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12 A . WEDNESDAY. AUGUST' 14. 1IM MEDFORD MAIL TBUUME. MEDFOBD, OftEGO 'Even Keepers' Said Escaping From Behind Berlin Barricade JOSEPH B. FLEMING Berlin .HOT - "Conditions re to bad in the prison that even the keepers are escap ing." ' - " ' ' That'ra popular West Ber liner's description of East Berlin two. years after the building of the anti-refugee wall that divides the city. ' The wall, built by the Com munists on Aug. 13, 1961, has not solved the satellite East Germans' problems, nor has it helped stabilize the regime s the Communists had hoped. 'It did halt the mass flood of refugees that threatened to bleed East Germany white. But East Germans still brave death almost daily to flee by every-conceivable means.-: 7 And the prison's keepers -the police, soldiers and border guards - are escaping in ever increasing numbers. Would Bisk Depopulation: Western officials say the Communists would risk - the almost complete depopulation of East Germany if they took the wall down now. Two years ago when the wail went up East Germans were fleeing through the West Berlin hole in the. Iron cur tain at. the. rate of up to 100 an hour ...... ,i i " v. ; : i v I , ' -1 - w"V jmk r I V V if ,... . :-r its ' STABS MABBY-Slnger Robert Goulet and his bride, musical comedy actress Carol Lawrence, smile happily after their wedding In New York. (UPI)i, . v. v mm Mb Your Money's By SYLVIA PORTIR CoyrtiM. HsH Syndic, las.-. COLLECT THIS INFORMATION VIII ; ' ' . This is the eighth In a serlas of nine articles. . So far this series has concentrated, on what you .can deduct. But, let me warn .you again, no matter how valid your entertainment expense may be under the new rules, you will lose your deduction if you don't keep proper rec ords.'. ;. -O'.' ': ' '..' Basing your expense account deductions on estimates alone, under the old Cohan Yule, is finished. Under the Cohan rule as developed by the courts', if you could prove that you had some deductible expenditures, though not the precise amounts, you were entitled to deduct a reasonable estimate. While the courts-would weigh your own estimate against you because, of your failure to keep records, the net effect was to allow you to take a substan tial deduction despite your failure to keep proper records. But the Treasury convinced Congress that this rule per mitted taxpayers to deduct entertainment and traveling ex penses to which they, were not entitled. Congress changed , the law so that if you don't have proper records now,. you may lose all of your deductions. ' ; . .''The Cohan rule - was limlnatad only for travel ' penses away from home,' entertainment 'expenses and ' business gifts, though. You still can use the Cohan rule ( " to Justify deductions for seasonable estimates of other ;' types of expenses., even II yout records don't support ' 1 them to Ihe penny. " 1 , . ' " Here is the information you must have in order to make your expense account deductions affected by the 1601 law stand up. ''''.''"' ' ' t For Traveling Expenses! .' v , Cost, including transportation, meals and lodging,, and Incidentals such as telephone and telegraph, etc.; Time, including departure and return date tor each trip, and the number of days away from home spent on business; Place, or places of travel, by name of city, town, etc.v -Business reason for trip, or nature of the business benefit-derived or expected to be derived as a result of travel to each place. . ' For Entertainment Expenses in Generali Cost; .'--.Time, including date; . , '.. ' Place or places, including ni; address or location and description of the entertainment, such as dinner or theatre, if not otherwise apparent; i Business purpose, Including business reason or nature of the business benefit derived or expected to be derived, from the entertainment, and the nature of any business discus sion or activity. (For "quiet business meals," nature of busi- , ness, discussion or activity is not required); - ' Business relationship of each person entertained for wiiuin a ucuui-uuii la ciaiuira, inciuaing name or uue, oc cupation or other designation which shows business rela tionship to you. If you think you can later recall the per son's title, occupation, etc., keeping the name will be enough. You can give an examining agent the additional Information. .11 the entertainment directly precedes or fellows a substantial and bona fide business discussion, yeu must also have the following information in addition te what . is generally required. . . Time, Including date and length of business discus sion! . - . ' Place of the discussion) - Business purpose. Including nature af Ihe discus sion, and business reason for the entertainment, or na ture of business benefit derived or expected le be de rived from Ihe entertainment. Business relationship, including identification of those participating in the business discussion. In the final column of this series, I'll explsin how you shouldLkeeu. the .required information and supporting evi dence I In July, the last full month before the wall, 30,000 East Germans walked ' or rode across the East-West border. The wall along the 28-mile East-West Berlin border halt ed that mass flow. In the two years since the wall 16,454 refugees have managed to get to the West. The first year 12,000 got out. Strengthened controls the second year cut the number to 4,496. But the number of escaping soldiers and police has increas ed. The first year 400 soldiers, border guards and policemen fled. The second year 904. Only fear of retaliation against their families and lack of opportunity keep most bor der guards from fleeing, de fectors have reported. Despised by Civilians Morale is said to be ex tremely low because the sol diers are despised, by civilians for guarding the wall. Pfc. Manfred Tucher, 21, who fled to the U. S. Army's Checkpoint ' Charlie last month, said "No matter how crowded a train is no other passenger will take a vacant seat next to a border guard. "I was stationed in East Berlin almost two. years ago and never got to know a girl. They wouldn't' tlk' ii Us. Out side of the men In my com pany I had no friends." .- Pfc- Heinz Heger, 20, who also fled, said: "More than half of my unit-would defect to the West in the first few days if war broke out. They would not fight for the regime or shoot at West Germans. At the most 30 per cent are Communists." ; Esst German deserters say most -border guards shoot to miss at refugees and even, de liberately get bad scores in target practice to cover up. : This would account for the fact that refugee after refugee gets-, safely to the West al though they often escape un der Eastern police gunfire. However, some guards do shoot to kill. Since the wall 65 refugees have died, 54 trying to reach West Berlin and 11 on the East-West German border. Tell Believed Higher It is believed the death toll Is much higher but only 65 deaths have been documented. Western officials say without doubt others have been killed in deserted areas or behind the wall at night when there were no eyewitnesses. How many have been ar rested trying ' to flee, is "not known. " '. Lt. Coi. . Martin Loeffler, who commanded an East Ger man army regiment before be fled, estimated only one in 10 refugees gets through. ' . Those who do get through use every conceivable tech nique. 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