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Show NEWS REVIEW Rioting Flares in India; British Get Stern Rule CO-OP INQUIRY: Tiro Questions Although the public is not too well informed about it, one of the most important and fiercely waged domestic do-mestic post war battles is that being fought between private business busi-ness and cooperative enterprises. Crux of the feud is the fact that cooperatives are tax-exempt, while private business is not. From this evolve two basic questions: 1. What effect does tax-exemption have upon growth of the cooperatives? 2. Is tax-exemption a factor of discrimination against private pri-vate business? A house small business subcommittee subcom-mittee has begun an attempt to find the answers with an investigation of the cooperative community enterprise en-terprise at Greenbelt, Md. In the Greenbelt case, business groups have charged that the government has aided th c cooperative in keeping keep-ing private business out of the development de-velopment area. This hearing as well as others on the west co-.. is- being conducted by Rep. B. Walter Riehlman (Rep.. N. Y.) as acting chairman of the subcommittee. In view of the theory that taxes will remain high, compared with the past, for at least 50 years, according ac-cording to economists, the tax-exemption tax-exemption feature of co-ops' existence exist-ence will grow increasingly Important. Impor-tant. RED SAUCERS: Soviets Curious Those flying disks were fun while they lasted, but by this time everybody every-body has practically forgotten them. Well, almost everybody. Latest reX)rt having to do with the aerial chinaware is that Soviet agents in the United States have been ordered to solve the mystery of the disks. Presupposing the report re-port to be true. It means, at least, that the saucers were not of Russian Rus-sian OL'igin. Soviet espionage agents here are said to have been advised that the Kremlin believes the flying saucers might have some connection with nrmy experiments on methods of knocking out enemy radar. INDEPENDENCE: India Riots During the two days before fateful fate-ful India became, a land of free men, more than 200 died in a bloody orgy of violence and rioting in the huge northern province of Punjab. Lahore, the capital, was the center cen-ter of the disturbance, but fierce fighting also took place throughout the west and east Punjab countryside. country-side. Wide sections of Lahore were aflame. This took place on the eve of India's In-dia's independence day, just before the Indian constituent assembly sat down to function as a free governing govern-ing body. Cause of the rioting, Incited, as always, by terrorists, was the -bitter disagreement arising out of the partitioning of India into two separate sepa-rate zones one for Hindus, the other for Moslems. In New Delhi, the independence day ceremonial program began with two minutes of silence for those who died in the fight for freedom free-dom which was finally achieved through amicable negotiations with the British. IRON HAND: Britannia Ruled It well may be true that "Britons never, never, never shall be slaves," as the anthem has it, but in view of Prime Minister Clement Attlee's new emergency action giving giv-ing the government stern powers over British industry and labor, many in the islands are now harboring har-boring serious doubts about that. The emergency bill, which Winston Win-ston Churchill charged Invoked such restraints as the government has never before imposed except In time of war, has been passed by both houses of parliament and now for better or worse Is law of the land. Designed to bring Britain out of her deadly economic slump, the bill empowers the government to command com-mand labor and industry to do practically anything and everything, every-thing, if it is in the national interest. in-terest. Rallying cry of the British conservatives, con-servatives, led by Churchill, Is ' VI i ft ri inrti i n " - t A, Anthony Eden, former for-mer foreign secretary, got into the fight by asking that parliament cut short a planned vacation va-cation so the members can be on hand to examine exam-ine the measures which the government will or- Ellen tier. "The house cannot be on absent spectator while the government govern-ment does a split over the ever-widening abyss," said Eden, also a member of the Conservative party. |