THURSDAY. APRIL 1. 1954
Ike Approves
To Cut Excise
WASHINGTON, March 31 (IP)--Presiderit Dwight D. Eisenhower signed today a bill that will
cut excise taxes by $999 million 'and save money for nearly everyone who spends any.
Eisenhower announced to a 'news conference that he would sign the measure. This and other
tax reductions, he said, should help business. •
Five hours later, the President put his name on the bill.
The Chief Exedutive made the tax announcement and one or
French Repel
2d Big Attack
On Fortress
HANOI, Indochina, March 31 (W)
—Thousands of Vietminh troops
smashed at the French defenders
of Dien Bien Phu today in a sec
ond big try at overwhelming the
northwest Indochina fortress. At
nightfall, th e French standing
firm under the ass a u lt— an
nounced they had killed 1350
Communist-led rebels.
The rebels suffered their heav
iest losses before two strongpoints
of the fortress, where they hurled
two divisions—up to 20,000 men
—in the attack. The French count
ed 300 Vietminh bodies dangling
in barbed wires at one eastern po
sition:
Wildly screaming rebel troops
sprang from foxholes and long
winding trenches around the for
tress and came down from the hills
in the new effort to score a ma
jor victory in the seven-year -old
Indochina War.
The new rebel attack came on
the heels of a call by U.S. Sec
retary of State Dulles for "united
action" to keep Indochina from
falling to the Communists.
Vaccine Not for Sale
HARRISBURG, March 31 (M
—Don't' try to buy any of the
new polio vaccine. It isn't for
sale.
Dr. Russell E. Teague, state
health secretary, emphasized this
point today in answer to queries
as to whether parents can pur
chase the vaccine for use on their
children.
Strauss Claims HEBombs
Can Destroy Any City
WASHINGTON, March 31 (IP)
—Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission,
said today this • nation now can
make hydrogen boMbs so stupend
ously powerful that one can "de
stroy" the biggest city.
The two new hydrogeh weapons
tests have added an "enormous"
potential, to American military
strength, he revealed.
Appearing at a White House
news conference with President
Eisenhower, the AEC chief did
two things:
1.. Gave an official estimate C>f
the destructive force of the • new
thermonuclear bomb. He said it
is possible - to "destroy," "take
out," even the vast metropolitan
area of New York. Later he, said
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tions, and then'turned over his
news conference to Chairman
Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic
Energy Commission for a dis
closure that:
The United 'States now can
make a hydrogen bomb large
enough to "destroy" any city in
the world—put it out of commis
sion, that is, if not actually flat
ten it.
On taxes, Eisenhower said that
along with other reductions al
ready put into effect this year,
the trimming of excise taxes puts
a huge • $7,400,000,000 into the
hands of the people and he thinks
this certainly 'will be a stimulat
ing factor for business.
'Will Help Business'
Some congressional Democrats
have been needling the adminis
tration on grounds it didn't really
want excise tax cuts but now is
claiming credit for them and
adopting the idea they will help
business.
Eisenhower said that of course
the bill reduces revenue very con
siderably more . than he recom
mended. He didn't recommend
any cut in excise taxes, but that
all rates be held where they are
now.
Housing Bill
Eisenhower teed off on taxes.
Then he said he was delighted
that the House leadership had
succeeded yesterday in getting an
appropriation approved for 35;-
000 public housing units this year.
House members thethselves aren't
sure whether that was what hap
pened or not, because of some
parliamentary technicalities.
The President volunteered word,
too, that the Free World must
realize in these times that a heal
thy. expansion of two-way trade is
our best insurance that the doc
trine of statism can't come in and
overpower our whole system of
free government.
he meant "put a city out of corn
mission, not level it." Thus he
used several descriptive phrases,
leaving his listeners a choice.
2. Read a formal statement, the
object of which appeared to be to
allay fears at home . and abroad
about the two H-bomb tests con
cluded this month. Reaction is
mounting in several nations, in
cluding Japan and England. A
full-scale debate in Britain's Par
liament on the subject of hydro
gen bombs is scheduled.
Strauss told newsmen both the
March 1 and March 26 hydrogen
"shots" were successful; that no
test is made without a definite
purpose of improving military
strength and readiness and that
"there are no idle or wanton
tests."
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two others, answered a few ques-
Explosive Fire
Burns School,
Kills 10 Pupas
CHEETOWAGA, N. Y., March
31(!P)—Fire of explosive force
ripped through the frame annex
of the Cleveland Hill elementary
school today, burning out the lives
of 10 sixth grade pupils.
Nineteen pupils and three teach
ers were burned or injured, Some
seriously.
Hundreds of other youngsters,
ranging from kindergarten tots to
high school seniors, escaped in
jury although they were attend
ing classes in new brick buildings
onily—
only yards away.
The bodies of the victims were
found pressed hopelessly against
what was left of the window wall
of the . room in which they had
been attending a music class. Scat_
tered around them were smashed
phonograph records and scraps of
charred sheet music.
The scene was complete confu
on as frantic parents pleaded
tearfully with firemen and school
officials to find their children. And
when the flames subsided and the
bodies were found. there_were few
dry eyes among. firemen, either.
The Micrometer Caliper is used
by mechanics to measure ex
ceedingly small distances in doing
precise work.
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Committee Approves
Taft-Hartley Revision
WASHINGTON, March 31 (2?)—
The Senate Labor Committee to
day approved, along straight party
lines, a 12-point Taft-Hartley re
vision program which would give
the states broad new powers to
deal with labor dispute "emer-.
gencies."
Voted out of committee over
*-11.=nt nrotests of committee
Democrats, who charged the Re
punlicans with "steamroller" tac
tics, the measure incorporates
most of President Eisenhower's
T a f t- Hartley recommendations
sent to Congress last Jan. 11.
Major points of controversy in
the bill are two new sections
which would appear to give the
states extensive powers to deal
with labor disputes, both those in
volving emergencies and those
dealing with unfair labor prac-
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