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AMERICANISM—AN EXAMPLE
Recently the American Car and Foundry Company
refunded over $22,000,000 to the U.S. Army. The
company explained it had saved that much money in
filling government contracts for delivery of armored
vehicles.
The refund was entirely voluntary. There was
nothing in the production contract which required the
company to refund anything. Yet the firm was able
to increase efficiency of production, cutting unit costs,
and thus was able to pass on the savings to the Army.
This example is one every American, and every
U.S. business, shouM think about. An Army spokes
man said shortly afmr the refund was announced that
it was the largest refund of its kind the Ordinance
Corps of the Army had ever received.
If one company can save over 22 millions on its
contract alone, what would be the result if most of
them would effect savings? The total figure would be
an impressive one if every business did its part. After
all, it’s in the best interests of the businesses affected
since they are helping to pay the defense bill anyhow,
with thir taxes.
Cost-of-Living Index
At All-Time High
WASHINGTON, UP — Higher
food prices and rents pushed the
government’s cost of living index
to a record high today.
The rise to 115 per cent o'f the
1947-1949 average means a three
cent hourly wage boost, effective
next month, for 1,300,000 rail
workers.
The index figure announced to
day records living costs as of Aug.
15. It advanced three-tenths of
one per cent from the month pre
vious.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
said beef and veal prices went up
six per cent—the largest increase
for these meats in any single
month in more than five years.
Rents advanced 1.1 per cent
during the month. *
MONDAY SCORES
National League
St. Louis 4, ‘ Chicago 0
Only game scheduled.
American League
New York at Boston—rain
Only game scheduled.
ALASKA TERRI. POLICEMAN
ENROLLS IN FBI SCHOOL
WASHINGTON, W — Sgt. Wil
liam Walter Trafton o*f Juneau, a
member of Alaska’s Territorial
Police Department, is one of 80
law enforcement officers enroll
ed in the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation’s National Academy
here.
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
said the officers are receiving
professionalized training to fur
ther their development as police
executives, administrators and in
structors.
The training course runs for 12
weeks.
Reports False
Of Russian Flier
Landing in Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, 111., CP)—A Civil
Defense exercise involving the Air
Force and Illinois State Police
gave rise to false reports Tuesday
that a Russian flier had landed in
central Illinois in a MIG.
The report, carried over a na
tional television network and
broadcast over a Champaign radio
station, brought a flood of inquir
ies from newspapers in several
parts of the nation.
The flier actually was a mem
ber of the Air Force Intelligence
Service Squadron at O’Hare Field
near Chicago who was flown to
Chanute Field at Rantoul, 111.,
Monday night.
It was an exercise to test co
ordination between the Air Force
and state police.
Chanute personnel transported
him by car to a quarter of a mile
from the state police headquarters
at Urbana, 111., where, as pre
arranged, he “surrendered.”
The flier, identified by police as
Airman 1C Witold Glinski, of
Chicago, was garbed in an old
type' fur felt officers cap, Air
Force jump boots and winter type
coveralls. He wore an insignia
bearing a hammer and sickle and
carried a typewritten card read
ing: “I am a participant in an
air defense exercise.”
Someone pressed the panic but
ton and the flier ended up in the
Champaign County jail. Reporters
and photographers got wind of
the unusual prisoner, but officials
refused at first to talk freely be
cause of “security reasons.”
Capt. Robert J. Trimble, provost
marshal at nearby Chanute Field
hurried to the jail to talk to the
man.
Then Trimble announced that
the whole incident was an ar
rangement between the state po
lice and the Air Force intelligence
unit at O’Hare Field.
The O’Hare flier added to the
confusion by playing his role to
the hilt—talking to his jail cus
todians in a gutteral foreign
tongue.
Mining Congress Speakers
Hit Forest Service For
Restricting Miners’ Rights
SEATTLE, UP — American Min
ing Congress speakers criticized
the United States Forest Service
Monday.
Speaking at a panel discussion
on public lands, Roger H. McCon
nel, chief geologist for the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan Mining and Con
centrating Co., Kellog, Idaho,
charged:
“By propaganda in all popular
magazines that uncritically pub
lish the material and by sponsor
ship of such restrictive measures
as the Hope Bill (applying to min
ing locations in national forests),
the U.S. Forest Service seeks to
cut down the miners’ property
rights.”
Radford Hall of the American
National Cattlemen’s Assn, told
the panel:
“The principal trouble with the
Forest Service is that it has con
fused its function with that of
the National Park Service.
After the meeting a resolution
was introduced urging opposition
to “any material interference with
the system of locating and patent
ing mining claims and to any
changes in the basic principles of
our federal mining laws.”
Treasury Secretary Stresses Need
Of Caution In Cutting Taxes, Defense
Spending, In Light Of Russian Threat
WASHINGTON, UP)— Secretary
of the Treasury Humphrey said
Tuesday the 10 percent income tax
cut will take place at the end of
the year as scheduled, and also
there will be no request for re
newing the excess profits tax.
He said, in a speech for the con
vention of the American Bankers
Association:
“The excess profits tax will ex
pire Dec. 31, and there will be no
request for renewal. At the same
time an average of 10 percent re
duction in individual income taxes
is scheduled to' go into effect, and
it will become effective.”
Humphrey’s statement to the
bankers also stressed the need, in
the light of the Russian threat, to
exercise caution in cutting taxes
and defense expenditures. He said
there is a “real possibility of an
atomic Pearl Harbor hanging dir
ectly over our heads.”
This threat had caused some
speculation that the scheduled tax
reductions might not take place
and that there might be some new
form of taxation to' raise defense
money. President Eisenhower had
said only Monday night in his
Boston speech that no sacrifice
was to burdensome for Americans
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determined to thwart “enemies of
freedom equipped with the most
terrible weapons of destruction.”
Sen. George (D-Ga) said earlier
Tuesday he does not believe the
Eisenhower administration will
recommend a federal sales tax.
“I will be greatly surprised if
the secretary of the treasury
comes up with such a proposal,”
George told newsmen.
In his words of caution on the
Russian situation, Humphrey add
ed:
“I do not mean that hope of re
duction in expenditures and taxes
must be abandoned. Quite to the
contrary. But the necessity for
caution and planning and assur
ance that reductions are justified
before they are made is para
mount.
A balance between our military
and economic security must be
achieved.”
Humphrey said “the knowledge
of the Russian capability to pro
duce an even more potent wea
pon” is the great and really im
portant reason why it is most dif
ficult to cut expenditures radical
ly and bring both a balanced bud
get and a tax reduction into quick
being at the same time.”
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