodied G.I.' away from th ir comfortable desk jobs. It seems that Oncle Sam is sorely in need of infantrymen with c.ombat training. And, we hear that quite an mber of good marksmen-in- uniform, in fact many sharpshooters, are now hol ~ ing down office jobs. As expert riflemen, Oncle Sam gives the ■ an extra ten bucks a aonth. 'But they cannot •• draw that extra ten a month if they continue to do desk work, for their marksmanship does the Army little good while they are sitting in office chairs. So General Eisenhower wants them to take their feet down off their desks and be off to "The Field" once more. The police of Paris ha ea diamond mystery on their h a n d s, an d th• s t ory goe£ ba ck to November, Nineteen Ei g hteen. On the night of Armistice Day, Martha Chenal, one of the celebrated operatic divas of the day, walked to the top of the ma nifioent flight of step• outside the Paris Opera House, wrapped in the French Tri-color. There she stood and to a crowd that hushed its cheers to listen, she san the Yarseillaiae. splendi'- It was a picturesque a n d ~ 1 ' 9 ~ moment. Aaong those who witneas . d· it was Henry A Rothschild, then a young scion of thet great banking house. Martha Chenal's sin g ing thrilled hi ■ so, that he gave her a forty-four karat diamond worth more than a quarter of a million dollars, as well as other beautiful jewels. She moved into a luxurious house in P ris, a nd th r e sher m : ined until her dea h. She left no will, and her lawyers be a n looking for h ir s . They fin~lly DIA.ORD - 2 ------ found a cousin of the s in er, end began probate proceedin s. But ~hen they searc h ed her mansion, they could fin~ no diamond. The search was exhausted, inch ,.; ~ by inch, but ithout success. hthere's a problem for George Siaonen, celebrated writer of detective tales, and hili Inspector Maigret (Maygra; 1 ) . BEG G R S _.,. ____ _ T he Labor movement in e x ico City to t h e pinnacle o f somethin g . A Union o f Be g r rec ed been formed there. T h e pan-handlers of exic o have de cr e d a closed sh-0p, union buttons, and a constittti.on. The Beggars Union ever placed a floor under t eir, earnings -- guess you c n't ail it wages -- an absolute minimum below which theJ'll not beg. lo longer will they accept the clas q ic ce n ta o. What with the rising cost of living, it's to be ten centavos -- from now on, or -- nothing. A bul)letin was distributed amon Mexico City's beggars todaJ, a demand for the ten ced.avo minimum. It the gift is anything les, then •the beggars wx must reject the alm in the most energetic manner he deems convenient for the oocasion!• Sos ye the bulletin. Question: if the beggars go on strike, how will they do itt T en y - 1ve . y e a rs o, ' r . n .A ulla - Le o of Hawaii, bou ht a grou of litt l e i sland nine hundred m il e south of Honolulu -- bou ght the whole roup for fifteen thousand doll a rs. These atolls s.re inown to us by the historic name of Palmyra, tiny miaat• clusters of coral, a bout one-and-a-half miles square -- I seemingly worthless, except for g~ano. In Nineteen Thirty-nine Uncle Sam's Navy decided it needed these coral atolls for a base, and turned out the owners. The Navy's position was that if those Hawaiian citizens had spent money buying and developing the atolls, it was ju-st too bad for them, because in . E ighteen Ninety-eight, Oncle Sam had acquired title to all Hawaiian public lands -- includin almyra. The Full a rd-Leos would still be out of luck~ but for the Su reme Court of the Onited States, which today ruled that they definitely own Palmyra, and t tB t if the avy i still established bhere, then they are the ~ N a v y ~ ~ ~ ~ i ~ ~ t ~ c o r a l , atolls y, 1 ill_i• , ■ 1cl &J{JIA. maybe those ~~~- } T E ON .. . ./ ,. .. (, - -------- A fed al jury w s im anell . d in cour t at ' shin on d y to try a form ent o f the f ice of Stra t e ic v ice on ch r e f di loy 1 y . His name, Carl l d o Marz ni. ~ a ls o acc us e d of having &IUI co n ce ale d he f ct th at he is a Communist, a party member. Marzani g ot bi s first foothold in the government service .. ith the o.s. · s. They took him out of the army and made him a maste sergean t , put hia to ,. u work as an economic editor, whateve r th may be. After he was discharged from the army, he continued to work ae a civilian employee of O.S.S. When it was ~bsorbed into the St a te Department, Marzeni went along. Last December the S ta te Department, having discovered Marzani's membership in the Co munist Party, fired him. A month a ter, a grand jury indicted him. The overnment prosecutor to ld the jury th a t this fellow h ad be n a Cnmm11ni1d. P11,-t . v mPmhPT" • TREASON - 2 ------- in N e it Y r C i t y in N • n t e n Fort y a n ' F o rt y - On e , in ~ fact w a. · an or an iz rJ ~ use« th e a li a s , ~ Tony W~les. A '\{ In July, Ninete e n Forty-two, when the F.B. I. a . ents w re investigating him prior to his employ by O.S.S., he took an oath that hen ver had been a Communist, never IRR1. .-1.J even~attended Communist meetin g s. La er, he made the same sta ements to civil service investigato~s. Marzini's particular job,assi ned to him by the Communist leaders, was to teach other organizers how to spretd discontent among negroes. TE LFPH ONE __ .,. _____ _ The le hone stri e is not 1 over~ ye , even thou h y o u m Y hav been puttin throu hand receiving calls. Twenty-two thousand employe s of estern Electric are still out in New York and New Jersey, and some twenty thousand more installation and mainten a nce men are ~ ~ • 1 ' ic k et 1 ines _1f However, most of the telephone w orkers have come to terms w ith the companies. The union leaders today demanded that the Department of Justice investigate A.T. & T. and Western Electric on a charge of violating the Anti-Trust Lawe. ~ A representative o f ~ Western Electric men aaid be doubted whether th at part of the strike will be settled, if the government does not intervene. Western Electric, he said, bad flatly refused to arbitrate. I I ------ . a nu 1 i , on n hi s ife e e ca o n , a 1 i le eli cate sen ho p in o . hat ·as e nty- iv e o, ju t out i e the Boston At'ena. The , 1 ere so c ble n frugal that between them the y iled u p a h a n some fortune • i th which they started buying a I rs c on c e s s ion a t a r a c e track . W h i c h d id s o we 11 t hey b o u ht another. In fact, before Samuel Simon died, the had parlayed their p rofits into refreshment stands at three racetracks as well as the Boston Af.ena, and their holdings were estimated at a million or more. Pamuel Simon had a cousin, Edward Shames, to whom he was m ch attached. He took him into the business, mad~ hi m general manager. Whe Samuel died o, the cousin expected to inherit a share in the busines s . But, he as disappoiited. The wife, ebecca, it was all left to her. Rebecca not only took omplete char e, but he rolled u p the rofits s till higher. urin ~ the war, t h e A ~ was in , ' ,, the service, and hen he , a is c h r g ed found hiase l I· .. __ _ .:: __ --- without a 'ob. h ie forenoon the pol ice receiv e an emer g ency call from r s. i on' s off ice at the tffolk Downs racetr a ck. , hen the officers trived, they found rs. Simon and Ed ard h ~e· facing e ach other a~ ro bs a flat- . In the right temple of e a ch, a bullet wound, and in the man's lap a thirty-two calibre pistol. • LTP.1947.05.12i.pdf LTP.1947.05.12ii.pdf