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SUNDAY, MAR. 23, 1952 ae ‘Washington Calling—
Both Parties Due For Jolts in New Tax Revelations
By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Mar. 22—King committee is Jzzing into biggest vein of scandal uncovered since Caudle-Oliphant-Mathan hearings last fall. Story starts with $5 million tax case .of Hyman Klein, wholesale liquor dealer. He does business in Balti. more, lives in Los Angeles, has New York and Washington attorneys. Committee has already heard that Henry (The Dutchman) Grunewald, Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.) who is Senate minority leader, and William Powers Maloney, Grunewald's attorney, were active in behalf of
Klein several years ago. That's only the start.
New" revilations will show
intricate financing, similar to Casey tanker deal. It involves setting up foreign corporations to escape income
taxes.
Internal Revenue placed a jeopardy assessment against Klein when he tried to leave country several years ago. But fraud prosecution plans were delayed—
somewhere in government— and statute of limitations has run out. Tax case still hasn't been settled.
Three former internal revenue officials will be questioned: Joseph D, Nunan Jr., former internal gpvenue commissioner, in open session; Daniel Bolich, former assistant commissioner, and Carroll B. Mealey, former deputy commissioner in charge of alcohol tax unit, in closed sessions. Public may hear them later. -
Taft Hazard
WISCONSIN primary Apr. 1 could ruin Taft as it did Willkie in 1944. Taft must win big to regain momentum lost in New Hampshire and Minnesota. He's confident, expects to take 24 of Wisconsin’s 30 GOP delegates. Eisenhower is not in that race. Stassen and Gov. Warren are trying to cash in on Ike's popularity, but difficulty of making a showing for the general in that roundabout fashion has politicians puzzled. There's no write-in, no “popularity contest” vote in Wisconsin. Tafy's trying for a Nebraska write-in, same day. Stassen’s only Republican entered in that race. Note: MacArthur hint that he'd accept GOP nomination is significant. May mean he thinks Tart can't make it. ‘MacArthur is determined GOP must have a candidate critical of Truman foreign policy.
On Ike's Coattails
EISENHOWER people drum
new talking point. They contend Ike’s only Republican who could bring landslide in November—thus giving GOP a chance to win Senate control. Twenty Republican Senate seats are at stake this year. At least a third of contests look close. On the other hand, Democrats, already a majority, have only 12 seats at stake. And most of these are in safe southern states. Ironic twist is that half Republican Senators who might come back on Ike's coattails are men who hitherto have opposed him on aid for Europe. And sweep like that would leave Taft in strong position in Senate.
Rationed Shooting
SOME TYPES of ammunition are being rationed in Korea. : There’s been shortage, due to industrial bottlenecks and transportation difficulties, but it’s being solved by giving mortar shells top priority. However, orders to front line units to cut down on firing is due mainly to lack of worthwhile targets, that “don’t give us our money’s worth.”
Feud to Flare
TOP DEFENSE department officials are afraid Navy-Air Force feud is about to flare up again. Navy and Air Force never really made up, but kept armed truce. Now Navy's accusing
Air Force of planting un- .
‘friendly stories with press and
. radio, threatens to retaliate.
of Navy's disbanded OP-23 (A publicity group) — scattered after its man, Adm. Louis Denfeld, was ousted as chief of naval operations—has been quietly brought back to Washington, is getting ready to lash at Air Force again.
Road Block
HOUSE public works committee quietly has blocked administration effort to spend larger share of new road construction money on big highways at expense of rural and city routes. Administration wanted to shift $75 million to main highway program. House committee voted to keep old distribution method.
Personnel
Showdown
SHOWDOWN on when—or whether—there’ll be Senate investigation of ‘alien property comes Monday. There's been strong undercover opposition. Senate judiclary committee had agreed to’ Investigate, at request of Sen. Alexander . Wiley (R. Wis.). Senate rules committee had approved $100,000 for the
probe, But, somehow, resolu-
tion wasn’t reported direct to Benate floor, custom, It went on consent calendar, where one objection ean stall it. Objection Monday will mean
ore” stalling wath Senate
according to
Floor Leader McFarland sets time for calling it up. Wiley has one ace in: the hole. Senate executive expenditures committee members are said to be willing to take up alien property. It has funds, staff, already to go ahead, Wiley may ask: them to take over, though McCarran of Judiciary wants to keep probe in his own committee.
Craig's Guess
GEORGE CRAIG, first
World War II national com-:
mander of American Legion, took himself off Eisenhower bandwagon just in time to get run over by it. Craig’s an Indianapolis lawyer, is running for Governor of Indiana. Because GOP organization in that state’s for Taft, Craig cancelled series of speeches he was to give at “I like Ike” meetings. Cancellations took time; task was just finished when New Hampshire gm Minnesota returns came
More Indiana activity may
be expected.
Though most professional Republicans in state would like to see Taft as President, they operate on unwritten rule that calls for picking winner early enough to climb on gravy train. They were for Taft four years ago too, switched to Dewey on first ballot when they thought Rep. Charles Halleck had been promised Vice President spot. Last spring, one Indiana Taft manager said whole GOP organization was for the Ohio Senator. Then he added: “It's too early to switch.”
Layoffs
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION suspensions of 11 employees in Boston Internal Revenue collector's office have gone into effect quietly. Sixmonth suspension of Chief Office Deputy Taylor starts May 1; of Assistant Collector Burns, June 1. Suspensions are for violating Hatch act which bars political activity. It’s blow to House Majority Leader John W. McCormack who dispenses Massachusetts patronage. These are “his people.”
Same old Story
WHITE MAN still is cheating Indians, according to Rep. Harris Ellsworth of Oregon. Ellsworth says Indian-owned timberland was sold for $135,000, resold same day for $165,000 to second party who promptly gave third party an option for $300,000. This man offered it for sale for $800,000. Ellsworth wants Bureau of Indian Affairs investigated, says it shouldn't have let this happen.
Branded
UNITED PUBLIC WORKERS OF AMERICA, branded this week as Communist-domi-
- nated by McCarran committee,
still has 1500 federal workers
among its members, committee
hearings show. UPWA had already been kicked out of CIO. No figures on how many union members work at defense department—and department doesn’t plan to look into union affiliations of its workers.
More Politics
LOOK FOR EISENHOWER to ask within 10 days to be relieved at NATO; to come back to us in mid-May . . . Some Taft insiders grumble about strategy, say Taft deserves much of what he’s been getting in early primaries. In New Hampshire, they say, Taft vetoed" suggestion that out-of-staters join in campaigning. In Minnesota he. refused to give go-ahead for organized write-in campaign, said he had promised to stay out of “favorite-son” states ... San Francisco Democrats, split into warring camps by tax ‘scandals, had abandoned plans. for annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner, But now that President Truman has refused to head slate of delegates, regular party wheel-horses are trying to work things out with Kefauver insurgents, get to convention under Kefauver banner. :
Gl ‘Tourists’
DEFENSE and Interior Departments have settled big argument over cost of hunting and fishing licenses for GI's in ‘Alaska. Service men were being soaked: $10 for tourist licenses, though -resi-
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Reds’ Punch Reported Heavily Blunted
Denmark Shows Sharpest Drop
Compiled From the Wire * Services
A measurable decline of Communist in European couptries receiving American aid is shown in statistical charts prepared by the administration, Peter Lisagor, Special Times correspondent, reports from Washington. The data, obviously intended to support the request for $7.9 billion in mutual security funds, was released by congressional committees responsible for foreign-related legislation. The sharpest decline in both voting strength and party membership was shown in Denmark. In the 1845 Danish elections 12.5 per cent of the total vote was Communist. In the most recent election, it was 4.6 per cent. Norway registered the sharpest drop in Communist membership in its main legislative body--from 11 of 150 members in 1945 to none today. France and Italy show a substantial drop, percentagewise, although both countries remain the main sources of Communist strength among the NATO powers. ; In areas which voted locally in Italy, in 1946 and 1951, Communist and pro-Commu-nist strength increased from 34.8 to 36.9 per cent of the total vote.
Italy Scaled Down
However, Italian Communist Party claims of 2.3 million members in 1946 have been scaled down by this government’s “most recent satisfactory estimate” to 1.7 million, Italy’s parliament had 219 Communists of 556 members in 1946, as against -the most recent figure of 180 out of 574. Including the votes of parties allied to the Communists. Alone of the 11 countries included in the charts, Italy shows a slightly greater circulation of leading Communist Party newspapers, going grom 330,000 in 1946 to 340,000 today. In France, the percentage of Communist voting strength fell from 28.2 in 1946 to 25.7, as of the most recent elections.
Papers Drop Off
Party membership in France fell from 850,000 to 600,000 according to the charts. Communist votes in parliament dropped from 181 of a total 621 members to 97 of a total 627 today. Party newspaper circulation in France fell from 1.2 million to 346,000 over the same period. Austrian Communists picked up one seat in the main legislative body in Vienna while showing a slight decline in total voting strength and party membership. Decline in Communist or pro - Communist strength in most of the other countries was marked. No estimates were made on Turkey, which has banned the Communist Party and all front organizations, and Yugoslavia, where Tito’s brand of communism dominates political life.
NATO
GEN. ALFRED M. GRUENTHER, chief of staff to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, returned to Washington to report the defense tide ‘is flowing our way” and urge Congress to back the administration’s $7.9 billion foreign aid program. Gen. Gruenther will give his and his chief's view to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Monday.
France
THE so-called International Economic Conference being organized by the Russians for early April is going begging for delegates from the West. Newspapermen, who have applied for visas in great droves, appear to be the only people on this side of the Iron Curtain with any real yearn to go to Moscow for the occasion. Several dozen of these citizens are now waiting, not so patiently, for answers to their applications. Most of the businessmen;
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MEDITERRANEAN AIR DEFENSE. Map shows Cyprus island, in the Mediterranean, where Great Britian and the U. S. are currently planning joint use of a new giant airfield at Tym. bou. It will be one of several built for the four-power Middle East Defense Command. Air bases on the islands of Rhodes and Crete, with runways capable of handling. the biggest jet aircraft, are also reported under discussion by British and U. S,
officials.
trade union officials and educators with whom the Russians hoped to jam the conference have pulled out after tentatively accepting the invitation, They reacted quickly to hints from their governments that attendance might assist Soviet propaganda.
Morocco
SULTAN SIDI MOHAMMED BEN YOUSSEF of Morocco has asked France for drastic changes in the status of the North African protectorate including independent government, the French foreign office sald.
Soviet Union
THE official Soviet magazine Literary Gazette con-
trasted President Truman's’
peace loving statements with former U. 8. military attache in Moscow, Maj. Gen. Robert C. Grow's diary which suggested America “hit below the belt” in an all out war with Russia. The magazine said Gen. Grow’s views were shared by retiring Ambassador to Moscow Admiral Alan Kirk and other American leaders.
Austria
THE Communist newspaper Rude Pravo said that Roman Catholic Bishop Josef Carsky of Kiosce, Slovakia, has condemmed the alleged use of bacteriological weapons by the United States in Korea.
Czechoslovakia
LOCAL Communist officials fn Czechoslovakia who failed to convince the people that
On Inside
BRITISH EXPORTERS; already underselling the United States in the South American market, plan to reduce prices still further in an effort to
capture new business.
LJ = os BRITAIN’S scrap metal importers, hungry for scrap, are upset because their own government is selling war confiscated German dry docks to
» “" CYPRUS, a big alternative base the British have developed in the eastern Mediterranean, may be chosen by Gen. Eisenhower for his Middle ast
headquarters. = ” "
LOOK for a new British ambassador in Washington sometime in the next few months. Sir Oliver Franks has confided to friends that he expects to resume his academic career at Oxford University in September. ” 5 on BRITAIN may accept an offer of the United States government to send jet planes and army equipment to Malaya.
If We Could but See Ourselves as Others See Us—
Briton Believes Hollywood Uses a Wacky Lens
By GEORGE WELLER
SINGAPORE, Mar. 22 (CDN) — The United States, spilling its billions all over the world, must give more attention to the picture of itself
simultaneously spread by its
movies. Jack Evans, a husky, greeneyed, Briton who censors flms for Malaya and Borneo, thinks that a mere 20 per cent of American films are undoing in susceptible southeast Asia much of the good accomplished
by American sacrifices else-
where.
“Your taxpayers and your soldiers in Korea are paying the highest price ever known in history for your international responsibility,” says Mr. Evans. “Then, why not give a little more attention to the image of America you present in your films?” (Evans and his six assistant censors — three Chiriese, an Englishwoman, a Malay and an Indian — threw .out 32 American films last year, about one in 10 shown.) Six were “stripteasers,” six low budget independent shock=
ers, and® 20 were done by big producers, The companies appealed 10 of the rejects to a supérior board, and got one through. The “stripteasers” are made in Hollywood by welding together old burlesque "comedy acts, cheap cabaret shots from stockpiles of forgotten films, and, routines by American strippers. “ = ~ “DON'T FORGET,” says Mr. Evans, “that we have the most movie-hungry audience in the
world, right here, with no television to modify it. Only a few of these millions of Chinese and Malays will ever meet an American girl. “So that girl up there on the screen, whether she’s a whole-
some type out of Andy Hardy, .
or a stripper, becomes ‘the American Girl” “Every film today is propaganda,” declares Mr. Evans.
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party and government policies are “right and corect in all things” are being purged from office, the Prague Rude Pravo said today. The official Communist organ said party conferences are being held in each of the 120 districts to elect new local committees and discuss the “treason” of Former Party Secretary General Rudolf Slansky.
West Germany
MEMBERS of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s coalition
government objected to his °
agreement with France that a freely-elected Saar parliament should determine the future status of the coal basin. The Saar is at present polit ically independent and separated from Germany but economically attached to France.
Sweden
A POLISH fisherman, who kept three crew mates at bay with a signal pistol while he steered their boat aground off a Swedish port, askéd for political asylum in Sweden: “I could not stand conditions in Poland any longer,” the 30-year-old Pole told police at Aahus.
Israel
ISRAEL'S first tire company, constructed here by General Tire of Akron, is scheduled. to . begin operations in mid-April. It will employ 250 Jewish immigrants. A new factory building, constructed on 13 acres outside Tel Aviv, is expected to turn
France, Italy
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out 500 tires daily. This should supply the Israeli market and even provide some export tires,
Tireste A CROWD of pro-Italian
demonstrators overturned
British and American cars and smashed windows of Allledrequisitioned buildings during a general strike of 50,000 workers protesting alleged policy brutality in “Trieste for Italy” demonstrations. Sixty-five persons, including 50 demonstrators and 15 policemen, were injured. Forty Italians were detained. The: violence was largely the work of youths.
Egypt BRITISH AMBASSADOR 8ir Ralph Stevenson and Premier Neguib El Hilaly Pasha conferred There have been no direct official ‘negotiations between the two nations since August, 1051, when talks broke down on the dispute over the Suez Canal zone and the Sudan.
Argentina
THE national board formally proclaimed the re-election of President Juan D. Peron and Vice President Jazmin Hortensio Quijano in last November's voting.
Brazil
FEDERAL police are hold- .
ing a number of army noncommissioned officers as part of a big anti-communist sweep, it was reported. Newspapers sald that as many as 17 non-coms were held as suspected Reds, Including the chauffeur of Gen. Aurelio Gola Monteiro, - chief of the army general staff and a leading anti-Communist.
Hong Kong
A BELATED Chinese Communist report disclosed that a local armed revolt against Communist government broke out in Hsishui County in Hupei Provicé on Feb. 21 and 22. A battle took place with undisclosed losses on each side,
Indo-China
FRENCH warplanes attacked the Communists less than 10 miles from the border of Communist China. French headquarters denied the statement by American Defense Becretary Robert A. Lovett that Chinese Come munist troops have crossed the frontier into Indo-China to join the rebel forces.
South Korea
PRESIDENT SYNGMAN RHEE said in a formal speech that his republic “must have an equal strength” to match that of Japan, the Korean press reported. Mr. Rhee has always opposed Japanese rearmament.
of Word Affairs
ITALIAN authorities are running down rumors that the bonés of the left foot of Mussolini have been sold for religious relics. The left foot was reported missing when the late Il Duce's corpse was ex-
humed. » - »
. BRAZILIAN opponents of a troops-to-Korea program by the Rio government are claiming that many youths are marrying to avoid military service. They call them “Korean hus-
bands.” Fd . »
THE Bevan revolt in the’ British Labor Party is being trumpeted by Iron Curtain radio aa an expression of the British people's resistance to the “U. S.-imposed arms race.”
THE British are more pop- . ular and a stronger economic
force in Palestine and India where they have pulled out than they are in Egypt and Iran where they have been hanging on despite: demands that they leave.
safe, outdoor documentaries, are afraid to let their children go to American pictures because anything cap happen in them.” A running defect through American films, and even British films about America, according to Mr. Evans, “is a contemptuous attitude toward law and order. Your view of , the police seems to have started with the Keystone Cops and never grown up. . “We liked. ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ because it showed for once a hard-working, incorruptible police force doing their job. But usually {t's the smart reporter—preferably girl reporter—or the clever private detective that shows up the dumb or crooked police. Is that America?” Mr. Evans banned Para--mount’s “Big Carnival,” a story about a man pinned underground in a cave, because of the pervasive co corruption of nearly all the characters, including the sheriff and the reporter.
HE BANNED “yp the remake by Columbia of We old
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A NUMBER of British colonial officers favor kicking the Union of South Africa out of the Commonwealth. They contend that Britain would gain hundreds of millions of friends throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia by chastizing the racists of Premier Malan’s Pretoria government. » . » STATEMENTS BY certain Arab leaders that the Moslem religion precludes any great gains for communism in the Middle East fail to square with the facts. The Communists Have worked out an approach, using the Koran to make converts. The character of the Islamic ‘people may be too nationalistic for Communist discipline but the teachings of Mohammed will be no great deterrent. » o ” THE Arab league is throwing out unofficial hints of agreeing to a peace treaty with Israel. The Israelis, however, doubt that a formal peace agreement is In sight. They call it Moslem window-dress-ing.
“Monster of Dusseldorf” because of “horror,” and 20th Century’s “No Way Out” because of “brutal fighting” between whites and Negroes. Warner's film about Murder Inc, “The Enforcer,” was banned as “repugnant, oversensational and horrific.” British Renown’s “No Orchids for Miss Blandish” fell for “glorifying American gangsters.”
Years ago American Westerns were chopped here for their gunplay. But now, says Mr. Evans, “we regard them as traditional and historical and only trim the slugging matches if they get senselessly bloody.” But we did have to stop MGM's “The Great Missouri Raid,” about the Dalton and James Brothers, because it was not a normal Western, and glorified banditry.” Among the finest pictures for the Asiatic Balkans are Walt Disney's nature documentaries, Mr, Evans thinks. “But they never come dubbed in Mandarin, 80 our public misses the best of them. Russia's excellent nature pictures like ‘Life in the Woods’ are dubbed in all Eastern languagesy”
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Home-Made Hooch
In European Nations Receiving A American Aid Making Comeback,
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Revenuers Report’
By THE TIMES STAFF HOME-MADE BOOZE, like bathtub gin of probibls. tion days, is coming back in Indianapolis. & “There's unmistakable evidence in official records that bootlegging on family level is bubbling to new popu larity following latest boost in tax on legal liquors and
beer.
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Price of legal alcoholic beverages is soaring past limits of average man's pocketbook. State and federal taxes in some cases amount to more than one-third of
price of bottle of liquor.
So, many people of moderate means who like to have nip around home are making it themselves with small
stills in basements.
Federal Revenue agents here said private hooche making has increased here considerably in last three months since latest 5.7 per cent boost in tax went into
effect.
But revenuers say they're rot interested in boozee
making for home consumption,
' It's the professional bootleg-
ger who sells stuff to public without paying tax, they're looking for. Agents say they have seen no evidence of increase in professional boot-
legging.
A Way Around
MANY Indianapolis housewives have figured out a way
to dodge social security tax
withholding payments for maids’ wages and do it legally. Law requires employers to withhold 13 per cent of maid's pay, match. same out of own pocket and send it to Uncle Sam if employee works at least 24 days and earns at least $50 in three-month period. Sharpening their pencils, local housewives figured they can legally escape whole business simply by hiring two maids on part-time basis so neither works more than 24 days In quarter nor earns more than $50 limit.
"Tis better, they argue, than attempts at open revolt against
government which usually end with Uncle Sam impounding bank accounts of violators,
Poll Is Eyed
POLITICIANS around Indiana are confused and even sus-
picious about mew straw vote
poll on govern contests called “Hoosier 8 » Survey’s poll cards were sent
to all delegates of 1950 part conventions and to top poli. ticlans. High command politicos don't know for sure who's taking sample of who or why. Some are answering poll with phony vote . . . an old trick in confusing enemy.
They Want Money
DON'T BE surprised iY big-
gest lobby in legislature for boosts in taxes turns out to be Indiana County Commissioners Association. Group already is on record in favor of: ONE: Two-cent increase in gasoline tax so they'll get more money to build county roads. TWO: New property tax for use in matching federal funds to keep up secondary roads. THREE: Ton-mile tax on trucks to provide more county roads funds. Association 1s serving ad-
vanced notice it won't pull any :
punches, Brighter Outlook WORKERS in gloomy
County Courthouse, condemned for 10 years as unfit for government offices, got ray of hope at least for little better conditions. ; New fluorescent lighting is being installed, replacing antique fixtures of dim hues in corridors and offices. County officials estimate new fixtures, which use less current and provide more light, will mean saving of 20 per cent on county’s electric bills.
To the Victor ‘GEN. EISENHOWER'’S popularity showing among voters in New Hampshire and Minnesota is causing noticeable shift in GOP presidential sentiment around Courthouse during last two weeks. At least dozen GOP workers who were wearing Taft badges two months ago said privately they have changed their minds and now are for Ike.
What? Another?
OPINIONS are spreading over state that “Little Hoover Commission,” created by legislature to streamline state governments, cut costs, has been flop so far. Critics are complaining that commission, whose purpose is to end waste and duplication of services, proposes to spend more money than it can. save. Statehouse observers believe it may become only another state agency that wants to perpetuate itself in office. ph ,
City Hall Workers Going to Pot
Flood Report PROPOSED Eagle Creek tax district plan intended to. provide flood control for Big. and Little Eagle Creek valleys is being abandoned. Preliminary work was
started to set up special tax
district last year but move. ment is collapsing because of high tax rate on property necessary to finance job. Meanwhile, however, Eagle Creek valley is being included in federal flood control survey of White River by U, 8. Army engineers, :
Bid for Business
AN OLD device steady customers sonalized, individual at is being tried by some tion operators here. Like 18th century barber shops that once provided in= dividual lather mugs for steady customers with names
lounge started fad last week. As known customers came in,
waitresses i pulled out glasses on whieh" patron's names appeared in large enameled letters. Man. agement is guessing it'll create’ homey atmosphere, bring customer back.
A Warning Fo NON-PROFIT organizations exempt from new federal gambling tax law may run into snag if they operate too widely.
and bartenders
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Some are approaching tavern operators and others’
to act as distributors and cole lectors in gaming enterprizes on theory that “employee” of non-profit organization is not required to pay gaming tax’ stamp fee.
Federal boys are walting tor 3
this one. They contend businessman
who goes in for sideline such
as selling pool tickets can’t
prove he is bona fide employes
of non-profit organization.
His Error
SEVERAL months ago East Side man picked out home site
on unchartered area . .. built
home on what he thought was to become public street in fu< ture development. Several weeks after home was completed and his family moved in, a neighbor built new, country-style outhouse within few yards of his front door. It turned out that what home builder thought was to be street was actually an alley, His house was on the wrong end of his lot.
It Cost Him
MAN prominent in divorce case here recently prepared U. S. Income tax as joint “man and wife” return which allows considerable sartax benefits for tax year they were married. Few days before deadline to file return, joint document was taken to ex-wife to sign. In a huff, she flatly refused. Ex-husband sent out SOS to lawyer, had to figure return all over again at much higher rate. °
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COFFEE drinking fad has become dominant feature of City Hall office operations recently... and they're bfewing
‘their own at their desks.
Nearly every . department now has its own coffee Sang
a . - 3
supply of cups, sugar and cream. Horning and’ S2ArHOND Sete Slons around polars becoming: