Show Con Congress g ress Approves B Bill D To Hike Income Taxes I WASHINGTON Sept S e p t. t 22 UP eP Congress cd bigger bigger big hiJ- ger Jer taxes ta on individual indi income and corporations corporation a as the first step to put the nation on a pi pa pay pay- go as hats basis In the fight against world orld communism m. m WASHINGTON sept 22 UP The The house Friday approved to 7 i the defense tax bill boosting personal and corporate income taxes The senate was expected to concur swiftly probably sending the bill to President Truman Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- for his signature The tax hike was rushed through to meet the increased military costs forced by the Korean war Bigger tax mci increases eases are in store stoie next year ear to finance defense costs basis on a we pay-as-we-go I Corporation rates will jump from 38 to 45 retroactive to July 1 The war-spawned war bill will raise an estimated to The higher rates will 11 produce an additional 2745 annually in to individual income income in income in- in come taxes and 1 additional additional ad ad- in corporation taxes First Installment Mr Truman has said the measure measure meas meas- ure is just the first installment toa m to ma a drive to meet defense costs on ona ona ona a we pay-as-we-go basis The bill carries cairies an agreement to begin work this year on an excess profits tax on corporatIOns Rep J Jere ere Cooper D D. Tenn said the house ways nays and means committee will meet Saturday to begin mapping mapping map map- ping ping- plans for such a bill House Republican leader Joseph JosephW V W Martin lartin demanded that an excess excess excess ex ex- ex- ex cess profits bill be rushed through as soon as congress resumes in November after the election re recess re- re cess Against Bill mn The seven house members who voted against the tax bill were Reps Fred Marshall D Minn Noah M M. Mason R R. Ill Robert F. F Rich R R. Pa Pat Sutton D D. Term Tenn Cecil F. F White D D. Cal Compton L L. White D D. Ida and Vito Marcantonio A ALP L P N Y With the tax measure well on its way ay toward enactment the legislators hustled to give Mr Truman for new military spending Other congressional developments developments' developments developments develop develop- ments ments' Wrong tune tunc Negro pianist Hazel Scott said the pamphlet Red Channels was playing the wrong tune when it listed her as asa asa asa a member of nine Communist Communist- front organizations She told the house un-American un activities committee committee com coin she had no connection with any Communist group but her former business manager manater might have permitted the uj use e of her name by front Communist-front groups without her knowledge |