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THURSDAY, MAR, 24, Congress— :

ongress Gets | road Social ecurity Plan

20 Millions Added to Rolls;

Top Benefit Up

WASHINGTON, presented to Congress today

insurance program that would cover

ployed person in the nation. the present scale of benefits. The executive branch's panded old age and survivors’ ingura nce program were given to the House Ways and M2ans Committee by Commissioner Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Bocial Security Administration. They followed the blueprint given. Congress and the nation earlier by President Truman “in his State of the Union and budget messages. Program Highlights Highlights of Mr. Altmevers proposals to the committee Coverage — The self-employed farmers, farm laborers, domestic workers, members of the armed forces, employees of non-profit organizations and some state and federal workers would be brought under old age and survivors in surance. These groups number more than 20 million persons and are the only sizeable blocs not now coverea Increased Benefits — ent maximum

The presbenefit of 885 would be increased to $150. and the present: minimum benefit of $10 would be boosted to $25 Costs —, The cost, of the expanded program, based on present emplovment and wage levels was placed at 5.6 to 9.2 per cent of the present national payroll, Increase Tax Base Higher Taxes T he taxable wage base would be increased from the present $3000 to $4800. Mr. Altmeyer made no suggestions for increasing the present one per cent social security tax on each employee and employer. but Mr. Truman has proposed that this tax be increased

to 1'; per cent July 1, and to two per cent next Jan. 1. Women The present mini -

mum age limit of 65 would be reduced to 60 for women only. Disability Benefits — A new disability plan would be éstablished under which disabled workers could draw benefits for a tempor rary or permanent period, depending upon the length of their disability. Mr. Altmever described the expanded social security program as

“the first- line of defense against destitution.” He said it would complement the help-the-needy public assist-

ance program proposed by Mr. Truman and already given a cold shoulder by the committee. The committee considered the public assistance pian for four weeks. Most Democrats agreed with Republicans that it will never see the light of day. But members of the committee are much friendlier toward the {dea of broadening the old age and survivors insurance program and increasing its benefits. :

Labor

The House Labor Committee today approved the administra tion's bill to repeal the Taft-Hart lev labor act without changing a comma. : Approval was on a 13 to 10 vote after a 15 minute closed session. The committee reftised to read the bill so that members could offergamendments One Southern Democrat joined nine Republicans in oppositien-to

even

the bill. He was Rep Wingate H. Lucas (D, Tei) Rents

The House and Senate versions af mew rent control legislation were sent to a conference committee today for adjustment of differences. ! The present rent control law expires Mar. 31. The House and Senate conferees are expected to begin work late today or tomorrow on a measure that will be taken back to the two houses for approval. At least another vear of federal rent control is assured. But local governments were virtually

assured of a hig sav on whether ceilings should be lifted earlier in their areas

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details of a broad new social virtually every em-

recommendations for

Raps Democrats

an ex-

On Pension Tactics

Halleck Sees Move

, To Discredit GOP

By DAN KIDNEY imes. Staff Writer Ww ASHINGTON Mar. 24 That administration Democrats were trying to kill the Rankin veterans pension bill in such a manner that the Republcians will be blamed for it was charged today. by Rep Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.). He made the charge in defense of his backing Chairman John Rankin of the House Veterans Committee in the pension right on the floor which terminated today

Mr. Halleck and a majority .o his fellow "Republicans opposed the amendment of Rep. Andrew

Jacobs (D. Ind.) which was one of a series adopted in the committee 01 the whole. Scales Payments Mr. Jacobs’ amendment scaled the pension payments at 65 from $10 a month at the rate of $1 per day during hostilities and $3 for battie service, Condemning the Rankin bill which would have given all 90day or more service men in both World Wars ‘$80 a month, Mr. Jacobs said “I assert that when we pay a man a pension of $80 a month for going to camp for 90 days and

probably. being let out of the service because he .could not qualify, for such service, we are

buving votes. “You can spell it out in riddles and make all the flag-waving speeches vou want to, but we are buying votes when we do that.” The seven Indiana Democrats voted for the Jacobs amendment and the four Republicans against it. ‘Truman Silent’ Pointing to the numerous amendments which made 20 much

. confusion that World War II vet-

eran: Rep. James E. Noland (D. Ind.), member of the Rankin

committee, made a plea to send it back there =o a better job could be done. Mr. Halleck said. “President Truman has been strangely silent in this matter and the House Democrafic leaders haven't said anvthing either

" Their plan is to kill this pension

bill and theh blame the Republifor doin so. We are not about.to he maneuvered into that position. ” “No matter what we pass, it is quite likely that it will be killed in the Senate Finance Committee

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Wedemeyer Pressed To Take Clay's Post

WASHINGTON. Mar. 24 (UP Informed sources said foday that Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer is being pressed to take over Lucius D. Clay's job as American occupation commander in Germany. Gen. Clay is expected to return here in Mav to relinquish the difficult post he has held since 1947 There was no official comment from the White House or from (Gen. Wedemever. who was in New York and could not be reached The State Department insisted that no inal decision had been made on Gen. Clav's successor. But reliable informants said Secretarv of State Dean G. Acheson was pressing Gen. Wedemeyer to accept the post,

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BREAK GROUND FOR LODGE

Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new Southport Lodge 270 F&AM, will be held at 2 p.m

Saturday at the corner of U. & 31 and Gilbert Ave. William Caesar Worshipful Master. will be in charge of the ceremonies.

The

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more than you

Mrs. Josephine DeBard, Cashier, RR #5, Lebanon, “Yes, | do use the po telephone more That's because since ['ve heen working | haven't a chance to see my friends as much. Telephoning then in the evéning gives me a chance to keep in touch with them.”

“ Don Menke, f Radio Station Manager, 704 Washington Ave, Evansville, “I've been making many Long Dis tance calls lately

Some of my tam) ly live in Indianapolis. When we can't get away to see them we just go visiting by phone.”

quiring Telephone Reporter

asks a timely question of telephone users picked at random

TODAY'S QUESTION: Do you find that you use the telephone

used to?

Mrs, Peter Rizzo, Housewife 1037 S. Alabama St., Indianapolis “Oh my yes — ouldn’'t do with out 1tTOnce when my mother-in-law was ill the doctor phoned medirections fortreating her until he arrived. Without the tele phone it would have been serious.

Norman Cooke, Machinist, 2124 N. Harding St Indianapolis Yes, ever since my wife's been in politics. Naturally a she does a lot of ® + business over the plane and ! help her out answering and -making necessary calls—both personal and business.”

With o new telephone being instolied every 3 minutes of every working day — your telephone keeps growing @ in volves. For you can call more people — more people

can coll you— than ever before.

INDIANA-BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY.

A debt repaid .. .

Indianapolis police captured a fugitive Kentucky slayer today and turned

him over to the same Newport, Ky., detective who in 1933 captured“ man wanted here for the machine-gun slaying of an Indianapolis police officer. Left to right are Kentucky Detectives John

Reed and Kenneth Collins, Cecil Cotton and Indianapolis Detective Donald Veza.

Churchill to Call On Truman Today

YORK Churchill

70,000 Gallons

Of Suds Scud

Down the Scupper

COVINGTON Ky Mar. 24 (UP) - Beer drinkers in this Ohio river city mumbled in their mugs today as 70.000 gallons of their heloved beverage went down the drain at the Old Heidelberg Brewing Co. plant. ” ~ " THE morning

suds was poured out this upon orders of the Bavarian Brewery, Inc.. which recently bought the plant for expansion purposes. Government inspectors were on hand to see that the pouring went off as scheduled. The dumping was made necessary by a big. remodeling project. The heer was the remaining stock on hand when the brewery changed hand.

State Employment Branches to! Open

The Indiana urity Division

Emplovment Se is, making tentative plans to establish eight or nine full-time branch offices, ‘a spokesman said today. — Plans contingent on budget limitations would extend present itinerant offices visited only once

or twice a week to full-time status. Spokesmen said if the plans

worked out, the offices would be established over a period of two

months or so at Tell City, Crawfordsville, Frankfort, Elwood: Huntington. Auburn Portland

and perhaps Linton there are 24

Goshen,

At present full-

time offices and four branch offices The division said the new hranches were being considered

“in cities where we think business i= potentially heavy and where there are quite a number of unemploved.”

Wins Annulment Of Czech Marriage

SOUTH BEND, Mar. 24 (UP) Mrs LNllian Davis. Fiala. 27 Mishawaka. today was granted

annulment of her marriage to a (Czechoslovakian physician: whom she accused of duping her so he could enter the United States. Judge Dan Pyle voided marriage to Dr. Alexander Elizabeth, N. J. - Mrs. Fiala said she "and Dr Fiala were married in civil cere~« mony in Prague three days after Christmas in 1946. Thev agreed to postpone religious ceremonies until Dr. Fiala could come to hig

Circuit her Fiala, 36

bride's hometown. Dr. Fiala arrived 11 months later and arrangements were made for marrige Jan. 11, 1948,

Lillian charged in her suit for annulment that Dr. Fiala disdppeared four davs before the scheduled ceremony with a $4350 wardrobe. purchased for him by his parents-in-law,

Dr. Fiala filed a counter-suit claiming Lillian was guilty of mental crueity. He said she pro-

him

Family of Five Perishes in Fire

posed to

CIRCLEVILLE, ©O Mar. 24 up) A family of five was burned to death in a fire that

swept through a one and one-half farm house 10 miles north of here early today Sheriff Charles H tified the dead as

story

Radcliff idenLeonard Estep

28; Mrs. Frances Estep. 26. and their three children, Jean. 6 Beverly. 4. and Joey Lee 17

months

Submit Red Manual in Trial

Budenz identifies Copy in Court

NEW YORK, Mar: 24 (UP) -A Communist arty manual on or- He ganization written bv J. Peters

leader of the

described as the the party's underground in United States, was evidence today in the: conspiracy trial of 11 top U. 8. Communist

once

leaders U. 8. Attorney John F. X. McGohey asked Louis F. Budenz former editor of the Communist

Daily Worker, as the latter testified for he second day, in Federal court. whether he had not received a copy of the manual from

Mr. Peters, alias Alexander Stevens Mr. Budenz said that. he had used the nooklet constantly dur-

ing the time he managing editor of the Daily Worker Mr Peters ibed by taker Chambers hefore the House Committee on Un-American Activities as the “No. 1 Communist” in the United States. is under deportation orders

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Stops Objections One chapter «of the booklet declared that the aims of ‘the Com-

munist Party was to create a Soviet America. “in leading the masses in overthrow of capitalism.”

The booklet said that family associations are considered in the party but are not decisive, adding ‘if the party demands a worker

leave his family for months, even vears, he must do so.” As defense lawvers began ob jecting to introduction of the

booklet. Federal Judge Harold R Medina shut them off by saying that “1 do not intend to have each

session of this court cluttered up

with these long-winded objections.” Mr. Budenz testified that the preface was written by Jack Sta-

chel. the party's educational director and one of the defendants

Opens for Season

Times State Service ~

NASHVILLE. Mar. 24 “4 Pittman House Hotel -onlv hotel in Brown” County. has gpened fon the 1949 season, Myron Rees proprietor, said today The building “had been closed since January for. remodeling

School Speaker

Dr. Paul Rowland

Dr. Paul Rowland. professor of Knglish and history at Ma Murrav College Jacksonville I. will speak at the fourth Marion County Teachers pro fessional meeting at 9.15 a. m Saturday in Manual High School. His subject will he “To ward Understanding the Rus

sian Pi eople '

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Winston Washington today dent Truman with the House at 7 He will remain in Washington at the British embassy overnight. tomorrow Bernard Baruch

dine

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the chusetts

return guest of during his stay Churchill’ arrived vesterday » liner will make a convocation Institute of in Boston on April 1.

Mar. 24 (UP)

to visit

here

in New York. Queen Elizabeth ma jor of the

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address at MassaTechnology epidemic’

ate Reported Nl Increase

Tuberculosis Cases Also on Rise Here, Summary Shows

and tubercuincrease in Inthe biggest Health De

disease the posing the City

\enereal usis are on dianapolis problem for partment, In the department's port to the Mawor, released today, particular note was paid to ‘the alarming increase of venereal hsease among teen-agers Of the 2849 cases reported durng the vear 6 were among ~hildren between 11 and .15 years uf age. A J8J youngsters 16 to 20 contracted the ind 388 between 20 and #iven treatment o Blames Fromiscuity Dr. Gerald M

annual. re

total o! disease 21 were

. Kenipf, health director, placed blame for the increase on promiscuity rather han professional prostitution. He 20d the department was renew ng its efforts to combat the “dis

vase through its venereal disease clinic % | He said ‘here was no wav ol Knowing how many more cases had gone unreported during the year Tuberculosis was labeled the biggest «xiller among communicable disedses With 644 new cases and J3829 recurrent cases reported during tne year there were 127 deaths Twenty-five ersons were

stricken with infantile during (948 and reported. Only one death traceaple to the aisease in 1947 There was only one epidemic during he vear and that an outbreak of measles with 3724 cases reported. One person died in the

paralysis Wo deaths were was

Dr. Kempf said the rabies rate co grin : wr ——

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arrangements club» president

had been reduced during the through a quarantine of dogs leash

passage ol nance At rabid dogs

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Capehart Set

To Talk Down ECA Fund Bid -

| Urges Reduction | To $3 Billion; Suggestion ‘Doomed’

Times Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Mar, 24—8én, Homer E. Capehart (R” Ind.) today is prepared to deliver a long Senate speech supporting his plan to reduce the Economic Recovery Administration appropriation from '$5.800,000,000 to $3 billion. Since the senior Senator from Indiana is not a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Comes mittee, which investigated and reported unanimously the $5.800,« 000,000 for ECA, it is considered unlikely. that his plan for prace tically cutting the amount in two will be ‘adopted. Neither Sen. Capehart nor the junior Senator from Indiana; Sen. William E. Jenner. voted for ECA at its inception. They are ranked as among the Senate's 'eading post-war igolationists—now a tiny" minorit'¢ Oppose Rent Control They also are against ail administration measures on the domestic front. Both voted against any extension of rent-control by being paired against the bill when it passed the Senate last night 68 to 10 It is a watered-down measure with home-rule provisions.’ Sen. Capehart being a member of the Banking and Currency Committee from which the bill was reported offered his own sliding scale plan which the Senate rejected 62 to 18. He had his own ECA plan in the 80th Congress which got a similar brush-off. The two Hoosiers earlier this week were among the 11 Senators who voted against the confirmas= tion of James Boyd as director of the Bureau of Mines.

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