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Washington Calling—

Don't Start Figuring Next Year's Tax Yet

: By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, June 23:-Don't start trying to figure what you owe under the big new tax bill. Senate intends to rewrite the whole thing. When it finally becomes law, you probably won't be able to recognize it. Top-ranking Finance Committee Senators (of both parties) don't like many of the House tax proposals. They’re likely to come up with something raising about same amount of money, but raising it by different

methods. For instance:

Senators object to House plan increasing each

“individual's tax by 121, per cent. This is tougher on

people in high income brackets than on lower bracket taxpayers, they say. Administration originally proposed increase of four percentage points in each bracket.

Senate's likely to go back to this method. :

Also Senators haven't been sold on idea of withholding taxes on dividends and interest as well as on

wages and salaries. They're not convinced it would

raise more for treasury,

though House majority claims taxpayers fail to report $3 billion a year in dividends and interest; that withholding tax

would bring in $323 million

more a year. Retroactive tax provisions may be changed—or taken out altogether—by Senate committee, Hearings are slated to start week after next, are sure to be lengthy. It probably will be fall before bill is passed—ang it may be even later. Sen. Taft, who'll have much to do with final outcome, talks about putting it off till De-

cember, n

Controls Outlook Black

OPS OFFICIALS won't say so publicly, but fear watereddown controls bill reported by Senate Banking Committee is best they can hope for. Officials still talk hopefully about strengthening bill on the Senate or House floor. But things don’t work out that way. Added “crippling” amendments are more likely. House farm bloc, for instance, is gure it can even knock out the 10 per cent beef price rollbacs already in effect when bill gels onto the floor. However, don't overlook this point: Special groups haven't succeeded in ending controls

entirely, aren't likely to. It'

still will be possible to fix beef ceilings —even thopgh beef animals will have to be controled at high prices of last April, Same would be true all across the board. This means new headaches for stabilization officials. Controls at high levels would permit enough price increases to set off new wage demands, thus giving inflatignary spiral & new spin. Public psychology — which seems to be on deflationary side—might offset this for a while at least, After two postKorea buying panics, public seems to be saturated with goods—or else too deep in debt to buy more. Commerce Department figures show that while disposable income is rising, buying isn't keeping pace. Administration officials say it’s only a lull; that if controls aren't operating next fall when armaments start rolling and consumer goods become scarce, prices will reach the moon.

Add OPS Troubles

FEUD IS building up between Price Boss Mike DiSalle and Leon Keyserling, chairman of President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Keyserling, who recommended against price controls when trouble started last summer, now charges that stabilizers are being too easy on manufacturers, by letting them add post-Korean cost increases in fixing ceilings. DiSalle and his boss, Stabilizer Eric Johnston, aren't inclined to take much criticism from Keyserling. They figure Keyserling's wrong guess last summer caused administration to move at snail's pace after controls law was passed, made their job much tougher. On top of everything else, OPS budget took a severe cut from Budget Bureau. Congress is sure to cut it still more— which may multiply difficulties

of enforcing controls. » o

A-Materials Study

JOINT COMMITTEE on atomic energy is about to start hush-hush study of raw materfals program for atomic weapons. Btudy--which won't be made public—will be made by subcommittee headed by Sen, Clinton P. Anderson (D. N.M.). Committee wants to know whether program to assure supply of raw materials is going ahead with enough vigor; whether changes in type of material’ required by improved weapons have been taken into account, ”

New Bond Drive

TREASURY is readying big new defense savings bond rea ign to start Labor Day. Since Korea, Treasury has been concentrating. on building up payroll deduction system of selling bonds, with little hoopla. Now it's going to try nation-wide appeals, big-name stars, etc. Still undecided: Whether to dollar goal for the campaign.

too much danger that it won't

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Revive Old Row?

APPOINTMENT of Undersecretary of Navy Dan Kimball to succeed Secretary Francis Matthews might revive old Senate row over confirmation of Ed Pauley. Kimball and Pauley are close personal and political friends, Kimball has been active in California Democratic politics in recent years. He headed Aerojet Engineering Corp. of

Azusa, Cal, before entering department, supervised work on rockets. - “ n

Eccles for Senate?

MARRINER 8. ECCLES, who's retiring from the Federal Reserve Board, probably won't stay long in private life. Rumors that he’ll run for U, 8. Senate next year from Utah persist, though Eccles says he has no such plan. n 5

Taft-Bricker Split

OHIO’'S GOP Sens. Taft and Bricker split again this week on public housing. Bricker supported move to cut next year's program from 50,000 to 5000 units; Taft lead suecessful fight to stop this.

It was taken as another indication Taft's running for the presidency. He fought vigorously for public housing, said private industry will not provide adequate housing for poorest groups because there's no profit in it.

Bricker, though up for Senate re-election next year, isn’t worried about taking real estate lobby side of the argument. Only potential candidate who might beat him is Gov. Frank Lausche, and dope is that Lausche will run again

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tJ Homes Spring Up DIRE prediction from some building industry spokesmen that Regulatoin X credit curbs would - kill the home-building market aren’t being borne out. Building starts in May were 97,000, up from 88,000 of month before, even though most were affected by require-

‘ment for larger down pay-

ment.

Looks as if building starts will hit 500,000 by July 1— leaving five months more in which to achieve administra tion's goal of 800,000 for year.

National Association of Home Builders meets here next week, anyway, to try to get credit controls relaxed. They say curbs don’t hurt large operators, but drive small ones out of business. 2 » EJ ~

NAM vs. Johnston

THAT row between Stabilizer Eric Johnston and National Association of Manufacturers ls nothing new, though bad feeling hasn't been out in open before. NAM has always thought Johnston had too much sympathy for labor point of view. It fought him when Johnston, as president of the U, 8. Chamber of Commerce, tried to get agreement on a “peace charter” between workers and employers during World War II. On the other hand, NAM praises Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson.

Connally’s Albatross

FRIENDS tell veteran Sen. Tom Connally of Texas he's in real trouble at home— where he must run next year. Trouble is that, as chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Connally’s tagged in many Texans’ minds as a supporter of Secretary of State Acheson. Connally’s friends tell film only way he can change the picture is to go to the White House and ask that Acheson be dropped—and make sure that Texas knows about it.

“Tom's gone to the White

House all right, and said Acheson should go,” sald one of his supporters. “But he

hasn't let the people of Texas know about it.” Probable opponents in Democratic primary are Gov. Allan Shivers and former Rep. Martin Dies.

UNITED NATIONS appeal

this week for more help in Korea from member nations must have sounded strange to Greece and Turkey. Two months , Turks offered 1000 additional troops, have recelved no reply. Last fall, Greece wanted to send a brigade—3500 men—but was told to send 1000 men. :

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year. Greatest shack for the free world came in the bleak days of late November, when, after deciminating the North Korean enemy, driving to the Yalu River and expecting, unrealistically, to be “home by Christmas," our troops learned that Mao Tse-tung’s Chinese

hordes had entered the war in full force. Now, on the war's first anniversa

chase battered Chinese and North Korean Reds northward.

World Report—

British Declared Whistling

As Fuel Boss Scoffs at 'Disaster' in Loss of Iran Oil

Whole Commonwealth Will Be Crimped;

Dollar Balance Knocked for a Loop

British Fuel Minister Philip Noel:Baker's statement that failure of Iranian oil supplies wouldn't mean “swift irreparable disaster” should not be taken too literally, William H. Stoneman, special correspondent for The Indianapolis Times in London,

reported today.

It's a case of whistling while passing a graveyard, Mr.

Stoneman said. Nobody has even pretended that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co's withdrawal from Iran would mean the end of the British. Commonwealth, What sober observers have realized from the beginning—but what some people in the British government don’t seem to have realized in good time—is that loss of Iranian oil would be a very serious matter for the whole western world as well as Iran, Mr. Stoneman stated. It may be true, as Mr. NoelBaker pointed out, that Britain could find new sources for much of the 7% milliofl tons of crude oil and 22 million tons of refined petroleum products received annually from Abadan, leaving a gap of only about “3 or 4 million tons.”

Dollar Balance Upset

What Mr. Noel-Baker didn't mention, Mr. Stoneman declared, but what everybody knows is, it will be almost impossible to replace the supplies of fuel oil which Abadan has supplied, at least within the

near future: that India, Pak- .

istan, South Africa and Australia will be desperately hard hit if their supplies .from Abadan are cut off, and that Britain's dollar balance will be knocked galley west. Political consequences should be obvious to everybody but the London Times today finds it necessary to refresh people's minds regarding them. “It may well be,” it says, that the Iranian government “will continue in their reckless course, driven out AIOCO, destroy the oil industry, deprive themselves of their chief revenue and go down in chaos only to be replaced by the Tudeh (Communist) party.

Calamity in West

“Such an event—even though the fuel minister could contend in his statement that the loss of oil need not in itself be a disaster—would be calamitous for the western powers.

Reporter's

FUGITIVES FROM CHINA say that waves of executions by the Communists in south and central China are caused purely by economic troubles, not Korean war losses. The population knows little about the casualties but feels the economic strait jacket severely. » o - HIGHEST paid American diplomat couriers are those on the Helsinki-Moscow train trip. They prepare their own meals and get $30 a day. n s » IRON CURTAIN STORY: On a visit to Russia, Hungary's Communist boss, Matyas Rakoczy, asked Stalin how many

“It might lead to the gravest consequences throughout the middle East.”

The Times reminds the Conservative Party that the present difficulty can't be settled by force. George Weller, special correspondent of The Indianapolis Times at Teheran, Iran, re-

ported, meanwhile, that Iran °

muffed a chance to get a gift of $1 billion of British oil properties because the Iranians didn% understand what the Britons offered. The British offer was written in complex “lawyer's language” instead of plain words. International circles buzzed today, calling the whole incident an “epic blunder.” As a result, Britain's troubles are worse in Iran.

Offer Buried

Britain offered to hand over free to Iran its oil-producing facilities—from the costly catalytic cracking tower at Abadan to the cheapest gas station. But Britain would be permitted to operate them “in the Iranian government’s service.” That offer, however, was

buried in lawyer's language. Iran IRAN yesterday proposed

death penalties for sabotage, created a new security commission to guard nationalized oil properties and demanded to know within 36 hours whether British technical workers will help keep the Iran National Oil Co. operating. Police, who already are guarding rail lines, tunnels and bridges between Teheran and Khuzistan, were ordered to extend their vigilance to highways, bridges and especially to the oil fields. Finance Minister Mohammed Varasteh warned British technicians that mass resignations would make them responsifjle for injuring Iran's

) Inside Tips “reactionaries in opposition” were left in the U.8.8.R. “about nine million,” said Stalin. “Then we're a tie,” sald the Hungarian dictator, “Hungary has the same number.” » ” o : IN SALONIKA an underground Communist leader is quoted as having admitted that the American Correspondent George Polk wgs murdered by the Communists as a maneuver. The purpose, he said, ‘was to widen the split in American public opinion on aid to Greece. Mr. Polk was selected because he was considered the most leftist of the important American corre-

ry, optimism again holds sway as United Nations forces

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By United Press “Lady Godiva” rode today, And all the city came to stare. But the lady wore a bathing suit, And only the horse was bare.

COVENTRY, June 23-—Ann Wrigg, a 28-year-old atomic age “Lady Godiva" recreated the famous ride of Coventry's “First Lady” today, clad in a flesh-colored, Bikini bathing suit—modest in the extreme by the standards of the original lady’s ride.

And 500,000 shouting citizens, jammed the

Godiva's

historic streets to cheer.

taxes.

Things were vastly different 800 years ago when the original Lady Godiva cantered through the streets clad only in her long, golden tresses. She had offered to exhibit her charms in public to shame the city fathers into lightening the tax load.

BUT THE good citizens of 900 years ago locked themselves behind the shuttered windows in deference to her modesty. The only man who stole a look lives in infamy as “Peeping Tom." Today all 500,000 celebrants oggled unabashed. Choice windows overlooking the route were hawked up to $20. The “Peeping Toms" saw Actress Ann Wrigg shiver in weather chilly and cloudy enough to wash out a jet plane race. ‘What's more, today's event had no effect on

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economy and depriving the western world of Persian oil. He emphasized that Iran wants British personngl to continue working for the nationalized company and promised that present wages, allowances and pensions would continue.

Great Britain

FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER ANTHONY EDEN, Britain's No. 2 Conservative leader, warned the United States yesterday Iran will go Communist if her oil refineries shut down, and urged America to stand by Britain in the Iranian crisis. 4

“I would say this to our American friends—and I would say this frankly,” Mr. Eden told a meeting of 3000 young Conservatives, “the difficulties are not going to halt at the Iranian frontiers.” “We are in it together and we must solve it together,” he said. He said if Iran's revenues from oil are halted, it will be impossible for the Iranian economy to survive, “That is what the local Communist party is waiting for,” he said. “If Iran goes Come munist the consequences for her neighbors are clear for all to see.”

on World Affairs

spondents. His murder, the Commies figured, would suggest that the government was responsible. ~ ” - NEWEST European racket aimed at American woman motorists is for a pair of thieves to puncture a tire and then offer assistance. While one thief fixes the tire under the eyes of the grateful women, the other makes off with the purses left on the seat. » " ” AMERICAN ofl companies of the Middle East have started a policy of de-emphasizing publicity about pipelines. The theory is that ollless countries

whose sands carry the pipes may try to hike their fees to match Iranian nationalization and Saudi Arabia's 50-50 deal, ” ” ” MANY American officials in Tehran are without home phones, being unwilling to meet the racketeering prices of squeezing government officials. Even an Islamic diplomat was milked $800 for a phone installed after several month's delay. . » # ” THE Chinese Reds are now referring to Mao Tse-tung as “the real living Buddha” in their propaganda beamed at occupied Tibet.

Report Prior, Being Tried by Red Hungary, Admits Killing Russ Soldier With Own Hands

BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 23—A churchman confessed at ~~ the trial of Archbishop Josef Groesz and eight co-defend-ants today that he killed a Russian soldier with his own

"CONFESSED" — Arch. Josef Groesz . . .

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hands and organized the murder of “about 30 others.” The trial was recessed until Monday after the 64-year-old archbishop and his co-defend-ants finished pleading guilty to charges ranging from plotting to overthrow the Communist regime in Hungary to black marketing. Pauliclan Prior Ferenc Vezer, youngest of the defendants, pleaded guilty to charges of {inciting to murder and crimes against the Hungarian

people. 4 ‘Amit’ Spying Prior Vezer, after admitting “responsibility for the death of about 31 Russians, charged that life in Hungarian monasteries was “extremely immoral.” He claimed that mistresses were not uncommon. Archbishop Groesz and six others admitted being either

. members or leaders of an

underground royalist organation } plotting to overthrow the Communist government

Four of the nine defendants confessed guilt on espionage charges for which the maximum penalty is death. Archbishop Groesz was not charged with espionage. His maximum penalty for plotting the government's overthrow is life imprisonment. Two defendants were not charged as spies or as members of the illegal group.

Worked for U. 8.

The defendants linked three Roman Catholic bishops still active in Hungary with their activities and testified that the American legation in Budapest forwarded papers to the Vatican and to Francis Cardinal Spellman in New York.

The group, testimony, planned to reestablish the old line of succession under ancient Hungarian law, ” The Belgian and Italian legations in Budapest also were mentioned in the testimony.

Dr. Alajos Pongracz, one of the defendants, admitted com-

according to

ing for the U. 8S. Information Service at the American legation. The Groesx trial was considered a continuation of the proceedings which sent Josef Cardinal Mindszenty to prison for life for treason.

The United Press applied for a visa for an American reporter to cover the trial of of Archbishop Goresz in Budapest. The Hungarian government . rejected the application, The resident United Press correspondent in Budapest, Ilona Nyilas, a Hungarian national, is covering it. Our London bureau under stands that Miss Nylla's dispatches will not be cemsored, but as is the case in mest of the Iron Curtain na reporfers can be held ible - for everytl

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Our Fair City—

Job of Selectir

By The Times Staft APPOINTMENT of a new ~ police has developed into a “buck «When Police Chief Ed Rouls finally week he would make his two-months-old effective June 30, Mayor Bayt cagily dodged the by shifting appointment of successor to the Safety Boy There are always political repercussions to any Pol Department shakeup, and Mayor Bayt has been trying to dodge as many of these pinches as he can since he's

mayoralty candidate in November election. 3 But passing buck to the Safety Board has backfired, Board President Leroy J. Keach has given a “no you don't” reply to shift in appointment to his board. He pointed out the law which puts the “burden” ‘or “privilege” (whichever is convenient) on the Mayor to make recommendation before Safety Board acts.

Latest rumor from the inside is that

is boiling down to two officers, Inspector Richard Jacob,

who has been sort of assistant chief for three years,

and Capt. Michael Hynes. ¢. In this field of two, the “smart money” is going on the inspector. The appointment will be made by the Safety Board about next Wednesday.

- » » Clippity Clop LOOK FOR series of arrests in northwestern part of state in next few weeks as an outgrowth of probe into mixing of horse meat into beef. Recent tests in one section of state showed 15 out of 20 samples of ground “beef” has mixture of horse meat. State Health Board agents are investigating source of horse meat industry—suspect it may be some place in Illinois, Otherwise, Indiana is fairly clear of horse meat mixtures. Only fraction of 1 per cen shows traces of Dobbin, : =

for an angle, now have a new loophole in some pending cases. It is recent judicial decision that confessions and other evidence obtained against defendant while he is removed from jail without court order, are not admissable in trial. This may be defense move of lawyers for one of four youths charged with recent slaying of Hancock County farmer, Noah Fry. He was taken from Hancock County jail to state police barracks rs questioning without a court Xr.

» . . Pays With Blood HERE'S A MAN who uses his head for something other than to wear a hat. He was a hitchhiker, low on funds and wanted a place to sleep a little while. And this is how he solved it, He went to the Red Cross, gave a pint of blood, and got a light free lunch, and his nap. Trouble was, the Red Cross blood station had a hard time making him give up his cot. But he did get a snack and a snooze. No dough, just blood. . ¥ »

IF YOUR RENT hasn't gone up in last few weeks, you're probably just paying old rate on borrowed time. Even if you live in property that has always been under strict U. 8. control, price is moving up all along line—with official sanction of the federal government. Landlords are taking advantage of new law that gives them right to apply for increase on evidence they have spent money improving property and that costs--heat, lights and water--have gone up in last four years. It landlords can show anye thing like that, you'll receive an “order” from the local Rent Control Authority stating that your rent henceforth will be thus and so in the future and probably retroactive to some date a month or six weeks back. ~ 2 »

It Wasn't Here

Recent warning issued by prominent surgeon of American Medical Association against overcharging for oper ations and fee-splitting practices brought a prompt reply from Indianapolis Medical Society that local doctors are not guilty. Executive. Secretary Joseph Palmer of Medical Society said he doesn't recall a single complaint either from private citiZen or from grievance commit. tee during his six years here.

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