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Cool THE TAMPA DAILY TIMES FINAL 1 75 3 74 A 71 57 71 Today's 8 70 9 70 10 70 11 Temperatures 69 12 69 70 3 FIFTY-THIRD YEAR -No. 212 TAMPA, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS HOME TYPHOON WRECKS OKINAWA QUARTERS HOUSE DUE TO PASS TAX-CUT BILL TODAY Passage Expected By Nightfall as Rule Applied Senate GOP Leans To Full Repeal of Excess Profits Levy Washington, Oct. 11 (AP). House Democrats and Republicans today in demanding a slashing in Federal expenditures as the Chamber began consideration of a $5,350,000,000 tax reduction bill. Chairman Doughton of the tax-framing Ways and Means Committee, told his colleagues the budget must be balanced and payments must be made on the huge national debt.

The House Republican Leader, Martin of Massachusetts, "served notice" that his party will fight "with unflagging determination to reduce the costs of this government and, by so doing, eventually reduce the burden of taxes." Washington, Oct. 11 (INS). The House began debate today on the first Federal tax reduction bill in 16 years, with full intention of voting its approval by nightfall. Climaxing nearly two weeks of feverish activity, the Ways and Means Committee presented a bill calling for tax reductions of five billion 350 million dollars for both individuals and corporations, effective Jan. 1.

The measure will be considered under a "gag" rule, with no amendments allowed except those previously approved by the committee that wrote the measure. To Study Profits Tax Representative Knutson minority leader on the committee, indicated, meanwhile, that the Senate will give serious consideration to full repeal of the corporation excess profits tax when the measure is taken up in that body. As adopted by the House committee, the bill called for a cut in the excess profits tax rate from 95 to. 60 percent for earnings in 1946, with full repeal on Dec. 31, 1946.

The bill contains a new table of withholding tax rates to go into effect the first of the year. Lower bracket wage earners will receive a 20 percent cut in the withholding. Higher bracket workers will receive cuts scaling down to a minimum of 10 percent. Other Benefits Benefits to individuals through an increase in the normal tax exemptions, and a cut of four percentage points in the surtax rates will amount to two billion 627 million dollars during the coming year, For corporations, the reduction in the excess profits tax rate, plus a four point cut in the surtax rate and repeal of the capital stock and declared value taxes will amount to a saving of one billion 888 million dollars, The measure repeals the $5 auto stamp tax on July 1, and calls for a return of high war-time excise taxes on liquor, furs, and other commodities to their pre-war levels. The bill also carries a provision, recommended by the Administration, that the one percent unemployment tax be "frozen" at the present level for 1946.

Under present law, the tax rate would automatically rise to percent for both employers and employes on Jan, 1, Surplus Purchases Outlook Gloomy County School Board today saw a pretty gloomy picture of its chances for buying surplus government property for its schools at a great saving. Part of the gloom came in County School Superintendent McLaughlin's explanation that new regulations appear almost daily on disposition of the property and his indication that a starting point for acquiring the property was hard to find. He also told the Board that unless they could have an agent in Atlanta to look over the property it would have to be bought "sight and might result in the Board's getting equipment they did not want and paying higher prices than they would to private dealers. At present, he added, Federal agencies are given the first 18 days to buy what they want, then other public agencies get a chance to buy for the next 12 days. So far, Mr.

McLaughlin said, he has received no further word on a plan whereby the secretary of the State Improvement Board would go to Atlanta to act as purchasing agent for other public agencies throughout the state. AUSTRIA BARS NAZIS Vienna, Oct. 11 (AP). The Aus- trian provincial council after hours of heated debate last night voted unanimously to bar all members of the Nazi Party with minor exceptions from voting in the general elections tentatively scheduled for Nov. 25.

Headed This Way? FBI agents here are on the lookout for Hermann Skof, 24- year-old escaped German prisoner of war who is reported to be heading toward Tampa. A former member of the German Merchant Marine, Skof may be coming to Tampa to try to ship to South America on a boat in port here, the FBI said. He escaped Tuesday from Camp Blanding, and has since acquired civilian clothes, agents reported. He is five feet nine inches tall, weighs 132 and has brown eyes, dark blond hair and fair complexion. County Veterans Institute Mapped Comprehensive Course In One Year Planned If the State Department of Education approves, County Veterans' Institute, offering a comprehensive high school course in one year, will be established here, County School Board decided today.

The plan for veterans' education, presented at today's Board meeting by School Superintendent McLaughlin and Braulio Alonso, veterans' education director, conthese points: 1. Veterans who want to attend regular high school classes will be allowed to do so. Five veterans now are enrolled at Jefferson High School and seven at Hillsborough, all of whom say they want to continue in the regular classes. 2. Veterans who want to finish their high school education in order to go to college will be advised to go on to college, take entrance examinations at the colleges, many of which have arranged to let such veterans begin college work and offer them high school courses they lack.

3. Veterans who want to get a high school diploma will be offered the comprehensive course at the institute which will be open five hours a night for five nights a week. Mr. Alonso said he had found 24 such veterans in Tampa, only one of whom expressed a preference for attending day classes. To Get Diplomas Plans for the third group, on which School Board will center its interest, call for the comprehensive classes in English, mathematics, science, history or social studies possibly a language.

At the end of the one-year course students will be given comprehensive examinations by the State Department of Education. If the veterans pass, they will be awarded a County High School Diploma. Diplomas awarded veterans who formerly attended one of the County's high schools will bear the name of their old school. Those who did not will get diplomas from the County Veterans' Institute. The Board will ask the State Department to approve a charge of $50 a month to veterans enrolled in the institute.

Mr. McLaughlin and Mr. Alonso, however, both expressed belief that charge could be reduced if as many as 10 veterans enroll. They estimated a probable cut to $20 a month. Favor Lowering Fee Although veterans will not pay the bills, which will be sent to the veterans administration, both Mr.

McLaughlin and Mr. Alonso said much the fee should be reduced as as possible in face of the possibility that the amount spent by the Veterans' Administration under the GI Bill of Rights for such education might be deducted from subsequent benefits the veteran may receive. Up to now, Mr. McLaughlin explained, veterans attending regular high school classes have not been able to receive subsistence payments under State regulations. Once the Institute is approved and established, however, he added, the State will approve subsistence payments to veterans enrolled in both regular high schools and the institute classes.

CASUALTIES DROP Washington, Oct. 11 (AP). The count of battle casualties in the war dropped 371 today to a total of 1,070,153 as more names were stricken from the columns of the missing. Sore muscles? Allen's RUB-ALLEN gives quick MacArthur Gives Shidehara Orders On Social Reforms New Premier Told To Act Promptly To Relieve Hunger Tokyo, Oct. 11 (AP).

General the Japanese Premier MacArthur met new head of then Baron Shidehara-for the first time today and gave him instructions for wide social and political reforms which will require liberalization of the Japanese Constitution. MacArthur likewise put it squarely up to Shidehara to take prompt and "vigorous" action to see that the Japanese people are clothed, fed and housed during the coming Winter. The meeting, at MacArthur's headquarters and initiated by Shidehara shortly after he had completed his cabinet and called on Emperor, came shortly after the Allied Supreme Commander had directed the Japanese Government to report within 90 days all foreign exchange assets, including private holdings and foreign properties of the Imperial household. Air Permits Revoked Allied headquarters also announced revocation of permission to the Japanese to operate an air courier and liaison transport servlice. The job will be taken over by American airmen.

The reform which MacArthur told Shidenara must be made in carrying out surrender terms included votes for women, labor unionization, liberalization of education, abolition of all secret governmental police and revision of industrial monopolies. The order for the report on foreign exchange assets was the sixth step the Allied command has taken in brining about tight control of Nipponese finances. On Lookout for War Loot Obviously the search Allied investigators are on and for tie-ups of Japan's big industrialists with the military and imperialism. Today's announcement indicated the possibility that the new directive might uncover war fortunes cached abroad.Four. of Japan's big industrialists held a press conference today at which they expressed fears "Japanese Communists are waiting for the proper time to rise." Reich to Be Charged With War on Germans New York, Oct.

11 (AP). A London dispatch the New York Post said today the four-power indictment of 24 top for at Nuernberg would establish the principle that Germany criminally waged war against her own people as well as others. The indictment, drawn up by American, British, Russian and French legal staffs, is to be presented to Goering and his 23 fellow defendants soon, probably next week. "The whole Nazi aggressions and raw party brutality said. be condemned," "The document, of considerably more than '100 pages, has been months in the making.

But in its present form it establishes what would appear to be unprecedented Germany in waged international aggressive law that not only against the people of other countries, but also against her own Destroyer Visit Here Navy Day The Navy announced today a substitution for one of the three vessels scheduled to visit here Oct. 27, Navy Day. The Destroyer Cummings will take the place of the Destroyer W. D. Rush.

It was explained that unavoidable delay of Pacific some vessels ins leaving and the U. West Coast the made the change necessary. The Destroyer Escort Flaherty and the Submarine Sea Owl also will visit here. All are due to arrive between Oct. 17 and 20.

400 War Guilty Have Been Executed London, Oct. 11. (AP). About 400 German war criminals and collaborationists have been executed and another 400 sentenced to terms ranging from 10 years to life, Poland's Attorney General George Sawicki said here today. Another 8000 are being prepared for prosecution, he Features Today Beauty .10 Radio Comics .17 Ration Notes.10 Crossword 15 Runyon Deaths 2 Salt Shaker Dorothy Dix.

10 Sokolsky Editorials 8 Society Markets 10 Sport-Rays Moley Stokes Children 10 World Today Our Boys ...14 Where to Go Parsons 18 Winchell After Eight Years -Four As Prisoner Mike Serra (right), one of the first to be captured by the Japanese when his Marine unit was forced to surrender at Tientsin, China, on Dec. 8, 1941, smiles at his "little" brother, Lawrence, a former combat veteran, whom he hadn't seen in almost eight years. -Times photo. Freed Tampan Knows Japs Not Civilized An almost unbelievable tale of was revealed today by one of the first to be taken prisoner by the Japs. He is in a Marine unit stationed at Tientsin, Harbor, who was taken prisoner on Dec.

in Jap camps for 44 long months, capitulated. "No one can convince me that the 'Enoch Arden' Wife Attempts Death San Francisco, Oct. 11. (INS). Mrs.

Claire Earlywine Burnett, 32, who sought death as the solution to her double-husband dilemma, today was given "a good chance to live." Confronted with the choice of two Navy men--one just back from the "dead," the other his former shipmate their "wife" chose, instead, to gulp an overdose of a sleeping potion. "As long as somebody has be hurt." she told police, "it might as well be me. I didn't want to give either one of them up." Today, at Mission Emergency Hospital where physicians said she is recovering, she still faces a choice between: Chief Gunner's Mate Virgil Earlywine, 33, her first husband, who had been presumed lost with the Submarine Perch in the Java Sea, Chief in March, Petty 1942, Officer or: Robert E. Burnett. her second husband, former shipmate of the man who long ago had introduced him to the woman who is now their "wife." The "Enoch Arden." after more than three years in a Jap prison at Macassar, returned yesterday.

Both men were at her bedside today, awaiting her choice. Lakeland Plans For State Park Special to The Times Lakeland, Oct. is going ahead with a plan for a unique State park-one calculated to draw fishermen andea tourists from the West Coast to be built among dug and re-dug phosphate pits near here. Lakes formed between hills made by phosphate digging already are favorite spots of many fresh water fishermen. The plan to connect these many lakes with canals, keep the water wellstocked with fish, and also offer boating facilities.

The International Minerals and Chemical a phosphate company, has offered several thousand acres for the project. OPA Radio Ceiling Same as 1942 Price Washington, Oct. 11 (AP). New radio sets will sell for about the same as in 1942, OPA announced today. The agency granted price increases averaging about 12 percent to manufacturers.

But it whole- said that with few exceptions salers and retailers would be required to absorb the increase. This means that distributors will not be permitted to charge the public more than top prices of three years ago. Banks to Observe Columbus Day Christopher Columbus will not 18 be entirely ignored by Tampans on the 453rd anniversary of his 8 discovery of America. Tomorrow, 8 bank employes will observe the 8 occasion by staying away from 11 work and the Knights of Columbus 16 will celebrate at a dance at Jesuit 6 High School auditorium at 8:30 8 o'clock. 18 But, excepting the banks, noth8ling will be closed.

Soldiers' Return Home to Average 200,000 a Month 400,000 to Be Left In Pacific Areas By End of March Tokyo, Oct. 11 (AP). American GIs will be returned to the United States from the Pacific at the rate of more than 200,000 a month for the next six months, Allied Headquarters announced, today. By the end total of 1,250,000 men will have been returned to the States, leaving approximately 400,000 men in the occupation forces and units manning Army installations in the Pacific theater. In Japan, four divisions (approximately 60,000 men) of combat troops, air service troops and special occupation units will remain.

The Pacific forces will include, 200,000 in Japan and Korea; 7000 in the Philippines and 36,000 in Okinawa and the rest the the Ryukyus will islands. be The of 400,000 troops and service forces in Hawaii, the Marianas and other Pacific bases. Cut 30,000 Men General MacArthur estimated previously that 200,000 men would be needed for the occupation of Japan six months after surrender; today's announcement cuts that figure by the two divisions (approximately 30,000 men) which will be deployed to Korea from the total of 200,000 for the dual Korea Japan movement occupation from area. the Pacific will be handled through eight big processing centers at Honolulu, Okinawa, Saipan, Tacloban, Jinsen and Manila. Before any divisions are sent home the low point men will be screened out to remain with the occupation forces replacing high point men from the units in the field, General Headquarters said.

Division Locations As of Jan. 1, the divisions in the Pacific will be located as follows: On Japan, 11 divisions -the 11th Airborne, First Cavalry, 77th, 81st, 25th, 97th, 32nd, 41st, 24th, 98th and 33rd. Korea, Seventh, 40th and Sixth. Philippines, 93rd, 96th and 86th. The divisions which will finally remain, as Airborne, occupation 24th, troops 25th, and are First Cavalry on Japan; the Seventh and Sixth divisions in Korea and the 86th in the Philippines.

Headquarters said the War Department had made a vast amount of shipping available for the mass return of troops. 100,000 to Leave CBI in November New Delhi, Oct. 11 (AP). U. S.

Army officials estimated today that approximately 100,000 American troops who have been serving in the India-Burma theater either will be on the way home or awaiting shipment at replacement depots in India by the end of November. An additional 26,000 men will be brought out of China by air over the "Hump" during November. Beginning in December troops leaving China will depart through the port of Shanghai. Troops now are being ported from Karachi and Calcutta to the U. S.

East Coast in vessels with capacities ranging from 2000 to 5000 men each. The trip from Calcutta takes about 26 Only a relatively small number are going home by air. By the end of the year probably the only American soldiers remaining will be low-point men engaged in surplus disposal or the other final operations closing connected, with erations in India. Marines to Quell Chinese Fighting Tsingtao, China, Oct. 11 American Marines of the Sixth Division landed from' Seventh Fleet ships at this North China port today.

They arrived on the heels of unconfirmed reports of sporadic fighting between Chinese Communist and Nationalist forces over who is to replace the Japanese in authority. Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey, commanding the Third Amphibious Corps, said role of the Leathernecks would be limited to assisting Chinese Nationalists in disarming the Japanese and protecting American lives and property.

Tasco Plans Party For Retiring Officer Tampa Shipbuilding Co. officials today worked on arrangements for a farewell party to be given within the next few days for Capt. R. B. Daggett, supervisor of Navy shipbuilding at the yard, who will soon retire.

There has been no announcement by the Navy of Captain Daggett's successor at Tasco. STONE IS 73 Washington, Oct. 11 (P). Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, 73 today, got a phone call this morning. It was President Truman wishing him a "happy birthday." Another Victim Of Crash Dies MISS LOLA J.

FREELAND Miss Lola Jean Freeland, 21, passenger in an automobile-street car crash Sunday which cost the life of a high school student, died at Municipal Hospital this mornof injuries suffered in the collision. She was secretary of the Children's Home, 3302 Florida Ave. Elmer Linn, 17, Plant student, a passenger in the automobile, was burned to death in a fire resulting from the crash and an inquest into his death will be held next Thursday. Serafin Diaz, driver of the car, is in serious condition at Municipal. On his recovery, said police, he will be held pending outcome of an investigation.

Miss Freeland had ad lived here 15 months. She is survived by her father, George W. Freeland, Tampa, her mother, Lola F. Freeland, two grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Aaron Freeland and a sister, Mrs. Estelle Frazell, all of Beckley, W. and a brother, Verne Lee, in the South Pacific. Chinese Factions Announce Accord In Agreement on Basic Principles Chungking, Oct. 11 (AP).

Chinese Nationalist and Communist negotiators for a unified China issued a communique today agreeing basic principles of political peace, in a nation split for decades bloody fighting for government control. The communique also set forth the negotiators' willingness to continue the talks which have been underway during a five-weeksold truce in the fighting, and to submit complex military and political questions still unsettled to a military subcommittee and a broadly constituted political consultative council. The statement indicated the determination of Nationalist Leader Chiang Kai-Shek to achieve "unity of political authority" immediately. Mao Tze-Tung, leader of the Communist forces, said "the outlook optimistic" as he boarded a plane in Chungking to return to his headquarters at Yenan, Shensi Province. He conceded that some points remained to be settled, but he said this work could be done by the military committee and the political council.

The communique originally was China's scheduled to be issued yesterday, big national holiday of the Double Ten, 10th day of the 10th month, but it was held up for a final, personal polishing by Mao and Chiang. Boston Cops Needed, Tobin Asks Release Boston, Oct. 11 (AP). Confronted with a rising tide of crime, Governor Maurice J. Tobin moved today for release of 300 Boston policemen from the armed services and suggested other communities needing police reinforcements take similar action.

The Governor said he had requested the Police of Boston to have ready by tonight complete military and VOcational data on the more than 300 Boston policemen in the service. Equipped with this, Governor Tobin said, "I will immediately request the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to release these men with the greatest possible dispatch." German Tells Court He Helped Jews Lueneburg, Germany, Oct. 11 (AP). Testimony of a 28-year-old Jewess that she was the only person to emerge alive from de- the Oswiecim gas chambers was clared a lie today by Franz Hoeszler. court trying him others Hoeszler told a British, military on war crimes charges, he had saved several hundred persons from death, but that the Jewess, Sofia Litwinska, did not figure in the incident in which she portrayed herself in the leading role and that her testimony was otherwise garbled.

Five Killed; Score Wounded; 90,000 Soldiers Homeless Nearly All Military Installations Ruined On Southern Section New York, Oct. 11 (AP). John Adams, CBS correspondent, said in a broadcast from Manila today that 90,000 soldiers had been left without quarters, five killed and a score wounded in the typhoon which struck Okinawa island Tuesday, Several correspondents on the first plane to take off from Okinawa since the storm reported "damage so great that, had it come a month earlier, it could well have changed the entire pattern of our occupation." One said "had invasion of Japan been necessary, it might have been a major military disaster." "The southern part of the island took the worst beating, with nearly all Army and Navy installations destroyed," he quoted the correspondents as saying. "The wind mounted to 120 miles per hour when the wind gauge went out. Sheet metal roofs, tent floors and debris went sailing through the air, while down on Naha airstrip, all but two planes were damaged, some flipped on their backs, others with wings or tail fins or controls blown away.

"No details were available on damage to Naval installations, but as the plane circled the island this morning, the correspondents could see many small craft beached helter-skelter on the shore, and fears were expressed that Naval casualties may run into several hundreds. "Also hard hit were some 500 Army nurses who were in a transient camp en route to Japan. Although they suffered no casualties, they lost their tents and many personal belongings, and were forced to ride out the worst of the storm crouching in scores ill-smelling native tombs, ancient stone sepulchres that dot the hillsides of the island." Japanese torture and sadism members of the armed forces Mike Serra, Tampa corporal China, at the time of Pearl 8, 1941, and was confined being liberated when Japan Japs are civilized," he said. "I saw too much in the 44 months I was a prisoner to make me believe otherwise." After leaving Plant High School in April, 1937, whose mother, Mrs. Mary Serra, lives at 2505 Gray joined the Marines, taking his boot training at Parris Island, S.

before going to Quantico, for 18 months. It was early in 1939 that he went. to Tientsin to serve as a guard at the American Embassy at Peking. Couldn't Believe Pearl Harbor. On the morning of Dec.

8, 1941, a radio broadcast told the Marines of the sneak attack the Japs had made on Pearl Harbor. "We didn't believe it was possible that Japan had actually attacked the United said Mike. "None of us wanted to believe it, I guess. At noon that day, though, we were called together by our commanding officer and officially informed that it was true. "We were all ready to fightthat it is what we were trained for, SO came as a surprise when we received orders to lay down our arms.

About an hour later, Jap soldiers surrounded the camp and confiscated our weapons and ammunition. There were only about 40 of us in camp at the time, the rest being on duty at the Embassy, except for 15 men at Chingwantao. These 15 did not want to surrender under any circumstances and had set up machine guns ready to start fighting. Col. W.

W. Ashurst, commander of all Marines of the North China Forces, had to order them three times by radio not to resist. "Some Cried Like Babies" "It was a really sad moment when the American flag in camp was taken down," continued Mike. "Every had tears in (See FREED TAMPAN Page 4) GOP's Seek Patton For Congress Seat Los Angeles, Oct. 11 (AP).

General Patton, recently relieved his command of the U. S. Third Army, has been suggested by Republican leaders tone here as a possible candidate Congress. "The General would be a real and it would be wonderful if he could qualify and would be to Leo Anderson, chillinen of the Republican State Central Committee, told a reporter. Sidney Hatch, vice president of a Republican committee named to seek a candidate to oppose Rep.

Jerry Voorhis, Democrat, in the 12th Congressional District next year, candidate said: "He would be a great if we could get him, a very colorful figure and an able man." General Patton's residence is at San Marino, in the District. His sister, Miss Anne Patton, said she didn't know whether the General is a Republican or Democrat. "I doubt that he is a member of either party," she added. "He has been soldier all his life and never took part in politics." PLYWOOD PLANT REOPENS Seattle, Oct. 11 (AP).

Formed in solid ranks, a phalanz of about 160 determined CIO workers today their way past some 100 AFL pickets to reopen the big United States Plywood only major lumber industry plant here employing unionists. I National Airliner Forced to Land Jacksonville, Oct. 11 (P). Three passengers and the stewardess were slightly injured today, National Air Lines announced, when its Flight 23, New York to Miami plane made an emergency landing about a mile south of the Banana River Naval Air Station, near Melbourne, Fla. The plane carried 13 passengers and a crew of three.

Ten passengers continued their journey to Miami, nine of them aboard a relief plane which was flown from Jacksonville to pick them up. Another went by train. Miss Mary Purdy, stewardess, of Jacksonville, who suffered a broken arm; W. Wilfus, Newton, N. Jose Valaquez, Caracus, Venezuela, and Marshall Wayne, Miami, where at the Banana River Naval Dispensary for a checkup.

It was the second emergency for National Airlines within a week. Last Friday one of its planes overshot the airport at Lakeland and fell into a lake. Two were killed. Officials said today these were the only fatalities in over 170, 160,000,000 passenger miles of over 11 years. First Fall Rain May Stop for Game The first Fall rain of the year, which inches brought rain Tampa by 9 one and o'clock a this morning, should let up in time for tonight's football game although skies will be cloudy through tomorrow, Meteorologist Talbott said.

Going so far as to offer hope that rain might cease before school children start home this afternoon, Mr. Talbott said the shower probably will bring the area its lowest afternoon maximum temperature of the season. Mercury in Tampa thermometers, however, will not drop much lower tomorrow morning and should register near the 67-degree normal October minimum, he said. Burning Mines Threaten Homes Bonanza, Utah, Oct. 11 (INS).

Miners of the model desert community of Bonanza were counting on dams today, to save their homes from lava-like melted gilsonite flowing from a burning asphalt mine. The dams were hastily erected, after bonanza residents returned to the town several hours after the terrific explosion late Tuesday night. A partial evacuation had followed the blast. Flames continued to shoot skyward from 15, mine shafts, and residents of the town poured water on their homes throughout last night to prevent their igniting from the intense heat. ONE DAY TIRE RECAPPING AT HICKEY'S, 1105 FLORIDA.

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