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CORf' SHELTER GOES UP IN SMOKE Passersby and C20-UAW strikers watch fire
destroy m unoccupied house in front of the Perfect Circle Corp. plant at New Castle,
Ind., as 1200 demonstrators dispersed after a gun battle between union and nonunion
employes. The house was being used as a shelter for police on duty in front of the plant.
Two Injured in
Auto Accidents
On tity greets
' Mis Ernestine Mariorie Conk
lin, 23, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
O. E. Conklin, of 2875 Lone
Pine rd., Medford, suffered back
Injuries about 7:25 ajn. today
when the car which she was
driving went out of control and
tore down about 50 feet of fence
at the Cal-Ore Machinery com
pany, 944 south central ave. i
She was taen to Osteopathic
hospital by Medford Ambulance
service, but extent of her in
luries were not known at noon
today. Her' condition was de
scribed as good late this morn
ing. 0
Car Jumped Curb
Police said she apparently lost
control of the vehicle, which
was traveling south on South.
Central ave., and jumped the
curb. "She was alone in Tthecar.
In another accident today,
Miss Mary Janne Martin, 17,
of 1002 Maple Park dr., Medford,
suffered minor hand injuries
when, the car in which she was
riding collided with one operated
by Alice Ree Davis, 618 West
Second 4 Miss Martin was a
nasseneer ft a car operated W
Gordon Ray Munden, 1052 Oak
it., Medford.
The accident happened at the
corner of Fourth and Fir sts.
about 8:30 aVm. today.
Dxivr(ited
Police issued a citation to
Alice Davis for failure to yield
5height of way to through traf
fic. Miss Martin was taken to
Community hospital by city
police for treatment of an in
jured thumb.
About 2:45 p.m. yesterday, ve
hicles operated by Frank Wal
lace, route.2, box 227E, Medford,
and Edward Jeferson Turvey,
of Lemon Grove, Calif., collided
at the intersection of Sixth and
Fir sts.
Jury Uames Drawn for
Marjorie Smith Case
Mwtinnville (U. The Yam
hill county clfrfc today drew" 40
additions name for Circuit
Court jury duty as the' court
- readied its ctltndar for the Oct.
20 trial of Mr. Marjorie Smith,
Portland, in connaction with the
car bomb defth of her husband
last April. ,
The clerk' office said expect
ed close questioning of prospec
tive jurors wa likely to ex
haust the normal list of venire
men. Though Olive Kermit Smith
was slain in Portland, trial of
his widowQfor complicity in his
death was transferred to the
"Yamhill county court of Judge
Arlie G. Walker. V
Freight Train Derails;
No Injuries Reported
Connell, Wash. (U.R) Nine
cars of a Northern Pacific
freight train were derailed four
miles east of here yesterday but
NP officials said no " on was
hurt.
A spokesman said' a wheel
flange of a car near the back of
the train apparently broke,
causing the derailment which
temporarily closed the mainline
track. He said damage was "not
too bad."
- Portland (U.R) An agree
ment to acquire Bice Truck Lines
of Laurel, Mont., for a total of
$414,000 in common stock and
cash has been announced by Con
solidated Itcightways.
OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
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Shortage of
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Still Plaguing Area
Jackson county lumber opera
tions continued to be hard hit
by the railroad boxcar shortage
today.
Although some firms have re
opened, on "a very curtailed
basis," others are closing, and
most lumber manufacturers con-
Sen. Morse Talk
Open fo Public
A Democratic-sponsored din
ner honoring Sen. Wayne L.
Morse will be held at the Jack
son hotel Saturday, Oct. 15. The
senator is expected to make a
'major address," according ; to
County Chairman I Robert A.
Boyer. The meeting will be open
to-thepiiWic;-' "
; Tickets for the 6:30 p.m. din
ner may be obtained at the Boyer
office, 30 North. Oakdale ave.,
or from De Wayne Mitchell, gen
eral chairman; Attorneys. Wil
liam Deatherage, Robert Dun
can and James M. Main; Mrs.
Edward C. Kelly, Lamports and
the Labor Temple, all in Med
ford; Dr. Arthur Kreisman, Pro
fessor Al Miller and Mrs. L.
Peers Wilmeth, Ashland, Mrs.
Dee Newton, Valleyview; Larry
Sheehan; Rogue River, and Mrs.
Albert Straus, Sams Valley.
Kite Lite Motel
Sale Announced
Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor,
until recently of Mullan, Ida.,
have purchased the Nite Lite mo
tel on South Pacific highway.
The former owners,. Mr. and
Mrs. Rodney Kidd, left here for
Oakland, Calif., and now are
visiting relatives in Virginia.
The Taylors formerly operat
ed a hotel at Mullan and before
that he was a commercial fisher
man in Alaska for many years
The Kidds came here from Fair
banks, Alaska, though the two
couples were not acquainted
there.
McKay Asked fo
Lift OSC Sale Ban
Portland (U.R) Secretary of
Interior Douglas McKay was
asked today to lift marketing
restrictions on O and C timber
sales in the Smith river area in
southwest Oregon.
Frank Sever, attorney for the
Association of Land Grant Coun
ties said timber sales in the area
are cohditioned by demands that
the first stages of! milling the
lumber must be by mills in the
area, which restricted sales to
the mills there. The association
wants this changed. Sever said
there is much blown down and
fire damaged timber in the area
and that this would speed up its
salvages. - - ' - -' . -
The timber is located along
the new Smith river road which
runs 60 miles inland from tide
water near Gardiner.
Sever said, the $6,000,000 road
was built by. funds put up by
O&C counties out of their reve
nues from timber sales. It is
nearing completion with first
sales scheduled in November.
Nixon Presides ,
At Cabinet Meeting .
Washington (U.R) Vice-Presi-
dent Richard M. Nixon presided
at a 2V hour Cabinet meeting at
which "a number of routine"
matters wart discussed. -
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Tribune
7, 1955
No. 169
Boxcars
tacted this morning indicated the
situation is no better than it was
a week ago. .
Kogap Lumber Industries shut
down its sawmills yesterday "for
an indefinite period." Officials
of the firm said Kogap, which
ordinarily ships more than 100
carloads a month, got out only
83 carloads during September
and increased its inventory by
some 750,000 board feet. ;
Kogap will continue to oper
ate its planing ' mill, and ship
ping operations, .will be. con
ducted as cars become available.
Ross Lumber comany's White
City and Prospect mills are still
closed. The company will con
tinue to work its shipping opera
tions as cars are available.
Eugene F. Burrill Lumber
company at White. City is still
Closed. '. ' ' '
Mills Reopened - r---
Magnolia Lumber company,
Rogue River, reopened its mill
Wednesday, but the company's
planer will not resume opera
tions until Monday. Loading
crews are working as boxcars
are obtained:
DeArmond Brothers Lumber
company, Rogue River, which
also reopened its mill Wednes
day, is also shipping as cars are
available. Officials of the firm
said this morning that they re
ceived three cars today and
none yesterday. . They believed
that the shortage has been re
lieved a little.
Double Dee Lumber Com
pany, Inc., at Tolo, reopened its
mill yesterday on a curtailed
basis. However, Double Dee
spokesmen said the shortage
doesn't look any better there.
They received no boxcars yes
terday.
Medford Corporation, which
has been closed for a 'routine
two weeks vacation period, will
reopen Monday. 1
Boxcar Travels Two
Tracks at Same Time
Portland (U.R) A freak acci
dent in local railroad yards yes
terday resulted in a boxcar
traveling on two tracks at once
and then smashing into a parked
automobile and a power pole.
Engineer Albert B. Towne said
he backed a string of 15 freight
cars to clear another switch--in-
side Spokane, Portland & Seattle
rail yards. But when he ' started
forward again, the front truck
on one of the cars followed the
engine and the rear truck headed
down another track.
For about 50 yards the boxcar
traveled down two tracks. But
the distance between the two
tracks widened and the boxcar
jumped from both, striking the
car and then the power pole. No
one was hurt.
Guardsmen To Stay in New Castle Until
Threat of Further Strike Violence Over
New Castle, Ind. (U.R) Na
tional Guardsmen kept "lim
ited" martial law clamped on
New Castle today and Mayor
Paul McCormack said the troop
ers would stay until the threat
of more bloody strike violence
has passed.
A recurrence of the wild gun
fight at the gates of the strik
bound Perfect Circle Corp. foun
dry Wednesday is a distinct
"possibility" if the plant tries
to resume production, IcCor
mack said.
Nine persons were wounded,
eight of them shot, in the fight
between striken and. non-strik
Foreigr
Parle
ied
ill'
erful'
he White
. today that
Presiu. jwer's recuper
ation from irt attack is pro
gressing sufficiently to permit
him to have a business confer
ence here next Tuesday with
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles.
Mr. Eisenhower wanted to
talk with Dulles concerning the
Oct. 27 meeting of the Big Four
foreign ministers in Geneva.
Dulles has not been in direct
contact with the President since
before Mr. Eisenhower was
stricken here Sept. 24 with a
coronary thrombosis.
The latest medical bulletin on
the President's condition at
10:45 a.m. (MST) said he con
tinued to progress satisfactorily
without complications and had
a good night's sleep last night
awaking "refreshed and cheer
ful." 1
Nixon Due Tomorrow
Vice-President Richard M.
Nixon and Sherman Adams, the
assistant to the President, will
fly here tomorrow with Dr. Paul
Dudley White, the' Boston heart
specialist. Nixon was expected
to confer briefly with the Presi
dent sometime before the vice-
president flies back to Washing
ton Sunday afternoon.
Press Secretary James C. Hag-
erty emphasized that the:con-
ierences on me recuperaung
President's schedule naturally
depended on his continued pro
gress and above all, the final de
cision of the attendant physic
ians.
The' White House said Dulles
would discuss with the Presi
dent the topics . to be covered
by the foreign ministers, at Gen
eva. Dulles lo Speak
At the Big Four meeting in
Switzerland in July, the prin
cipals instructed their foreign
ministers to meet late this month
to discuss German : uriificatioivf
European security, disarmament
and increased East-West contact.
Dulles has a speech scheduled
in Miami, Fla., Monday. The
presidential plane, the Colum-
bina III,- will pick up Dulles in
Miami in . the early afternoon
Monday and fly' him to Lowry
Air Force Base here; Dulles
will not see the President until
the next day.
SOC Registration
Reaches New High
Ashland Registration for fall
quarter at Southern Oregon col
lege has reached an all-times
high for regular students at the
college, according to incomplete
registration figures.
Hugh Simpson, college public
information man, said that as of
Oct. 6, there were 802 students,
492 of them men, 310 women,
not including 17 who are audit
ing classes. This compares with
a previous high total of 797 reg
ular students in the fall of 1950.
Registration continues through
Saturday, and those wishing to
enroll must do so no later than
the first meeting of their class
after the Oct. 8 deadline, both
for night classes and regular
daytime schedules.
Man in Baby Bathtub
Cruises Puget Sound
Olympia (U.R) Roy Bergo,
the rub-a-dub man who likes" to
cruise Puget Sound in a bath
tub, left here at 9 a.m. today,
putting along at three to four
miles an hour through a down
pour of rain and before a stiff
southerly wind;
Bergo's sea-going baby bath
tub is propelled by a three
horsepower outboard motor. He
expects to reach Tacoma at 4
p.m. today to complete the first
leg of his planned trip to Van
couver, B.C.
ers. An attempt to arrange a
truce in the bitter dispute failed
late yesterday and union lead-
Lers-warned more battles might
break out if "strikebreakers" en
ter the plant.
Therefore, McCormack said,
the 600 troopers are here for an
indefinite stay.
"The guards will stay in New
Castle and the plant will remain
closed until the danger of vio
lence is over," the mayor said.
"And there's no telling when
that will be," he added.
Earlier, McCormack had said
New Castle would remain under
military rule at least through the
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Socialist Party
Refuses to Back
Reform Policies
Fall of Cabinet
Appears Certain
Paris (U.R) Premier Edgar
Faure, fighting for his political
life in the National Assembly,
today mustered two former pre
miers to help lead with support
ers who were deserting him.
The powerful Socialist party
with 105 votes in the Chamber
of Deputies, refused to back
Faure's North African reform
policies, virtually assuring that
Faure would be ousted as 21st
postwar Premier.
Leaders Buttonholed .
But Foreign Ministers v An-
toine Pinay and Paul Reynaud,
both former premiers, were re
ported busy buttonholing leaders
of their own 53-vote Independ
ent party to try to get them to
reconsider yesterday's decision
to desert Faure.
Informed sources said some of
the Independents were changing
their minds and deciding to stick
with Faure.
The Premier now must get the
Socialists, Trance's largest poli
tical party, to abstain when his
policies come to a vote, probably
tomorrow. Otherwise, his gov
ernment will fall.
Lines Already Drawn
But whether he could stave off
defeat and save his crumbling
cabinet appeared doubtful. The
lines already were drawn
against him and speculation al
ready had begun on the name
of his successor.
- Faure's downfall would, hit
hard in international diplomacy.
It would almost certainly force
postponement of the Big Four
foreign minister .conference
scheduled to begin in Geneva
three weeks hence.
Refused To Quit.',., .,..
Faure rejected demands from
his deserting supporters to quit
how and demanded the full dress
debate . on the Moroccan mess.
His parliamentary majority was
down to a hairline as he began
to fight for the premiership.
The 47-year-old premier went
before the assembly Thursday
night and called for a united
French stand against the foreign
interference he said threatened
Morocco and Algeria.
He had won some support last
week-end when he recalled the
permanent French delegation
from the United Nations because
the body voted to discuss the Al
gerian problem a problem
France considers strictly an in
ternal one.
' Since then France has accused
Spain of harboring rebels in
Spanish Morocco a charge offi
cially denied by the Madrid gov
ernment this morning.
French Reservists
Defy Morocco Call
Rouen France U.R) Some
500 French Army reservists re
called to fight in North Africa
barricaded themselves in their
barracks today and defied riot
squads to oust them. -
This was the second mutiny
in a month by a group of French
reservists recalled to active duty
because of the outbreak of vio
lence in North Africa.
- Last month, another group of
about 500 Air reservists refused
to board trains in Paris for the
start of their trip to - Morocco,
They finally were rounded up,
held in Paris barracks over
night and flown to North Afri
ca the next day.
The group involved today had
been- recalled for servica with
the 406th Anti-Aircraft and Ar
tillery Regiment. They were to
be flown to North Africa, ; but
started their sitdown strike last
night in the Richepanse Bar
racks in Rouen.
week-end. But he said today
"there is no assurance" that the
guardsmen will leave early next
week. He also refused to make
an estimate of when they would
leave.
Meanwhile, he said, "I'm go
ing to keep trying to get these
people together. It's the only
way we 11 ever get this thing
settled."
; The steel-helmeted guards
men rolled into New Castle yes
terday under orders from Gov.
George Craig and took up posts
at the small, three-story Perfect
Circle foundry and at a larger
Chrysler Corp plant.
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Lamar Tooze
Run Against Morse
Portland U.R) Portland Attorney Lamar Tooze announced
today that he would seek the Senate seat of Democrat Wayne
Morse on the Republican ticket if Gov. Paul Patterson should de
cide not to run.
In announcing his willingness to seek the Republican nomina
tion, however, Tooze said he would support Patterson "100 per
cent" out would stand ready to me
to run. Gov. Patterson said he had
Tooze's announcement.
Tooze has twice been elected delegate to Republican National
conventions. He is a veteran of both world wars and is now com
manding general of the 104ih reserve division with the rank of
major general. His brother, Walter Tooze. is a state supreme
court justice. ,
New Charges Filled
Against Turncoats
San Francisco (U.R) Asst.
U. S. Atty. Richard H. Foster
announced : today that new
charges of informiug on fellow
prisoners in Red China have
been filed against two of three
ex-GI turncoats.
Foster announced the new
filings during the opening ses
sion of a writ of habeas corpus
bearing in federal court.
Attorneys for Otho G. Bell,
Hillsboro, Miss., William Cow-
art, Dalton, Ga., and Lewie
Griggs, Jacksonville, Tex., ar-
French Parachute
Food, Ammunition
To Isolated Post
Taza, Morocco (U.R) ; The
French parachuted food and am
munition today into the isolated
outpost of Tizi Ouzli, which was
cut off by fierce rebel Riff tribes;
men. ' ,' "' ''"'
As Trench planes from bases
in Meknes and Rabat rained
down hundreds of pounds of sup
plies, official sources reported
the outnumbered garrison near
the Spanish Moroccan border un
der heavy fire.
Meanwhile, as a precautionary
measure, American officials
were evacuating all women and
children from the U. S. radar
post at Saidia to camp Sidi
Slimane today. Saidia lies on the
Mediterranean coast 30 miles
north of. Oujda, almost athwart
the Spanish Moroccan border.
Precautionary Measures
- There have been no - attacks
on any of the 15,000 American
servicemen and dependents sta-,
tioned at four strategic air and
naval bases in Morocco, and U. S.
authorities emphasized that to
day's move was. purety precau
tionary. The latest crisis at Tizi Ouzli,
which has been beleagured on
and off for nearly six days, came
when Arab warriors again cut
the vital road to Aknoul.
Tizi Ouzli, the French base
at Aknlul to the south, and
Boured to the west form a tri
angle of French resistance to the
rebel attacks. ; ,
Communist Candidate
Leads Brazil Election
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil U.R)
Juscelino Kubitschek, Communist-supported
candidate of the
Social Democratic Party, took a
commanding lead today in Bra
zil's presidential elections. His
victory appeared assured.
J o a o Goulart, Kubitschek's
running mate, also moved out in
front in the separate race for the
vice presidency. He, too, appear
ed a certain winner. ' '
Returns, as reported by the
s e m i-off icial Radio National,
gave Kubitschek an e v e r
increasing lead over his closest
competitor, Adhemar de Barros,
millionaire industrialist candi
date of the Social Progressive
Party. ' s
Portland Banks Report
Record High Deposits
Portland (U.R) Three Port
land banks reported record high
deposits today in response to the
Oct. 5 bank call of the comptrol
ler of currency.
Substantial gains were report
ed by the Bank of. California,
Portland Trust Bank, and Mult
nomah Bank.
Enterprise, Ore. (U.R) Al
fred C. Sollom, 34, of Pendleton,
was killed Thursday when his
pickup truck left Highway 82 in
Wallowa river canyon, struck a
tree and then plunged 58 feet
into tot Wallowa river.
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if the governor should decline
"nothing :j say" in regard to
'
gued before Judge 'Louis E
Goodmon that their clients
should be , issued the writs be
cause the alleged offenses oc
curred after their dishonorable
discharge from the Army.
Civil Statutes ,, 1
The attorneys' also contended
that the charges fall under the
civil treason statutes, which
must be heard in civil court.
roster told the court that the
new charges include one that
Bell nit and kicked members of
his prisoner squad, that Bell re
ported fellow torisoners to the
enemy for not working ani of
reporting on a master sergeant
who struck him. This report,
Foster said, resulted in th mas
ter sergeant being forced to
stand barefoot on ice for two
hours.
Additional Charges
Cowart. Foster said, faces ad
ditional charges involving two
other fellow rjrisoners who were
punished several times because
he "ratted" on them.
Representing the trio were at
torneys Harold C. Brown.
George T. Davis t and Robert
Hannon.
Brown told the court the men
were being held in custodv too
long before being tried and that
11 proDamy would be six months
to a year before they actually
could be court martialed because
the Army still has some 1500
witnesses to interview."'
In face of "the lone imnrison-
ment," he pleaded for the court
to take jurisdiction.
Income Gasoline
Taxes Lead Revenue
"Salem (U.R) An increase in
receipts from taxes and license
fees for the state of Oregon dur
ing the fiscal year ending July
1, 1955, was reported today.
The state budget division said
Oregon collected $129,828,000
during the period, a gain of $2,
800,000 over, the , proceeding
year. -
, Highest source was personal
income tax, with $42,795,359.
Next in line was gasoline taxes,
totaling $31,808,560.
Other income included: Cor
poration excise tax, $14,026,860;
motor vehicle licenses, $10,608,
811; truck weight-mile taxes,
$9,935,987; inheritance taxes,
$3,407,645; insurance premium
taxes, $2,347,647; business and
occupation licenses, $1,763,920;
hunting and fishing licenses $2,
613,046; motor transportation
fees, $1,432,695, and liquor privi
lege taxes, $1,209,380.
Prineville Reports
Major Caff le Sale" '
Prineville (U.R) A second
major sale of central Oregon
cattle has been reported here
by the Hudspeth Land and Live
stock Co. '
The firm said that it shipped
about 1,000 head of feeder cattle
to the Lost River Cattle Co,
Redmond, ' and the Newhall
Ranch and Farming Co., at New
hall, Calif. Shipments started
yesterday and were expected to
continue through tomorrow. ' '
Bulk of the transaction con
sisted of two-year-old steers sell
ing at 17.75 per hundredweight.
The balance was yearling heifers
with no price disclosed.
In a record sale two weeks
ago, the Hudspeth firm sold 4,
000 yearlings to Wilson and Co.,
Weather
FORECAST: Cloudy with show
ers tonifht, becoming partly
cloudy and cooler with show
ers in mountains Saturday.
Low tonight 4S. High Satur
day C5.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 74
Lowest this Morning 38
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CAPT. C. C. COOKE
Pilot of Ill-Fated Plan
PA1RICIA SHUTTLEWORTH
Crash Kills Stewardess
Conflict Develops
By Crashed Plane ;
Laranvv''; Wvo. fll.P1 rvn
flict developed today whether a
United Air Lines DC-4 was -
within its normal flight pattern
before it smashed into 12,005.
foot Medicine Bow Peak killing
all 66 persons aboard yesterday.
A United Air Lines spokesman
said Southern Wyoming's tower
ing Snow Range of which Medi
cine Bow is the highest peak
could be considered within the
plane's normal route, but a
Wyoming official said he con
sidered the plane about 20 miles
off course. - - -
Meanwhile, two teams of skill- .
ed Alpinists, students from the
Universities . of Wyoming and
Colorado, began , the. dangerous1
job of bringing down the first
bodies from the crash site on the
mountain's sheer east face to a
temporary' morgue a mile and a
half away. - i
Difficult Task .
A 125-member rescue force
struggled over the , icy, snowy
slope immediately beneath the
peak's topmost portion to lower
the first bodies by rope to be
hand-carried to the University
of Wyommg's science camp,' a
set of permanent frame build
ings, where the morgue has been
set up...,- '
Although there was snow on
the ground and the rescue teams'
wdrk earlier in the day had been
hampered by ground blizzards,
skies were clear. Temperatures
stood at the freezing mark; -)
Whether the plane should
have been over the precipitous,
mountain range developed the
aspects of a c o n t r o v e r s y.: A
United Air Lines' spokesman in"
Denver said the range could be
included within lhe DC-4s nor-."
mal , flight pattern despite : the -fact
that such aircraft have no.
pressurized cabins that - allow
them to fly much in excess of
14,000 feet altitude. - ' - . : t
Can Skirt Mountains ' ' .' ;
- But Wyoming Aeornautics
Commissioner George Nelson,
said it was his opinion' based on
the study of normal flight routes '
that the plane" was definitely 20.
miles to the west of where it
should have been "although oc
casionally . some planes stray
over that way toward the moun
tains." ...The range -rises abruptly up
to the .west of the broad, flat
Laramie River Valley plain. It
is along this valley that most
airways traffic is diActed, thus
enabling planes with low ceil- .
ings to skift the mountins.
. Inspectors of the Civil Aero
nautics Administration who join
ed rescue teams at. the crash'
site this morning declined to
comment until they have com
pleted their studies and made re-
Iports to the .CAA Washington
oaice. '
(Partial passenger list on page 14)
Utah Governor Told
To Pay Taxes or Quit
' Salt Lake City (U.R) The
Executive Committee of the Utah
Democratic Central Committee
demanded today that Utah's out
spoken governor, J. Bracken Lee,
either pay his federal income
taxes or resign.
Lee has announced publicly
that he will not pay taxes due
next April in an effort to obtain
a U. S. Supreme Court test of
the federal government's right
to give American tax money to
foreign nations. -
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