WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1954
House Rebuffs
Fax Cu!' ove
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (?P)—The House Ways and Means Committee today sidetracked—amid
sharp political maneuvering—Democratic proposals for big cuts in both individual income and excise
taxes.
Rep. Cooper (D-Tenn), senior Democrat on the tax-writing group, promptly served public notice
that Democrats will fight on the House floor, if necessary for an individual income tax cut this year
Communists
Celebrate
'Army Day'
MOSCOW, Feb. 23 (W)—Soviet
military leaders today marked the
biggest celebration of Red Army
day in years with a warning
Americans were preparing for a
new war against Russia. The Rus
sian people were told Soviet forces
must perfect their skills with the
latest of weapons for combat in
the atomic age.
A 20-gun salute to the armed
forces was fired in Moscow in
observance of the 36th annivers
ary of the Red Army. Mass sports
events, special radio and tele
vision programs, and speeches
throughout the country marked
the celebration.
Blasts against the United States
came from Marshal Vassily Sok
olovsky, the army chief of staff.
and Marshal of the Artillery M.
Chistyakov. Marshal Nikolai Bul
ganin, the country's defense min
ister, called on the armed forces
for increased vigilance, military
preparedness and competence in
using modern weapons.
Sokolovsky declared a policy of
strength is a• two-sided weapon
and quoted a Russian proverb:
"Don't knock on other peoples
gates with your whip. They might
knock on yours with a club."
Of warfare in the atomic age,
he said:
"Modern developments in mili
tary science and technique are in
a new stage. The imperialists are
openly threatening the peoples
with the use of atomic weapons.
This presents greater demands for
military and political training of
our -f or c e s. Understanding their
duties, the personnel of the Soviet
army and navy will continue to
improve their military skill and
knowledge based on modern de
mands."
Car Gets Push,
$3OO Damages
CRANSTON, R. 1., Feb. 23 (W)—
A motorist from this city sheep
ishly swears this story is true—
but even if it isn't, a newsparer
would have to be pi . Aty selfish
not to pass it along as he tells it.
He was driving on the Merritt
Parkway toward New York when
his car stalled and he discovered
the battery was dead.
He flagged down a passing
driver, who was a woman .and
she agreed to give him a push to
get the car started.
Because his car has an auto
matic transmission the driver ex
plained to the lady, "You'll have
to get up to 30 to 35 miles an hour
in order to get me started."
The lady nodded wisely and the
stalled driver climbed into his car
and waited,,for her to line up be
hind him.
He waited. And waited. Then
he t- , rned to see where the woman
was.
She was there all right—coming
at him 30 to 35 miles an hour._
The crash caused $3OO damage
to his car.
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for all taxpayers.
Cooper, in a statement backed
by House Democratic leaders,
urged Republicans on the com
mittee to reconsider their earlier
action defeating a Democratic
move to boost personal income tax
exemptions. from $6OO to $7OO.
That would save taxpayers—
and cost the government in reve
nue—about $24 billion a year.
Cooper said individuals "hay e
not received their fair share of
tax relief" in a vast tax revision
bill now nearing completion with
in the committee.
GOP Members Restive
There were no outward signs of
Republicans yielding on the poli
tically explosive issue at this
time, but GOP congressional lead
ers conceded privately that some
of their party members are getting
restive under almost daily Demo
cratic hammering for bigger tax
cuts.
These leaders said they are ex
pecting President Eisenhower to
make a nation-wide television or
radio broadcast soon; aimed at
marshalling public and congres
sional support for the administra
tion's embattled tax policies.
Rep. Boggs (D-La) provoked a
sharp argument within a closed
door committee session by moving
to cut all excise or sales taxes
which are now above ten per cent
down to that level.
Boggs' Motion Not Passed
Chairman Dariiel A. Reed (R
-NY) banged his gavel and de
clared the motion out of order.
There was a flurry of debate, but
the Boggs' motion nev e r was
pressed to a vote.
Boggs said later that all ten
Democrats were ready to vote for
the move, which would cut rev
enues about $950 million a year.
He said all 15 Republicans opposed
taking up the issue now.
The Republican-sponsored gen
eral revision bill would provide
tax reductions of about $l l / 4 bil
lion the first year, not' through
changes in major rates but
through scores of other changes
chiefly increasing deductions.
Jenner Says
States Deprived
In UN Charter
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (iP)—
Sen. Jenner (R-Ind) backing the
Bricker amendment to curb the
scope of treaties, said today the
United Nations charter contains
"the seeds of power to deprive
our states of a Republican form
of government."
He told the Senate the UN is
preparing a whole series of trea
ties which would operate as do
mestic legislation in the United
States, affecting citizens in mat
ters on which even the federal
government cannot legislate un
der the Constitution.
The UN charter, Jenner con
tended, "has within it the Pattern
for making the states into satel
lite provinces, subject to a Con
gress which under the United Na
tions charter will have to tell
them what to do."
Thus another round of debate
began on the controversial plan of
Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) to limit the
President's power to make treaties.
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Prisoners
'Kenneled'
y Reds
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (!P)—A
military inquiry board was told
today that Communists in Korea
kenneled American prisoners like
dogs and forced them to dig their
own graves in efforts to obtain
war crime "confessions."
But even after "confessions"
were wrung from some of the men,
two witnesses related, most of
those behind the barbed wire re
fused to believe them.
Three Marine Corps generals
and an admiral are taking testi
mony to decide whether any
charges should be lodged against
Col. Frank H. Schwable; 45, of
Arlington, Va., a Marine Corps
flier.
Schwable signed a germ war
fare confession while a prisoner
of war, but repudiated it as soon
as he was released, declaring it
was forced out of him by brutal
m streatment.
One of today's witnesses, a Ma
rine flier decorated for courage
and fortitude while a prisoner of
war, said he sympathized deeply
with Schwable after learning that
he had cracked under the Red
pressure.
"I had the utmost sympathy for
Col. Schwable," Lt. Col. William
G. Thrash, a onetime Georgia
Tech football player, testified.
Thrash, of Atlanta, said he
lidn't know how close he himself
came to cracking under months of
zolitary confinement.
First trnists
tf Vaccine
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 23 (iP)
Dr. Jonas E. Salk, smiling and
confident, launched today his first
large-scale tests of his new vac
cine in the - fight against polio.
Dr. Salk administered shots of
the new preventive to more than
250 school children of the first
three grades—the first of 5000 to
be inoculated in Pittsburgh ele
mentary, schools. A national test
ing program will be sponsored by
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis in the spring.
The youngsters some awed,
some grinning and some a bit
scared—sat through the five-min
ute injection process with hardly
a murmur. They didn't like the
blood sampling. The h-ypodermic
needle stung for a second. But
shortly afterward, they were gig
gling and chattering about the
experience.
Salk and his staff chose the first
three grades of two elementary
schools for the first round of in
jections which will continue
through June 19.
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590 Security Risks
Released by Gov't
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (JP).—The State Department released 590
employes as security risks last year, including 11 fired on grounds
of questionable loyalty, but 291 of the workers got jobs with other
government agencies.
In addition to the 291 transfer
mittee was told, 188 resigned, 50
we r e let out in reductions in
force,
,36 lest on completion of
temporary work, four retired and
21, including the 11 loyalty cases,
were listed as discharged for
The committee made public to
day the figures given in testimony
by the department's security ad
ministrator, R. W. Scott McLeod.
M : c L e o d was not questioned
about the 291 transfers, and there
was no indication how many of
the employes may still work
ing for the government. He did
say 99 of the transfer cases,
"homosexual deviations" made up
the principal security factor.
Seven of the 11 fired for "pro-
Communist activities or associa
tions," McLeod said, had charges
pending against them when the
Eisenhower administration took
office.
President Eisenhower said in
his State of the Union message
to Congress that 2,200 government
workers had been let out under
the security program he ordered
into effect last April. There has
been no breakdown, however, to
show how many were let out for
loyalty reasons.
Democrats have insisted that
most• of the discharges were for
reasons other than questionable
loyalty, and have accused Repub
lican speakers of using the figures
loosely to show loyalty risks.
Democratic members of the
Appropriations Committee have
been insisting during budget hear
ings that the various departments
give their own figures on security
firings.
The committee thus far has re
leased breakdowns by seven agen
cies with about 762;500 employes.
These departments have reported
1,057 security dismissals or resig
nations in 1953, listing 40 of them
as suspected or actual subver
sives.
The purpose of the current test
is three-fold: To check the effec
tiveness of the vaccine, to deter
mine how many shots are needed,
and how often they must be given.
Many children in the test will be
given as many as three shots.
Dr. Salk's vaccine differs from
gamma globulin, used widely last
summer against polio.
Salk's vaccine, by causing the
body to produce its own anti
bodies is expected to give immun
ity from polio for possibly seven
months at a time.
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"TOMORROW IS
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McCarthy
Cells Army
Clerk 'Red'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (4P)—
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) charged
today that a woman identified by
a witness as a card-carrying, dues
paying 'Communist during the
1940's is now handling "top secret"
messages in the Pentagon code
room.
McCarthy's accusation the
latest move in his running feud
with Army Secretary. Robert T.
Stevens—brought a quick state
ment from the Army. It said the
woman, Mrs. Annie Lee Moss,
"never" had access either to se
cret codes or uncoded secrets.
Mrs. Moss's attorney said she
denies ever having been a Corn
munist.
Still in Code Room
McCarthy, speaking out at a tele
vised hearing before his Senate
Investigations subcommittee, said
Mrs. Moss was still working in
the code room "as of today."
The Army retorted:
1. As a result of the Army's own
investigation, undertaken "prior
to
,any action by the McCarthy
committee, Mrs. Moss was shifted
from her $3335-a-year job as a
communication relay machine op
erator for the Signal Corps in the
Pentagon to an "unclassified posi
tion" on Feb. 5.
2. Mrs. Moss formerly operated
equipment handling "unintelli
gible code messages, both classi
fied secret and unclassified," but
"never had access to the codes, to
the cryptographic rooms or to the
code rooms."
Tape Impossible to Decipher
The Army said the coded tape
which goes through the relay ma
chines is handled outside of the
"highly guarded code room" and
could not be understood even if it
fell into the hands of unauthorized
persons. It said the tape itself
"cannot be deciphered'—presu
mably without a coding machine.
Emphasizing that its investiga
tion was undertaken before Mc-
Carthy moved into the case, the
Army said its checkup on Mrs.
Moss was based on President Ei
senhower's executive order of
March 23, 1953, which directed
federal department chiefs to re
examine the security status of
their employes.
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