C.l.-g~~ "P.~.b . ,-,.,._,, ~,,_ ,~7 TAXES - I r;r-~ , 7 r · - ~ ~ \\A'O(! ~~ new,Altho the veto message is acid in tone, it'a not as contemptuous as the Roosevelt message which infuriated Democrats as well as Republicans, and -- the Roosevelt veto was proaptly over-ridden. Thia tiae, altbo the Bouse will over-ride Mr. Truaan with gusto, probably toaorrow, the prospect appear• hopeless in the Senate. Republican leaders unable to ■alter the neceasar1 two-thirds vote. In fact, the D•ocrat■ are 10 jubilant tbat th•J even••• hope of being able to uphold a •tto of tbe Labor Bill as well, thereby deaollehin& the two ao■ t laportant lt••• in th• Republican P.rograa. (1r. Truaan'• rea■oa for hie ve\o ia, be ••1•, tbat it represent• the wrong kin4 of tax reduo\loa at the wrong ti••·) Tllat i t 1a aot the ontcoae of a sound tax policy and ie unsafe ao tar as governaent finances are concerned. ie sa1a further that aapl• evidence points to the continuation of inflati onar7 -ILt- preasures, and~ reductin of taxea now would increaae thea. Be deniea the arguaent that reducti J na of lneo■e tax rates are required in order to pennit necessary investment and expansion of business. If taxes were reduced as the bill provides, he says it would be impossible to cut the national --- debt aa it should be cutt"that the Republican bill tails to • give relief where it is needed moat, although it would have ..... ~~~~ entirely elia1na ted the tax bill or/\- and would ba•e cut ~~,,-...... e..ct---t:l.1 iA,,;,. tbo1e 1'" t!r"~BJD.11 •1nc01le bracket~ty thirty per cent. 2 tle Ollltted to 111 when would be a suitable tiM tor • tu reduction. Re •relJ Mkea the generalization tbat it will be proper when general 1.ntlationar, preaaurea baYe cNaed and prices are lower. Bllt political reporters are gueaaing that what he •ana 11 lineteen Porty-eight, election year. Said senator Millikin ot Colorado: _ _,.._ _ _ __;)~ •If the President cannot see the facts of the budget now, bow can he see the ■ on a bill to beco ■ e effective Ja~uary Firat, lineteen Forty-light? la1hin1ton obaervers see politics, not econo•ic1 in today's develop■ ents. And hardly bad the Preaa4ent(a Teto aesaage been presented to ~ongress that Boa1e Speaker Joe lartin called on the house to over-ride the ••to -- •t• •••r-ride it to avoid a baaineas aet-bact.• Chair••• Taft of the Senate lepublican Policy ., Coaalttee ton11ht accu••• Ir. Tru•an of ■ atlng a ••••••••ic appeal• to the •oler• -- ••en et •lolatia• the 1pirit of the C•a•tlt•tloa. la11 T•tt: •th• Preal4eat, appar•atly, fa•ora taa reduction only in •lectb 1•ar1.• ( ■Ht lepJlllioaa bade;, ooaoe4e.- hwu+n, t.~d the Teto baa killed all hopes of getting individual taa relief t.hi1 year.) D• ■ocrfttic ~eaders, on the other hand, were openly rejoicing. lhil• eabittered lepublicaas were 1a1laa its 1iapl7 a continuance of the old Roo1e•elt-Ropkina policy of •tax and tax, and spend and apend.• • TADS ~•.,-'ft hie e-,ee,ed •e~e ef ~he tu ~ill. BemeePO~ie loader• _,) N•e'9." SOiie lawmakers call it an encroachment on the conatitutional runctiona or Congreaa, since 1t ia the dutJ ot Congre• to 1.Jlpoae taxes, and though the President ha• tbe lepl right to veto a tax bill, as the late P.D.R. and now Ill'. Truaan have done, that it is not a proper act. congre11aan Halleck ot Indiana, •JoritJ leader 1n tbe House, calla it a tlagrant abuae or the veto power. And he adda that the President baa tmrarted the will ot the people •• aaniteeted 1n last lov•ber'• elections. ---- - - ~ UI.LIAJ2_§IJllll (Substitute f~r e a rly story.) The aaritime atrike growin g by the hour. Seven hundred ships now idle in Hew York, alon g the Gulf Coast, in San Fraaoiaoo and other Pacific ports. Trouble shooters !roa the Department of Labor are headed tor both San Francisco and lew York tonight, hoping to arrange a 1ettleaent that will keep the nation's cargo Teasels ■ o'fiDI. leanwhile, a warning co ■ es fro■ the laericaa &11ooiation of Railroads that it will halt ahip ■enta to all h•r••r• it the strike 11 not settled within fort1-•l1b hoara. lallroa4s aay tbe1 will be forced to order such a freight eabar10 to preYent cargo froa oYerloading tacilit ia harbor atora1• ho••••· Bat the •sit-4own strategy• continues. Seaaea Ja1t 1prawlia1 around OD decks; not walking off the Job; but 1aying they ha•• ao Job to le••• -- DO contract, no work. According to the Maritiae Uaion, it's not a atrike. It 1 1 a lockoat. latiaatee of the nuaber idle vary. The C.I.O. ••1• that at lea1t a hundred thouaand ■en we~e out today, aaa predicted a quarter of a ■ illion within a week, tying ap aore than two thouaaad A ■ eric a n Teasels. 11!-LIA~-§!RIKt---~-~ Labor · ovservers who know a lot about the situation call this the most serious maritime strike yet, and predict rioting and bloodshed before its over. They say Communist influence is heavy in the C.I.O. Maritime Union; and that Communist tactics, including hooliganism, will be employed. • British Forei g n Mini s ter Bevin will fly to Paris tomorrow to go into a huddle with the I • • French Foreign Minister Bidault and Premier Ramadier. They will discuss just how Britain and France may cooperate in order to take advan t age of Secretary of State Marshall's plan for restoring stability in Europe. Here's an interesting sidelight: London announce that Bevin will be accompanied by a bodyguard from Scotland Yard. Also that the Prefect ot Police in Paris is taking extra precautions to protect Be•in froa possible attacks by the Jewish undetground. • There was talk of Russian Foreign Minister Molotov's going to the Freach capital to join the discussion. So ~eport~the London Evening Standard. The French Foreign Office said it knew nothing about any such visit. But London does say that Bevin will consult the Soviet government as we l l es the governments of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Th e T e actions of the Russians to all this? As expected. Pravda comes out with a bitter attack on Secretary Marshall's proposal, calling it a••,•* repetition of the Truman plan for politi6al pressure. with the help of dollars; a plan for interference in the domestic affairs of other countries. f!~ESTINE Irgun Zvai Leumi, recentl threatened to retalia te savagely for any punishment the ritish inflict on their un er r ou d peo l e, whom the British seize. r ♦ ell, a military court in J rusalem today sentenced three Ir un men to eath, and gave prison sentences of fifteen y ar~ to a couple of other, ~e,• ef wk•• o•o Joa1 taaa eigh~een J•~•• ,eare ela, All, five found g~ilty ef aawiag taken per~ in ihe a\taek •• tlss pti ■ wn at !erl, baek en May Fe~r\h 1 when fifteea Irgun announced that it would observe ax•x a truce so long as the special committee on Palestine of th e United Nations is still at work;~. ~ provi e the court imposed no death sentences at this trial - one of the most tense in recent CRASHES -- President Truman has appointed a five-man investigatin g committee to find out, if they can, bow air travel can be made safer. And, he has instructed these men to avoid duplocating the investigations of the Civil Aeronautics Board. The C.A.B. men on the spot at Leesburg, Virgin believe the Friday night crash n e ar there may have been caused by faulty na,igatlon; the plane slamming into a ■ountain at sixteen hundred fe•t when it should haye been flying at least twice that high. Then there was the B-29 that ran into Hawkes Mountain up near Springfield, Ver■ont, early Sunday morning, in a dense fog -- with the plane ninety miles off its course. Today Boward Hughes, who has been working on new devices, says that both accidents would not have happened if the planes had been equipped with the radar-altimeters he demonstrated some weeks ago and which cost little •. On the oth e r band, the Civil Aeronautics people don't believe that faulty altimeters were responsible. We will all be waiting to hear from President Truman's special investigators -- and soon. ·· uLL!!R_!!A!,L!Q.l ___ 1Sub _ stitute for e a rly story.) ( aenry Wallace thre a tens to lead a third p a rty Nineteen-Forty-Eight the first time he's openly come out and said so -) Wallace spoke tonight to - a huge outdoor rally in Washington, held within the shadows of the Lincoln lle ■ orial. Be promised that if the De ■ ocratic Adainistratio persists in its •anti-Russian• course, he, Henry Wallace, will have to change the direction of the De ■ ocratic Party. ~onight's was the bitterest of Wallace's long aeries of attacks on the Tru■ an doctrine, the doctrine that proaiees to aid i ■poveriehed European coutnries and at the sa■e tiae hold coaaunisa within bounds. lalace deaanded that President Tru■ an and ■ eet in Berlin -- ■eet there eooa to settle their differenced and head off a third world war. Henry's speech tonight brought to a cli ■ as hia 1ixty-day ca ■paign during which he has denounced Tru■ an and his doctrine before audiences in five foreign lands in every section of the United States. 11..!-~AR..!!~&Agt __ =-~- An amazing spectacle tonight. A foraer De ■ ocrat Vice President of the United States critici1.ing bis President, also a Deaocrat, at the very doorstep of the White Bouse. And by the way -- not the type speech that opponents of Joe Stalin would dare ■ ake under anywhere ne the Ire ■ lin. Former President Hoover, in his new roll of humorist, as well as elder statesman, spoke at Princeton today - - in connection with the bicentennial anniversary of that great universit1. Said r. Hoover: •someone of your profession• -- • I he was referring to college professors ----•son.lt>ne of I you recently announced thatAmerican colleges had degenerated into service for only the -aona ar rich aen. Not having seen the Washington index numbers for the last hour,• he ~ontinued, •1 don't know bow many rich fathers are left.!• •But,• said the former President, •there are over two-million-twc-bundred-thousa~ youth in our institutions of highe · r iearning, and if there are that many rich families in the country, after taxes, then the income tax collector ~as missed over ~•o-third of the11. • And then he really g ot down to it, referring to his remarks as •a layman's complaints about some professors." "May I mention an occasional attitude HOOVER - 2 ------- - ---- of a certain wing of our faculties, 8 said he, •who bold that the elders and fore~ears of these two ,..:~ungsters million~•••s••*•z• have done a wholly bad job in this land of ours and that it aust all be upset.• And then he philosophizes: 8 Perhaps it all couldhave been done better.• And in an aside he added: 8 1 aa sure that if I ran the place it would be b·etter!• And then he goes on: •However, the worm's eye view has ita values in discovering bu••• but the bird's eye Yiew sees the glories of the landscape. •After all, in this two hundred years since the founding of Princeton,• says Ur. Hoover, •a God- fearing people under the blessing of the right-wing ayatea of freedoms have built up quite a plant and equipment on this continent. It teems •ith millions of comfortable farms and homes, cattle and bogs. It is equipped with railroads, power plants, factories, highways, automobiles and death warnin1s. It is studded with magnficient ai ■ cities and traffic jams. The terrible reacti~naries have filled the land with legislatures, town councils, a free press, orchestras, bands, radios, juke boxes and other noises. It has a full complement of stadiums,, ball players, and college yells. Furthermore," says the former President "they ~ve sprinkled the country with churches, laboratories, built ten thousand schools and a thousand institutions ■ Kxa of higher learning. And somehow, these right-wing taxpayers are squeezing out maintain the resources which)!_t•li•• a million devoted teacher• a hundred thousand able professors, and the keep nz of these two million youngsters in colleges and aats universities.• And then he concludes: •possibly, another ideology could do better in the next two hundred years. l ■m But I suggest we had better continue to suffer the evils of right-wing freedoms than to ti die of nostalgia.• PARAGUAY has been going on in Paraguay. f:t:!:m a very leisurely affair, , aM-G.correspondent returning from the front sa,c. that any resemblance between this conflict and the recent world war is purely coincidental. Instead of tanks, they use ox carts. They have Jeeps, but most Paraguayan ; soldiers prefer to ride their horses. The routine is as follows: both the government soldiers and the rebels get up at half past four 1n the morning and reconnoitre around for a bit. Then they p ,, J Cl t I r1:11Fi(p,, ~ ~ ~~~~, repa1~equ1pment, ~ 5 •H:eGi:a;c chore~ ma, have a good meal around eleven o 1 clock, and then go~~or"-e ~ ' 4 ~ siesta,"'1 necessary 1n those tmt latitudes. On neither. side is anybody so ungentlemanly as to interrupt the siesta by firing · d / 4 off weapnns. After the siesta; the fighting begins, and lasts /\.. until about seven o•clock, when the sun sets and every.body goes to bed)except the sentinels. The offense aka that makes the government soldiers fAR!~i!I---=-l particularly sore at the rebels, is t hat w h en the rebels retreated they took all the women with them. So the favorite sport on dull afternoons is using the artillery range finder to try to make it uncomfortable for the rebel officers and their girl friends. Score so far? Zero. And now Helson, what is the score? .§TRIIE Joe C urran, head of the Maritime Uni o n, says what we have now is not a strike at all. It's a lockout. Whic h sounds like a curi ,, us sea.antic s . The seamen quit work at midnight, with Curran, ordering them to remain aboard ship as long as possible- and not w orl. Just sit down and tie up all American shipping. Ro contract, no work! is the way he explain• it. Eighty thousand men are out, and two hundred affected thousam men ar~~f•x•*•• All of which bas paralyzed American shipping again. A twenty percent raise and a forty-hour week is whattbey ask. The Onion is C.I.O. But all A.F. of L. men are respecting the picket lines. Labor r ep orters who know a lot about it, predict rioting and bloodshed before it's over. They explain that Communist influence is heavy in this C. I.O. union; a ■ i that Communist t a ctics will be employed, incl u ding hoodlumism. In spite of the strike, five vessels put out from New York harbor today. WALLACE --------- Anti-Commjnists were out of luck today when the1 trie d to stop Henry Wallace from 11ajing a speech on government property. The Lincoln Memorial Watergate is under the aegis of Oncle Sam, and the American anti- Communist Association protested on th~ grounds that the Southern Conference for Buman Welfare, sponsoring Wallace. was nothing but a front fcrtbe American Reds. The Anti-Co11■ unist Association applied for an declared injunction, but the Washington Judi• ~i••••t that such ■ atters 1 re none of that court's business. The Wallace affair, we bear, is a sell-out. With thouss..1ds paying from siJcty cents to three- dollars-and sixty cents to bear the for■er Democratic Vice-President denounce the present Democratic President's foreign policy, and right within earsho~ of the bi t e Rouse. Ul& TIN~ - 2 sandbagged. Police se a rchin a 1 who entered, even including the defen e attorney. After they he a rd their entence, the prisoners sang the J wi h national anthem and the Irgun ar son g . ----0~-- And about that Unit d Nations committee which has arrived out there. It had its first meeting today, a clos d ■ a session. No newspapermen admitted, the public kept out. Neither Jews nor Arabs were . out to see the mem ers o f the U • • com m ission when they arr · ved. The Chairman of the Commission has made a ,t■aa plea to the Arabs not to carry out their boycott; also a sking for cooperation from all the people of Pal stine.