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payers would he Jet off 0 Jels. Both hou provided some relief for ey ie 86,000,000 taxpayers, The senate hill, however, would give mare relief to those in the $4000-to-$60,000 bracket than the house bill. Treasury experts said there are about 32,000,000 taxpayers in those brackets and only about 4,000,000 in the higher cater gories. t The big difference was on corporation taxes, The senate voted to repeal the excess profits tax on corporations effective Dee, 31. This would save corporations an ‘estimated $3,555,000,000 next year. The house voted to eut the excess profits tax rate from 95 per cgnt to 60 per cent during 1046 and eliminate it for 1847. This would save corporations about $1;800,000,~ 000 next year. _' The house also voted, and the senate rejected, a out in the tax rate on “normal corporation profits. The senate did approve, however, other guts in corporation taxes designed particularly for the bene~ fit of small business. One of them was 8 last-minute amendment by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich). It would apply retroactively to 1946 earnings. Under the Vandenberg amendment the high excess profits tax rates wouldn't apply en 1845 income up to $25,000. The senate also adopted a lastminute amendment affecting excise taxes—purely for the Purpose of bargaining with house conferees. ” The house voted to reduce certain taxes that were raised in 1043. The senate rejected that proposal. Instead, it voted to repeal certain taxes that were levied in 1841 on sporting goods, photographic apparatus, business machines and gas, oil and electrical appliances. ‘Bargaining’ Amendment Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0), author of the senate amendment, admitted it was purely for bargaining purposes. “If the house wants to insist on its excise tax section then we think these other taxes ought to go off too,” he said. The house provision would save consumers next year about $695, 000,000. The senate provision would save consumers about $70,000,000. The special benefits for veterans also were a senate addition. Heuse acceptance was believed likely. They would wipe out any tax lability on the service pay of enlisted personnel during the war years. This would affect comparatively few, It would allow commissioned officers three years to pay any back taxes on their income during the war period.

HONEY ADDS FLAVOR WASHINGTON.—Peaghes, pears, plums and apples may be canned with honey, in whole or part instead of sugar, resulting in a delightfully distinct. flavor,

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Motors chief of personnel, described as “absolutely ridiculous” the assertion of Walter Reuther that the corporatign is spoiling for a strike. “General Motors doesn't want any part of a strike,” he said vigorously., “It is a useless waste to have a strike.” . He added, however, that “there does come a time when it is economiecally impossible to grant dee mands.” Repeats ‘Peace’ Desire This was strangely reminisgent of Mr, Reuther's own determined desire to avoid a strike, to which he added the tag line, “If every effort {§ exhausted and the gorporation refuses to settle on the basis of fapt, then there is no other rer course.” 0 Mr. Anderson in his press confers ence repeated the contention (which is almost unanimously shaved by the industry) that an ins grease in the price of automobiles would be necessary if the workers were granted an substantial wage increase. The G. M. executive said that within a week or 10 days after Reuther finishes his argument en Friday, the company will undertake to make formal answer to the des mands, He repeated: “I'm hopeful to see a solution reached. ¢ last thing I want to gee is a strike” Reuther Charges Stalling Mr. Reuther held his press conferengs immediately after Mr, Anderson had held his, and when informed that the company expected to take a week or 10 days to prepare an answer to the union's brief, | Reuther said: “They're going to stall while they pump the gigantic lie to the public that high wages means higher costs, that higher costs mean higher prioes, that higher prices means ination, and that inflation means

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tral became ill after the first vietims were taken to hospitals and were given first aid. They were Herschel Steele, 27, husband of one of the vietims, and Mrs, Jean Cochrane, 75. Crowd Gathers As police and volunteer workers helped victims out into the alr, a crowd of more than 100 persons clustered around, attracted to the scene by police cars, ambulances and gas emergency squads. An early theery that sewer gas might have caused the illness was discarded after gas company repairmen tore up the pavemenf over the high pressured main. The smell of gas, heretofor® barely discernable, became strong in the area. Repairmen immediately inserted vents td pipe put-.any accumulated leakage and ‘to ‘keep it from fol. lowing service lines. The main line was shut off, pending investigation, Glas eompany spokesmen said the main at 2400 Central is a high. pressured main, set deep in the ground. As the last of the vietims were treated, repairmen were dig» ging down to the main to diseover the source of the trouble.

SMOKE ABATEMENT PLAN IS OUTLINED

A plan for smoke abatement was {presented to the Indianapolis | Speakers club last night by Orvall | Haaff, who introduced a solution for salvaging the by-product, lamp black. Mr. Haaff is®™with the Producers Commission association in the Indianapolis Stocykards.

Both Sides in Auto Wage Crisis Opposed to Strike

disaster. But we'll stand behind our 30 per cent demand until the facts are offered to disprove our analysis.” The national labor relations board today is taking a strike vote among

the 120,000 Chrysler workers, while}.

counting the ballots in a similar vote taken yesterday gmong General Motors workers, Vote Is Not Binding While the vote in each instance is expected to reveal an overwhelmstrike sentiment, it has no ac bearing on the controversy in the auto industry, except to dramatize the bubbling unrest over the Ys of take-home pay after V-J BY, 5 The strike votes conducted by. the NLRB are part of the requirements imposed by the Bmith-Oennally act, and are net legally binding on any one, no matter what the result. The legal authorisation for a strike by the auto workers comes from meetings of the local unions invalved. Two thirds of the voters must ape prove the strike, under the union constitution, This process of ealling local strike 8s heen going on for some 8, is about half finished in General Motars plants. The ma~ jority in favor of strikes in these, the only efisctive polis, runs about #0 per cent, according te Reuther.

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cago and St. Louis and Buffalo, N. Y., and Chicago. Another airlines strike, of Pans American Airways employees, ended last night when 2000 C0, I, O, trans» port workers voted to call off & twos day work stoppage. With the end of this walkout, 228,000 U. 8, workers remained idle, Other Disputes In other labor disputes, A. F, of L. Teamsters union members threatened to impair freight deliv. eries from Boston to Richmond, Va, 125,000 Chrysler workers went to the polls for a strike vote, and Hollywood film craftsmen celebrated the end of a bitter 33-week jurisdictional dispute. The teamsters, already out in Baltimore, Md, called a strike against 13 Washington, D. C., truck ing companies to back wage demands. Unless settled promptly, the dispute threatened to tie up freight deliveries all along the eastern seaboard. General Motors and United Automobile workers (C. I ©.) represen» tatives took a one-day recess in ne gotiations. Yesterday's conferences evolved into a heated debate of la-

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bor’s right to share management] profits. wi In Hollywood, union leaders and producers met to complete arrange~ ments to get workers back on the job tomorrow, or Monday at the latest. . Pickets were withdrawn from all major studios except Warner Brothers, where strike leader Herbert Sorrell said he still had a “little beef” to iron out. Warners, however, is not a member of the major producers’ association and technically was not covered by yesterday's peace settlement. Settlement of the strike, which kept some 8000 workers gway from their jobs and curtailed moviemaking in the film city’s major studios, was announced yesterday by A. FP, of L, President William A. Green at Cincinnati, O. Under the back-to-work agreement, all strikers will return to their jobs, and union contracts in existence before the strike will be re-established. Strike Began March 12

The long-drawn-out film strike, punctuated by frequent picket line skirmishes, began last March 12 as the result of a dispute betwen two A. F. of L. affiliated unions aver jurisdiction of 77 set decorators. Pan-American airlines maine tenance workers in Miami, Pla., voted to return to work as a result of certain company concessions fo seniority and layoff demands, & union spokesman sald, In other west coast labor dispute, shipyard workers threatened te

paralyze operations in San Prancisce

ot : o bay. area yards, The A. F. of L. bay cities metal trades council demanded a 40 per cent pay boost, and C. I. O. and A. F.. of L. machinists joined in demands for a 30 per cent wage hike. An estimated 7500 workers at the Wilmerding, Pa. plant of Westinghouse Air Brake Co, and the Swissvale, Pa, plant of Union Switch and Signal Co, a Westinghouse subsidiary, were forced into idleness by a walkout in one department. Truman Studies Report

Meanwhile, President Truman studied findings of government economists that industry can raise basic wage rates at least 24 per cent without increasing prices. The President met with the 12man reconversion advisory board yesterday, and its recommendations were expected to have a definite bearing on the administration wage price policy, to ‘be announced soon. Statistics submitted by government economists said that savings realized from elimination of excess profits taxes, wartime incentive premiums and wartime overtime pay would enable industry to grant a 24 per cent wage increase without reduring wartime profit levels,

IKE HONORED a OXPORD, England, Oct. 256 (U. P.) Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower headed a group of war leaders who received honorary degrees from Oxford —. university today. Other recipients included Ambassador John @G, Winant, Gen. Mark Clark, Marshal Bir Bernard L. Mont gomery, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder,

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crease in the supply of pork will make the over-all meat supply about the same as this month. “Up to this time, therefore,” Bowles said, “overall meat supplies do not permit the end of rationing,” OPA also validated five new ration stamps of 10 points, effective Nov. 1. Because there are only four red stamps left in war ration book four —W1, X1, Y1 and Zl—green stamp N8, the top-right stamp on the last sheet of book four will be used. They will be good until Feb, 28.

Sugar Rationing Picture Not Bright

WASHINGTON, Oct, 25 (U. P). —~Hopes for an end to sugar rationing by spring were diminished today by gloomy reports of the sugar situation from agriculture department officials, Ear] B., Wilson, director of the sugar branch, said the Philippine sugar picture “is not good.” No help may be expected from the islands in 1946 and it is doubtful if much sugar will be available in 1947, he reported. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P, Anderson indicated recently that sugar rationing might end as early as next spring because of the discovery of 1,600,000 tons stored in Java by the Japanese. Subsequent

or _ PAGE § reports from the office of strategie services, however, indicate that the ‘cache is not so large. Sa Wilson said the condition of this cause of the difficulty in getting accurate reports directly from Java. A bright spot in the sugar pieture, he said, are estimates that the

1946 Cuban sugar crop probably will reach 4,500,000 tons, or 15 per cent above 1945. :

PETITION TO SAVE WIFE-SLAYER FAILS

Last-minute petition for clemency failed today and 63-year-old Cleveland Greathouse appeared doomed to die in the electric chair at Ine diana state prison Saturday morn ing for the knife ‘murder of his common-law wife, : ' Greathouse was convicted in Lakes circuit court of slaying Rebecca Coaklin, 38, at Hammond, because she nagged at him, Governor Gates denied clemency

ministers asked special consider ation of Greathouse’s case. The Hammond man was scheds uled to die at 1 a. m. Saturday, first person to be executed in Ine diana in many months, ;

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DELAY SENTENCE ON POSTAL VIOLATIONS

SOUTH BEND, Oct, 26 (U. P.) The case of Otis Minter, former mayor of Rochester, Ind, was being investigated by federal probation officers today. \

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