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2 The Newi-Rtview, Roieburg, OrtA Men., Jan. 23, 1950
Coal Mintrs Refuse
To Call Off Strike
(Continued from page One)
weekend had indicated 37,000 of
the 90,000 miners on strike would
go back Into the pits.
Pickets showed up at several
mines to prevent many oi those
locals from resuming production
- for a fuel hungry nation.
Weekend efforts of the UMW
district officers to Induce miners
to give up their strike cut the
total number Idle to an estimated
60,000.
The back to work movement
showed strength in the Pittsburgh
area but was weak In the rich
Southwestern Pennsylvania sec
tion near Uniontown.
Most of the closed mines are
owned by steel companies.
In Pittsburgh, where a power
shutdown to industrial plants had
been threatened, the DuQuesne
Light company said it had enough
- coal to assure normal operations
until early next week "despite the
critical situation."
The latest In the series of re
cent strikes has been centered In
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Together, they employ more than
half the country's 400,000 soft
coal miners.
It was in those two states that
rank and file miners shouted
down UMW district officials who
urged the men to follow John L.
Lewis' suggestion they return to
work.
Lewis Remains Mum
This week's walkout Is the
" fourth consecutive week since the
New Year that some of Lewis'
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soft coaf miners have chosen not
to work, tome coal operators,
who ask not to be Identified, said
the walkoutn are just part of
Lewis strategy to get in em to
sign a contract to replace the one
which expired last June 3U.
Lewis Isn't graying anything. He
and his lawyers are being kept
busy mapping strategy. The fiery
union leader is knee deep In law
suits. Legal aatlons against mm
and the UMW range from multi-
claims for Injunctions to halt the
million dollar damage suns lo
three-day week.
Robert N. Denham, general
counsel of the national labor re
lations board, hat charged Lewis
with making demands on opera
tors Illegal under tne Tan-Hartley
act. The action ,1s due to be
heard Thursday. Operators start
ed the ball rolling an this suit,
claiming Lewis and the UMW
were guilty of unfair labor prac
tices. Senator Plans Action
During the weekend, Senator
Robertson (D,-Va.) Jumped into
the raging controversy over
Lewis' powers. The Virginia sena
tor declares he's ready to intro
duce legislation designed to per
mit anti-trust action against la-,
bor unions in certain cases.
Briefly, his proposal would:
1. Make unions subject to the
anti-trust laws in cases where a
union was Involved in an action
amounting to "unreasonable re
straint of trade."
2. The action affected Industry
"essential to the maintenance of
the national economy, health or
safety of any substantial segment
thereof."
Mr. Truman has declared time
and again that no national emer
gency yet exists which would
call the T-H law Into the coal sit
uation. Several members of Con
gress have disputed his conclu
sion that there is no emergency.
Charles Evans Hughes Jr.
Dies After Operation
NEW YORK, JAN. 23 UP)
Charles Evans Hughes Jr., for
mer U. S. Solicitor general and
son of the late chief justice of the'
United States, died Saturday at
the age of 60.
Death followed an operation,
for a brain tumor.
Hughes, a Republican like his
father, was appointed solicitor
5eneral by President Hoover In
line, 1929, and resigned in April,,
1930, when his father was ap
pointed chief justice.
Hughes is survived by his wl-,
dow, Mrs. Marjory Stuart Hugh
es, and four children.
Pension Hike Seems Sure
At Present Session
(Continued from page One)
that The Truman administration
urged ft as recently as last week
througrt Arthur J. Altmeyer,
commissioner for social security.
And it was recommended by the
Senate's advisory council on so
cial security.
The council, the House bill and
Altmeyer all recommend widen
ing the coverage of the law to
bring under its benefits people
not covered now, beside Increas
ing certain benefits, like old age
pensions.
While the social security act
was passed in 1935, the last ma
jor change was made 10 years
ago.
The maximum old age pension
a worker can receive now when
he retire at 65 is around $45 a
month. The average, though, is
about S25, the lowest $10.
Since a retired worker's wife
receives half the size of his pen
sion wiiea she reaches 65, the
most a retired covered worker
and his wjfe can receive now is
about $67.50 a month ($45 for
him, $22.50 for her.)
But not all workers are cov
ered by the pension. When the
uncovered ones reach 65, they get
nothing.
Around 35,000,000 workers now
are under the old-age pension
system, 25,000,000 are not.
Altmeyer, experssing the Presi
dent's views, wants 20,000,000 of
the 25,000,000 workers not cov
ered by old-age Insurance brought
Into the program. This Is about
9,600,000 more than the House
passed bill would bring in.
About 2,000,000 of the 11,000,000
men and women 65 or older in
this country are getting old age
pensions.
Excise Tax Reductions
Requested By Truman
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Prisoners Lack Key
To Final Jail Door
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21st floor to place the prisoners
In their cells for the night.
One cell door would not close,
Sullivan reported, and SImms
sent Gilchrist in to see what was
holding up the automatic lock.
At that point, Sullivan contin
ued, Bertrand seized SImms
while three unidentified prison
ers tackled Gilchrist, knocking
him out. One of the unidentified
prisoners then slugged SImms.
After finding the way to free
dom blocked, said Sullivan, the
seven prisoners had the run of
the jail for 20 minutes before
giving up.
Both SImms and Gilchrist re
portedly were badly battered
about the skull, though how badly
could not be learned immediate
ly.
of a corporation's income which
Is In excess of $50,000."
At the same time he recom
mended that the tax rate on cor
porate income between $25,000
and $50,(X ) which is now taxed
"at the excessively high 'notch'
rate of 53 per cent, be reduced to
the same rate as applies above
$50,000."
He proposed that estate and
gift tax laws be revised to pro
vide uniform treatment and re
duce present exemptions so as to
"not only bring in more revenue,"
but to "improve the fairness of
the estate and gift tax laws."
As an example of what he had
in mind there, Mr. Truman said
that if a man leaves an estate of
$300,000 to a wife and three chil
dren, the estate must pay a tax of
$17,500.
But a man of the same wealth,
he said, could give $180,000 to his
familv over a five-year nerlod.
leave an estate of $120,000 and
there would be no taxes.
Spread out that way, the gifts
would be tax exempt. The remain
ing $120,000 would be under the
$6(5,000 estate exemption ( $60,000
to tie widow and $60,000 to the
three children.)
The message avoided many de
tails in tne proposed tax legisla
tion, leaving this to be filled in
later by the Treasury depart
ment. Offsets Demanded
However, the president made
It olain that he would veto any
tax cut that does not at the same
time bring in new revenue to
make up the loss.
"I wish to make it very clear,"
he declared, "that I could not ap
prove excise tax reductions un
less they are accompanied by
provision for repla anient of the
revenue lost, because I am con
vinced that sound fiscal policy
will not nermlt a weakening of
our tax system at this time.
"Under present conditions, we
cannot afford to reduce excise
t-xes first, li. the hope that action
will be taken later to make up
for the loss In revenue."
Tax Dodging Pointed Out
In his message, the president
discussed at considerable length
"shocking" loopholes which he
said allow some persons and in
terests to escape millions in taxes.
As one example, he said that
"under present law producers of
motion pictures and tneir star
Dlayers. have attempted to avoid
taxes by creiting temporary cor
1 jrations which are dissolved
after making one film."
He said one oil operator, be
cause oi tne depletion allowance.
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paid only $100,000 taxes over a
five-year period although his In
come from non-oil sources alone
averaged almost $1,000,000 a year.
Mr. Truman did not Identify
the oil man.
Present taxes are expected to
bring in about $37,300,000,000
mis year, mis win De aoout
500,000,000 short of anticipated
?xoendltures.
Eleotlon Year Is Factor
In asking an over-all Increase
of $1,000,000,000 In taxes, Mr.
Truman retreated from the $4,
000,000,000 boost he recommended
last year and which Congress
ignored.
This time he made no mention
of higher taxes for middle and
upper bracket individuals, such as
was included in his $4,000,000,000
bill.
,. Many Congress members had
anticipated the , president's new
messaee would take intt count
the reality that congress probably
would be slow, since this is an
election year, to put new taxes on
individuals or mucn larger our
dens In anv other direction.
The president said the tax pro
gram le recommenoea is ae
signed to strengthen the tax sys
tem "so that it will yield reve
nues sufficient to balance ex
penditures as they a further re
duced over the next several years,
and to provide some surplus for
debt reduction,"
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Reduction Plan Given
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RALEIGH, N. C, Jan. 23 (m
Secretary of the Army Gordon
Gray has been cnosen by a nomi
nating committee to be president
of the Greater University of
North Carolina.
Gray, publisher of the Winston-
Salem Journal and Sentinel, Is
an alumnus of the university. His
selection ended a 10-month
search for a successor to Dr.
Frank P. Graham. The Greater
University embraces the univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel
hill, North Carolina State college
at Raleigh, and Woman's college
at Greensboro.
Dr. Graham resigned the presi
dency last March when Gov.
Scott named him U. S. Senator,
succeeding the late J. M. Brough-ton.
cent tax rate might be cut to
ten per cent.
Other Items Specified
The other three excises speci
fied by the president are:
Long distance teleDhnne and
telegraph messages, estimated to
yield $325,000,000 at the present
25 per cent rate. A 15 per cent
tax has been mentioned in Congress.
i ransportatlon of p e r i o n a,
meaning passenger tickets on
railroads, buses, airlines and
ships, estimated to yield $240,000,
000 at the present rate of 15 per
cent of the ticket price. There has
been talk of reducing this to 10
aer cent.
Transportation of property.
meaning the tax on freight hauls.
calculated to aise $330,000,000 at
the present three per cent rate.
Mr. Truman, once suggested out-
rignt repeal ol this tax. but the
Treasury has been holding but
ior a cut to one and one-half per
cent, half the present rate.
ine principal excise taxes not
mentioned by Mr. iruman and
their estimated yield this year
Include:
Admissions to movies and stage
plays, 20 per cent, $395,000,000;
nigrt clubs, etc., 20 per cent of
cnarges, 4u,uuu,uuu.
lso the following: taxes actual
ly paid by manufacturers but re-
liected in retail prices:
Passenger cars and motor
cycles, five per cent of manu
facturers' price, $350,000,000;
trucks, buses and trailers, five per
cent, $105,000,000; auto parts and
acc ssories, live per cent,
$90,000,00.
tlectric light bulbs. 20 per
cent, $25,000,000.
Radios, phonographs and rec
ords, television sets and musical
instruments, 10 per cent,
$45,000,000.
Refrigerators and air condition
ers, 10 per cent, $65,000,000.
The alcoholic beverage taxes
which yield $2,290,000,000 at
present rates range from $8 a
barrel on beer and 15 per cent on
low alcoholic content wines to $9
a gallon on 100 proof whisky.
Also ignored by Mr. Trman in
his recommendations for reduc
tions were such miscellaneous
levies as:
Local telephone service, 15 per
cent, $255,000,000; coin-operated
amusement and gambling devices
I $100 a year for slot machines.
$20 a year for pool tables and
bowling alleys and $10 a year for
otner amusement or music ma.
chines) $25,000,000.
The Weather
U. 8. Weather Bureau Office
Roieburg, Oregon
Cloudy with occasional light
rain today, tonight and Tuesday
Slightly cooler tonight.
iilgheit temp, any Jan. 71
Lowest temp, for any Jan. -t
Highest temp, yesterday .... 53
Lowest temp, last 24 hrs. 41
Precipitation last 24 hri, .... .86
Precipitation from Jan. 1 8.7S
Precipitation from Sept. 1 ..20.21
Excess from Jan. 1 i.. .. 5.16
Ex-Convicts Nabbed
With Burglary Evidence
HILLSBORO. Jan. 23.(!Py-
Two men were held In jail for
questioning by Salem police to
day after their arrest In an at
tempted burglarly here.
State Officer James Bauman
said the car which David R.
Cook. 29. and Harold Lancelle,
35, were using had money bags
bearing the Imprint of a Salem
bank, tools and guns. These were
believed part of the thefts m a re
cent Salem burglary.
Bauman said the two men gave
Salem as their home town, but
that both were wanted by police
In other states and had served
time In a Wisconsin prison.
attained because of a series of
government investigations which
hampered progress. There were
hints that some of the investiga
tions, at least, were Inspired by
the established automobile Indus
try because it feared Tucker
competition. '
There might have been some
mismanagement, too, the de
fense contended, but of fraud and
criminal intent there was none.
The company had taken over
the huge war-time Dodge plant
in Chicago and had negotiated
with government agencies for a
war-time surplus steel plant in
whicA to produce Its own supply.
Tucker called , the verdict a
"victory for the stockholders and
dealers of the corporation as well
as for free enterprise." He said
he would be 'glad to "cooperate
in every way I can in reorgan
ization plans."
The corporation s affairs are In
the hands of trustees who have
not yet reported whether a re
organization is advisable.
Arlington Cafe Blast
Spreads Sizable Damage '
ARLINGTON, Ore, Jan." 23
(iThe one-story Oregon trail
cafe building was wrecked yes
terday by an explosion that shat
tered windows in two blocks of
commercial buildings.
About 100 small window panes
of the public school, on a bluff
overlooking the blast area, were
broken by the shock.
The owner, Olin B. Spauldirg
and hut wife, had left the build
ing a few minutes earlier. .
The cafe has been under re
pairs for two months and closed,
frpaulding said he had turned off
a gas heating stove as he left
the cafe. It was being used to
speed the drying of newly painl.
ed fixtures.
He estimated damage to the
cafe at $16,000. Owners of other
buildings had not estimated cost
of replacing broken windows, but
firemen said it would amount
to several thousand dollars.
Greyhound Depot Safe
At Corvallis Looted
CORVALLIS, Jan. 23. UP)
A smooth working yegg who left
no apparent clues relieved the
Pacific Greyhound's bus depot
here of slightly more than $700
sometime between last night and
this morning.
Police said the burglar entered
the building through an unlocked
garage, broke a window to get ,
into the office and then apparent
ly opened the safe where the
money was kept by using the
regular combination.
WOMEN'S HOUR CHANGED
Due to the Benson school car
nival in the Benson gym Friday
night, the women's exercise
hours have been changed to Tues
day night, for this week. The
hours will be the same, 7:30-9:40,
announced Ruth Laws,- publicity
chairman. Mrs. Laws emphasized
that the change to Tuesday night
Is only for this week. Next week
the meeting will be on Friday, as
usual.
Tucker, Seven Associates
Freed Of Fraud Charge
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government described the adver
tising as "a pack of lies."
Federal Interference Claimed
The defense argued, however
that the goal of high-speed as
sembly line production was not
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