WEDNESDAY. A RIL 10. 1957 Repu Will licanHouseLeaders lack Summerfield WASHINGTON, April 9 (IP) —Republican House leaders agreed today to back Postmaster General Arthur Summer field’s request for an extra $47 million to maintain full postal services through June 30. But Rep. Clarence D. Cannon (D.-Mo.) told the House Macmillan Cuts Taxes 2 Per Cent LONDON, April 9 (/P) Prime Minister Macmillan’s government tonight sliced taxes almost 2 per cent in an “opportunity” budget. <ltis designed to boost the sagging .morale of bigger salary earners •'and make life pleasanter for all the people. $2BO Million Saved .. The cuts will save $2BO million in Britons’ tax payments. This av erages .out at about $5 a year for every man, woman and child in Britain. The total is equal roughly to the .savings made by the gov ernment in a new nuclear defense program tiedf'to U. S. aid an nounced last week. With Conservatives cheering and Laborites booing, Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thomey croft told the House of Commons Britons earning more than $5600 —a big salary here—will pay less surtax. Luxury Taxes Cut He said there also will be cuts in ..taxes on theater,' movie and sports tickets, oil some household goods and on gasoline. But for the great majority of the people—the heaviest taxed in the free world—the cuts spelled little dollars-and-cents savings. Thomeycroft gave -the biggest re lief to the higher paid, apparently hoping to slow down the tide of emigration among the highly skilled and executive groups. British M.D. Acquitted On. Charges of Murder LONDON, April 9 (ff)— Dr. John .Bodkin Adams broke down and sobbed with relief today after a jury acquitted him _of murdering with heavy injections of heroin ■ and morphine a wealthy patient for gain. The jury of 10 men and two wo men had deliberated only 44 min .utes after the 17-day trial,- the longest murder trial in Britain’s history. Doctors said the trial could have a lasting effect on British medi cine. THE DAILY G “don’t be alarmed, don’t be stam peded” by Summerfield’s de mands. Cannon is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. “It’s not going to destroy the republic,” Cannon said in a floor speech,--if the postmaster general carries out his threat to curtail mail services drastically for the balance of the fiscal year. Reviewed in Detail Rep. Matin of Massachusetts, the GOP leader, reported the Re publican Policy Committee in the House went over in detail Sum merfield’s request to carry his de partment through the last three months of the fiscal year. "We unanimously came to the conclusion that if the services of the Post Office Department are to be continued at the necessary level we must give it the 47 mil lion dollars,” Martin told news men. Cannon told the House Summer field’s threat to halt Saturday de liveries wouldn’t hurt anyone be cause most businesses are not open on Saturday and Sunday anyway. Tentative Appropriation The Appropriation Committee has tentatively agreed to give Summerfield a deficiency appro priation of $l7 million. It is to meet Friday to consider the ad ditional $3O million. Rep. Porter (D-Ore) called for Summerfield’s resignation be cause, he said, the postal chief “has acted as a poor businessman and in bad faith,” in connection with the deficiency crisis. Egypt Resumes Talks on Suez CAIRO, Egypt, April 9 VP)— American-Egyptian negotiations on operation of the Suez Canal were resumed today after being deadlocked. U. S. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare, at his own request, met For eign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi for an hour. . Apparently the call was to an swer an Egyptian request for in terpretation of some points of a U.S.' proposal for changes in Cai ro’s plans that would give user! nations greater rights. I Budget Cuts Reach $1 Billion WASHINGTON, April 9 (JP) House cuts in President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s budget passed the billion dollar mark today .as a bill appropriating $653,685,060 to the Commerce Department was passed by voice vote. | iOLIEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA GOP Chiefs Deny Deal On 'Rights' WASHINGTON. April 9 VP)— Republican congressional leaders said today they have no “deal” with Southern Democrats to de lay action on civil rights legisla tion for another year. Sen. James O. Eastland (D -Miss.) agreed there is no such arrangement. Senate GOP Leader William i. Knowland (Calif.) and House Republican Chief Joseph F. Marlin (Mass.) were asked about this -after their regular weekly meeting at the White House with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. They told newsmen there was nothing to such in: fact, they look for early action in: both the Senate and House on Ei senhower’s civil rights program. Rep. Richard D. Bolling (D.- Mo.) had said he suspects a "deal” may have been arranged, i Reports of such an arrangement have been laced with speculation that Republicans might be willing to keep the civil rights issue alive until 1958 in order to plague the Democrats and split North and South on the question in an elec tion year. Voters to Decide Betting Question HARRISBURG, April 9 VP) —A Senate committee approved legis lation today to submit to the vot ers of Pennsylvania the question of legalizing pari-mutuel betting on horse races. . By„an 8-3 vote the Law and Or der Committee sent to the Senate floor for a vote a bi-partisan bill that would place the question on the November ballot throughout Pennsylvania. 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