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U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon COiiF S Record-Smashing Tax Bill Congress Increases Apply To Individual Incomes, Corporations, Excises; House Approval Appears Sure WASHINGTON (AP) The administration opened a drive today to push a record-breaking $7,200,000,000 tax increasa through the House by Thursday night or Friday. The bill, carrying a 12 1 percent increase in individual in come taxes together with sharp hikes in corporate rates and excise taxes, will be considered under procedure which bars amendments unless they are offered by the waya and mep.ns committee. The income tax boost would take effect Sept. 1 ; the cor poration tax increase would be retroactive to last Jan. 1; and the new excise levies would become effective a few weeks after the bill became law. Administration leaders were confident the bill would pass the House. Republicans also conceded this is probable. Although the proposed increase was officially described by the way and means committee which drafted it at the largest ever sought in a single tax bill, it was less than half the fl6.500.0u0.000 President Truman called for last January. He later lowered his sights at least temporarily to a (10.000,000,000 increase. This is the third tax increase to come before Congress since the outbreak of the Korean war a year ago. Total additional revenue from all three, over a full year's operation, was estimated at more than S17,000,000,u)0. By the three steps, the load on individuals would be increased by 31.4 percent over the revenue expectable from pre Korea rates. Corporation taxes would go up a total of 37.9 per cent over that base, and excise taxes by 15.8 percent. The J2V percent "defense tax" would be superimposed on in come taxes figured at present ratas. Another provision would allow the government to take no more than 90 percent of a wealthy individual's income. The present ceiling is 87 percent. Seme Offered Relief The bill, however, carries some relief for some taxpayers. "Single" heads of families, such as widows with dependent children, would be allowed one-half of the income tax benefits available to married persons as a result of the income splitting provision of the present law. Home owners who sold their dwellings would not have to pay a capital gains tax on any profit it they reinvested it in another per sonal residence within a year. Corporations would be called upon for an additional $2,855,000, 000 in taxes. The rates would raise five percentage points, and a greater proportion of some com pinies' income would become sub lert to the excess profits tax. The ceiling on tne amount ine govern ment could take in normal taxes, surtaxes and excess profits taxes would be raised from 62 to 70 percent of t h corporation's in mcome. Excise Kites Increases Nearly everyone would feel some effects from the proposed excise tax the increases. These would send tax on gasoline up froin 1' " two cents a gallon, on cigarets from seven to eight cents a pack, on wiskey from (9 to $1050 a gal lon, on beer from W to 19 a bar rel, and on automobiles from seven to 10 percent of the manufact urers' price, to name only some. In a new venture, the committee proposed a 10 percent tax on the (Continued on Page 2) Missing N. Umpqua Man, O'Byrne, Not Located The disappearance of Vic O' Byrne remains unsolved. O'Byrne has been missing from his camp on the North Umpqua river for the last month and ex tensive search has failed to locate him. Deputy Sheriff A. A. "Red" Eckhardt and Noble Gottel of the sheriff's reserves spent Tuesday searching the river and conduct ing an investigation at the camp site. Entrance was forced into a store room, where the officers found sup plies neatly folded and packed, leading them to believe that O' Byrne nan gone away iniennoninj, rather than meeting with accident as has been feared. A war veteran, recently hospi talued, O'Byrne went early in May to the camp where he has spent each summer for the past several years. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The French general election is the hig political news of the mo ment, snd what everybody wants to know, of course, is who licked whom. A dispatch from Paris as this is written savs: tGeneral Charles rie Gaulle's new party (he calls it Rally of the French People) appeared on t h e wav to being the strongest single political unit in France'a new na tional assembly (the lower house of the French national legislature) but the middle-of-the-road parties seemed to be retaining control of the next parliament." The really b i g development seems to be that the communist popular vole will probaWy be BIG KR THAN ANYBODY ELSE'S. France has a bewildering mess of political parties, and the only way I a majority in parliament can be j obtained is for aeveral political (Continued oe, Page 4) Awaits Jury Convicts 2 In Machinery Lease 'Swindle' STOCKTON, Calif. (JP) Two principals in what the prosecution called a $300,000 west coast ice cream machinery swindle were convicted by a superior court jury here. The jury convicted Reuben B. Welti, of Lodi, Calif., of 10 counts of grand theft, two of forgery and I wo of violating the state corpora tion securities act Weitz' wife, Alice was convicted of two counts of forgery. However, the jury found a third defendant, Walter Golding, also of Lodi, innocent. Wcitz was president, his wife a stockholder and Golding secretary treasurer of Modesto Dairy Prod ucts, Inc. The company was fran chisod by the Taylorfreeze Corp.. of Chicago, to market and lease ice cream machinery and prod ucts in eight western states. Witnesses from Seattle, Walla Walla and Yakima, Wash., and elsewhere in the west testified they received nothing for money they gave Weiti for ice cream machin ery and rentals. Authorities esti mated he realized 1300,000 from the deals. Witnesses also testified that be fore the dairy products firm went bankrupt, Mr. and Mrs. Weitx foiged the name of Mrs. Weiti' brother to instruments transfer ring asset out of the corporation, in order to escape paying credi tor. Representatives of the state se- eurities commission said they dis. covered the corporation securities law violations after they had or dered Weitx to quit the corpora tion because of a grand larceny conviction in Washington state in 1921. The state said Weitx resigned as president of the firm but con tinued to run its business. Wlt ( 1UKU t fin- an1 Im. pri,onmtnt 0f one to 10 years on each of the theft counts, one to 14 years on each of the forgery charges, and one to five years on each of the securities law vio lations. Gambler Cohen Guilty, Jury Says LOS ANGELES VP) Gam bler Mickey Cohen was convicted todsy of four counts of federal income tax evasion. The investigation was sparked by Cohen's testimony before the Kefauver senate crime investigat ing committee that he had been living largely on borrowed income for aeveral years. The maximum penalty would be 20 years in a federal penitentiary and fines totaling $40,000. Each count carries a maximum of five years and $10,000. He was charged with defrauding the government of more than $158, Ouo over a three - year period 1946-48, inclusive. Low Humidity Halts , - Logging Operations Low humidity readings are stop ping logging operations in many of Ihe higher areas around Rose burg. reports the Douglas Forest Protective association. A low humidity reading of 28 percent was recorded here Tues day by Jhe weather bureau and the DFPA reported lows of 21 percent at the higher point! such as Dutchman and Lander's look outs. Logging operations are re quired to cease when humidity (irons to 30 percent. The weather bureau foresees no immediate relief, with the fore cast for warmer temperatures and lowering humidities. Friday night shows the first possibility of cloudiness, accordlngtothe weather bureau. The Weather Continued fair and warm today and tomorrow with lowering hu midity. Highest temp, for any June IM Lowest temp, for any June Jo Highest temp, yostorday 82 Lowest temp, last 14 hours 53 Precip. last 24 hours Precip. from June 1 I Procip. from Sept. 1 40 M Ixcoss from Sept. 1 7S Sunset today, l:M p m. I Sunrise tomorrow, i:U a.m. Established 1173 Americans, Commies Stage 98 Craft Take Part In Fight Over N. Korea Ten Enemy Planet Shot Down Or Damaged; U.S. Sabre Jets All Return TOKYO VP) Ten Red planes were shot Vown or damaged today in the Korean war'a first double deck dogfight. Both jet and propeller driven planes 98 of them took part in the fourth consecutive day of air war over northwest Korea. The double air battle broke out simultaneously between low flying propeller planes and jets swirling above at 13,000 feet. When it was over the Reds had lost three planes destroyed, one probably destroyed and six dam aged. Twenty-four U.N. Mustang fight ers overpowered a flight of six Russian-built propeller planes. All the Reds were hit. A YAK fighter and two Stormovik attack-bomb ers were shot down. Another Stor movik was probably destroyed and two were damaged. Thirty-two American Sabre lets battled 36 Russian-type MIG-1S jets in the top level of the battle. The jet fight began at 13,000 feet and swept down to 6.000. Four MIGs were damaged. All the MIGs then streaked back across the Manchurian border, IS miles from where the action started. The Fifth air force said all Sabre jets returned safely. (Field dispatches did not report whether any U.N. Mustangs were lost.) The four days of air war cost the Reds 28 planes destroyed or damaged. The Fifth air force listed nine shot down, one probably knocked out and IS damaged. There have been no figures of U.N. losses if any in these air bat tles. The navy and marine corps have lost "approximately 300 aircraft" during the Korean war, which will be a year-old Monday, Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy announced. The losses are not the result of air battles. On the ground today North Ko reans suddenly abandoned Punch bowl valley, which they had fought for so viciously. United Nations guns now dominate the former Red buildup area on the eastern front. Mij. Gen. J. S. Bradley, com mander of the U.S. 25th division, said the Chinese could absorb still greater losses without losing their will to fight. Green School District Elects, Votes Tax Levy Greefi school district Monday night reelected R. L. Adama as school board director and voted 29-4 in favor of a special tax levy to exceed the six-percent limita tion, the county school superinten dent's office reports. RODEO QUEEN CARAVAN Queen of the Douglas county Sheriff's pott rodeo, Sharon I (Fina,en)), center, waves from the convertible as the rodeo caravan leaves for a tour throii the communities south of Roieburq. The nine-car caravan left Tuesday night and toured Cenyonville, Myrtle Creek, Riddle and other towns en th rout te advertise ha Sheriff's pen rode Mac Declines 2nd Testimony; Truman Rapped WASHINGTON (JP)' Gen. Douglas MacArthur declared to day that President Truman'a or ders "silencing pertinent witnes ses" have denied a senate inquiry the "full facts" on his dismissal. But MacArthur aaid he doesn't care to testify again himself. MacArthur rapped at the Presi dent in rejecting by letter an in vitation to appear again before the senate armed services and foreign relations committees investigating his ouster. He contended, too, that some of the documentary evidence sub mitted to the senators had been lifted out of context so that it was "misleading," and said there was "lack of accuracy" in paraphras ing. Many of the documents given to the senators in connection with the inquiry have been "paraphrased" that is submitted in a rewritten, aummary form rather than as the original documents. The reason is that the original documents were transmitted by radio in code. Release of the ac tual texts might help a potential enemy to decipher the U. S. codes. The five - star general wrote chairman Russell (D-Ga) that be cause "my known personal views" already are in the record in great detail, I do not believe it in the public interest" to testify again. Fire Prevention Talks To Be Given To Timbermen South Douglas timber operators are invited to hear representatives of the state forester's office at Sa lem discuss aspects of forest fire prevention and regulation tonight at "Ford's," on the Pacific high way south of Myrtle Creek. Dinner Is scheduled at 8 p.m. at $2 per plate, with the meeting to follow. The operators will learn such things aa the operator's respon sibility under the Oregon forest laws if an "operator's" fire oc curs, and the responsibility carried by the operator on slash areas not released by the state forester. The session is the first of three slated in Douglas county this week. The Roseburg meeting is Thursday night at Carl's Haven on Garden valley road. It is for timber oper ators of Ihe central Douglas region. Operators of the north Douglas area will have a session Friday night at Roaring Camp on the Drain-Reedsport highway. Dinner is scheduled at S o'clock for all meetings with discussion to follow. CONSCIENCf PROD? An unidentified Portland at torney paid a long-standing debt te the Douglas county sheriff's office Tuesday. He sent the of fice Sl.M by special delivery let ter te pay a bill incurred in 14, with the notation, "sorry I caused you all this trouble." ROSEIURuV, ORECON WEDNESDAY. JUNE 20, lt51 W. Roseburg Housing Job Bid Accepted Portland Firm's Price Of $404,500 For 60-Unit Project Wins Contract A low bid of $404,500 was ac cepted Tuesday afternoon for the construction of the 60-unit, low rent Rosewood housing develop ment in West Roseburg. At a special meeting of the Doug'aa County Housing author ity, the contract was awarded to Malarkey and Moore, a Portland firm located at 923 S. W. 17lh street. The contract bid was the lowest of 10 ottered. II. L. Scofield, Housing author ity executive director, reported the contract was awarded to Ma larkey and Moore subject to fur nishing of bonds to secure pay ment of labor and materials. Sco field said, "It is expected that the bidder will qualify and re ceive instructions to proceed within 10 days." The second low bid was ten dered by Nieman Co. Contractors. Inc. of Vancouver, Wasdi., for $408.S44. A Roseburg firm, Todd Building Co., made the next low bid of $409,681. Other bids were: Industrial Building Co. of Eugene, $450,609; Donald Drake Co. of Poilland. $451,867; E. E. Setter gren of Portland, $427,992; McKel Inc. of Portland, $464,684; Ernest 3. Hepp of Medford, $489,835; Riv erman and Sons of Portland, $464, 890, and Edwin Sandberg of Port land, $462,378. Completion Within Year Scofield stated that construction and landscaping should be com pleted within a year. He said pro visions have been made for the Housing aulhority to accept the homes as they are finished. This will allow occupancy as individual units are completed. The housing development will be located on the former Brown estate land adjacent to the Fuller Ion school in West Roseburg. Plans call for 30 one- two- three and four-bedroom duplexes. Instal lation of sewers, water maina and eleciricity have been included in the contract Lawn and shrubbery planting is also included. Malarkey It Moore also bid low at $"79,600 for a 125-unit housing project at Kennewick, Wash. Yugoslavia Gets Arms, Ammunition From U.S. WASHINGTON -.PI A "small" shipment of rifles, grenades and other amall arms and ammunition has been sent to Yugoslavia, the Defense department announced. The department described the shipment aa a token of U. S desire to help "maintain Yugoslav in dependence." Marshal Tito's Com raunuit regime has broken sharply with Moscow her Saturday and Sunday at th fairgrounds. They received an excellent reeeptiopell along th route. Princesses in the queen's court? seated in th rear of th car, ere Suian Schafer ef Carnal Valley, Rita Krut ef Yoncalle, and Loretta Fery of Rote burg. (Picture by Paul Jenkins) Double Air Battle Airmen Ignore Federal Order To End Strike CHICAGO (JPI -Strikinj AFL di ots of United Air Lines today ignored the U. S. mediation board's directive to end what it termed an illegal walkout. The board ! charge was termed "ridiculous by the pilots, in statement ,from headquarters of their union, the AFL Air Line Pilots association, International. The union and company have been in dispute for 22 months over wages and working conditions. The pilots are demanding a limit on work hours and mileage because of Ihe faster planes now in oper ation. The strike by 900 UAL pilots and co-pilots Tuesday halted all commercial non-military flights of the line. It grounded 132 transport flights from ban rrancisco and Los Angeles. UAL normally carriea 9-600 passengers in 220 flights daily Operations of other airlines were not affected Immediately. . How ever the mediation board said pick eting at all airports could tie up operation of all major airlines. The mediation board in Wash ington yesterday told the union's president, David L. Behncke, the strike was not in accordance with provisions of the railway labor act It ordered him to direct the pilots to return to their lobs. Behncke said he replied to the mediation board s telegram direct ing him to call off the strike. He said he told the board that "we disagree 100 percent" on the board's charje that Ihe strike is illegal." Defense Fund, Salary 1 Boosts Lose In Portland PORTLAND (JP) By a mar- gm of less than 2 percent, Port land votera Tuesday turned down a I mill levy to raise $600,000 for civil defense. The vote was 22,365 yes: 22,766 no. Also turned down was a proposal to increase city commissioners' salaries front $5000 to $8000 and the mayor's salary from $6000 to $9500. The vote: 23,483 yes; 24,789 no. Two school district measures were approved by aubstantial ma jorities. They are the $1,970,000 current expense levy and the $2,-"kO.OOO-a-year, 10-year building pro gram. Community Hospital Given AMA Registry Douglas Community hospital has been accepted on the registry of the American Medical association, according to a telegram received Tuesday by J. W. McAlvin, hos pital manager. This means, said McAlvin. that the hospital meeta the qualifica tion and standards of the associ ation. It puts tht hospital in line also for acceptance by the Amer ican Hospital association and fol lowing this by the American Col lege of Surgeons. 1-51 Specialty Acts Will Feature Rodeo's Bill Banner Program Slated For Big Two-Day Show; Top Cowpokes Arriving A new specialty act has been added to the seventh annual Doug las county Sheriff's posse world's championship rodeo which gets underway Saturday at 1:30 p.m., at the local fairgrounds and con tinues through Sunday. The rodeo bas been approved by the Rodeo Cowboys association. The latest addition Is Bust Car son and his family troupe from North Hollywood. This act in cludes a five-horse liberty drill, and trick and fancy roping and riding. One of the little girls, Bar bara Jean, and her pony sweet heart are famous for their act Pal of Mine." The family per formed in the local rodeo several years ago. Another break (or the fans has been announced by posseman Frank Denton. The fence has been removed from between the race track and arena in front of the fairgrounds grandstands ao dogging can be seen better than ever before. Water trucks have been busy thii week watering the grounds to keep the dust down in preparation for the big opening day. A newly-organized rodeo brass band, under the direction of E. G. Stiles, Roseburg high school band director, ahould add a ipecial colorf'il musical touch to the spec tacle. This is just one more added attraction that should make this year's rodeo the. best yet, Denton declares. Cowboys Assembling Here j Not all of the "hombrea,,'you see s.iuntenng down the streets are imitation cowboys. Denton says that many of the rodeo cow boy stars have arrived in town already. These will include such luminaries as Bud Linderman, Red Lodge, Mont., winner of last years cowboy riding competition at the local rodeo and two-time winner of the International Rodeo association all-around champion ship of the world. Other top cowpokes will be Casey Tibbs, Ft Pierre, S. Dak.; Sonny Tureman, John Day, Ore.; and Ross Dollarhide, I.akeview, Ore. The rodeo announcer is 1el Lambert of Salem, one of the top (Continued on Page 2) Bus-Train Collisions In Germany Kill 23 MUNICH' Germany (JP- Twenty-three bus passengers were killed and 31 others were injured in two bus-train collisions in south Germany Tuesday night. Near Munich. It Jesuit students were killed and nine were injured when the truck in which they were riding was struck by a psssenger train at Herrsching. Seven German tourists were killed and 22 were injured. 10 of them seriously, in a similar acci dent near Waldshut In Wuerttem-berg-Baden. The Jesuit students' truck waa struck by a passenger train as they were returning from a pil grimage to the cloister of Andechs nesr Munich. They were members of the Berchman college of the Jes uit monastery at Pullav. Rev. W. A. MacArthur Keeps Pastorate Here Th Rev. W. A. MacArthur. pastor of the Roseburg Methodist church, has been re-assigned as pastor of the local churrh for the ensuing year, which will he his seventh the longest pastorate this church has aver bad. The Rev. Mr. MacArthur re ceived his re-assignment last week end at the state-wide Methodist conference at Salem. Ha reports that the overall aim of the churchea of the itate this year n the pro motion of an evangelism program on an interdenominational basis. The Rev. Mr. MacArthur defined evangelism as the means by which new members are taken into the church on the basis of personal dedication tu Christ and his church. Conyonville, Roseburg Building Projects OKd Allocation of building materiala for a garage in Roseburg and a store in CmyonvMIe haa been ap proved by the district office of the Nstionsl Production authority, Portland, the Associated Press re ports. A truck gsrsge for Phil k Floyd's service station, MS E. Sec onj Ave, Roseburg, costing $7,000, snd a store b'lilding for the loop lodge, 14, in Canynnville, esti mated at $11,4M, have been approved. 17 Arrested, Hunt Launched For 4 Others Indictments, Following Court Decision, Charge Plot To Upset U.S. Govt. WASHINGTON VP) Twente one members of the Communist party's secondary command have been indicted on charges of plot ting violent overthrow of the United States government. Seventeen of those indicted by a federal grand jury in New York were seized in an early morning roundup by FBI agenti. Th four others were being sought. Mxteen or the arrests were la New, the othor in Pittsburgh. The government moved against the lesser lights in the wske of this month's supreme court decision up holding th conviction of th party's 11 top leaders. Attorney General McGrath and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover laid in a statement: "Some of the individuals arrested are members of the alternate na tional committee, recently formed by the Communist party to serve as the top policy making body in the absence of the present national committee members, now con victed." The 11 leaders were convicted in New York in 1M9 of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U. S. government ' Although the supreme court up held the conviction two weeks ago, a legal battle for a rehearing is still on. All Active In Party Fsch of those seized today wai described by Hoover as "a prom inent, active functionary of the Communist party, U. S. A." Hoo ver added: "All have been In party work for many yeari, and now rank-. iai positions in the party appara tus. They represent officials both of the national and New York state Communist party." AU of those taken into custody were charged under the 1840 Smith act. The supreme court upheld th constitutionality of this law, pro viding punishment for violent plot ting, when it affirmed th convic tions of the top 11. That group re ceived prison sentences ranging up io live years ana eacn waa lined $10,000. Justice Jackson of the supreme court will consider a petition for stay until October in the caaei of the U top Communists. Should Jackson grant the stay, the 11 would not have to itart their prison terms until the whole court hears a petiton for rehearing in October. Otherwise they are du to go to JaU within th next two weeks. Soma officials have said th number of prosecutions could run as high as 12,000. However, most indications are that th govern ment will not try to move on such a broad basis now. Shipping Strike In Parley Stage NEW YORK (JP) -East coast ship operators and CIO seamen held separate conferences today preliminary to a acheduled joint aession in the five-day tieup of Atlantic and gulf coast porta. There was hope in some quarter th meeting would pave th way for an early end to the stoppage that has affected almost all American-flag ihipping from Maine te Texas. West coast shinning remained snarled by the atrike of TOO CIO radio operators. Maritime law for bids ships to sail without the radio men. Frank J. Taylor, chairman of a committee representing the ship. peri, ioia newsmen a union de mand for a 40-hour work week, in Bleed of 41 hours, appeared in tended to "get more (overtime) dough for the boys in there now" rather than to, create more em ployment. The union is demanding a 2S percent pay increaie. vacation! with pay and elimination of ao called inequalities, in addition te the shorter work-week. Grand Larceny Charge Jails Oakland Man A IS year-old Oakland mill worxer la oeing neia in the Doug las county jail today, charged with grand larceny. John G. Moreno of Oakland waa arrested Monday by Walter Man ning, Oakland chief of police. Bail has been set at 16.000. Deputy District Attorney Donald C. Kelley said Manning had al legedly burglarized the rooms of two men who were residing at a hotel in Oakland. Amount of the loot was not revealed. GIRL MARATHON INDI FAIR ISLE, The Orkeneyi (JP) After 22 years of nothing but boy babies in Fair Isle (pop. 127), the girls have started to arrive. Mra. Douglai Stoat has given birth to a girl. This broke a run of IS boys on the island, including twe for Mrs. Stout. S they're tjoinoj to stop the) kids from sheotina off fireworks on th Fourth of July, or thy? Paq th qhost of old Kino, Kanute, who tried to sweep back tho wavos of th cow vlrh brooml Lity Fact Rant By L. F. Reizensteln