TAFT l .s S e n a t o r ~ Taft callie on congress to give ,A the people of the United S tates a ■ 01~ substantial incoae tax ~ ~ IAl.4 ~ - cut this year. -~~ fl.;. ~ at Providence, Rhode Isiand, tonight. ~ Congress •• ■~Kx can help ••FAM this substantial tax cut, be said, by slas~ing three billion •ollara fro ■ President Truaan's new budget. S ....... Taft attacked Secretary of State Marshall aa having taken what be teraed • an indefensible position• oi the European recovery prograa. And be deaaded that -ilA. -r....t,,.;~- .e~ Congress aub•i~proposed ~•r~ •l'l,,..4-~~--iet for --o-t• 2 •n~~to . T~~ the first fifteen aonths)~•••~•critical review, ~ The amounts requested for the Marahall•Pla~expenditurea said Taft, are based on the vaguest of esti ■ atea. lany, assumptions have been made which it is i ■ possible to _ _,,_,'J prove,"the Ohio Senator. Nde\~•.._ And be warned that the success of the Mars h all Plan and the a ■ ounts required, depend as much on fu t ure policies of the TAFT 2. European governments theaselves as they do on American dollars. The Republican Senate leader re-iterated bis fir ■ opposition to universal ■ 111,a,1 training, ter■ in1 it •contrary to every Aaerican tradition.• As an .s alternative to universal training be propose; a 1 ■ aller reserve on a volunteeer basis, its personnel highly - trained to carry on the technical activities nece1aar.7 in ■ odern war, and to be paid for their period of 1ervice. 7r Taft noted that the Ad■iniatration bud1et includes Four Hundred Million dollars to start a univer- aaJ training prograa during the next fiscal year. ~~ . progra■, - ~~ co•pletely distorts the defense budget. •Increasing the ~ir torces•• aaidf~ would be ~expensive ~ e n t.!.!_e!_as iaportant to Rational Defense. Marshall ( to follow Taft) Meanwhile in Pittburgh, Secretaryof State e:a~11111:Pet.::>t~Mar s hall asserted in a nationawide radio address that Europe's survival andpur own world position will be iaperilled if Congress insists on ~. aajor changes in the Adainistration plan. ,1arshall aade a clear cut bid for popular support for his aid proje.ct:;i po in t, . s of the Congress last saying he is standing fir• on the basic progr~ and the President ■ab■itted to -t..,_, week. The prpgraa, Ilia sai~will call for inconveniences and sacrifices1 but1he warned that the •fatal deterioration and collapse• of Europe econoaically and . politically would result in consequences of a moat serious nature. --5..a.c.. •The situation we then would face• said.,A,larshall~ •would iapose on us such burdens in the way of taxes, discoa1frts, sacrifices and impairaents of the rights and provileges we now aakx enjoy, as to aake those that now confront us see ■ trivial by comparison• Marshall 2. Be described the obstructive tactics of the Soviet Union as the need for such a plan, and insisted that the prudent course to ■eet the situation in lurope ••• pro ■pt and effective action to assure solvency and 1tabilit7 in that area - Marshall defending bia plan to the utt~r■ o1t. IIARSBALL PLO It we don•t spend seventeen billions to help the weatem countr,ue or Eu.rope during the next tour years, we•ll have to spend seventeen b1111ona a year on 8.l'llaMnt. Wbat•a ■ore, we' 11 have to reauae the dratt again, to build up our ai11tary eatabl1ebllent to tull tigbttng strength. Kenneth..,_ Ro,all, Secretary of the Afll1, told the Senate Foreign R'-lat1ona Ccaaittee, todaJ that it be tailed to aubllit thole tacta aquarely, be would be lackinl 1n candor. - - - . Senator Vandenberg, Chalnliul ot tbe Caa1ttee, NpllN that the Senator• appreeiatecl hie candor and, tor Illa part,• n.1 confident that Ro,all waa not trying to wave an, led tJ.q or put over an, btgb preaaure aaleaaanahip. Vandenberg u 1nt111ated that he ap-eed.Athe country had thoae two alteraatiffa the Narahall Plan or real'1181181lt on a big scale. uplitied ~ . ~Secretary of Detenae Juea Porrestal, t"''"l-- ae,&U t w , ~ present rate ot appropriations, eleven billion dollars a year, ia 1nlutt1c1ent to Mke . ~ uncle Sall 80 strong that tore1gn naliona will leaveA~.(. ~l~ JUIIIIJ,r. PLAI - 2 ~4t 7L;f It ·••tern B\lrOp~goee Red, _Uncle Will tind htilaelt alone 1n a hoat1le world. l'fOIIIC There ia no auch thing aa a secret about the at011ic bCllb. Mwt ■+ 4'e llllu.:.e 1 Na- aeucl 1'h8Ueveral neka ~ ~wt;;f;::. ~ ago J-.fl ~ article written by Robert Butch1na, President ot the University ot Chicago. Bia atateaenta were discounted bJ SOiie autbor1t1e1 at Vaahington who aaid ~ though there t ■ight not be an, aeoret, ac1ent1t1cally 1peak1nl, it would take 1eara tor any other countl'J to build and develop tbe plant requ1red tor Mldlig thoee euth-llbaldn& ~ • But a atory trCII Lake Succeaa todaJ 4i1cloae1 tbat ac1entiata cormected with tbe United lationa . ltoaic Control 7CJ' A&eno~ tula:;~ -eoroborate Dr. Butcbiu. ,._ IO atcaic aecret ex11t1. ~t will take no ■ore than t1ve year• tor otblr nations to have whole araenala ot ato■1c bollba. CRIB rJ:n China, the r.cnm,n1st1 have blasted ~elves a , corridor au hundred ■ilea long, all the way trca Peiping to Yangtae RiYer Mu lankOlf) 'l'bat 1 ta the nen brought to Shanpa1 bJ tbfi• .IMrloaa ■1a■1anarie■ mo have been nacuated trca tbl nr zone. an. than a bundNd or thea are ■till trapped two mndNcl ~1•• nortlllfeat ot llnMow. !1187 report tliat the ~ •m11te treated well thoae ll1111aaar1e1 who ••re al10 doctor■• ADJ pbplotllll •• ,. allowed to go tbroqb the linel with trNd• . . . .....,. ma■1CIDll'ie1\ _ PIIN1' religioua, are . -. A r;:;tff""~, CIRBICE A force of guerrillas 1n Greece bad a narrow squeak early this ■oming. Some twelve hundred ot the■ awooped auddenlJ on the town or ~khe>Ta, fifty ■ilea acroaa tbe OUlt ot Corinth tr011 Patras. \Jith what looked like a brilliant 1ucce11 at first, iahey captured the town ,e1t&.1MJLff•ntlll ~4-te Mt occupied it, kill1Dg~"ott1cera or the prriacn, wounding tour ■ore, and putting eighty 1oldier1 out or actlan, ~ . But their aucceaa er P When word arMYed "' at Patras, a Nliet force was organized witb uma1Ql •PNCI tor the Greek Arw, using troops trail Patras, Corinth 111d other nearby places. The relief force ad'IWed on Al'JldlOft and was 1n a fair way to capture those tnlve hundred guerrillas. They ■anaged to get out ot ArakbOft ill tilll, but as they were escaping 1n two coluana toward the ~ \ ~ aounta1na, the Greek Air Poree..,. on the sc o ne and r ~ • aa,;:J the■ ap with achine guns and cannon. ~ ,.. pa:r:9e er &•••••s :tatdlcattng '1\et the re~els are bciRS ClllllCI - 2 1MAt e11t- et 'he - , pt•ewwwal, • tea here _. • t • -tMN,• ,_□21 lcNm• Dlf1gbt Ortawold, ohiet ot Uncle Saa•• a1a11on to ClrHce, . . ,.. U.t before long, tbe ClrNk DIV ~ lw'"..., "'baYe plenty of equ1paent to tl&bt a war. ... .. ot it, he added, 11 already tare . • PAIM'l'IIE An all-out war awaita any international police toroe f I 7 the United lationa 11 able to aend to Palestine it~er. \ I\ A apokeaan tor the Arab League Mde ttl'announc-nt at Cairo today. The Araba are prepared to ttaht it out to tba bitter end, aa1d he. Be alao revealed that the Arab League baa drawn up plana and aent aqgeationa to the goven nmta ot the ....,_. countriea, a11t1.ng thea to invade and occuPJ Paleattm nth U..lr reaular araiea u aoon aa tbe Bri tiah leave. Md ba added that bJ tbia he •ant OCCUPJ the entire Ioli lad. lot on]f the L8HUf,but the individual aaber nationa ~ 1nto1'118d the Big Power• that the1 will reatat the partit1• ot Palestine 1n ever, conceivable way. The Arab Lape apokelllUl added that tbe peace ot the world WOllld be endanpNd the aoaent any1:!!,_t!_.rn&=!2!!,8.! force proposed to enter tbe Holy Land. '!'he story ot Palestine itself grew ■ore 0111Doua toda,. The worst of the t1gbt1ng waa 1n and around the seaport ot • - PALESTID - 2 Bait•►~ . - V hal had the ettect ot cloaing that port to shipping. All actiYitJ 1n tbe harbor ta at an encl. !be port district 11 cut ott trca tbe bu11ne11 and residence district. 'ftle grav1t1 ot tbia 11•• 1n f he lack of other barbora in the · Holy Land. Jatta and 'rel AYiv are on the aeaabore,NM IIINlt bllt the barborl are ■hallow, not enough draft tor aea-golng abip1. Couequntit treightera bl.Ye to be loaded and unloaded with 11&btera, a cuaberacae and ■oat expenaive operation. Sltiriliahea and ■ore 1er1ou t1gbt1ng are reported tNll all OY■r the iol.7 r.nd. ~ dead Aftbl pf; • broqht into the - Prench Boapital at Betbleblll, pre-•d to have been killed by a lewiab aine. ID 1011e c1t1ea, Arabi ~~-.~~ ... ~ ~ - are,~• l c . . ,. aoaquea •• ~ l l ~-•" tiring tr011 the ainarets. The British have aoved a tora1dable force into the - - • 110Unta1.DII aOllth or Jeruaal~ D ~ t111:IJ lntantl'_J _ . t 1ca cannon and plane• to break u J the fightin& at tour Jew11~se!t1e•nt, near Hebron, which hai_been aurroundeddlba. In Hew York, Secrtary of Argriculture Clinton Anderson sheds new light on inside infor■ atioa, that •inside infor■ ation• about which there baa been 10 ■ uch talk recently. •There'• no 1ach tbina,• ••1• 1nderaon, •certainly not on Go•ern■ent grain purcbaae1.• Said be •Thia ■ orning not a person li•ina knew bow ■ ucb grain the depart ■ ent of Agriculture would by today, or whether we would buy any. 1n4 no-one knowa whether•• ■ hall buy to ■ orrow. Tb• bu7er1 tbeaaelvea don't know until they see the offer• they get.• Those are his words, Secretary ot Agriculture Anderson denying all the talk of •inside infor■ ation• being available to a certain few. Anderson went on to state that the Agriculture Depart ■ ent• 8 operations in any one week have caueed less fluctuation in price that so ■ ebody's ru ■ or of a dust stor ■ ■ZP.X or a good rain. Bis department, he Speculators 2 said, buys ahead of its needs, and does not haTe to bid above the aarket to fill a ship. The Goveraaeat•a buying aethods, Anderson claiaed, are so fair that no-one has ever had the te ■ erity to attack the good naae oft e • • who actually carry on the bayina. Be teraed it aignifigant that the snide references to •inside iiforaation• caae fro ■ political sources, and not froa responsible business ■en who deal in grain, an4 know the Depart ■ ent' s procedurea. OIL Secretary or the Interior Krug pleads with us to ration ourselves 1n the use or fuel 111 and go . soline, also - G _ ~ ~ natural gas. If we do not, •td 81c11ta., D+a, there will tie I\ \ unheated h011ea, particularly 1n the east, and industrial planta with uneaplo111ent and everything that oea w th it. closed down. to bring about a reduction ot tittee -) per cent 1n the use or petroleua products all over the countr7. ~ petroleum ahortage ,..-INL 4llllcllG,, ie worldwide and •:, last two or three years. ~ 1 c ~ ~ . About the supply or oil 1n Aaerica, tbere~)::iiit- diaagreeaent. Pirst or all, we were told that the preaent shortage ot fuel waa a tranaportation matter, not en~ tank cars, not enough tank ships. And th1a, like ao any other shortages, all goes back to the 1nButt1cient aaount ot atNl that 11 being turned out. •rtwnrYou can't build tank cars or ships without steel. That sounds aillple 1111 enough and plausible enough for anybody to understand. But there's another group of people in the capital, who claim that the nation's oil reserves are shrinking and ' OIL 2 that we are rapidly approaching the point where we need to extract it from shale, a process which would require some ten years to ~~ ~~ the oil 1ndUBtrJ have told me tla; there 1a no such thing aa an inadequate supply or oil 1n the U.S.A. Ont.large coapany not long ago, got rid• ot its holdings outside or Allerica, because there 11 n&ff&j)~ such an aaply ~ u ■r,. right here. Whichever side is right, we are running up againat ~ an actual shortage, and~Secretary Krug baa a whole 111t ot things he wants us to do. First ot all, don•t 1nstall an, ■ore · oil burners or gas burners. Keep the te■perat\L.-..e or hoaea and ~ all o t h e r ~ a t s1xty-e1gbt degrees or less during the /'- /\ day, sixty degrees or less at night. He also wants us to go back to a voluntary system of cutting down the use of our cars, reorganize the car pools as during the war, drive more slowly and so get more mileage per gallon , and above all, drive less. The Secretary also u r g e s ~ to use less hot A water. OIL - '7 - He made this appeal to a conference 1n Washington today, a conference of representatives ot the oil industry 7f7 and ott1ciala troa thirty-two states. we need ■ore oil nlla ~~~. vv-e~~~ and lota of the" A'" lt kv - - ~ not only a tu.el • ~ this winter, but will ha9e a gasoline ahortage 1n the •• •~ J and this will go on for years. PORClt President Truman this afternoon talked back to the critics . who are complaining about the balcony he proposes .... to add to the second floor ot a the White HRuae. He may be only a tenant of that Executive Mansion, said the President, but he bas Just as much right to build a porch as Jira. Millard Pilllllore to put 1n a batld>.ub. Our chief magistrate went back a pretty long way tor IU.-k his analogy. • was careful not to mention the sw1Jlla1ng pool " ,....__ that F.D.R. had p■ tnw constructed at the White House. Whatever ~he critics say, that balcony is going up, work bas already started. and President Truman 1n effect 1ntillated that people had better hurry up and get used to the idea. Bia tone when the newspapel'Jlen questioned about it was a trifle testy. In fact, there was almost an altercation between the President and Bert Andrews, head or the Washington Bureau ot the New York Herald Tribune. The Whitelaw Reid paper has I'\ protested emphatically against the disfiguration of the White House, which hitherto has stood out as c"e of the PORCH - 2 tineat e&mplea of American architecture. A Republican Congressman, Fred Muhlenberg or Pennsylvania, the only architect in the Bouse, made the saae complaint, tba t t·he bale on, woula be ugly and would detaoe a national monument. To all tha ! President Trwlan replied that the baloon, wa3 going to be built regardless or what the Herald !'r1blme ' ~ or anybody else . DEWEY In Salem, Oregon, it is announc e ( overnor Thoaas E. Dewey, Republican Presiden ial that Candiate was entered on the ballot for Oregon's preferential priaary, today) The presentation ot a petition carrying the names of aore than one thouaaq4 registered Oregon voters marked the first filing of De~•s na■e in any state and the first of any presiient- ial candidate in Oregon. The petition was filed with David O'Hara, Chief of the State's elections ~~D.J bureau~by Mrs May■e R- Schlegel of Portland, - ~ A 1948 political first for Governor Dewey in Oregon. PICKETS When a lady picket calls another lady a scab, ahe•a not breaking the Taft-Hartley Law, not even if she adds an ugly adJective to the word. It is perfectly all right to uae any language you please on the picket line. Such is the obiter dictum ot an official or the National Relationa Board. It an,body else but a union member calla another person a tu• naae 1 1n the street, be 1a 11nble to arrest and pun1ahllent tor breach of the peace, to say nothing atiOllt a punch 1n the noae.,llut on a ,1■\:I•* picket line it 11 ~ i .r terent. The Labor Board examiner admitted that such language , when used by ladies, is hardly edifying. But., it la not untair labor practice. All this c811e up because of a complaint tiled against the Longahoremen 1 s and Warehousemen's Union on the West Coast, the one that is ruled by Harry Bridges. They had a strike with a massed picket line at the plant or a twine manufacturer in California, and the proceedings evidently PICIB'l'S - 2 were lurid. So the charge of unfair labor practice was brought against the union under the Tatt-Hartley Law. The trial examiner en1111erated the words used by the lady p1cketa, words not permissible on the air. And, said the otticial, "those words, although unrestrained, contain no apparent Slaws threat 6f reprisal or torce, and clearly no prOllia~ ot benefit." 'l'heretore, no untair labor practice. r( DREXEL Once again a man is dead and his family bereaved, through careless handling of a loaded pistol. Anthony J. Drexel the Third, of the Philadelphia 6:"xela, waa f'D■1ning ,1 his collection of weapons at the house on hie large plantation near Oakley, South Carolina. It was Juat atter dinner. ~ With hiil waa ~~ptain .at lbo:l:a IM 1 1 1111; S.R_.Vhite. Drexel hillaelf was a captain in the Seventh iiaY 1n Geran,. - He brought back with h1Ja a Oel'll&ll aut011atic, a Lueger. He and his guest were going hunting today, and tbeJ were cleaning and oiling their weapons. Drexel• r•srked that here was one tbat Captain White hadn't aeeq betore, in fact he had never exaained it thoroughly hwelt. With that he broke the gun to look at the aechaniaa. There was a tlaab and an explosion, and Drexel teli forward. No doctor waa available by telephone. Captain White drove tor help, but the Doctor arrived tao late. ~xel•s grandf-ither was Anthony J. Drexel, who founded the firm of Drexel, Morgan ana Company. DAIDLS It wae one of the proud~boaats ot Josephus Daniela that he always had printer's ink on his hands. Even when he held public ottice, he considered h1118elt pr1Jlar1ly a (; newspapenu.n. When he was Secretary ot Uncle Sa11 . ~a lavy duriJII the Pirat World War undff Woodrow Wilson, he tt"'lled hilllelf the lavy•s Managing Editor. When he becaae the tirat 1M good neighbor aabassador to Nex1co under Franklin D. Roosevelt, he described h1.J18elt as Uncle Sa•s foreign correspondent in llexico. Soaetillea trienda and ld.nafolk talked about h1a retiring. Old Josephus ridicule <lo the idea, aa1d he'd be a newapapel'll&Jl, until they carried hill away. "When I retire, it will be under six teet ot ground," said he, and"'=- -6i ~~~-~ A ~~ • .,, ,,st,...--,---- W'"VT:T'J I Josephus Daniels was born ·1n Eighteen Sixty-two, bom at Washington, North Carolina, while Union gunboats were shelling the town. - q - ~ w a s the last of an old school ot so~them I-- DAIDLS-2 Ku editors, • newapapenlan-pollt1c1an. Por twenty ,-an bl lat1onal C01111tteeaao rro. lorth C&rollna. CLAMS Among the seasonal events 1n the sporting world are clam-eating contests. It aeema there's much rivalry between East and Vest. The Pacific free Style Amateur Clam Eati:ng / Association, locatea at Seattle, ma,11 held a c011pet1t1on '"2.----- last Saturday. The chief entries were J.W.11chola, cbaapion oyster eater of Plorida, and Richard Watson, a Seattle cab driver. Watson won eating a hundred and twenty ateailed Little Reeks, while Nichols could do no better than a mndred and aU:teen. This record was ridiculed by a Down Baatemer, Piaheraan Frank Vierra ot Martha I a Vineyard. Vterra •de light or the achievement. He says after he has had a hundred . and twenty ale.as, i he Just about gets into the ■ood tor i1: he c hey don•t at clams ecause they ed first.