| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS house group croup approves measure to draft men into Armed forces hope for palestine agreement ebbs by bill staff writer EDITORS NOTES NOTE when opinions opinion are impressed la in the heie cola m no they are ra those of western newspaper union news new a and nd not essau bof ol 01 this r j DRAFT BILL on the way yielding to the pressure 0 of f the times congress was putting its hand gingerly to the business of passing a se service act which would give he aa nations armed forces a total manpower of 0 slightly more th than li in two million in two years the house armed services committee amit had approved the measure after hearing defense secretary james forrestal term it an excellent one and passed it on to the floor of the house for debate thus tor for the first time since before the war congress was facing I 1 squarely the momentous issue of a national draft that this was happening during the hair trigger days of an election year only served to underline the apparent urgency of the matter As approved by the armed services committee the bill would raise total authorized manpower 1 of the armed forces to army air force navy and marine corps require registration of men 2 from 18 through 30 with those from 19 through 25 liable for two years service exempt most veterans from 3 further service but those under 31 would have to register allow seizure of industrial plants 4 by the government if they refused to give top priorities to armament orders As it stood the draft plan was conceded to have a good chance of passage at this session of congress but complications were being threatened by the senate armed services committee which seemed inclined to combine a universal military training measure with the draft bill the committee was waiting for army secretary kenneth royall to recommend details of a bill to call 18 year olds tor for a years training they would be taken in addition to men procured through the draft As a combination that look so good to many republicans rep walter G andrews rep N Y chairman of the house armed service committee called the idea utterly foolish inconceivable and not called for OLEO TAX fight ahead one of the most pressing problems members of congress have had to decide this year is whether their political bread Is spread with butter or oleomargarine it Is further complicated by the fact that they might in choosing one or the other be letting the gravy get away from them for good or ill III however the house of representatives made its decision it passed by a vote of to a bill to repeal all federal oleomargarine taxes which have been on the books for 62 years those taxes are itemized as follows 10 cents a pound on n colored oleo 14 cent a pound on uncolored a year on manufacturers on wholesalers of colored oleo on wholesalers of the uncolored product 43 48 on retailers of colored 0 oleo lea and 8 0 on retailers of uncolored even if the federal taxes were repealed it still would be against the law to sell colored oleo in 20 states nevertheless the house had rid itself of the matter and now it was up to the senate where a battle royal was in prospect reason the oleo tax issue has a stiff tight fight ahead in the senate Is that senators are elected by voters of entire states rather than by voters of districts within the states as are most representatives the result in this case Is a split spilt in the sentiment of constituents of many senators for example big northern states such as illinois wisconsin michigan and ohio are composed of consumer cities and producer farms the country districts include dairy farmers and soy bean growers consumers in cities want repeal of the taxes and so do the soy bean men whose product Is used in manufacture of oleo the dairy farmers naturally want the tax to remain the dairy interests are strong their supporters in congress have been able to retain the oleo cleo tax by the simple process of shelving any repeal bills in committee it happened to the tha current bill in the house agricultural committee but a petition circulated among house members forced the bill on to the floor where it was approved clouds in the est east a I 1 A a A 1 m 1 y X MU 1 P S ag IM amateur and professional military experts now are weighing the pros and cons of 0 war in the holy land palestine Is completely encircled by arab states except for its mediterranean coastline numerals indicate estimated fighting strength of 0 the various aral states state 9 jewish forces in palestine are said to number about JERUSALEM confused time was running out in palestine and with it the hope for averting a jewish har arab civil war tor for possession ot at jerusalem in the waning days before great britain removed oved her troops from the holy land upon expiration of the british mandate on may 15 13 palestine had become a savagely confused moribund state bitterly the united nations trusteeship council virtually abandoned its efforts to devise an effective plan to safeguard jerusalem from ravishment by the warring cacti factions ons delegates could not hit upon a scheme that could be enforced nor was any arab jewish jew ish agreement in sight which might result in a truce necessary to give any U N plan a chance like a little boy watching his father trying to get his kite out of a tree th the council looked hopefully to jerusalem where the red cross was doing its best to bring a ahalt halt to the fighting r As far as the threatened invasion of palestine by neighboring arab states was concerned no one seemed able to sum up the situation accurately jews were insisting in the face of denials that syrian and lebanese armies had invaded northern palestine and the british were reported to have rushed troops back into the country to deal with what they called a seriously deteriorated situation still an unknown factor in the rapidly climaxing events was wily old king abdullah of trans jordan commander of the finest army in arabia the spike helmet helmeted e d arab legion he had been talking big about invading palestine from the east he had been talking too about making himself king of palestine his ambition is a middle east amalgam of states that would be in the nature of a greater syria experts were not discounting the rols role abdullah and his power politick ing could play in the drama in the end he could turn kirn out to be the catalytic agent that might b bring ing the unregenerate events in palestine palestine to a reasonable if not a happy conclusion COVENANTS just paper in a decision which may produce more extensive reaction than any designed civil rights legislative program the V U S supreme court handed down a decision that in effect outlaws so called restrictive covenants which bar racial or religious minorities from buying or occupying property in many areas throughout the country declaring the decision chief jus tice lice fred vinson held that en enforce foice ment of restrictive covenants by state or federal courts was a viola tion of the ath amendment that amendment adopted in reads in parti part no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united states nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction j url s dl c ti on the th e e equal protection of the laws the supreme courts decision did not declare that restrictive cove 1 nants as such are violations of the constitution but by ruling that it is unconstitutional for the courts to enforce the covenants it reduced them legally to mere scraps of paper for the most part pait covenants are agreements entered upon by real estate promoters and buyers of land or homes purchasers agree not to sell their land or homes to persons barred by the covenant terms of the agreement running from an average of 25 or 60 50 years to perpetuity current events anyone who can answer all five fiva of the following questions nay may consider fon pon sider himself an expert it make inake any difference what kind of expert its enough just to be one without going into boring detail about abou tit it I 1 trans jordan Is playing a key rol rolo la in the ra palestine lestine situation no how 10 loaff n g has it been an independent pe d cut state late 2 state department la Is considering conle some form of military lend lease leas tor for the lye five nations which sign signed d the brussels pact when did lend lease begin and when was it terminated 3 oo do you know about how many I 1 of americas troops now are serving outside the U so si a b c d 4 sen ben robert A taft of ohio Is seeking republican presidential nomination there have been seven ohio borna born P r residents e a I 1 d a n t 9 name them 5 bureau of labor statistics reported that the consumer price index declined from in january to 1689 1669 tn in march what event took place in mid february that was a factor in the decline ANSWERS 1 A little over two years yeara in march WS 1946 under a treaty with great britain n trans jordan became a sovereign sov independent nde pendent state 2 president noo loosevelt sevelt signed ea the lend lease bill on march 11 a lingal 1941 it was terminated by president truman as all 01 0 august 22 1915 1945 8 b R 4 U S grant rutherford Huther rord B reyes hayes james A garfield benjamin harrison william mckinley william howard tat taft warren G harddng all were republicans 5 the break 1 in the grain market BIG PLANES PLANE S russian i russia put some big four planes into the air over moscow for or the annual soviet may day parade and managed thereby to instill a modicum of uneasiness in the hearts of U S military experts at last reports they were awaiting more detailed reports of the planes from V U S observers in order to gain it if possible a new insight into soviet airborne army equipment it Is likely the experts thought that at least some of the planes were the soviet TU 70 an aircraft bearing close resemblance to the tha american 1329 13 29 assumption has been that the russians copied many of the features of t the h e five B known to have been forced down in soviet c controlled ont rolled areas during the war reported to be a hybrid transport bomber the TU 70 has a passenger capacity of 72 this probably could be increased substantially however if the plane were used strictly as a troop carrier THE BREAK colombia not quits quite a month almonth after the abortive revolution in april swept the capital city of bogota into turmoil and caused damage throughout the republic the government of colombia formally severed diplomatic relations with russia that the break was a direct result of the revolt reportedly communist led and inspired no one bothered to deny officially however no mention was made of the uprising foreign minister eduardo angels noto note to the russian charge daf daff faires alres said simply that colombia considered that there were no ties which warranted a continuation of diplomatic and consular relations between the two countries in concordance with the diplomatic 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