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o 8 M$IL TRIBUNE, Mdfor4, Or. Thursday, Juno 25, 1959 Amendments To Plug Loopholes In Taxes Sought northern Democrats carried to the Senate floor today their fight to plug tax loopholes which cost the. government about $2 billion a year in revenue. They will try to tack four or more amendments to a bill which would extend for another' year the high Korean war tax rates on liquor, wine, beer, cigarettes, autos and corporations. Four of the . amendments (yere rejected by the Senate Finance Committee Wednes day when' it approved the bill. However, the group ac cepted one proposal, which would repeal the 10 per cent tax on domestic train, air plane and long-distance bus tickets. Houm May Kill It The Senate was expected to approve this amendment but the House probably will kill it. The northern Democrats added to the Korean tax ex tension last year an amend ment to repeal the levies on passenger and freight travel. The house went along only with the freight provision. The loophole amendments wouia reduce the oil and gas depletion allowance, reneal part of the tax concession on dividend income, restrict busi ness deductions for entertain ment and apply a withholding tax on interest and dividend income. Other congressional news: State Rights: Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Atk.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Com mittee, said he would press for Senate action on a states rights bill similar to the one ,the House passed Wednesday. The House bill would prevent , a federal law from nullifying a similar state statute. Could Be Sheltered Atom War: Scientists said ah H-bomb attack would catch tha nation's population "prac tically caked and completely unprepared and unprotected." They told a ' congressional aiuiuic suocommiuee x n a t much could be done to shelter people from the blast, heat, fire and radiation of nuclear war. It is not being done, they said. Highways: Congressional opponents of an auto gas tax hike were not swayed by " President Ensenhower's warn ing that work on the interstate superhighway system would i ... U. ... mm J 11.: IT sijuttujg uuwu una munia unless new funds were pro vided. The President said work on the 41,000-mile road network would cease in 36 states and theDistrict of Co lumbia within -a year unless tne highway trust fund was replenished. Superman's Will To Be Contested Hollwood -UPD- The mother of George Reeves, the Super man of TV films, was to ar rive today to contest the will of her son which left most of his estate to a woman he ac V cused of annoying him. Mrs. Helen Lescher Bessolo, of Galesburg, 111., retained Hollywood attorney Jerry Giesler to investigate her son's June 16 suicide. She said she planned to contest the will at a July 10 hearing. Giesler said Wednesday he was convinced' Rhvm har? committed suicide. : Tht will left the bulk of Reeves' $50,000 estate to Mrs. Toni Mannix, wife of film studio executive Eddie J. Man nix. Reeves' . fiance, New York cafe society girl Leonore Lemmon, 35, said Reeves had made another will -favoring her, but it was not found. She is not a beneficiary in the will filed lor probate. , Mrs. Bessolo retained Gies ler after she said she doubted her son had taken his own life. A second autopsy was per formed and a reoort riven to Giesler. .. . . . Timber Carnival Set !-5 . Albany - A pair of giant spar poles, reaching 100 feet in the air, have been erected .here in preparation for the 1959 world championship tim ber carnival July 2-5. -. The crowning of a- queen opens the carnival July 2 and ; a $1,500 fireworks - display closes the event. Loggers bat tle it out for $4,000 in prizes during the time in between. ... . 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