Show NEWS RE REVIEW VIEW House Debates Tax Bill Gandhi Is Assassinated All signs pointed to an income tax cut of one kind or another this year as the house of representatives clanged the bell for the opening round of crucial year election-year debate debate debate de de- de- de bate on that much-belabored much issue Joseph Martin Rep Mass speaker of the house started things of off with the assertion that an in income income income in- in come tax slash is in the bag He conceded however that it might not run as high as the 65 billion dollars provided in the Knutson bill now up for debate But in the end he said the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican congress would override a presidential veto of the tax bill we send to the White House In order to beat the veto that Mr Truman might slap on the tax bill however the Republicans would have to line up a few Democrats to vote on their side to make the necessary necessary necessary sary two-thirds two majority And to bring enough Democrats around it was thought the senate Republicans would tone down the bill Rep Robert Doughton Dem N. N C. C ranking Democrat on the tax-fixing tax ways and means committee commit commit- tee pointed out the obvious fact that Republicans would have to trim the size of the cut to get anywhere Otherwise he said congress will uphold uphold uphold up up- hold the veto and we will have no tax reduction at all billion 65 As far as Knutson's dollar measure is concerned GOP congressmen were congressmen were touting it on the grounds that it would spur business increase production and relieve the price-pressure price on taxpayers in addition addition addition ad ad- to leaving the government enough revenue for an billion 11 dollar doBar payment on the public debt inthe inthe in hi hithe the next two years Democrats of course take the diametrically opposed view holding that a tax slash that big would force the government to borrow money threaten national security and hinder hinder hin hin- hinder der the European recovery plan upon which so much of the current I phase of U. U S. S foreign policy is founded DEATH t I Gandhi Mohandas K Gandhi Indias India's champion peacemaker patient saint was dead at the age of 78 78 a victim of an assassins assassin's bullets He died barely two weeks after Hindus Sikhs and Moslems alike overjoyed at the possibility of peace of-peace peace that Gandhi's latest fast had procured procured procured pro pro- cured for their dominions were shouting ki jai long live Gandhi in the streets of Delhi It was a violent ending for the mahatma who all his life had preached and practised a philosophy based on an abhorrence of violence A Hindu from Poona approached him during a prayer meeting and fired three shots into his body from close range To India and to Indias India's Hindus to whom Gandhi had devoted his life his death was a bitter experience and a shock that left the already turbulent sub continent in hi an even more complete state of turmoil After the partition of the country into the dominions of India and Pakistan Gandhi had been the man manof manof manof of strong b spirit to whom all three opposing factions Hindus Moslems and Sikhs had looked for guidance And in his last fast of five-day five duration he had given it to them He had provided the three clashing religious religions groups with a foundation for peace His action had tended to narrow the schism between Moslems Moslems Moslems Mos Mos- the lems and Hindus had lessened talk of war Whether his death would undo the good that the last days of his life had accomplished remained for the time being an open question |