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'J. ox C, Library Eugene, xx COMP tank Ml fUl WW mi am IS O 1 f AqreementOn Tax-Boosting Bill Reached Congress Compromise Tosses Out Withholding Levy On Corporations WASHINGTON Clt A com- Eromise $4,700,000,000 tax-boosting ill was approved Wednesday by a senate-house conference tin-mittee. This opened the way for Con gress to send the bill to President Truman by Friday night and fori Congress to recess this weekend I until after the November elections. The conferees approved the com promise by breaking a deadlock I .through this action: 1 1. They threw out a 10 percent i withholding levy on corporation di vidends which they had approved only Tuesday. This was intended to collect about SWO.OuO.OOO a year from persons who fail to pay in come taxes on the dividends they receive. 2. They eliminated a controver sial provision in the bill, inserted by the Senate, dealing with the taxation of family business part nerships. Some House conferees had contended the Senate provision would open the way for some per sons to make business partners of their minor children and thereby reduce their income taxes. 3. ., . . , . l Did an bout-face on anothe i dealing with the taxation of . Issue dealing life insurance companies. The con fcrees agreed that the companies should be taxed 1122,000,000 on their investment income, for the years 1949 and 1950. Tuesday they had sain me lax snouia dc ko, -,7.. ...... . i. ,o,a rS """ 1949 ana mau. i 4. n.nocnea oui a enie uiu out a senate bill provision that would have provided capital gains tax treatment, in stead of higher personal income tax rates, to income of persons selling or leasing oil rights. This had been one of the principal items in dispute. No change was made in the most important provisions of the measure, providing for increase of almost 13,000,000,000 a year i n personal income taxes, and J1.S00, 000.0(H) a year additional taxes for corporations. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As these words are written, fairly early this morning, our newly-landed forces are advancing eastward from the Korean beachhead. They are meeting opposition from North Koreans. BUT NOT VERY HEAVY OPPOSITION. They seem to be more or less brushing the opposing commies out of their way, as one bats off angry ground hornets when traveling along a trail toward a place he is headed for and intends to arrive at. Meanwhile From down around Taegu, where the fighting has been grim and bloody and tenacious for weeks on end, where we and the commies have been spending lives fighting each other back and forth for com manding heights along a fairly well established battleline, we are get- ...... ..... . Dili I ING OCT IN HASTE AND HEaU ' ING BACK NORTH TOWARD fF.Oin. TO MEET THE NEW THREAT WE HAVE POSED BY OUR AMPHIBIOUS LANDING. What does it all mean? Well, it looks like we may have taken these Asiatic communists by puijiiac u obelus u me niuinriu (Continued en Page Four) The Weather Continued fair today, tonight and Friday. Highest torn p. for any Sopt. . Lowest torn p. for any Sept. . Highest tamp, yostorday Lowest temp, yostorday Precipitation last 24 hours .... Precipitation from Sept. 1 .... Deficiency from Sept. 1 Sunset today, 7:13 p. m Sunrise tomorrow, 7:00 a. i 104 4, m '7, Reported Praise Of Hitler ByG.O.P, Worker Stirs Up Demand For Investigation NEW YORK (API Republican national chairman Cuv Cabrielson lay! he will investigate a published report that one of his assistants made e remark . u:. ...... - J - world of nood." The aide, Bonner p. Fellersof Washington, D.C., says he wai "misquoted entirely." Cabrielson promised en investigation en demend of Gov Thomas E. Dewey. flewev rilled in fahrieltnn in a - ' (elegram last night to dismiss Fel- i lers as a GOP national committee' attacne it ne made tne remark l ,7a- . ,, - ......... be Hin-Anicrican iv despicable ( unt ITihV 'n.Tn.'r,!: tion of lhe Republican party. Gabrielsnn. wiring to Dewey : from Washington in reply, prom-1 ied the investigation and said: ,1 join inW-plorinz and disavow- i,W any opinion Of tne Repuolicanl ing any prai.se of Hitler as reject-' party." Q O : i)Robert S. Alifh's syndicated newsDarjer co umn irnm vasn'- lets made the remark to a group of six anti-Nan Germans touring Established 1173 Communist Curb Bill Punishment For Espionage To Be Sterner Majority Vote For Measure Assures Death For Threatened Veto WASHINGTON A bill calling for strict federal hobbles on Communists, including whole sale internment of dangerous Reds in wartime, went to an uncertain fate at the White House today. The President had an opportun ity at his news conference today to give his views on the bill. Senate and House passed the measure uy laiiusuuc- v a Wednfsd ,y:well ,wl lh,t Presi rf Tnl', m,v ., it nmmnilv dent Truman may veto it promptly. Backers of the measure claimed they could command plenty of votes to override him if he did. Barring any big switch in sen timent, the figures bore them out. The senate vote was SI to 7, the ine house vote 312 to 20 - both far jn exceM of tne two-thirds major- nepded to override a veto. The president had said he would n't sign earlier versions of the bill. In bitter senate and house de bates, foes of the bill condemned it as a menace to freedom which takes its cur from the very total itarianism against which it is aimed, and which wouldn't really hurt the Communists. The Republicans and Democrats who backed it shouted "nonsense" and "misrepresentation." Senator Mundt (R-SD) called the measure "a second declaration of indepen dence." The bill carries these major pro visions: 1. Compulsory registration of Communists, Communist organiza tions, and Communist front groups. Officers of Communist front groups, but not rank and file mem hera also would be retfistered. ! 2 Anihnritv in lime nf war In vasion or insurrection for intern ment of persons deemed to be po tential spies and saboteurs 3. A prohibition against Commun ists' holding government jobs or working in defense plants, trans portation facilities, or defense lab oratories. 4. Sterner punishment of spies and saboteurs, and extension from three to 10 years of the time in which prosecution could be started in espionage cases. The bill declares Communists in America are "awaiting and seek ing the moment ... the overthrow of the government of the United States by force and violence may seem possible." A clue to the President's inten tions may have been given in a speech to the American Bar asso- .!.iT.W,'?.tU Si1.AU2I' new General McGrath. He de nounced the measure as evidence of "public hysteria." The Bar association's assembly ignored the attorney general's rec ommendations and endorsed the bill. Sfajjen Denies Offer To Head Navy Dept. NEW YORK Harold E. Stassen denied last night a news paper report that he would replace ! Francis Matthews as secretary of the navy. "I am not expecting any appoint- ; ment from the administration " the former Republican governor of Minnesota told newsmen. Earlier, the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review said the navy srcrriar jiiu nau u'H uucicii Stassen by President Truman. Stassen has said he expects to take a post of national and inter-1 i national importance but thus far I has declined to reveal its nature. i 1 L- 1 ' U IP. . J J r- that mrier oig wirminy a tn. United States xj,e Aen column quoted Fellers t,i,ng ,n, Germans at GOP national neaaquaners in vtasning- ton- ' l!ive Hitler d,d oVrm.ny , wor)d o( Sure h(, dd , few bad things. But it was Hitler who rehabilitated the Germans. The only thing wrong with Hitler es that he went too far. He got the world involved in a war." The German group is in this country studying democratic in- stilutions and methods. reuers. m. is a reureq onsaaier fare officer on Gen. TVxiglas Vac - Arthur's staff from 1M4 to 194.. ROSEIURG), t - HOWS YOUR HEALTH? Dorothy Kitchen, school nursa, is shown conducting quickie health check in e Fullertun ichool classroom. Such projects es health end athletic programs in the schools, together with aid ts underprivileged children, is being encouraged and promoted by local service organizations in their child welfare programs. The Kiwanis club is calling special atten tion to this phese of work in a special four-page section of the News-Review to be published Saturday. (Picture by Paul Jenkins. I Mysterious Night Whistler Who Terrorizes Bride-To-Be Baffles Police In Louisiana PARADIS, Le. (API This little bayou community bustled with excitement todey watching for e phantom whistler whose weird serenades heve terrorised en-18-year-old bride-to-be.. Nearly all of the village's 200 population peered out of windows last night while cordon of sheriff's deputies guarded the home of Jacquelyn Cadow. For the past few days the towns- people have talked of little except . the intruder who threatened the girl's life and vowed to prevent her 1 the intruder who threatened the marriage to a young state trooper. Opinion ia divided over whether the nocturnal whistler is a prank ster, a would-be killer or a luna tic. His whistle is a shrill interpreta tion of a funeral dirge. State police, who were drawn into the investigation by state trooper Herbert Belsom of N e w Orleans, Jacquelyn's husband-to-be, said they were stepping out of the case. "We are convinced it is the work of a prankster," trooper Vincent B. Ebeier said. State Police Sgt. N. J. Khoury said the Cadow home Wednesday took on he appearance of a mecca. Hundreds of cunousity seekers in automobiles paused for a look at ; Seoul's southwest industrial sub the scene of the whistler s visits , urh One hundred marin radial. a coiiage auirounaca vy nu- an pea vans. Brido-to-bo Collaptts A doctor attended the young bride-to-be, who collapsed Tuesday night after she and her mother, her mother s sister and Orleans Stales reporter all said i they twice heard the intruder's funeral whistle. I The reporter. Roy Heinecke ! joined trooper Belsnm in a search ; 0f lhe Cidow yard, but found nothing. ''The family doesn't seem to nave ,nv enemies," said Sheriff Vial. "It is eilher a crazy person or' someone close to trie family who has something against them that we don t know anout. The girl's mother, Mrs. Clifford Cadow. said it started with whistled wolfcalls last February. Two months ago, when Jacquelyn's engagement W) the 26-year-old trooper was announced, the mother said site received tele phoned threats. "I'll kill her. I'll stick a knife in her. Your daughter will never j unted the caller. marry Meroert, Mrs. laaow : j ne weaaing is set ior WCl. 1. ; - .... . . . . I'll marry Herbert if police have to escort me up the said Jacquelyn. isle, Drunken Driver Fined, I Given 30 Days In Jail Milbern Horace Ricks was fined mill nf 12KO and senienred in j serve 30 days in the county jail on two counts reported Justice irt..- giveStay jail sentence and a fine of 1250 upon pleading guilty to a charge of drunk driving, and was fined :i0 for having no operator's license, said cednes. Arrested also was Carl Elmer Nelson, 52, of Dillard. who was fined $45 for drunkenness on a public highway, according to Ged- oe. . . u . ! deputy from TTie county Sheriff s .office. ORECON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1950 i e ii. a x OeOlii 5 WuDTUTe May Take Another Week, Forecast TOKYO (JP) It may take another week to secure Seoul, Lu Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., Pac ific fleet marine force commander, reported tonight on his return from the central Korean battle zone. Shepherd said additional marine units were being landed today at Inchon and rushing to the front. Returning to Tokyo aboard Gen eral MacArthui's plane "Scap" along with MacArthur, key staff officers and five correspondents, Shepherd predicted that snipers would be troublesome in Seoul. He said house-to-house fighting already had begun in Yongdungno, tiex, mostly wounded, were r e. ported in sharp fighling for Vong- dungpo this morning, the marine general noted. Shepherd said Red forces holding South mountain could sweeD News'ou' w',n "r'il!ery and mortar . . . . .... inii muumain, arouna wmt-n seoui is Dunt, is said by army oincers to Reds. be manned by 3,0()0 said. "I don't think Shepherd the Communists will give up; they've got too much at stake." He concluded, "Anyway, we are across the Han river, and nobody . ' oln " drive us out of those positions." Mill Wage Loss In Rail Car Lack Figured At $40 Million PORTLAND I API The rail car shortage will cost MO.OOO.OOO in lost mill waqas this year, H. V. Simpson said. Simpson, executive vice-president of the West Coeit Lumb ermen s Allocation, said lack autrion oy ou.uuy.uuu reer a week I 10 statement to the press, it railroad! have been selling the the end of Worjd War II." (Criticism of rail linas for the car shortage has been heard frequently, especially in the Oregon lumber-producing region. Rep. Ellsworth IR-Ore.) her introduced e bill in Conaratt tlt. ' : iL.i l . itii '"" goveenmenr ouno rail ears for allocation to Simpson said th'aKJn the ; r0ads retired 90,544 old freight ?"i i ln ,h WA ended Sept. 2, cers in the cWntry was running ( He said the Oregon lumber industry Was hardest hit .end in r,ctnt w,tk, h,d b., 9,Hln. ony 30 per e,t of , , r "a". , . . ,. . , o , I Mills, he seid, ere ifding hundreoWof truckloads of lumber daily to Celifornie, are trucking t Nebraike and Te.es. aO are transportation. O Trucking, he said, has been it e costly conversion. (Given Woman Tells Of Hearts Club Bilk LOS ANGELES UP) Thir teen women, ex-clients of a lonely hearts club, today confront George 11 Ashley, former club chief, in court. Ashley, 52, and two co-defend ants are charged with bilking the women orsi30,ooo. The first of the 1.1 women, moth erly looking Mrs. Maude Neal, 65 of Mount Airy, N. C, testified at a preliminary hearing that Ashley threatened to push her off a cliff when she demanded repayment ol $17,500 she had lent him. Mrs. Neal said she did not join Ashley's club for romance but be cause sne was lonely and "would have welcomed getting acquainted with some ladies." She testified that she is on good terms with her husband and was ordered to come west by her physician because of ill Health. Recalling that Ashley had ridi culed her clothing, she said: "I know I'm a hillbilly, but somehow it makes you feel pretty cheap to have anyone tell you how had you look, especially when they ve taken all you have and you don't have money to buy any thing else." 'Gang-Up' Plot Against Gas Station Backfires LEWISTON. Me. Pi I wis- ton-Auburn filling station operat- or" nve ivn a new twist to gas war lernniques. A score or more of "customers" drove inln Austin Kllis' Main street station Wednesday, each ordered a gallon of gas and paid with (20 bills. Ellis said most of them were rival operators and that he had j been tipped they had been coming. 1 So he had the change ready all I in dimes and nickels. I With Ellis selling gas at 23 cents ' a gallon that meant a lot of coins 'to count. i The result was a 20-minule traf- fie tieup on the main rtery be- tween the two cities. of cars is cutting fir lumber pro- Simpson said the country's class American economy short since ii . uai a pool ot government-owned short-supolv reaions. I yeer ended July 31 the cless I cars apd had put only 40 171 ' TV?,.0-000' .. , , he said, the over-all shortage of. at the rate .af 200.000 e week. at high cost as farseway as i-a-Maima the volumrof water "one selvetion," but he celled 221-50 Truman High Cost Of Living Noted By President Plans Being Madt To Meet It, Truman Says; Blast At Taft Okayed WASHINGTON (P Presi dent Truman said today he is con cerned about the high cost of liv ing and he is working on plans to meet it He told a news conference he will act as speedily as possible but is trying to avoid the mistakes of the last World war. The President said his adminis tration does not want the nation to go through the travail of the last price control period when n had to follow the road of trial and error. Mr. Truman was asked about wages not going up and prices ris ing fast. He said he agreed this was so and he is working on, a plan. Commenting on a statement made by Gov. Chester Bowles of Connecticut, former OPA adminis trator favoring selective price con trols, the President said that ia being discussed but no decision has been reached. Mr. Truman endorsed the at tack by his special assistant, Aver ell Harriman, on Senator Taft (R Ohio). In i speech before the AKL convention in Houston, Tex., Har riman accused Taft of furthering "the designs of the kremlin" by his voting record on foreign pol icy. Mr. Truman said the Taft rec ord speaks for itself. When a reporter asked whether he knew of many Democratic sen ators whose records equalled or surpassed Taft'i, the President re plied very few end added: There are more Republicans who voted right than Democrats who voted wrong, so the country still has a bi-partisan foreign policy. Speaks For Marshall Mr. Truman was asked at the outset today to comment on Gen. George C- Marshall's testimony before the senate armed services committee. A reporter said Mar shall disclaimed responsibility for this government's China policy in 1946 when he visited China on a special mission. Mr. Truman replied that General Marshall at the time waa not sec retary of state, but a special en voy for him. He added that Mar shall, sworn in today as the new secretary of defense, had writvn instructions for him when he went to China. Asked what U. S. policy will be on whether to go beyond the 38th parallel in Korea in cleaning up Korean Communists, the Presi dent said that is a question for the United Nations since the forces op posing the Korean Reds are I U. N. organization. He added he will abide by the decision of the V. N. Gambling Racket Exposure Hope Is Upset By Prisoner NEW YORK (PI Harry Gross, head of a S20,U00.0u0 a year gambling syndicate, has hired a lawyer dashing the hopes of a prosecutor that he will reveal im mediately any tie-up with high ranking policemen. Gross yesterday hired llyman Barshay, a criminal lawyer who has defended many policemen Held in S2.VI.000 hail in prison, Gross has refused thus far to iden tify police with whom he said he was "associated" in the book making business. The worried bookmaker told Judge Samuel S. Iibowitz in a Krivate ennferenre Tuesday that if e identified any of the policemen there would be "a terrible scan dal." His hiring of a lawyer was a rebuff to the pleas of his wife, l.ila, Judge t.ctbowiti and Brooklyn Dis trict Attorney Miles F. McDonald to break down and tell all. Gross was arrested last Friday along with more than a socre of others. I "A,JYae press cannot remain frae V it is subsidised through yielding te private pressures. READ lv ' VAl A7 I. II VA.UU C about THE CONSTANT CHALLENGE Page 4 Today Decisive Combat For Seoul Shaping Up As Enemy Force Rolls Down From Manchuria By The Associated Press U.S. Marines and tanks, hitting from two directions, ham mered toward the heart ot Seoul today es a column ol Red tanks moved down from Manchuria, foreshadowing a fateful battle for the ancient capital of South Korea. Red prisoners said they had been ordered to hold at all costs for the arrival or reinforcements against marines driving from the northwest and south in what veteran Associated Press war correspondent Relmen Morin said looked like one of the big pushes toward the end of World War II, Knudtson's Jewelry Store Is Burglarized Knudtson's Jewelry store en Jackson St. was broken into sometime last night and an un determined amount ef mer chendiso was stolen. Police Chief Calvin Baird said the intruders entered the build ing through the transom ever the main deer, which was net opened. Baird said the police as wall as Knudtson's employes were checking the merchandise ef the store today for missing ar ticles. One Of Hospitals Here Unaffected By Slash Order There will be ne interruption In the construction plans ef the Douglas Community hos pital in the government's an. neunced curtailment ef hespl t a I construction programs. However, the status ef Mercy hospital's grant is not definite. Congressman Harris Ellsworth, in response to a query protesting the interruption of projects under way, was informed today by tele gram from the office of Surgeon General Leonard A, Scheele that there will be no interference with the Douglas Community hospital project. Requesting information for pro jects in the Fourth Congressional district, the reply to Ellsworth read as follows : "Douglas County Commun ity hospital, Roseburg; Sacred Heart hospital, Eugene, and Cot tage Grove hospital projecta fin ally approved. Federal money for these projects ia charged to the Oregon allotment for the 1950 fiscal year. "These projecta should not be affected by i reduction in contract authorization for the fiscal year 1H31. The section of the telegram per taining to Mercy hospital was not clear. It stated: "The preliminary part of the application for Mercy hospital in Rnsehurg was approved Sept. 27, 19.SO, but the project has not been developed to ita final stage." The date of Sept. 27 was con fusing, as he had been informed in August that the Mercy hospital project had been approved. Con gressman Ellsworth said. H e stated he will check further to de termine the definite status of Mercy. Traffic Officer Warns Vishinsky On Speeding GI.EN COVE, N. Y. UP) Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky has been warned by a traffic cop that the next time he speeds through Glen Cove he'll get a ticket. Speeding away from the palatial estate the Russian United Nations delegation occupies here, Vishin sky's car was stopped by motor cycle patrolman Timothy O'Neill. Mildly, O'Neill explained to Vi shinsky and his chauffeur that .U miles an hour was too fast for the congested highway. Then the cop added: "This is just a fair warning, Next time we will have lo give you a summons." Vishinsky smiled politely. His car pulled away gently. Soap Maker Fels Leaves $10 Million Estate PHILADELPHIA P Sam uel S. Fels, industrialist and phil anthropist, left an estate of approx imately 110,000.000. This was disclosed with payment of SUS0.000 in state inheritance tax, representing a tax of $1,000,000, less five percent discount for pay ment within three months after death. The Pennsylvania inherit ance tax is 10 percent of an es tate. Fels, who died June 2.1 at the age rlf 90. was president of Fels Naptha Snap Co. Under Fels' wfll, the bulk of the estate goes to the Samuel S. Fels foundation which he set up in 1935 for research and in governmentP medicine' During his lifetime, Fels report edly gave S4O.0OO.0O0 to tftaritahle organizations and research found ations. Slow-Born Quads Make Up ror Lost Time SYDNEY. Australia. Sept. 21 lP) Mi.i Betty Sara's quads who torat,5u hours coming into the world ai .making upor lost time. Doctors Vi the Bottigen hospital said the babies two girls and two hoys have gained at the rale of one ounce a day since their slow motion birth between Aug. 17 and 19 Their 2fl-year-old mother, an English war bride, has left the hospital. Doctors said the quads week A lhiJ XZ .V wPlt. A public nuhscription n brought 1.500 pounds t $4,050) to aid the infants. U.S. 10th corps Intelligence of. ficera aaid the northern Red tank column already may have crossed the 38th parallel, the line 30 miles from Seoul separating North from South Korea. It could be made up of North Koreans who were seasoned in Red China's Man churian armies but if it were made up of non-Koreans, the de veloping battle could have world shaking significance. Other Red Korean troops were converging on Seoul from a num ber of directions, many from the southeast battle box, where allied troops were rolling up new ad vances. B-2ts Strafe Enemy American planes attacking Red movements southward in North Korea reported running into unus ually heavy anti - aircraft fire Other airmen's reports indicated a general movement northward from the southeast perimeter. Ijnd-bascd allied airmen in Korea flew 702 individual flights over war zones yesterday for new one-day record. One strafing at tack alone killed 600 Reds retreat ing from the southeast war box. B-29s hit enemy training camps near Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, and struck at other targets, nut reported relatively little traf fic on the move In North Korea. Many Reds Surrender There was still some stiff resis tance in the southeast battle tones, dui many neas were withdrawing. U.S. First cavalry division troops and South Koreans were closing a pincers trap on the Red 13th division north of Taegu, allied hub in tne south. Dozens of communist troops were surrendering, among them a 30-year-old divisional chief of staff. Elimination of the trapped Red 13th division would clear the way for an allied advance on the route to Kumchon and Taejon. This is on the way to Seoul, the shortest route to a linkup with the Ameri cana in the north. To the south, U.S. Second divi sion troops drove ahead to expand three bridgeheads across the Nak tnng river and battered remaining Communist forces on the east bank. On the extreme southern front, U.S. 51 h division troops threw back Communists seven miles northwest of Hainan but against stiff resistance. On the east coast. South Korean troops advanced up to a mile and a-half from the port of Pohang, recap tured yesterday. House Votes Money For Needy School Districts WASHINGTON - OP) The House voted S72.SOO.000 Wednes day to start an emergency prog ram of federal aid to districts where school enrollments have been swollen by government act ivities. Of the total amount, $23,000,000 was earmarked for assistance to local school authorities in such cases. The remainder, amounting t o 24,500,000 cash and S2S.000.000 in contract authority, goes for the construction of new school houses to relieve overcrowding created by the influx of children of federal workers. Hyenas, Wolves Prey On Children In North India NEW DELHI, India - UP) The Hindustan Times reports that child-eating Hyenas and Wolves are terrorizing the thickly-popu lated city of Lurknow in far north ern India. Recently a wolf carried away a seven-year-old girl. Her bonea were found a few miles from the city later, the paper aaid. Previously a year-old baby was snatched from her mother by a hyena. Record Price Paid For Rambouillet Ewe Lambs PRINEVILLE f.T) Sale ol a block of near-purebred Rambou illet ewe lambs for 35 cents a pound was reported today by Leo Hahn, manager of the Prineville Land and Livestock company. Hahn said that he believed the "price to be an all-time record. He declined to name the purchaser or tne numnrr sold. RED SPV EXECUTED TAIPEI, Formosa UP) La fhien-tang. former deputy divis ional commander in the Chinese Nationalist army, was executed to day for spying in Formosa on be half of I.iu Pocheng. famous one eyed Chinese Communist general. Lu said his activities dated from a!tt m,f a I Levity Fact R ant Bv L. F Reizenstein a Administrative sentiment to- fbi"9 Communist t.ms t ,. favor aouf "'Vtnineg but Interfering with them.