'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.
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CHRISTMAS VACATION
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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.
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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
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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. The actress called this a
lie, and said it was part of a
smear aimed at forcing her to
drop the case.
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PAGE THREE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—VP)—
President Truman called Attor
ney General McGrath and FBI
chief J. Edgar Hoover to the
White House today, giving rise
to new reports that he plans a
major move to offset mounting
tax scandals.
Speculation immediately arose
that Mr. Truman might assign
Hoover or some other nationally
known figure to make a govern
ment-wide investigation. 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.
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