WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1956 Compromise Tax Vote Hoped For by Thursday HARRISBURG, Feb. 7 (/P) —The bipartisan sales-income tax program started rolling through the House today, with leaders of both parties firmly determined on a roll call vote Thursday. Both Rep. Readinger, D terpart, renewed statements to pass the entire program. i The two bills in the Republican 1 program were introduced today, promptly reported out of commit tee and given first reading in the House. One would impose a 2 per cent retail tax on a group of spe cific commodities. The other would impost, the same levy on meals and lodging at hotels, mo tels, clubs and restaurants. Both the GOP bills were spon sored by Reps. Strasser, Colum bia, and Gibson, Warren. With three days required for a bill to reach a vote, the two GOP measures on Thursday will catch up with the 2 per cent net income tax bill, the Democratic part of the com promise program. That bill, sponsored by Readinger. has been in position for a vote for several weeks. The net income tax would im pose the levy on net income after deductions and exemptions al lowed under the federal income tax law. The entire compromise tax pro gram was estimated to yield 360 million dollars in the remainder of the 1955-57 biennium. A hun dred million dollars in business taxes passed in the House but is still pending in the Senate would round out the tax program. Readinger insisted the vote would be taken on Thursday and warned members if they were absent the House would : require their presence. “If we don’t have the members here, we’re going to send out for them and stay in session until they are returned so that we can, vote on the program,’’ Readinger said. Both the income and sales lev ies would become a permanent part of the state’s tax structure upon their enactment The 1953- 55 sales tax was a temporary levy which expired Aug. 31, 1955. Labor, Industry Peace Urged MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 7 (/P) —AFL-CIO President George Meany said today he still feels organized labor can work out a peace pact with American indus try but realizes it will be a hard job. Meany told a news conference during sessions of the AFL-CIO executive council here that he hopes to meet with representa tives of the National Assn, of Manufacturers despite a “kick in the teeth” which he said was the NAM’S response to prior invita tions. “I certainly would like to see such a meeting,” Meany said. “I think labor and management through the AFL-CIO and the NAM can make a real contribu tion to better labor relations." Immigration Message WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (A>)— The White House announced to day that President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s twice delayed mes sage' on revision of the immigra tion and nationality laws will go to Congress tomorrow. PENN STATE JAZZ CLUB Presents... J. J. Johnson & Kai Winding Quintet Schwab Auditorium FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 Tbkeb—SiM . 0. sxk at NUB WtdMttj.y democratic floor leader, and Rep. Smith, his Republican coun of confidence there were sufficient vjrtes from both parties Three Powers to Start Middle East Peace Talks WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 W—The United States, Britain and France begin a joint search tomorrow for a way to keep the peace in the Middle East. The meeting will bring together Dep. Undersecretary of' State Robert Murphy, who will be chairman, and Ambas sadors Roger _Makins of Britain and Maurice Couve de Murville of France. Each will have a full comple ment of aides. With Murphy, for example, will be Asst. Secretaries George V. Allen, Middle East af fairs; Livingston Merchant, Eu rope; and Francis Wilcox, United Nations. Special Group First to Hear Case Testimony WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 {/P) —A special Senate committee got the upper hand today in an extra ordinary contest for the right to investigate a $2,500 “campaign donation” spurned by Sen. Ever ett P. Case (R-SD) during the gas bill fight. The Senate Elections subcom mittee had also launched a probe of the contribution, offered by a lawyer-lobbyist favoring the gas bill. Case found himself in the un usual position of being asked to appear before both committees at the same time. He chose to appear first before the special committee, a four-man bipartisan group created by a unanimous vote of the Senate this morning. There Case was direct ed not to discus the matter pub licly until he testified before the committee again Friday. This left the Elections subcom mittee without its star witness, although Chairman T. C. Hen nings Jr. (D-Mo.) expressed “the strongest personal desire to see this investigation through to the end.” Case told the Senate last Fri day that he rejected the cam paign contribution, and both Senate inquiries are directed at the intentions of the person or persons who offered it. The money—2s $lOO bills in an envelope—was delivered by John M. Neff, a Lexington, Neb., law yer-lobbyist who has said there were no strings attached to it. Pravda Encourages Good Russo-Turkish Relations MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (JP)~ Pravda said today Russia and Turkey should resume good neighborly relations. It charged a big reason for the estrangement is Turkey’s “great political and economic de pendence on the United Stat'es.” Only yesterday, Premier Niko lai Bulganin wooed Pakistan, which like Turkey to the Western-supported Baghdad Pact. Toning down Soviet criticism of Pakistan'for joining the pact, he' offered that country technical and economic cooperation. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Ambassador Abba Eban of Is rael. and Syria's Ambassador Fa-rid Zeinnidine. who general ly acts as spokesman for the Arab embassies, are expected to keep their viewpoint care fully before this working com mittee. For Israel the number one ques tion was put, unanswered, on a shelf. This is whether the United States will approve Israel’s two month-old request that the United States sell some 50 million dollars in defensive weapons to Israel to counter Egypt’s purchase of 80 million' dollars in Soviet Bloc weapons. Israel's apprehension over its defense needs were' emphasized in the wake of reports over the weekend that Egypt now has 40 Hyushldn IL 28 medium jet : bombers on hand, plus some MIGIS jet fighters. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles indicated -yesterday, in a letter to 40 Republican congress men who inquired about Israel’s arms request that it was tem porarily set aside. Dulles wrote, “the security of Israel can per haps better be assured by means other than an arms Tace.” Air Force Research Chief May Resign WASHINGTON, Feb. 7