'THURSDAY', DECEMBER 13, 1951 House Expected to Pass Substitute for Tax Bill HARRISBURG, Dec. 12—(JP)—The House was expected to give its final approval tonight to a $ll3 million tax package devised as a substitute for the now-dead income tax bill. The Senate was expected to join the action tomorrow and send the revenue-raising program to Gov. John S. Fine for signature. ' A House-Senate conference committee ironed out a host of Soviet Says OK to Plan To Disarm PARIS, Dec. 12--(.P)—Andrei Y. Vishinsky gave implicit assur ances today that Russia will take part in' the work of a new 12- nation disarmament commission expected to be created by. the U.N. General Assembly. At the same time• the Soviet foreign minister demanded that the U.N. ban atomic weapons forthwith and charged the United States was rejecting Russian dis armament proposals in. order to gain time for stockpiling bombs. "Who has atomic weapons?" Vishinsky asked in a 75-minute speech to the assembly's political committee. "The United . States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. You (the United States and the West) do not want to ac cept our proposals because you want to gain time to stockpile and stockpile and stockpile atomic bombs. We can also stockpile atom bombs, but we do not want to do this as we have no aggres sive intentions against anyone, not against the United States or any other country." Navy Expects Atom Sub in '54 WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—V0--- The Navy said today its first atom-powered submarine should be ready by 1954. The keel of the experimental nuclear-powered craft is expected to be_ laid next spring under a contract with the Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn./ • Some unofficial estimates are that an • -atomic-powered sub marine might attain 'underwater speeds of - more than 30 knots, making it capable of running down the fastest merchant ship convoy without surfacing and exposing itself to attack. The best of conventional-e ngi n e d sub marines, even new models being built or tested,' are assumed to have underwater speeds not much over 25 knots. Town Has Bank Fraud THOMASVILLE, Ala., Dec. 12 --(W)---Residents of this south Alabama lumber mill town (pap. 2420) were shocked today when the FBI arrested the president, cashier and a leading customer, of the town's only bank in an alleged $BOO,OOO shortage. TRANSPORTATION NOTICE CHRISTMAS VACATION Take A Tip And Make Your Trip BY • GREYHOUND For the convenience of PENN STATE STUDENTS, SPECIAL BUSES will be provided for the Christmas Vacation and will leave from the PARKING LOT, SOUTH of RECREATION HALL at 6:00 P. M., WED-, NESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1951. RESERVATIONS for the SPECIAL BUSES will be made with the purchase of your ticket at the GREY HOUND POST HOUSE. ALL RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY 10:00 P. M., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1951. FOr Additional Information, Call The _GREYHOUND POST HOUSE, 146 North Atherton Street—Phone 4181 technical errors which crept into the bills during the Senate's haste to vote on the program last week. It_ is this committee's report that is being voted on by the lawmakers. The tax package calls for a speedup in collection of corpor ation taxes, imposing a one per cent tax on real estate, an in crease in inheritance taxes and removal of tax exemptions en joyed by some insurance firms, bus companies and , • for-hire truckers. Offers Made Elsewhere, Sen. John J. Halus ka (D-Cambria) offered to under go, a lie detector test to prove his charges that he was offered $750 and control of 50 state jobs to vite for the abandoned income tax. He told a special Senate in vestigating committee yesterday that the offers were made by Sen. John H. Dent (D-Westmoreland) and Sen. M. Harvey Taylor (R- Dauphin). Taylor, asked by a newsman if he too would undergo a similar test, replied: "That's silly. We all know who the liar is." - Taylor declined further' corn ment as did Dent. Dent and Taylor categorically denied Haluska's charges at the hearing. Sen. Albert R. Pechan (R-Arm strong), a member of the com mittee, said he was convinced (Continued on page eight) Demonstrations Flare,in Iran, May Increase TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 12—(?P)— Fighting priests, anti-Britigh 'and anti-Soviet demonstrations an d legislative sit-downs against the government tonight swelled Iran's turmoil over, .the paralysis of her big oil industry. Some of the demonstrations were mere curtain-raisers to even bigger ones against "British in trigue" planned tomorrow. At the same time Mossadegh gave Iran's old Western customers until Dec. 22 to .buy her oil on her• terms or run the risk of let ting the Soviet bloc get it. There was no indication that former purchasers, who have ig nored brimming tanks at the huge Abadan refinery for month's, would respond to the ultimatum. Any Soviet bloc buyers . would have to 'haul the •oil away and the- world's tanker fleet is con centrated in the hands of the Western nations. DAILY- COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Santa Claus Plane Back from Excursion FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 12 —(FP)—A Santa Claus "letters" plane flew over the North Pole early today- on a course airlines officials hope•may become a reg ular passenger airliner route across the top of the world. The Alaska Airlines' "Polar Express" returned here today from the polar area, its task of dropping a bag of 5000 childrens' letters . and a candy-cane 9-foot steel pole over the polar wastes completed uneventfully. • Denial Given By Naster At Inquiry WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—(1P)— Bert K. Naster, nervous as a cat, swore today that he never tried to shake down Abraham Teitel baum for $500,000 with threats to make it "tough" for him ih. a tax fraud case. Twisting his chair and wringing his hands, Naster told a House inquiry group that he knew Teitelbaum but was afraid to disclose how he first heard about him. "You are in physical fear of answering?" asked Adrian De- Wind, counsel for the investiga tors. "Yes, sir," Naster replied un happily. Teitelbaum is an affluent Chi cago lawyer and real estate oper ator who claims credit for getting Al Capone out of jail before his full term was served. He has also represented the late gangster's brother, Ralph, in 'legal matters. Last week Teitelbaum aston ished the investigators—members of a House ways and means sub committee—by char gi n g that Naster and Frank Nathan asked him for $125,000 down and $375,- 000 in three days to take the heat off him in a tax evasion case which' is still pending. Teitelbaum said he turned them down. Mixture's Fatal Effect Unknown to Hardy ATLANTA, Dec. 12—(M—Big, fat John R. Hardy said today he didn't know that wood alcohol mixed with moonshine would kill people. The state claims in his murder trial, which began yesterday, that a concoction mixed by Hardy and others was responsible for the death of 38 persons last Octo ber. Truman Coils Meeting With Hoover, McGrath Talks with McGrath Tullulah Bankhead Barred in Case Involving Secretary NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (1P) Actress Tullulah Bankhead today was baired from the court room where her former maid-secretary is on trial for alleged grand lar ceny and forgery. "At least, I can smoke now," the husky-voiced star said, as she retired to a witness room. Defendant in the case is white- haired Mrs. Evyleen R. Cronin, 59, accused of raising sums on Miss Bankhead's checks while employed by the actress. Judge Harold F. Stevens said he took the action on "the court's own motion," but did not amplify. The defense has charged that Mrs. .Cronin paid for "cocaine, booze and sex" for Miss Bank head. 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Hoover has been head of the FBI since 1924. He was appointed by Pres ident Coolidge. Another possibility mentioned was that the President would set up a bi-partisan commission to conduct the inquiry, as Coolidge did in cracking down on the Tea pot Dome oil-lease scandals of that era. Mr. Truman's conference with his top law enforcement officers came as new demands echoed on Capitol Hill for the resignation of McGrath because of irregulari ties uncovered in the Justice De partment. Meanwhile there were reports that Supreme Court 'Justice Tom Clark, then attorney general, knew of alleged "indiscretions" committed by T. Lamar Caudle before Caudle was 4)pointed as an assistant U.S. attorney general. PECAN BUTTERCREAMS SECORD BUTTERCREAMS f F .. " „ 44:4 • • .1.! ris*,4*/ • .% DIXIES *****:***** ...--
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