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A-l-porceloin interior . new ZZ 'l" arrangement . . . .pf "Z,C rOVed f usMeter-MisermeLal IprVdllV .erv.ce expense for 5 yeorsl CoTX, UMPGIW VALLEY APPLIANCE Preston Tucker, Automobile Promoter. 6 Co-Defendants Deny U. S. Charges Of Fraud CHICAGO. June 24. l.V) Preston T. Tucker, his business suit matching the gray of his personal rear-engine car, pleaded Innocent yesterday to a federal indictment charging mail fraud, conspiracy and SEC violations. Six of his seven co-defendants in a 31-count Indictment also pleaded innocent before Judge Philip L. Sullivan. The only defendant absent and unrepresented by counsel was Harold Karsten, alias Abe Karatz, of Los Angeles. U. S. Attorney Otto Kerner, Jr., said he would not oppose a suggestion that the filing of Karsten's plea be de ferred until a trial date Is fixed. The indictment charges that a total of $28,000,000 was spent by the defendants on the promotion and building of the car. The sources of the money were sales of dealer franchises, sale of Class A stock and accessories for cars sold before delivery of the auto mobiles. The defendants are accused of taking advantage of the unusual postwar consumer demand for cars and spreading "false and fraudulent statements and repre sentations relating to a proposed completely new automobile . . . which was represented to possess and combine features of advanced construction and design not here tofore contained in any mass pro duction automobile." Financial Juggling Charged The indictment charges that the defendants "caused to be di verted to their own use and bene fit funds realized from the sale of dealer and distributor fran chises, sale of class A stock, and accessory groups." The Tucker finances dropped, the grand jury reported, from a high of $28,000,000 to a cash bal ance of $130,000 on Dec. 31, 1948. In addition to the $17,000,000 from the stock sale, the defend ants got $8,000,000 from the sale of dealer and distributor fran chises, and more than $3,000,000 for sale of accessories for the un produced car. In this period of about two years, the indictment went on, more than $28,000,000 was spent and 25 hand-made automobiles were turned out, none of which had the engineering features which Tucker contended would go into his automobile. U. S. District Attorney Otto Kerner Jr., described Karsten as a disbarred attorney, who In 1938 was sentenced to serve one to five years in the Illinois state penitentiary on a charge of fraud and conspiracy. The charge re sulted from defrauding the Amal gamated Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago by Karsten and others. He served three years. Oregon Pharmacists Quit National Retail Druggists PORTLAND, June 24. UP) The Oregon State Pharmaceuti cal Association yesterday with drew from the National Associ ation of Retail Druggists after hearing ' a series of charges against the national group, L. L. Riggs, president of the Oregon group representing some 400 druggists, assailed John W. Dargavel, Chicago, national sec retary, for what he said was re fusal to release audit reports and for establishing "a virtual oligar chy" under which "members of his "Executive Committee yield to his dictates." He said that at the 1947 na tional convention, Dargavel insti tuted "gag rule" against dele- ates from New York, Iowa and regon and on occasion sought to "purge"- state secretaries. Oregon Association members at their state convention yesterday discussed affiliation with the American Pharmaceutical Associ ation but took no formal action. Huge Fraud Charged In California Jobless Pay SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 24 OP) Was California's unemploy ment fund "cheated out of some thing upwards of $30,000,000 in 1948?" This question was raised In the Legislature Thursday In a report by the Senate Interim Com mittee on employment stabiliza tion. Says the report: "From the available evidence, this Commit tee believes, a conservative, in formed guess would be that not less than 20 percent of the total unemployment Insurance bene fits paid in 1948 (over $146,000, 000) were obtained by fraud." The committee declared that unemployment insurance benefit pavments in the first quarter of 1949 were $69,000,000, or more than twice as large as for the same quarter of 1948. As against . $146,000,000 pay ments for the entire year 1948 the report charges benefits are being drawn at the rate of $276, 000.000 a year now. i To curtail fraua the commit tee recommends creation of a more effective detection staff; bet ter training of local office exam iners and interviewers; reinter views of those who draw benefits for long periods. House Members Given Additional Funds, For Clerk Hire, Messages WASHINGTON, June 24. UP) President Truman yesterday signed a bill giving House mem bers an additional $3,000 each for clerk hire and $500 a year for telephone and telegraph mes sages. In doing so he repeated that the salaries of top govern ment officials should be raised. The president said in a mes sage to congress that he signed the increased allowance, measure willingly because he believes it is in the interest of the govern ment and the people to provide for the efficient conduct of the public business. But he indirectly chided the legislators for taking care of themselves while Ignoring offi cials in the executive depart ments and agencies who nave not had a raise in years. "Important as It is for mem bers of the Congress to have ade quate clerical assistance," he said, "it is at least of equal im portance to have men of ability in the key executive positions of the government. The best laws can be ruined by poor adminis tration." Deficiency Bill Signed President Truman also signed yesterday an $862,563,000 approp riation bill supplying money for thousands of temporarily payless federal employes. It also makes $5,400,000 available for rebuild ing or repairing the White House. The bill Is what is known as a deficiency measure. It supplies money for agencies which al ready have exhausted their regu lar appropriations for the present fiscal year which closes with the end of this month. 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Oregon AFL Warned To Keep Morse, AngeH On Job EUGENE, Ore., June 34. UP The 400 delegates to the state AF of L convention here cheered wildly when the director of their League for Political Education declared," you have two friends In Washington and you had bet ter get started right now to see that you keep them there Sen ator Wayne Morse and Congress man Homer Angell." Joseph Keenan, who flew out from Texas after addressing that state's Federation of Labor ear lier in the week, said that labor has fallen down on the job of electing Its friends and defeating its enemies. In past elections, he said, men were defeated by just a handful of votes, where more effort could have kept them in Congress where they had been friends of Don't Take Things For Granted! You enjoy your home, your possessions and the comfort they afford you. But don't take them too much for granted because fire could destroy them in trice and you'd have to pay a lot more today than you originally did to re place them. 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