UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1948
PAGE EIGHT
Senate Lines Up On Bill To Cut Income Taxes
Washington, March 12—(UPI)—Republican senators lined up today behind a bill to cut personal income taxes four billion 700 million dollars.
But senate administration leaders said they would carry to the last ditch their fight to limit the reduction to four billion dollars.
They hoped it would win enough Democratic support to override the anticipated veto by President Truman.
The senate finance committee, after long study of the six billion 500 million dollar tax cut bill passed by the house, approved a four billion 700 million dollar reduction yesterday. The vote was 10 to 1. Three Democrats voted for it along with seven Republicans on the committee.
On a party line vote, the committee rejected 7 to 6 the four billion dollar substitute proposal made previously by Senator Barkley.
The committee accepted the Republican-sponsored tax program approved by the house except that the size of the cut was scaled down from six billion 500 million dollars by trimming the percentage reductions
As approved by the senate committee, the bill would:
1. Increase personal exemptions from $500 to $600.
2. Give an additional $600 exemption to persons 65 years and older and to the blind.
3. Extend the privilege of filing split-income returns to married couples in all states.
4. Reduce personal income taxes of $400 and under by 12.6 per cent; from $400 to $100,000 by 7.4 per cent; and over $100,000 by 5 per cent.
The house bill would make percentage reductions in tax rates ranging from 30 per cent in the low brackets to 10 per cent in the high brackets.
The cut under both bills would be retroactive to Jan. 1. The same number of taxpayers—about 7 million, 400 thousand—would be taken off the tax roles.
Miss Peabody Will Sing Solo Part In Oratorio
Irene Peabody, contralto on the Irene Peabody Fine Arts faculty, will be one of the soloists of the oratorio "Elijah" to be given by the 250-voice Topeka council of church choirs at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Topeka municipal auditorium.
Don't Look Now, Your Film Shows
Wayne Replogle, freshman football coach, was in a hurry. He had just arrived in town, and in 30 minutes he was due at the Union to show color slides of Yellowstone park to the Mountain club. He hurriedly grabbed some slides and raced to the meeting.
He arrived just in time and started showing the color films. He had just settled back in his chair and was giving a running commentary on the scenes when he stopped. Before the group was a beautiful color picture of Mr. Replogle in blue and white striped shorts.
Eire Seeks End To British Control
Tulsa. March 12—(UP)—Former Prime Minister Eamon De Valera said he hopes to enlist support in the United States for Ireland's fight to end British control over the six counties of Northern Ireland.
Thursday, Mr. De Valera said the British government should transfer to an "all-Ireland parliament" the power it now exercises over Northern Ireland.
Mr. De Valera is travelling across the country in a shakedown flight of an American airlines DC-6, preliminary to formal resumption of service on the post-war transports Monday.
Mr. De Valera said that "good relations" could be established between Eire and Britain if the latter ended its "partition of Ireland, oppression, aggression, and interference with our rights."
He said he did not understand "how people of good will" could object to his proposed solution, and that he hoped to win American support for the plan.
Mr. De Valera said the present partition is as "absurd" as if the Democratic party should capture all but two states in an election and then those two states should be claimed by Canada.
Four Students Sell Designs To Kansas City Store
Four students have had designs accepted by Sears, Roebuck and company. They are: Dale Oliver, fine arts junior; Richard Anderson, Virginia Parry, and Mary Shatzell, fine arts seniors.
Little Man On Campus
The designs are large abstractions which have been framed and hung in the model rooms of the new store in the Plaza district of Kansas City,
GOP Bigwigs Test Strength In Fifth District
Dodge City, March 12—(UP) Willard Mayberry of Elkhart and David Wilson of Meade campaigned in a Dodge City hotel until the early morning hours today in a Fifth district Republican delegate scrap bill as a test of strength between Kansas G. O. P. bigwigs Alf M. Landon and Andrew F. Schoeppel.
"And before I realized it, I found myself very interested in the subject."
Mr. Schoeppel, Kansas' wartime governor and now a candidate for a U. S. senate seat, arrived this morning to aid Mr. Wilson.
Mr. Landon is backing Mr. Mayberr , his secretary when he was governor a decade and a half ago.
In the hours before the afternoon convention call, each side sought support from any undecided delegates among the 158 from the vast Fifth district, made up of 33 southwestern Kansas counties.
Despite the cold and the snow that still blanketed the ground, a full slate of delegates flocked here. This was to be a fight they didn't want to miss.
The prize was a district delegate place on the 19-man Kansas delegation going to the Republican national convention at Philadelphia. Eut with the issue so clear cut between Schoeppel and Landon, their joust for backing was the real show.
The big 25-vote Reno county delegation may be the deciding factor
Hold Student For Robbery
Kansas City, Mo.. March 12—(UP
Kansas City, Mt., March 12—UPP —A freshman student in the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas today admitted to Kansas City police that he had robbed three Kansas City taxicab drivers, at gunpoint, of $63 to obtain money to pay off his debts.
Lieut. L. E. Haupt of the burglary squad identified the student as Erwin Hancox, a 24-year-old navy veteran of 417 Forest street, Lawrence. Lieut. Haupt said police continued to question Hancox regarding four other recent holdups, including a tavern robbery, in the Kansas City area.
The student was picked up in a tavern last night after he admittedly had robbed cab driver Ralph Crews of $38. He admitted today that he took $24 from William Briscoe on March 4, and $2 on March 5 from Herman White, two other cab drivers.
Lieut. Haupt said Hancox was carrying a .38 calibre pistol when picked up. Hancox said that he used a .22 calibre pistol in earlier hold-ups, and then pawned it and bought the .38.
Hancox said he gave one dollar back to Mr. White when he learned the cabbie needed it for busfare to his home in Sunflower.
Mr. Haupt said the student told him he had robbed the cab drivers in an effort to raise money to pay off some debts.
The melody is written by Wayne Ruppenthal. Everyone buying a ticket to the frolic will receive an entry blank on which to submit titles at the dance.
Full copyrights to a song will be given to the winner of a song title contest at the Freshman Frolic March 20.
Song Copyright Will Go To Winner
Additional prizes will be a $10 first prize, a $10 second prize, and $5 third prize.
The titles will be judged during the first part of the dance and winners will be announced at intermission. Judges will be named soon.
The dance will be held from 9 p.m.
and dances will make. Ruppenthal's
orchestra will play.
Tickets will be sold for $1.75 a couple by representatives in each organized house.
To Honor Hunter With Memorial Bell
Collections for a $1,500 memorial Thomas Pitt "T. P." Hunter, class carilion be11 commemorating of '42, will be taken by the Jay James at the K. U.-Iowa State basketball game tonight.
Mr. Hunter was a lieutenant in the 9th marine division. He was killed on Guam, July 1, 1944. He was a basketball letterman in 1940, 1941, and 1942.
Army Protests Vienna Shooting
Washington. March 12—(UP)—The army today sought "satisfaction" from Russian authorities for the dum-dum bullet shooting of an American soldier in Vienna.
Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, U. S. commander in Austria, already has protested to Russian officials about the action of a Soviet sentry, and has asked them to take steps "to prevent such incidents."
However, it appeared unlikely that the Russian authorities would apologize, since they already have lodged a protest of their own in which they claim the sentry fired in self-defense.
In an interim report on Monday's incident, Keyes told army officials here that Pfe, Jack Grunden, Portland, Ore., was shot in the back and wounded after he and his companions had tried to ignore a "filthy remark" by a Russian soldier.
Ballistic reports showed, Keyes said, that Grunden's arm was shattered by a "bullet of explosive dumdum type." Dum-dum bullets, which expand on impact, are barred by the laws of international warfare. Keyes said the bullet was of German or Russian origin.
Dean Moreau To Lecture To Medical School Students
Dean Frank J. Moreau 'of the School of Law will give the first in a series of 10 lectures to seniors in the School of Medicine at the medical center in Kansas City, Kan., tomorrow. His subject is medical law.
Dean Moreau's lectures will contain material from his recently published book, "Cases and Materials on Medical Law."
Zoologist To Talk On Fowls
Prof. E. H. Herrick, zoologist, will speak on "Endocrinology of Fowls" at a zoology seminar at 4 p.m. March 15 in 206 Snow hall. Professor Herrick is from the department of zoology at Kansas State college.
Taft Attempts To Slash Amount Of ERP Bill
Washington, March 12 - (UP) -
Sen. Robert A. Taft took personal command today of the fight to slash one billion 300 million dollars off the European recovery program. But he admitted it was a lost cause.
Senator Taft introduced an amendment to reduce E.R.P.'s first year spending authorization to a flat four billion dollars.
Senator Taft's action, coupled with Senator Vanderbilt's stand that it will spending figure represents a tight fit," promised one of the few open battles between the two G.O.P. caders.
The administration regards the five billion 300 million dollar figure as the "irreducible minimum" for the first year of the 51-month program.
The Ohio, chairman of the powerful Republican policy committee, told a reporter that he did not expect his amendment to pass, but that he would argue it on the senate floor notwithstanding.
Senate leaders hoped for a final vote on E.R.P. at a special session planned for tonight. Senate president Arthur H. Vandenberg was expected to beat back—with at least a dozen votes to spare—the drive by Republican "revisionists" to cut the five billion 300 million dollar E.R.P. bill.
Jews Rout Arab Raiders
Jerusalem, March 12—(UP)—The Jewish militia Hagana was reported to have routed today an Arab band of several hundred which raided Maanit, a Jewish settlement in the Samaritan hills north of Jerusalem. $^{5}$
Jewish and Arab forces were reported to have fought for several hours in another clash in the Sodom desert. At least four were killed, according to preliminary reports of an "unknown number" of casualties.
The widely separated hostilities coincided with an intense search for the driver of a stolen American consulate car which carried explosives to the scene of the bombing of the Jewish Agency building. The Palestine Post urged the United States to investigate thoroughly.
In the Sodom desert, a Haganah squad was reported to have run into the first Arab band to operate in that area early this morning. Two Jews were reported killed and one wounded seriously.
Clubs On The Campus
Men's Glee Club
Keys for members of the University Men's Glee club may be obtained at the Bailour Jewelry Co. Joseph F. Wilkins, director announced. French Club
Members illustrated customs and manners in which the French people celebrate Easter. Marjorie Scott and Billie Joan Kent, College seniors, were co-chairmen in charge of the program.
Phi Delta Kappa
Dr. W. W. Carpenter, professor of education at the University of Missouri, said that the perpetuity of "our" American way of life depends upon the success of education. "But in order for education to succeed," he added, "people must be willing to put forth their money." Business School Association
Resources of the Missouri valley may be conserved by private enterprise, by states, or by the federal government. The Rev. Shirley E. Greene told an audience of 15 students and faculty members Thursday.
Approximately 60 persons attended the Business School Association mixer Thursday. Bridge and dancing were provided for entertainment, and refreshments were served. Coffee Forum
Members of the Alpha Phi Omega spring pledge class are Kenneth
Alpha Phi Omega
Bradford Tyson, John George Sarris,
Douglas Martin Oney, A. Bruce
Etherington, Thomas Chester Mahan,
Jr., James Merritt Small, James Willard Townsend, Bromleigh Smithson Lamb, William Mack Layman,
Edward James Rolfs, Donald Lee Stonger, and Duane Leon Wilderson.
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson spoke to the fraternity Thursday on the need for a blood donor list at the University.
Zoology Club
People of the western hemisphere are inclined to judge a civilization by its gadgets, Prof. Carlyle S. Smith of the sociology department told members of the Zoology club Thursday. Spanish Club
An effigy of Judas was burned by the Spanish club Thursday. The practice was introduced to the club three years ago by Bolivar Marquez, engineering senior, from Chitre, Panama, who was in charge of the program.
Mario Rivera, Tista Murillo, Pedro Antonioli, and Marquez played Latin American music for the club. The next meeting will be April 15 and will feature a Pan-American program.
Geology Club
Dr. Raymond C. Moore, state geo-ologist, told members of the Geology club of his experiences on the Colorado river and in the Grand Canyon Thursday. He illustrated his talk with slides and motion pictures.