European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes april 1950 House group votes to slash excise taxes reductions May reach cuts go far beyond those favored by Truman april 23 a further slash in excise taxes has been approved by the House ways and Means among other the committee voted to repeal All levies on base footballs and and halve the 20 per cent tax on furs and added to in cuts approved the total is now this reduction is almost twice As deep As president Truman recommended on that part of the excise list the committee has Cov the writing its own tax May risk a veto by calling for Overall excise slashes of about beyond the limit Truman Robert Doughton that All actions Are tentative and could be changed cuts recommended Here is what the committee approved Friday the retail excise tax present 20 percent to tbe20 per cent retail Levy in with Theta removed entirely front watches Selling at less thin and alarm clocks Selling at less Luggage removed completely the 20per cent retail Levy on pocket books and card and key the full 20 per cent Levy would be re tamed on other such As suitcases and Brief toilet completely the 20 per cent retail Levy on baby baby powder and baby and Cut from 20 per cent to 10 the tax on other toilet prep such As cosmetics and shaving Sporta items favored sporting 10 per cent manufacturers tax on childrens toys and goods pre Doft Mattiy fitted by com Mittee staff members this iveans the sporting goods tax would be of we wafer used to schools or by pro fete ionian firings As footballs and football equipment and the committee decided the Levy continue on Golf fish ing Badminton equip Mentin Illiard and Pool and devices for launching Clay pigeons and toe household Levy m manufacturers level would be reduced from 10 per cent to 7 photographic the manufacturers tax on All items to 10 per cent musical the present 10 per cent tax to 5 per cent Tfaye 10 per cent Levy would be retained phonographs and records and on radios and miss America pageant to so rep title april 23 there will be no miss America of Tjie Board of directors of the annual miss America pageant Here has that the Winner of the a Noftal contest this sep tember Antt be known As mass of last is contest will keep miss the i restore winged out that the con Winner Tbs year win be Queen for Tittle More than three months in but will More than eight months in the Long and the Short of it a mania tire Austin Dummy built Lor stands a Longside Daimler with engine at the British automobile motorcycle show at grand Central new they the smallest and primers racing corrupts nation 1 t1 Auto tires lasting due april 23 nationwide service Corn Pung departments thru High Cut the Senate crime investigators have been the made Toa Senate Commerce subcommittee by Mayot and War Tab of los they linked press Organiza which supplies racing to the old Capone gang the prohibition Era and to More decent gang i lungs on the West both along with mayor Fletcher to won of los asked the committee to approve a proposed Bill to outlaw interstate transmission of certain gambling news the measure hit which operates out of Headquarters Cleve land and is owned Edward according to a retired Marine najor witness stand that the is responsible for departments Orver the i he added that the Bill before the subcommittee would eliminate definitely associate killings we out there m California with the news he said i the a Youthful who declared he had run the bookies racing wires out of new said a Small group of people control the Supply lines and financing for these interstate they Are highly organized and their influence has grown to great Morrison said Continental press service is the principal wire serv ice for sports 23 Mastui automobile tires soon will be available through improved teen Risques of blending cold rubber and United states rub Ber Tii tee company scientists told the american chemical society of what thex called the first cues soul blending of High abrasion cold synthetic rubber Latex liquid the process called master Batch is being the production for tire treads at the synthetic rubber the chemists told delegates at the society National convention that tire treads made Jay the new method will Wear to Miles longer than similar tires made by the earlier tech Barrows resigns air Force Post Washington april As aph Arthur Barrows has resigned As under Secretary of the air the White House Barrows resignation was dated in it he he mra swill ing to remain until his resignation can become with the inconvenience to the ent in accepting set effective w t Barrows is a former president and Vic chairman of the Roebuck Board of airline asks Mexico route Mexico april 23 air Ranee has asked the mexican go v e t n m in t for permission to air route from Paris to c aviation Industry circles president foresees hardship if rent controls end april 23 president Truman warned Sere that millions will suffer serious hard ship if Federal rent controls die june As he appealed to Congress for a years Extension of the Law to head off a wave of exorbitant rent in creases which he said surely would follow a sudden lifting of families earning a week would be hardest the Truman message lines of business would be re Lief costs would Rise and for the aged would be less the preceded the opening of Public hearings on the the outcome of which is in hearings scheduled the Senate banking will begin live full Days of hear Ings the House banking committee has none a weeks Congress slashed a rent office request Fuff emergency operating funds from to tossed in to be used Only Lor discharge pay of this action a Shadow across the Agency when the ques continuing controls comes perhaps next month Extension of Law has its look Soffrin Bemock Ratib aids ideas have sprang these giving the cities a deciding on re Taining their own big cities favor controls the main pressure for continuance Federal authority from big City officials of 10 cities told thursday in of 1 said rental units in 40 states will under control on june including 63 of 82 cities with populations Trumain Saiid it is significant that All the Large cities to which he referred have had the option of Reino Winig controls but chose to keep bomb May Cut editors told april 23 Gerard publisher of asserted Here the Hydro Gen bomb might make the More vulnerable rather than More Piel told the american society of newspaper editors convention that to produce an bomb we May have to reduce our production of knowing Piel we Are entitled to ask for some tangible Assurance that one bomb is a profitable Trade for two or More secrecy policy assailed whose Magazine had to Burn copies of its april Issue be cause the atomic Energy commis Sion objected to a few lines in an article by Hans bitterly assailed the abcs secrecy be told the has poisoned the relations of the dec with the scientific Community of Piel spoke at an Asne panel Dis Cussion on what Price the panel was also addressed by atomic Henry 3 Smyth agreed that secrecy has evil but he said country obviously of its military secrete to world How to keep secrets thai 1 have to be kept and still not Fere too greatly with press Freedom it is a he told the k i s h i a n Send Back German witnesses i april 23 immigration officials declared Here the five germans were brought to the As trial witnesses will Bent Home by the announcement was made after the veterans of wars charged that the Justice department had forgotten the germans admitted on temporary visas last year to testify against Mildred Axis Sally and Herbert the vow the germans were employed by a Washington recording firm and had displaced two american veterans from Austria shift not due soon april 23 the possibility of substituting Villas for the military High com missioners in Austria has been to mentioned informally among and French officials since a change was made in but is not under discussion a seems Little or no Prospect in the near future of a change Boeing carried out in he at the present Allied officials Are known to be discussing in Vienna and in their own what can done Silt further the burdens on this sub Mesion to interested governments of a numb her of proposals on this matter toy the austrian the source said the is urging Britain and franoty1 to do what impossible in the of having their armed forces reduce consumption of local food and evacuate As Many buildings As Pas hotel that tourist Trade can be color photos on rubber los april 23 a method of reproducing color photographs i6h rubber been or announced by the Lee Tex products the firm says the process has been used on and on Fuu color rubber books for which can be read in j Bathe 2x better v april 23 David editor of the us news and world told a meet my of the american society of newspaper editors that newspapers need More correspondents m Washington with time to specialize Check up on big he advised editors to give their correspondents latitude to express their in a1 panel discussion or news coverage of the top Washington newsmen gave the editors their thoughts on reporting Walter Bureau chief for the Chicago said Many Washington reporters re porting is not leg work but brain work he said the government press Rei lease is a destroyer of reportorial and asserted that news by and i Are unsatisfactory of getting the Raymond Brant to Louis pos dispatch Bureau said one of the reasons fori the decline in government services is that government cannot attract qualified f those i people who might come to government what the columnists and radio tetors will do to arthui1 chief of the new York times Bureau on interpretive he said has an value with straight news reporting inthe modern i he said he doubted that any of the Washington columnists Are sounding boards for government