Show SENATORS SENA TORS WORK I ON TAX PLANS WASHINGTON May 7 1 UP UP- UP The senate finance committee rushing action In an effort to pla place e the nations nation's taxpayers on a you pay basis starting July 1 concluded public hearings Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day and went into executive executive ses session ses- ses sion out of which is expected to emerge a modified Ruml plan Committee Chairman Walter F. F George D. D Ga said the co committee committee com com- might possibly start voting voting voting vot vot- I ing this afternoon on whether it favors the the- Ruml plan pIan for outright I c cancellation nc ll U of of 1942 levies s the h house approved bill forgiving approximately approximately ap ap- proximately ly 75 per cent of the national national na na- na 1942 tax total tota or some alternative r i Senator Arthur H. H tR R. R Mich leading a solid soUd bloc of eight Republicans favoring the outright Ruml plarl confidently predicted that any compromises the committee reaches will be drafted around a a. measure measure embodying embodying em em- bodying the Ruml principle At least five Democrats on the committee Se n n. a t t o 0 r s Bennett Clark Cark Missouri David I I. I Walsh Massachusetts Peter G. G Gerry Rhode Island Scott W. W Lucas Illinois Illinois Illinois Illi Illi- nois and George Radcliffe Maryland Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land likewise have indicated a a a. preference for the Ruml plan thus giving its supporters a majority majority majority ma ma- of the committees committee's 21 mem mem- bers |