Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1950 — Page 18

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J Expect Election

In Great Britain

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To Be Close

Experts Predict Nip- and-Tuck § Race

Dependent on Vote Distribution

By BRUCE BIOSSAT,

Times Special Writer

THE EXPERTS foresee a far closer election in Britain

this time than five years ago, when Labor swept the boards|

to win a commanding edge in

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Parliament,

Right now the leading public opinion poll gives Labor af

slim one and a half per cent advantage. A few months back

the ‘has more than closed the gap. It will be the distribution of the vote, however, that will tell the story on election day, "When Britain balloted in 1945 the Conservatives were enjoying a 200-seat margin in the House of Commons, the important lower ohamber, A 12 per cent swing to Labor put that party im power| with a similar 200-seat edge. “This time the experts think an! % per cent shift is needed to return enough Conservatives to af-

ford them good working control - of Parliament. A narrower swing! would leave them vulnerable, for under the British system a government may be tossed out any

fidence, The present consensus among "the forecastérs—and the people tdo — 1s that the Conservatives won't make the grade. The beHef is that there will be a turn toward them, but that Labor still

fteelf talks of a 60-seat lead. Hold 10 Seats Now

that might throw the two parties foto virtual deadlock and hand the balance of power to the Liberal party. The Liberals now

but they have entéred 400 candldates in the election. Even B50 geats would make them a potent] factor in a tightly balanced alignment. “For the Liberals, it's do or die this time. is making a stubborn comeback bid. If it falls, observers agree it's through. Ironically, more

Britishers would rather vote LibBut they think their votes would

doubt the Liberals’ chances. ~The Conservatives are enraged| , at the Liberals for. entering 400 names, They argue that the net| effect will be merely to split the opposition vote in many areas and Jet the Labor candidates ride in.

time it fails to win a vote of con-f

will win by a fair margin, Labor]

__hoid-but-10_seats.in the. House,

The once great party]

___' “Any outcome much closer than|

than one analyst contends many|. _ eral than Conservative or Labor.| be wasted, it is said, because they!

Conservativesled by 10 per cent, but Labor’ 8 recent rush

Ernest Bevin . . . A new blunt. _ness in diplomatic combat.

song + Aging, but Il a dashing figure. - bor's often oberheated prima donnas.

Winston Churchill, his Conserv-

cent tax on freight be eliminated

&--{far-enough;

“jand other admission tickets, the’

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will have just 625

Some Conservatives are running

under joint Conservative-Liberal|8tive opposite number, old John

labels problem,

districts;| “constituencies”

called

commodate popuation changes. The result is the new llament use seats against a present 640, Final

; al Lineup .The final lineup in the old one showed Labor holding 382 seats, Conservatives 202, National Liberals 13, Liberals 10, Communists _ two. The rest were scattered " among splinter groups and Jndependents, The Communists, incidentally, have entered 99 candidates this time, as compared with 21 in 1045. But no one concedes them much chance of boosting their representation.

fhe 1950 election.

in an effort to lick this Bull himself, still a glamorous

“This year the spoils of political] breathe —war- are fewer. Voting in Brit: ain, have been remodeled to ac-

= There's another new factor in|quipped as he left a European

‘The gOVern-|conference to go home: “There he| Man!IR sidewalks.

ment has limited a candidate's campaign expense to $1260 plus a smail- allowance for each voter in his constituency. This outlay began Feb, 3, official opening date

goes, back to his bed of nails: 3

: fHegally high.

“ROME BIToard Posters Nave Heer)

of the campaign. : British industries facing nafionalization. have. been propagandizing, however, for a long ‘time. Candidates fear that money

‘spent for this” purpose” ni their (2

areas may be charged against them. Should they win, court action fo unseat them might follow on the ground their expenses were

Conservatives are not alone in| worrying over- this,

Signed to their campaigns, Industry Puzzled " Industry is definitely puzzled.| ~

govered up, while -others still] blazon their message. The steel

fndustry, already marked for pub-|

lic ownership, defiantly insist on

“informing” the voters of its case. The symbols -of this phase of the battle are a little crew of im-

aginary characters that might DO

compared to America’s “Howdy || Doody,” except that political sig- | nificance has been added. + There's Mr. Cube, a belligerent little square of sugar eager to fight the government; Mr. Mix,| Ris counterpart in the cement field; Sir Loin, a doughty battler Who thinks Labor means to squeeze the juice outfof him by <gationaliZing the meat trade, and, Miss Pru, demure darling of the! insurance world, who is trying,

figure, a stirring orator who can

Predict Slash 0f $1 Billion In Excise Tax

‘Some Think House Cut May Run Up To $1,250,000,000

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UP) ~Congressional tax experts said! tonight it seems virtually certain, that the House will approve fed-| eral excise tax cuts amounting to at least $1 billion a year.

reductions may run closer to! $1,250,000,000. The government’ s| take from all excise taxes is esti-| mated by the Treasury at $7,640,- | 000,000 for fiscal 1951. President Truman, in his re cent tax message to Congress,

$695 million. But he proposed that $40 million of this be recouped |

on television sets, making the!

Inet reduction under his proposal

$655 million a year,

House Ways and Means Commit-| tee,

program; have indicated that they: will go well beyond the Presi[dent's excise recommendations. Truman Asked 10 Pet. Mr. Truman. asked that Con{gress halve the present 20 per

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surgeons yesterday in

Bodies of many Philadelphia. During the meeting

recommended excise reductions of! § by a new 10 per cent excise lax, L

Members of “the tax-frasming 1

which 1s holding hearings Plains inow on Mr. Truman's tax revision tures '

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jewelry, and toilet preparations,

and reduce from 25 per cent to 15 |

per cent the excise~fate on long distance telephone calls and tele grams. He proposed also that the 15, per cent tax on passenger transportation. tickets be cut to 10 per cent, and that the present 3 per

Members of the Ways and Means Committee have no quarrel with these recommendations ex cept that they feel they don't go

A majority of the committee wants to do something also about the 20 per cent tax on theater

15 per cent tax on local telephone calls, and the 25 per cent tax on

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Leonardo Pays Fine For Cultural Slipup

| MANILA: Bol Feb 11—Local art groups here in the Philippine capital have a pet peeve: It's the newly ordered police cleanup of “offensive art.” Not holding with “art for art's sake,” a Manila court has ruled

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that pictures of the naked female

Filipino citizen.” Judge A. J. Panlilio made the

rades hurt his party).

minister, - one-time trolley car driver and ‘dockworker, who brought a new-bluntness to international diplomatic combat. Anthony Eden, aging and not 50 well now, but still a dashing figure, certain to take Bevin's place in event of a Conservative triumph. Sir Stafford Cripps, Labor chancellor of the Exchequer, so thoroughly the embodiment - of Britain's economic “austerity” and self-denial that a foreigner

Lord Woolton, the Mr. Fixit of thé Conservatives, who was the! chief rebuflder of the party's machinery after its 1945 debacle and would rank high in a new Cone servative government. There are many others. But these are the best known. They're; all mounting the political barri-| des now to do battle over the big issue: Is it to be more—or less—socialism for Britain?

NAMED ON HONOR ROLL

Ernest Bevin, Labor's foreign Leonardo. Fri haled before

ruling In a decision against one

him recently as a street peddler of pornographic articles. “Pictures of naked women hidden in key chains or ‘eyeappenders’ are designed to excite the imagination and as such are repugnant and offensive to morals,” the judge admonished the culprit and fined him $100. But what particularly griped

opinion that only magazine pictures portraying nudes may be considered acceptable as “artistic examples of feminine beauty,” thus ruling out the so-called “art model” pictures formerly sold on|

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Scientist, 74, Dies | 4 Hours After Marriage

ATHENS, 0, Feb. 11 (UP)= A T4-year-old scientist - died in| his hotel room here tonight, four, hours after marrying a 47- -year- | ‘old collegé English teacher. | He was Dr. William Crocker, | former director of the Boyrce Compton. Institute for Plant Re-| search in Yonkers, N. Y. His

Guy Reynolds, son of Mr, and| Mrs. Albert E. Reynolds, 3455!

Labor men Guilford Ave, has been named Stafe Teachers College in the are afraid the expenses of La-| to the Dean's Freshman Honor, University of New York in Brock-| bor’s daily press might be a5 Roll at the Technological Insti-| port. A member of the hotel staff

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bride was Mrs, Neva Ankénbrand, of the Engiish department’ of |

sald death was caused by a heart attack. ; |

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