European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes september 1950 Senate votes 1st instalment of billion tax boost Bill would increase income levies to 18 per cent sept 3 the Senate approved a 000 first instalment tax boost by voice vote after voting 4236 to postpone until next january Deci Sion on an excess profits the measure now goes to the House and probably to a Senate House conference to Compromise the differences with a Bill approved earlier by the an acknowledged Stop Gap measure to help fight inflation and Start paying for the korean conflict and the Bill would hike individual income taxes by about a it would add another to Federal coffers through an in crease in corporation and gather other millions by plugging loopholes and making other tax Law jumps income tax the Bill is designed to go into effect for individual taxpayers on that if the Bill is enacted into Law in withholding on wages and after per Sonal will jump from the present 15 per cent to 18 per the corporate tax would increase from the present top rate of 38 per cent of the income to 45 per cent drives by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey and others to put More Revenue producing provisions into the were the successful move to postpone until january a decision on excess profits taxation was engineered by chairman Walter George of the senates tax writing finance and Eugene Mil Likin the ranking gop their which requires that the excess rates decided upon by the next Congress Date Back either to 1 or july scuttled the proposal of Joseph c Omahoney and Tom con Nally to write into the Bill an 85 per cent excess profits effective As of july forces add to civilian payroll 3 the armed services added civilians to their payrolls in the first month after the korean fight ing began the congressional com Titi be on reduction of nonessential expenditures Harry Byrd the said the boost in military payrolls lifted civilian employment in the government to in an increase 0 Over he thai Ian agencies had Cut off their payrolls in the same of the total increase in the armed the committee said represented Industrial As d to White Collar in those United states Slack As spy 3 Federal grand jury Here has indicted self styled average Guy Alfred Dean Slack for transmitting munitions secrets to the soviet the former chemist at a munitions works was charged with giving information about the powerful explosive Rex to accused communist agent Harry Gold for delivery to russian court officials said Slack will be tried on the charge sometime after 18 in Federal court Senate group gets protests on Odwyer nomination 3 chairman Tom Connally said the Senate foreign relations committee has received 15 or 20 protests on the nomination of new Yorks William Odwyer to be ambassador to and May have a Public hearing on he said there was no immediate plan to Call Odwyer or his political new York democratic Leader Edward but both will be Welcome if they want a Connally said that if extensive hearings Are a Senate vote on confirmation might go Over until next now in route to California for a vacation before taking Over the new could serve under an interim vow asks Bank for Lindbergh 3 veterans of foreign wars passed a Resolution asking Congress to restore Charles Lindbergh to his former rank of colonel and recognize his outstanding service in the develop ment of air says Texas to los 3 Mickey Cohen has arrived Home with the footprints of the Texas rangers upon the texans had Given the Little Gambler the bums Rush out of the Lone Star state because they said he was trying to set up a gambling and racketeering Mickey Cohen a corps of photographers and re porters was at the Airport to Greet Cohen said he was in Texas on an Oil Cohen complained that i got to have More i have a Beautiful but she spends a lot of it costs a lot of Money to one 3 Hurt in Ohio bus car crash 3 Man was killed and three others were injured in the collision automobile and a chartered bus four Miles West of the bus was carrying members of the grand baseball team of the Central in route Home from sheriff George Ehman identified the dead Man As Fred of an occupant of the waitress gets biggest tip shirt off patrons Back 3 Louise Wolfe heaped such lavish Praise on a customer for his Eye catching Redan Dwhite polka Dot shirt that he gave it to right Oft his b a c she he whipped off the Gaudy shirt and placed it on the table alongside a Cash said miss Wolfe he didst even have on an chief of klan jailed for inciting mob 3 grand dragon of the Kun flux klan in South Carolina was in jail on charges of conspiracy to stir up mob Thomas Hamilton was jailed following an investigation by sheriff of Horry and state constabulary officers into a klan Parade and the subsequent death of a klan Robed policeman who was still in screening stranded chinese students 3 state department said it is taking pains to see that no communists Are included in the chinese students who Are receiving govern ment financial help because they were stranded in this All the students Are carefully screened both by the government and by the universities they attend before they Are cleared for i philharmonic sends new sept 3 new York philharmonic invaded fees Spur probe of draft Ray 3 a House committee has been set up to Kok into the fees that doctors Are receiving for xray examinations of men called up in the the government pays the in one Cense were reported to be it thing 3 doctor an of 15 a Cissin tin curl Vinski of the aimed services named Bildiy to head the special investigating other members Are Mel Vin Price and Ster Ling Coe Vinson said he acted because of the number of letters he had received concerning Large it looks to Vinson that the Public health veterans administration or army medical centers coi ild give xray we need All the Money we can get o buy tans in Stead of paying fees to Doci Urs for such the state department the department made the state ment after denying emphatically a Boston dispatch about the scheduled deportation of three chinese Stu dents who made ant american department spokesman Michael Mcdermott said government rec ords show the students entered last year under their own Broadway bebop sters the land of jazz and for the first time and conductor Dmitri Mitropoulos said the audience gave his musicians a real gone rolled in the he we got More applause than a weeks performances produce at Carnegie the philharmonic gave its first matinee performance of a four Fly stand at the Roxy where the stage shows usually feature comedians and dancing Mitropoulos warmed up his audience with the overture to to Warners meistersinger and then played Prokofiev classical negro Singer hits red double talk 3 negro Folk Singer who says he has seen his race badly still believes democracy is better than White appeared voluntarily before the House Una Merican activities committee and said that Paul Robeson statement that negroes would not fight for their country against soviet Russia or any other is both wrong and an 3 red suspects May be cited for contempt i have great admiration for Robeson As an actor and a great White but i feel sad Over the help Hes been giving to people Ivhon despise White said he has had some brushes wit the communist party and its front and they played me for a i have never knowingly belonged to or supported any organization designed to overthrow the he but i did on Many occasions appear at benefits and rallies which i was led to be Lieve were for worthwhile i did not even suspect they were White said he wanted to make it Clear that he was opposed to Lynching and Jimr Owis but that the communists Are exploiting these grievances for their own Pur when communists and their kind talk about democracy and they Are using double White they use Good words in their own tops Turvy to cover up bad but for simple Folk who dont know the Art of turning words inside it takes time to catch he was the second negro to denounce Robeson support of com Jackie second baseman for the Brooklyn rebuked Robeson in testimony before the committee last 82 of imported cameras German manufactured sept 3 the Commerce department reported that More than 82 per cent of Cam eras imported into the during 1949 came from the bulletin issued by the depart ments office of Industry and com Merce said the revival of both Ger Man and japanese sales of photo equipment was 3 three former agriculture depart ment employees refused for a second time to say whether they ars communists and challenged the House committee on Una Merican activities to cite them the committee gave every Indica Tion it would Francis Walter said a three definite candidates for con tempt of they Are John Charles Kramer and Nathan All of new they were identified last monday by former Cio general counsel Lee Pressman As members of the same communist cell he joined in Washington in 1934 in rebellion against the they gave the same reason for not testifying As they did when they first appeared in their testimony might incriminate they were recalled in an Effort to solve the riddles in the Alger Chambers red spy Chambers had said Hiss was a member of their communist Pressman said he the three witnesses refused even to discuss the Witt refused to discuss his alleged associations with former state department career officer who was convicted in new York of perjury for lying about his red Hiss is now free on when committee counsel Frank asked Witt whether he Ever attended a red meeting with the witness refused to on the grounds that my an Swers might tend to incriminate this week in Newsweek the soviet army has its weaknesses a special report from behind the Iron curtain on what makes Ivan run Newsweek Issue 4 september now on Sale at a Newsstands