The House of Represent~tives has just passed the bill to extend the luxury taxes. The vote was overwhelmin, Republicans joinin g Democrats, in grding President Truman's request for a continuation of the taxes on furs, liquor, jewelry and other luxury goods. There was a sharp flurry of deb~te, with Deaocrat r jibing at Republicans, and vice versa -- the Republican contention being that the ex,eneion of the luxury taxe~ will give them a better chance to •• cut income. taxes. From the White House we l e rn th at , when Presi de nt Truman le a ves office, he won't take any public r~cords a· a y with him. He won't h ave any ten ton truck backed u p to the White Bouse door , and load up with ~ w - a i filing cases,~ 1 ~ offici a l documents. Presidenta, in the ast, h a v done that. The late President Rooaevel before he died, in fact, ha d a hu g e lot of public and private papers sent from the White Bouae to the Franklin D. Roo , sevelt Library at Hyde Park. ltlcB, •• 11111111e; we J s cs tll• ru•••• a111:J.a.•••l•• a\sat •1st • taaJs •••, M&&utat::s of aucament• •baa •••Y lrft ,ette•• Presid e nt Tru ma n, we are told, is of the belief that p ublic papers in the office of any high ranking govern . ent official, are the property of th e ~ Any p a per th t h e takes a , ay , upon uit ing office, will be strictly o f a private k ind - · entirely personal • . - ~ The P re s· d e ntAis aid to be in com p lete symp at hy with Secr e t a r o the Tr eas ury Snyder, who ia trying to get b ac k the documents tak e n away by his predecessor, fo r mer Secretary Morgenthau - in connection with th a t nine hundred volume diary. More than that, Presi ent Truman is considering legislation to k eep offici ls from carting away public records. This was stated . today by White Bouse Secretar, Ros, who said that the President intends to ask Congress to pass a law makin •it clear and definite, that government records are government propert7. llll§ ~ pr~ e■• out ,ould be a nationwide ceilings. The rumors increase • ill not go of Washington today that there ten per cent increase in rent - w - e ~ ~ - - were founded on facts but the ~ into effect after all. Latef\.word from Washington is that President Truaan .tdW&lfl' at the last minute blocked an order directing O.P.A. to grant landlords a general ten per cent raise in ren tala. A aeries of misunderstandings and errors was cllaaxed today when Presi,ent Truaan canceled what had apparently been a previous order to O.P.A. io 10 ahead and grant the rent increases. Early in the afternoon, newspapermen were tola by the O.P.A. to stand by, that an iaportant announce■ent 1aa coming up, that rents were to be increased with lhite Bouse ap roval. Whether or not there was a premature leak on the story we don't know. At any rate, the order wa• canceled. Ao cording to O. P.A. officials, canceled 1 81 the White Hou s e Des p ite the f a ct that President Truman denies heh sever a p rove d~ rent boost • • GIOBGIA -- T,be Legislature of Georgia has passed the ,bite primary bill. This measure was proposed by Beraan T,almadge, one of the two Governors in the Battle of the Geor.gia Governors. The bill to bar negroes froa voting in a Democratic pri ■arJ, ••• passed bJ a huge majority: a hundred and thirty,-tbree to sixty-two. In Chin , di lom t ic obs rvers wer e not surpriaed today when the Ame _i can Embassy announcad the newest move bJ the United States, abantionment of: American attempts to medi te in th civil strife between the Chinese la i nalista and Communists. liaxl~t•n■ lt pointed out th t this followed largell, from the pr vious report made by General arshall, before he left China to become the new Secretary of State. At that time, General arshall bitterly criticized the extremists of both sides. And now, &lft Secretary of State, he calls off the American attempt to mediate, which he, in China, found to be a hopeless task. In Lon o n th ee is o d th t t r a he British Amba s or t o , are st a 1 in~ s i d e o h be n instructed to ask, what bout t ne British-Soviet Alliance? Ambassador Sir ~au ice Drum m ond is to put that question to Molotov - o r to S al in himself. a rit ..S~'mess ge to British Foreign Secretary S.atM Bevin, /\. ■uggested that the •wea k ening reservation•• might be removed, but he ii id...,n\t say w hat they were. - llllil 'There h as been much speculation ever since. So now the British Amba aador is to inquire. Today's dispatch from London states that the Brit i sh C bin t believes th a t Salin Wdnts the a lli n e , o b e n 1-• ro und af fair - inste a d of being RUSSI! - r _,_,_..- · ric ~Pi&& eri.tiei..a ■ alen• tnat~.ia._ Yffh-id-,~-,... ~ fficial cow news a ency made the sour remark tha, while G eat Britain has a for■al - alliance · ith Soviet Russia. the British have an informal tie ith the Uni ed States, a tie bich lo cow -- described as - •a bloc a _ ain~t the Soviet union.• rso the London Cabinet believes, w a~e told, that Stalin n s the British Alliance to be revised so as to a. ly O any a gressor - or h·t might be considered an a res s or . In the ords. a ful s le, all-inc u i ' i · a.,.y a liance. JIITISB-AMERICAI J; r just heard about the fonaation of another postwar Teterans' organization, that aounda lite 18 excellent idea. General Jimmy Doolittle i• the first Prea'ident, and I aa a lwaya for anythq with whicll General Doolittle is concerned. As General Jia■y pat it, the Al l ies did a first-claaa job getting on with each other, during the war, in ti ■e ~f criaia. lot perfect. I t • alwaf~tfttcult tor peo p le ot different nationalities to see -,e to •1• on e•er7,hin1. But, the British and rrench, in their co ■parati•ely crow4e4 apace■, for the •oat part got on A with the alllions of Americans •ho suddenly descended upon the■ • But, in thia postwar period it's so •••1 to pall apart, an1l::;x auch of the ground gained ill th• criala of war. We were sitting in a restaurant, one of the ■oat interesting in all this land. It's called IQ -- leadquarters, run by Marty and John, who handled General liaenbower•s aess at headquarters in Europe. la \a••• ,.,, \hey •••e 6\aff Sergeaa\ John Schwa•&••• l•• t •• UI!ISB-AYERICAI - 2 ser1•••~ "l■Pty• sa,4 e~M•rty a~hn prepared the A .I( fool for all the Generals and Field Marshals and Atr 1arshals who passed through Headquarters in Parle. ■ ow tbeJ haYe their own restaurant here in ■•• Yom. It ••• there that General Doolittle waa ~•• tellina ae about this new organization. The na■e of it -- the Fellowship of D.S.-Brttt1~ Coaradea. purpose, co■ra4e1blJ. Tb~••••••,A to perpetuate wartia'1•••••la&11 The Presidency to be rotated, or rather alternated, baot ud forth between Britain and ~aerican. The aeaior Yioe preaident ia a well-tnown Britisher, Lieutenant GeaeraI Sir Frederick Morgan, top ■an on their side in plunla1 According to General Doolittle, there are ao ■• tight million men eligible to belong; but, they baYe no plTISI-AMERICA!-=.-1 aabitious plan of trying to stir all of the ■ ap at oace. The idea is just to get the organi1atlon aaderwa1, and let it grow, hoping that eventually it • ill inc lade all our other Allies. At first those eligible will be Briti1h aad Aaerlcana •ho actually served side by side. Geaeral . ~ 4-tle 1.:-◄ a v , ~ --Jt4. ~ . Doolittle, as leader of" tll• tw,r•, Eighth Air Force, had plenty to do with the Britiah. And froa peraoaal experience I found tbat they are•• foad of hia •• •• are. The dues will be nominal. Tbe big idea la to trJ ••4 pall together in these days of peace, Jaat •• •• in ti■• of war -- ■atlng ••••• a aodeat ■ tart with the British because ao1t of our aen fought aide by side with them -- hoping to inclad• the re•t of oar Allies when possible. The a ir cr a sh in China is articularly tragic because of th char a cter of the victims whoee live• were taken. Of the t w enty-five aboard the big tranaport plane, twelve were Am e rican and Canadian mi ■ sionariea and their families. ~~ (1n1y one aurvivor, " ' " ' " gravely injured. illilllamong those killed••• letho4ia\ Bi■ hop Schuyler Edward Gar\b and Mrs. Garth, of Madison, 'isconsin. Bishop and Mrs. Garth bad j u t arrived in China on their tirst foreign aiaaion r assignment. The plane, belonging to ~be China Rational Aviation Corporation, was flying from Banko• to Chun g king - when it crashed in awaap land west of Hankow. Sixty-ei t members of the Utah State Symphony orc1lestra, n their conductor, Werner Jan (! sen, set off in t v o buses today f rom Salt Lake City, heading fo Hever City, a farm and minin g community in Rorthern Utah.trUn e t kin t e trip des p ite snow, over tortuous mountain roads gla1ed with ice. It's part of sn attempt to brin g fine mu · sic to peo u le wboN c , ontaot with i,mphonies heretofore has been only by radio. · The symphon, will play 4t a financial lo1a to itself just to bring to saall-town miners and far■era fine music at p o p ulat prices. The loss to be foote ~ by Otha's Centennial Commission which is sponsoring the tour as part of the One Hundredth Anniversary celebration ix of the arri•al of Mormon pi neers in the Great Salt Lake Valley. D0ROCB,lB ------ W ell, today we were p eraitted t . o listen la a-\,. a,L;f"1LM ~ Durocher argument, not w i th a baseball uapire, bat, w ith one of the legal variety, a judge. The aanager of the Dodgers, a s the news has been relatln~, 11 having aarri a ~e and divorce trouble. Bis bride, the Hollywood Actress Laraine Day, got a which the Judge said 1G1ld become final in a year. leaning, she could remarry in a year. But Laraine tried to hurry t h ings, and got·a Mexican diYorce -- aad aarried Leo right away. So the California judge threatens to cancel the California diYorce which to da y brings a blast from Durocher. ' "It is," says the Lip,•a disgr a ceful situation •hen a sup p osedly holier-than-thou jurist can sug g ea t - as he did to my ife and myself -- that we annul oar marriage and her Mexican divorce, a nd that the Court would overlook our living in sin until her interlocatorr decree becomes fin a l:" nd Durocher excoriates Bia Honor in the following words: "The most unethical and publiclty- &onacious servant of the people.• I. In baseball, of course, the umpire haa the tinal say. And it's just the same in legal ■attera -- the judge has the final say. S'o what does Bia Bonor r1pl7? Be says that, so far as tbe divorce ot Loralae Da7 is c o ncerned, Lippy Leo is - not in the ball1••• at all -- be' s on the sidelines. party to •Yr. Durocher,• says the judge, •ta not a the p roceedings. Be's an interloper.• fat coarse, Leo is the husband, but then, ma7be a husband is just a n interloper anyway. In J a pan, the American forces under General MacArthur have finally solved the problem of the beer bottles an ~ the beer cane. The solution took fi•• months - months of legal argument involving all aorta of army le is la tion and an Act of Congreaa. llltJllz: ■ - ff tlw k1'• ~~~ M ' M " - = - - ~ . . . . It all arose out of the fact that the troop• in Japan are .. llowed to buy beer at the rate of thr•• ca1e1 per month per soldier. And beer in can• an4 bottles ie sent from the United State• by the ahiploal The result was that the emptie• piled up, pile4 •P high. The quarters of officers and enliete4 ••• ••r• in danger of being overwhelmed by the mountain• of eaptiea. It was a re I bottleneck - a beer bottle nee Then, last September, a colonel had a briabt idea. I•* Be thought_ why not sell the mountain• f J .ho .e re eager to bUJ o empties to the a p anese, thea? The J a ps ha e a l l sorts of ingenioul u1e1 for be r bottlessxwi and be er c ns. So the colonel Fent in the cug ~ e~tion to Gener 1 M cArt~ur __ proposin t that t he proceed from the ~~l e could be used to improv~ the clu s for soldier- entertainment. Then c me the delu e of re g ula,ions and legal ar uments -- as g re t a ! the deluge of b b er that ha&- poured out of the bottles and cans. General Mac!rt_. Ouarterm ster subm·tted the suggestion to G-4, Supply Supervision, which replied that the s le of the empties would come under the beading of black market. activities. So G-l passed the problem along to the Judge AdvocRte, who in turn paseed the buck tothe • Legal ~isi o n f the Ecoaomic Scientific Section. Th t produced a t en th o usand word report, which pointe d out th t the sale of the empties al10 came under the ban of the •Trading with the lne■J Act.• It all added u~ to the fact that the s~l• of th •mptiee would violate so many laws ~ nd statutes, that the unfortunate col o nel who sug ~ e ted the ide a could !Q!XQ __ J be sent t j i l for the r t of his live, if not executed by f irin s u ~d . The Colonel en he heari all t is s id e mi ht cimmit h~ri kiri. Meanwh i let the empties were piling u p at a gre~ter r~te tan ev•, t . ose mountains of bott es ~nd cans. However, t e Le ga l Division and the Economic Scientific Section p~o - ceeded to co e up witb somet ing bri ht, scientific, also economic. Those experts poilt ed out t a t the black market and trading-with-tbe- enemy statutes pertained to ••JJ ■ lt supplies -- and· could the empties be considered supplies! dioti nary w s cited on that point, and it could be argued •x that the bottles and can nos might be c~lssified as junk. That w ~ all that w neede, that ingenious legal opinion -- ~nd at last repo~ts the mountain• of empties er~ melting away, wit Jape flocking to buy the bottles and c ns. Over in China, Sb n h i in inYestigatin . its Fire Dep rt _ ent -- which is charged with lettin a whole city-bl o ck burn down, becuase a house owner failed lo pay. When the Sh n ~ i firemon arrived to put out tb . e blaze, t ·. ey dema,:ndf'd -- . cash in advance. The bo~se on fire w s o•ned by a wea manu f ~cturer, and they insisted th~t he put u cash in the from of gold bars. refused, whereupon th~ firemen the blaze spre ding through a whole Witnesses today testifi~d that tb dradk tea, while the flames we~ 0 s~eepipg. they looted one house and~ = obstructed Dlilitary po ice -- who tried to put out the fltt " e. No payee no puttee out fire! And no• as C • onfuei · us weuld say bere -- Nelson, let's bea~ from you~ Th L isl ture of Georgia ha just passed the was white prim ar y bill. This measureA proposed by Herman Talmad e, one of the two Governors in the Battle of the Georgia Governors. The bill..!! . . bar negroea froa A voting in a lemocratic primary,, was passed b7 a huge aajority:df a hundred-and-thirty-three to sixt7i-two. - - - - - - - - - - - C, And anther late bulletin from Washington - President Trum~n denies rumors that he has appro••4 ~~;{ of a raise in rents. There we"Aiz hat the President had okayed a general ten per cent incr•••• of rents throu g hout the nation. This the White Bou■e officially denies. £9LLIU (lriun Z vai Leumi, that terrorist Jewiab organ·zation in Palestine, has released Majors. ,. I. Collins, whom they kidnaped as a hostage on SundaJ. Collins, the last of two hostages to be released Jewis '._) by the ~ . u i underground/ was deli•ered b7 bia captor• to Badasaah Hospital in Jeruaalea thia e••aiaa. effected The release of Collins was -.-au:i shortly aft.er the 11piration of a forty-eight-hour British Ara7 altiaataa t.o the Jewish underground. The ultiaatua expired a\ tbrtt o'clock this afternoon but••• extended b7 the Brit.lab High Comaiaaioner tor Paleatine. The aixty-fi•e year old banker and foraer Ar■J Officer ••• found standing in the rain tonight oataide the Badasaab Hospital Clia1ic. Ont ara was bandaged and t ere was a bandage on his bead. Bia f irat word• ••re, •1 was maltreated, and I aa in bad condition. 11 I aa in no condition to ••k• a state11ent. Juat take •• ho~,.• Later Collins told ne•spapermen, "I fought 2 1 ••1 ••t. I can ay nothing further." The current - housing shortage took a unique twist in Chicago today. An irate tenant, one Everett Richardson, charged in court that for the last five 417, bis landlord had locked hi■ -- not out, but ll• Richardson claims he came home aix night• -a to find a •*~•11t padlock on the door of bi1 11111 six-dollar-a-week room. So he pri , d open a tla4o• and cliabed in. But Richardaon ie a bi& aao, weighing aore than two hundred pounds, and the window waa a aaall window. Ia cliablng in, Richardaon wrenched hi1 bact and couldn't get out. After five days• confine ■ ent, Ricbardaon ••• aore than slightly fed up. MoreoY.er, hi• 1uppl7 of canned foods was running low. So be addre11ed a Special . Delivery letter to the O.P.A. and threw it out the window. The letter read in part, •I have beard of your office forcing landlords to remove locks where tbe7 had tenants locked out. Bo• about helping me, l'a locked in.• New Y ork ' b o in g n ambling scandal developed to ay, ith an off e r from the District Attorney to Uidd·ewei ht Prizefighter Rocky Graziano. Rocky, the b la zing, fist-fl y in s enaation of the ring, will be giYeD p rotection a g ains the veng e ance of the 1nderworld - if he will name the fixer• who ottered hi■ a hundred thou s and dollars to throw a fight at ladiaoa Square Garden. Graziano~•• insists he doesn't know who the crooks were - juat some guys who spoke to hi■ while be was *•••i•I trainin g in a gyanaaiua. He seems aigh\J nervous a out the whole thing, about what he ••id whea he w a s questi on ed - and claims the District AttorneJ • put d . h. th 11 ors 1n 1s mo u • District Attorney Bogan aaJ• he is sur e that Graziano does k now who the ould-be tixers re. He dec lar es he has evidence that the big occas ion loney b ox r met the outside t~e V n ~ sium. The As s umption is, ot course, that R ocky , ~ eniz n of the tou g h are~e ot N~ York'• East Side, i afraid to talk -- afr i of wh~t happen• to a soue~l~r. Ont e other hind, his boxin1 c~reer, 80 spectacul rand succes ful, m~y be ruined -- if Rocky is barre from t e ring. Th e District Attorney today ordered a general investi ga tion of all prizefights that bave •k• 1'ac1 a peculi~r look.