Show THE THEIron J f S Iron Curtain Trade P FOR pOR OR SOME time this column has called attention to the ship ship- orient of war materials behind the theIron theIron Iron Iron Curtain by European na nations Most people dont don't realize that a steady trickle of strat strategic gic materials have been reaching Communist countries from the USA U.S.A. Here are some American firms which have been transshipping 1 1 Rolfe G. G Grote of ot New York who sent chemicals to Switzerland later transshipped them to Soviet Russia 2 The Pacific Trading Corporation Corpora Corpora- tion of Boston which transshipped steel plates to Communist China 3 3 The Harris Chemical Corporation Corporation Corpora Corpora- tion of ot New York which obtained a license to ship chemicals to Belgium Belgium Belgium Bel Bel- gium then transshipped them to Communist Czechoslovakia Last December 27 this column also revealed that the AlumInum Aluminum num Corporation of Canada an affiliate of the Mellon controlled Aluminum Corporation of America AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica had s shipped h j i P P e d pounds of aluminum to Communist Communist Communist Com Com- Czechoslovakia a a. and n d pounds of aluminum to Communist Poland at a time When the American public was as getting dangerously short Tax Tempers There were some stormy dissents inside the house ways and me means ms committee before it tentatively approved approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved a 3 per cent the across-the- board boost in individual income taxes This is an unfair imposition on the lower-bracket lower taxpayers insisted insisted insisted in in- Democrat Wilbur Mills of Arkansas Most of the new revenue revenue revenue reve reve- nue in in inthis this legislation will come from irom the thc lower brackets anyhow so 50 why saddle the poor man with the same rate of increase as the upper-bracket upper taxpayer Rep Hale Boggs of Louisiana who favored a graduated increase from 2 to 4 per cent on incomes up to a year Tear also strongly opposed the the board for for- mula So did another Democrat John Dingell of Michigan Dingell was furious because the committee had raised corporation taxes only to 52 per cent instead of the 55 per cent as recommended by the treasury The UThe coffers of some of these big companies are arc bulging with unexpended cash exclaimed Dingell where the fat is It isn't in the little mans man's pocket Im I'm against all these excise taxes too which are paid by the consumers consumers and and that applies applies applies ap ap- ap- ap plies to excises on automobiles made in my own home town America lives on wheels said the congressman from Detroit But if 11 you cripple the automobile industry industry industry in in- by increasing excises to the point where the average fellow cant can't afford to buy a new car you are threatening the future of our whole economy Rep Dan Reed of New York the committees committee's No 1 Republican said he was willing to go along by not raising individual income taxes at all While Democrats pinched themselves to be sure they weren't dreaming Reed hastened to explain explain explain ex ex- ex- ex plain If It we cut non-essential non government government government govern govern- ment spending to the bone maybe we wouldn't need a tax bill In the showdown however Reed and other committee Republicans voted solidly for the tax income-tax boost which hits little incomes as much as it does docs big Korean Air Disaster The American public has shown its ability to take the bad news along with the good and therefore has a right to know about our worst air disaster of at the Korean war So far the facts have not been released at the Pentagon Last month however 40 B 29 escorted by jet lighters bombed the international bridge connecting North Korea with Manchuria The B were hugging so close to the Manchurian border that one side was exposed and approximately approximate approximate- ly Russian MIG 15 jet fighters hit them from the exposed Manchurian ManchurIan Manchurian Man Man- side breaking up the formation for for- mation Two B were shot down a L third was listed as missing but was seen cra crashing hing into the sea Seven Sc of ot the big super super- fortresses had to land crash-land in South Korea while one was badly damaged but made it back to the home base Washington Pipeline American scientists are unable to 10 understand why the Russians have exploded only one A Our most elaborate devices have detected no indication that the Kremlin has set off aU a second atomic explosion Some of at our experts experts experts ex ex- feel that the Reds have found a Do method of at detonating their bombs which eludes our instruments Others claim the Russians are so sotar far tar behind the US U.S. that they would merely show their lack of at progress by exploding another |