The Morning Herald from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 2

9 THE MORNING HERALD, HAGERSTCWN, MARYLAND K- Tax Slajh Measure Faces Senate Fight (Continued from 1) bill would cut six million people off bottom of the tax rolls, Croiwther Ihat it also "iubsUntial to -per' making between to $150,000 a year. It likewise calls for tn. adjustment of the so-called 'property issue'." Remarking that members of the RALPH has switched to Calvert because Calvert makes a mellower Old Fashioned. 864o-23rd Y. CALVERT RESERVE Blended Whiskey Grain Neutral Spirits.

Calvert Distillers New York City two political parties naturally'have their differences, 'the Speaker urged his audience to believe that every Congressman is working in an effort- to a means of jnaintain- ing full employment i this country, "because they really are." "Any Congressman, statesman or industrialist worth his salt will tell you that masses, of, people, Communisim preached to them from virtually every side, will never endure another depression. That's why the free flow of capital into American industry is being pushed so strongly--without it that 'Shine American i is doomed." Adding that "you've got to have capital in any kind of society you are going to produce," Growther stressed that the Republicans' claim is that high taxes prevent the common man from investing. "And then you dcin't have that flow of he said. Asked if the retirement of personal savings bonds had been greater than anticipated, the speaker replied i affirmative. But he revealed a rather interesting fact by saying that "the purchases of savings bonds at preseut are also exceeding expectations, due partly to the fact that the Treasury Department is pushing their sale, and also a lot of people are just balking at paying high, prices for present-day goods and are investing their money until prices come" down." It is estimated ihat in the ice ages, four million square miles of the North American continent were covered with ice.

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Phone Earl Neikirk, Mgr. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1948. Say President Is'Defeatist' (Continued from Pag- Germantowu, that the Soviet Politburo trying to "tear down the economy of Europe" by opposing Marshall plan. He said the United States should remain strong, help to strengthen the United Nations, guard against "bubble booms and depressions," and "bring our world economy policy in line with our foreign policy." In addition to the.avowed Presidential aspirants, scores of legislators, governors and other party figures took to the platform and radio to criticize the Truman administration. Several of the ers urged dissatisfied Democrats to join the Republicans.

The President was called a "defeatist" and a "bewildered man" who has "alarmed Congress by his almost daily demands for power, power and more pow.er." "Wastrel demagogues," "regimentation," "police state," 'national bankruptcy," were some of the terms applied to administration leaders and policies. Hungry For Powefr It was Senator Wherry, of Nebraska, acting majority leader of the Senate, who described Mr. Truman as a 'defeatist" ever ready to grasp for "power." Speaking at Huntington. W. he said: "One day the President goes to the left, the next day to the right, zigzagging back and forth, attempting to outlead Henry Wallace, but giving lip service to Jeffersonian Democrats.

1 "Where are the Jeffersonian Democrats today?" Wherry asked. "They are just waiting fq be Red to join us. They know a vote for Republicanism this fall is a vote for Americanism." Wherry termed the President a "bewildered man," adding: "One moment he advocates the imposition of price controls to lower prices, and, in the next he has the Secretary of Agriculture announce the purchase of 50 million bushels of wheat which would prevent a fall in the market" TO DEATH Frederick, Md. Feb. .12 (JP)-Charles E.

Miss, 76-year-old em- ploye of the Masser Motor Company, was crushed to death today hy a truck backing into the company's loading platform, a police reported. ON TAX Baltimore, Feb. 12 transferred from either a ausband or a wife to a joint account in contemplation of death still is subject to the Maryland inheritance tax, Richard W. Case, Assistant Attorney General, disclosed today. See Us For Your Complete Musical Needs WHITESEl MUSIC CO.

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from the St. Paul's Church, Western Pike. Service by Rev. J. Wade Huffman.

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and Savannah Clingerman McDonald. Besides her husband and mother she is survived by sou Leonard Peck, Little Orleans; son, Irvia Ellis Imes. and daughters Ruby Carol and Anna Lee, all at home; brother, L. L. McDonald.

Little Orleans; sisters, Mrs. Annie Apple, Hyattsville, and Miss Bertie McDonald. Little Orleans. The body was removed to the CLas. R.

Bast funeral home, Hancock, where it will rest until Friday evening, when it" will be taken to the home of her mother. Funeral services will.be held at the JLittle Orleans Methodist Church, Mrs. Dairie Dolly of Flintstone officiating-. Interment in the church cemeterv. Big Soap Companies Announce Price Cuts also dipped slightly in Boston.

The National Association of Re- tall Grocers a survey'it made pn independent retail food-, stores showed prices had fallen on flour, bacon, ham, lard, vegetable shortening, eggs, butter, pork and in some.cases beef. The association said its survey, covered key states iu every geographical area and that 'the cuts resulted from declining commodity prices. It said the cuts were not "leaders," an item sometimes sold at no profit to attract buyers to the stores. The chairman of the board of the New York Stock Exchange, Robert Boylan said the peak in commodity prices has beeu "reached. There probably will be rallies in the markets, he said in an interview at Atlanta, but "it is not likely that commodity prices will again reach their recent highs." Truman Again Seeks Power To Curb Costs (Continued from Page 1) to distillers, meat rationing and consumer credit controls.

He suggested a month's extension of rent controls so Congress can judge the effect falling commodity prices may have on rental properties. Other developments: 1- Robert-Boylan, chairman of the board of the New York Stock Exchange, said the peak in commodity markets has been reached. In an interview at Atlanta, Boylan declared "there probably will be rallies ia the markets, but it is not likely thai commodity prices again reach their recent highs." 2. Representatives of the major grain exchanges were called to testify Monday at a Senate hearing on the government's request for powers. to fix margin (down payment) requirements in commodity purchases.

3. Members of the international" wheat council were reported near agreement on a five year program which would allocate the wheat supply and establish price ranges. 4. Rep. Robertson (R-ND) told the House.that the administration 'deliberately caused a panic for purely political purposes." He said it "represents an attempt to buy CIO-PAC votes with cheap food, even though it means the ruination of American agriculture." Ice And Snow Thaw Thursday Afternoon (Continued from Page 1) i The casualty list included 39 fractures.

The prediction for today includ- id. intermittent drizzles throughout (he state, but above freezing tern- However, it starts all ovejr again tomorrow, if the weatherman is right, with temperatures dropping to around 20 on Saturday, and hovering between 5 and 10 Sunday uight. Bus transportation was so bad yesterday schools closed down in nine counties--Howard, Harford, Frederick, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Calvert, Montgomery, Kent and Carroll. Th school children strapped on their skates and roads' for skating ponds. County bus lines went 'temporarily out of business, and "the Blue Ridge and Greyhound Bus Lines delayed schedules to Frederick and Washington- from to four hours.

I DAY A Charles Feb. 12 (IP)--Rep. Noble J. Johnson (R-Ind) will address the Tri-county Lincoln day dinner at the'Charles Town high school tomorrow night. For AUTOMATIC WATER HEATING OU can afford low cost water heating that NO ATTENTION ON OUR LOW RATE HAGERSTOWN GAS CO.

New Frigid Wove Is Due Tonight Chicago, Feb. 12 new blast of frigid air started bearing 4own. toward Minnesota from Canada tonight as restrictions re clamped-on. rail freight movement! in the snow-harried northeast. forecasters said the new onslaught of cold air was expected to pass across the Canadian border tomorrow night and spread into most of the north central states during the week end.

The new cold was expected to move slowly southward but would be less severe than the series of January cold waves. Up to 34 inches of snow ia on the ground in parts of New England and eastern New York also has a deep snow cover. The snow and freezing rain Bpread today from Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado into Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas, and continued northeastward. a deaths attributed to the weather were reported in these states Prospects Bright For Housing Bill Washington, Feb. 12 very bright.

That's the way Senator McCarthy summed up chances that Congress will pass a long range housing bill this session. McCarthy said he came to that conclusion after talking the matter over with Republican leaders. But he would like to see any general program to encourage home construction stripped of plans for government owned or operated public housing projects. McCarthy placed emphasis on that in.submitting a repor. to the House-Senate housing committee.

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