European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Truman visions big Boom in tax collections 4 president in a statement reviewing the 1947 forecast a boo time flood of tax collections he haunt counted on before which would Wash out much of the deficit for the current fiscal thus he pinned his Hopes on business Prosperity and High level which automatically bring higher tax collections to better the heavily indebted governments he bolstered those Hopes with Economy orders to Federal agencies that could tighten the strings of the Federal purse to the Point of affect ing veterans and 48 boosting both Revenue and spend ing estimates above the peacetime record figures he issued seven months the president said it now appears the government will go into the red by for the fiscal year ending june receipt estimates raised this is less than half the deficit he foresaw last january due mainly to a sudden raising of receipt estimates by a solid 53 to an unprecedented peacetime total of that jump in the prospective tax he would have balanced the 1947 fiscal budget and provided a surplus if Congress haunt with some degree of presiden tial measures adding to earlier expenditure the president sent out further orders to hold Down spending of All kinds in this fiscal year and the one starting next the specifically directed to Cut Back its program this year by carried a big Load in those the Navy Drew curtail and the maritime commission shipbuilding program one of further cuts possible i believe it quite Likely a reexamination of our defense program will reveal the necessity for further downward adjustments president tru Man the president added that the army originally was allotted which had grown to plus new terminal leave he made a special exception for the terminal leave but wanted general operations trimmed enough to come Back to the original Flattop cited the uss Han pictured has been recently awarded the Navy unit citation along with four other aircraft carriers that served in the Pacific during the 13 carriers received awards for action in the eight received presiden tial citations and five Navy in a Cere Mony recently on the White House paid Tri Bute to the carriers and the sail ors who manned one after tru Man called up officers of the Belleau Bunker Hor san Jacinto and Tork town anal presented presidential unit citations for each of the soviets assail Canada probe a night show for an Berlin the stars and stripes Bureau youngest of the american forces network stations spread throughout will stay on the air All night tonight to usher in its first anniversary of operation which will be celebrated August salutes to the Berlin station will be broadcast tomorrow by All out lets of the an whose slogan has been in service for the has built up a Large listening audience in Berlin among the occupation troops of All forces Here and among the younger germans who prefer Amer ican t Wuerttemberg Baden paper granted License by my special to the stars and stripes Schwa Ebisch authority to publish Das eighth newspaper to be licensed in Wuerttemberg Baden has been granted to publisher Anselm Otto information control division military government initially the paper will be published three times a and its circulation will cover Lan Kreis Hall and Lan Kreis the publisher who has worked on several Berlin dailies and for the German news service until the Advent of Hitler spent the entire 12 years of the third Reich in concentration liberated by the Joel was appointed land rat of hot which Post he held until deciding to resume his journalistic he is a member of the Liberal democratic 4 a russian today j attacked what he described As the provocative plundering of secret documents1 from the soviet embassy in during Canadian authorities investigations into suspected espionage in connection with atomic in the communist party Organ pravda he declared that the Royal commissions report showed there was a fifth column of a revolutionary nature in but not where the commissions sought it this which has Large Means and recruits for its service the employee of a foreign corrupts bribes and Pur loins with his Aid secret documents from the soviet pm he in other it busies itself with provocation in order to under mine Friendly relations Between the soviet people and the people of the name of this organization it is very Well known to the Canadian this under ground organization acts by methods tested by the German the writer declaring that the commission inquiry showed Guzenko to be a deserter and a he the Canadian people have been poisoned with ant soviet lies for half a year in order to uproot in it sympathy with the soviet police arrest 3 in bid to topple Luxembourg Rule 4 Albert resistance and two officers of the grand duchy midget Krieps and were arrested Friday and charged with an attempt to overthrow the the three men were arrested by the state police after discovery of a plot in which half a dozen conspirators schemed to seize Power by it is that the plotters were unarmed at the moment of their arrest and it is a current Rumor they were neither backed by the army nor by a political who was deported for several months to a nazi concentration Camp during Luxembourg of is a socialist schoolmaster and his Krieps and escaped from the country during the War to join Luxem Bourges army formed in great apparently the three men and their very Small band of followers were dissatisfied the govern ments policy on eliminating pro nazis from inflation in Italy hits housewives Truman oks Solon pay hike German scout units face investigation special to the stars and stripes Sion of boy scout activities was ordered Here pending an investigation by the Kreis youth committee local military government an Alfred Leader of the 200 scout members ordered re he wore an unauthorized printed posters without my approval and gave militaristic titles to the specific groups under another organization in Heidel the free boy scouts has been 4 president Harry Truman signed a Bill to modernize Congress and praised it As a significant Advance and suggested further moves in the same in a the president indicated particular pleasure Over a Section of the new Law boosting pay of representatives and senators from to plus a tax ree expense he called it a Long overdue step in providing adequate Bompensa principal provisions of measure Are number of Senate committees from 33 to 15 and House committees from 48 to provide More time at Home for congressmen through adjourn ment each year at least from i to require lobbyists to relieve Congress of handling minor claims by giving Federal agencies broader require four major committees ways and Means and appropriations and Senate finance and meet at the Start of each Congress and recommend a Federal budget for the coming August j protestants ask joint action with Vatican 4 leaders of eight countries favor protestant roman Catholic action on world problems based on some kind of satisfactory understanding at the highest presumably be tween the world Council of churches and the replies made Public today to a questionnaire on world Council policy said unless such High level agreement could be reached the extent of cooperation fluctuates with changing personalities and you never know where you to encourage Frank names were not the questionnaire 1 was by protestant bodies in great Den new zealand and the United i the replies were released by 1 Walter Van Kirk of new Secretary of the Federal Council of j churches of Christ in who came Here to attend a fou Day con Ference of International and Church conference opens today the opening today at is sponsored by the world Council of the group plans to establish a world Council commission on International another reply on relations with the Vatican said that cooperation with roman Catholic bodies seems difficult and added that cooperation with jewish bodies was in the new zealand Council of one definitely Iden that in that country there has been no experience of collaboration with jewish bodies and the National Council would probably not favor such an which could in the nature of be on a though tout Christian its reply that there is Good evidence of Friendly relations Between Christian and jew at the individual you mean walking leaving them 4 House some of whom May not know the meaning of the word inflation looked into their Market baskets to Day and they were getting less for their other signs of inflation Range from an edging Forward i food prices and a Strong surge in foreign Exchange to a spectacular leap of 500 lire in one Day in the Price of Fiat automobile the downward trend of food prices of the past few weeks was checked and for some items Olive Oil was Selling at 600lire a liter in Romes Black up 100 from a month cheese and Coffee were slightly in Romes ii under the heading hunger and fear said that italians were condemned and asked with the end of Italy would be Able to pay for Pur chases of 365 reds arrested in Berlin since the stars and stripes Bureau 365 rus sians have been arrested by Amer i ican authorities in Berlin in the 1 period since compared to about 10 of British and French in the same period of a Cid spokesman revealed while a majority of the arrests were for traffic violations or minor about 30 per cent involved serious the agent he explained that under our system russian nationals arrested by american maps Are turned Over to soviet authority immediately after russian military police comple ments Are stationed with our maps for the purpose of taking such of fenders into he protestants present plan the questionnaire and its answers pointed up a protestant plan to seek collaboration with the roman Catholic Church in putting a world Christian viewpoint on peace prob lems before world John Foster Dulles of new chairman of the Federal councils commission on a just and durable peace who is expected to be elected chairman of the Cambridge con said this week that parallel action of the Catholic Church and the world Council would at least be one of the replies to the Cui estion Naire said that collaboration with the roman Catholic Church on mat ters of world order needs to be pre pared for sympathetically and with understanding of that Church difficulties and it must be preceded by conversations Between the highest courts on both and must also include a discussion of the alternative theories of the relationship Between Church and the reply if such an approach to cooperation Breaks it it should not be taken up on a Mere humanistic or Good neighbor probes 5 Detroit firms in War frauds investigation 4 officials disclosed that five Detroit including two major were under investigation for Viola Tion of the War frauds Stewart special assistant to the attorney and District attorney John Lehr con firmed reports that probes Are but declined to list the firms declaring such action might prejudice the by Chester Gould Vouge losing your shoulders you went it int the v Way you used to my old Man hey the cops Are Shouh