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i KXl -" to 0! -no tot TEH MEDrOHD (OHEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, May 8, 1858 Rumors Say Big Name Demos May Become Targets of Income Tax Violation Charges By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) This pres idential campaign is getting rough, as witness some remarks by Rep. Jim Wright (0-Tex) and a tax-fraud trial which be gan Monday in St. Louis. W r i g h t re ported congres sional cloak room rumors that the Inter- 1 T" - Ljit C tviison ai revenue Service (IRS) had been instruct ed to look sharp for income tax violations by big name Demo cratic politicians. The congress man told questioners he had heard that some names had been suggested to the IRS for special investigation. Such things have happened here. Indiana's late Paul V. Mc Nutt got the income tax treat ment in 1939-40 when he pre sumed to reach for the Demo cratic presidential nomination. President Roosevelt was playing cozy at the time about his own plans, if not actually mislead ing McNutt and others by private asurances that he had no inten tion of seeking a third term. Word Leaks Out McNutt's campaign was build ing up a bit of steam when word leaked to the press that his in come tax was under review. This would have been embarrass ing or fatal to his political am bitions if the leaks had contin ued. That was not necessary, however, because practical poli ticians finally sensed Mr. Roose velt's intention to accept a third term nomination. All other can didacies folded, .forthwith. There is no evidence that the review of McNutt's income tax ever pro duced anything or, even, was continued to any end. James A. Farley was Demo cratic National Committee chair man at the time and no friend of McNutt. They were political ene mies. But Big Jim had no part of the embarrassing income tax leak and called it, at the time, a political foul. There was a squib in the papers last week relating with out substantiation that the late Sen. Alben W. Barkley's income tax returns were under review. That might have led to the cloak room rumors heard by Wright. The fact is that the IRS reviews almost all upper bracket returns, and Barkley would have been in the upper. bracket. His fee for a speech was a fat one and he made many speeches. Events probably will prove whether someone in the Repub lican administration has passed That is a key spot, influential the word to the IRS to flush up any available income tax dodg ers among big name Democrats. If they were' flushed up and the charges stuck, it would be dif ficult to argue that the IRS should have ignored violations. But the leak technique used against McNutt 16 years ago still would be a political foul, es pecially if the leak was intended merely to embarrass instead of to collect evaded or avoided taxes. The St. Louis trial is some thing else again. 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A spokesman said there was no major malfunction and that the launching was a success for purposes of testing the perform ance of the new rocket. But he said the performance "was not nearly what had been anticipated." The Navy had hoped to reach an altitude of 185 miles with the rocket, launched on this vast proving ground. A previous attempt last week ended in failure when the rock et's motor failed to start and the rocket went up about 10,000 feet, propelled by a booster en gine, then dropped back to earth. Peace Officers Make Plans For Burglars Conference Members of the Southern Ore gon Peace Officers association at a recent meeting in Medford made tentative plans for a south ern Oregon conference on safe burglars to be held sometime in the future. Purpose of the conference would be to exchange informa tion with oiner law enforce ment agencies on activities of burglars in southern Oregon and to disseminate information which will be received by local delegates to the regional safe burglars conference in Great Falls, Mont. Action was deferred until the next meeting on a proposal to invite law enforcement officers of Klamath county to become members of the southern Oregon Peace Officers' association. Attending the meeting here were representatives of all city, county and state law enforce ment agencies of both Jackson and Josephine counties. Special Guests Special guests at the meeting were Ralph Granquist, director, Internal Revenue bureau, Port land district; George Jamieson, collector of customs; Jim Man sell,' deputy customs collector; Jack Savage, chief of the In ternal Revenue Bureau intelli gence division; Kent Abel Brown, supervising agent, al cohol and tobacco tax unit; Frank J. 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