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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 18, 1951
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Tax Compromise
Against Government
In GI School Program
Fagan Dickson Is Executive
Director Loyal Democrats
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eluded fake records of student
enrollment and attendance.
He said most of those arrested
today in Miami are present and
former employes and officials of
the Berlitz School of Languages
of Miami and Miami Beach and
the Miami School of Languages.
He estimated frauds in the Miami
area involved $250,000.
bridges across the river.”
Observers said the Chinese ap-
parently had pulled most of their
forces out of the once bustling
road junction.
South of the city Chinese re-
sistance stiffened against attack-
Volcanic peaks, one 7,000 feet
high, dominate the Azores.
Temperature — Today noon 81;
low last night 55; barometric
pressure 30.24.
East Texas (including Gaines-
ville) — Partly cloudy to cloudy
fective tax on long term capital
gains from the existing 25 per
cent to 26 per cent.
2. Set an effective date of
July 1, 1951, instead of Jan. 1,
1952, on a cut-back in the ex-
cess profits tax credit from 85
to 83 per cent.
burn for you.
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in 1951______________
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date in 1950 ----------
Traffic injuries to date
in 1951 _____________2
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date in 1950 ---------
Key Hills
Abandoned
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in 1951 ______________
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date in 1950 ----------
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COOKE COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS
a promise by the warden to be fed they returned to their cells.
(AP Wirephoto)
11 Deathless Days
IN COOKE COUNTY
(Outside Gainesville)
Buy Your
Community Concert
Membership
This Week
Buy Your
Community Concert
Membership
This Week
TROOPERS SURROUND CONVICTS—West Virginia State
Police surround part of the 1300 prisoners at the West Virginia
State Prison in Moundville, W. Va., after they were locked out
of their cells for mutiny. Shortly after being surrounded and
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American Legion Asks
Replacement State
Department Chiefs
By DON WHITEHEAD
MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 18. (A)—The American Legion today de-
manded that the top leadership of the state department be replaced
with “men of unquestioned loyalty x x x to the end that confidence
of all Americans in the conduct of our foreign affairs may be fully
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AUSTIN, Oct. 18. (AP)—Fagan party, but who,
The teacher asked, “Where is
Cleveland?” To her great sur-
prise, the slowest boy in the class
held up his hand. “All right,” she
said. He declared, confidently,
“Cleveland is playing in Wash-
ington today.”
Owls May Operate
in BSL in 1952
Say Club Officials
A spokesman for the Gaines-
ville Owl baseball club reported
shortly after noon today that the
general consensus of the direc-
tors of the organization is that the
Owls will operate in the Big State
league in 1952 — with or without
the assistance of Dick Burnett
and the Dallas Eagles.
Bobby Goff, general manager
of the Dallas club, and Jimmy
Adair, 1950 Owl field manager,
met with directors of the Gaines-
ville club this morning, but no
details of the talks have been re-
leased yet. Goff is leaving the
Dallas organization Nov. 1, to be-
come vice-president of the Wich-
ita Falls Spudders of the Big
State league. No reason was given
for the presence of Adair, who
served as a coach for the Chi-
cago White Sox during the past
year.
The talks were to be resumed
later today, but no immediate de-
cision is expected to be reached
on the operation of the Gaines-
ville club, the spokesman con-
cluded.
Following the annual Big State
league meeting last Sunday in
Dallas it has been generally be-
lieved that the Gainesville fran-
chise would go to either Long-
view, Greenville or Paris, all of
whom have requested member-
ship in the league if an opening
occurs. It has been reported that
Burnett favors Longview as a site
of the franchise if he provides
the players for the club as he has
done in Gainesville.
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former Gainesville citizen, died
in Houston and funeral services
and burial are to be in that city
Friday.
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Watts, left Thursday morning for
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Damaged $150,000
BORGER, Tex., Oct. 18 (AP) —
An early morning fire raced
through the First National Bank
building here today causing an
estimated $150,000 damage to
banking facilities and club rooms
of the Elks lodge.
Units of the Phillips and Buena-
vista fire departments joined
Borger firemen in battling the
blaze.
SUCCEEDS LIAQUAT — Sir
Kwaja Nazimuddin (above), gov-
ernor general of Pakistan, has
taken charge of the government
as Prime Minister replacing the
late Liaquat Ali Khan, the All-
India radio at New Delhi re-
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (AP)—
The FBI today announced the ar-
rest of 22 persons on charges of
fraud against the government in
connection with the G. I. edu-
cational program.
Fourteen arrests were made in
Miami, Fla., two in Detroit, one
in Dayton, O., two in New York
City and three in the Newark,
N. J. area.
FBI Director. J. Edgar Hoover
identified those arrested as em-
ployes, officials, and owners of
five vocational schools, including
the Berlin School of Languages
of America, Inc. at Miami.
Hoover said the alleged frauds
total more than $350,000.
Hoover’s statement did not
name the 22 but identified three
language schools in Miami and
Miami Beach, the Dayton Tele-
vision Institute, Inc., and the
Lincoln Gregory Trade School,
Inc., of Linden, N. J., as the five
schools involved. He said names
of those arrested would be made
public locally.
In the past 10 months, he ad-
ded, FBI investigations have re-
sulted in the arrest of more than
300 persons charged with vet-
eran school frauds totaling close
to $1,000,000.
Under the GI plan, the govern-
ment foots the bill for a veterans
tuition and other school expenses.
Hoover said the alleged frauds
involved in today’s arrests in-
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HEADS BRITISH FORCES IN
SUEZ AREA— Lt. Gen. George
Erskine (above), British com-
mander in the Suez canal area
where troops were mobilized to
combat rioting. (AP Wirephoto)
“Attendance records for G. I. ;oc A; inontA,
students were certified by forged i8Al ied.infa Xn ;
Truman to Choose
Own Time to Tell It
He Will Run Again
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. (AP)—President Truman made it clear
today that he doesn’t intend to say before mid-January, at the
earliest, whether or not he will run for reelection.
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A girl should never stop if she
is driving a car and someone
whistles at her. That is, unless the
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Cool Front in
Texas Panhandle
Has Fizzled Out
Gainesville failed to feel the
effects of the cool front which
had been predicted to reach this
section of the state Wednesday.
Last night’s low temperature
was 55, and by noon today, the
mercury had risen to 81 degrees.
There was no indication of pre-
cipitation in this area and none
is predicted for several days.
The cool front that nipped the
Panhandle has fizzled out and
most of Texas today continued tc
bask in its mild mid-October
weather.
The mercury, which dipped in-
to the mid-30’s in the Panhandle
early yesterday, is climbing back
up again. The overnight low in
the state was a 41 reported at
Amarillo.
Temperatures in the middle
80’s were forecast for most ol
the state today by the U. S
Weather Bureau. The maximum
yesterday was a 92 at Presidio
while the coolest spot was Am-
arillo where the temperature did
not go above 52.
Scattered showers dotted the
state during the oast 24 hours.
Amarillo received .08 of an inch:
Big Spring .20: Midland .09; Pala-
cios .05 and Marfa .01. Rain was
reported falling at Corpus Christi
and Victoria this morning.
The showers were strictly local,
however, and the Weather Bu-
reau reports it expects no gen-
eral rains during the next few
days.
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1, Summerlin reported a “curtain of
smoke from bursting U. N. shells
and bombs rose like a sweeping
forest fire” in front of Allied
gress to pass laws which would
provide the same punishment for
draft dodgers “as those who de-
sert in the face of the enemy.”
As the session opened, a dele-
gate shouted objection to a news-
paper headline that the conven-
tion yesterday had cheered an at-
tack on the president by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur.
MacArthur lashed out at Tru-
man administration policies yes-
terday to the cheers of the con-
vention.
Bill Murad of Cleveland, Ohio,
urged the convention “go on rec-
ord that we never have cheered
against the president of the
United States.” He is vice com-
mander of the 13th Legion dis-
trict.
Murad said the cheers were for
MacArthur himself and not di-
rected against Mr. Truman.
Murad got a round of applause
but the chairman ruled the mo
tion was out of order and would
have to be referred to a com-
mittee for action.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor
said congress has sanctioned
“ruthless profiteering and price
gouging” in the present price con-
trols laws.
British Sea Captain Says
Russ Planes Attacked Ship
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct. 18. (/P)—A British sea captain
today accused Russian airplanes of making an unprovoked bombing
attack on his ship near the Soviet port of Archangle last Sept. 14.
Soviet seaplanes dropped three ——---
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south and southwest of Kum-
song and inched forward against
Reds on a ridge blocking their
way to the town.
Three Allied divisions punch-
ed out gains of a quarter to
three-quarters of a mile in the
heaviest action of the week-old
offensive.
A front line dispatch reported
at least 200 Chinese were killed
trying to escape from a trap on
encircled Fortress Mountain.
“Many” others were killed in
their bunkers.
American and South Korean
troops advancing along a 22 mile
front toward K u m s o n g were
within three miles of the town.
In rugged mountains to the
east Allied infantrymen attack-
ed a towering, craggy peak.
Their morning assault was un-
successful.
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change in temperatures this after-
noon, tonight and Friday.
Oklahoma — Partly cloudy-
through tomorrow. Colder south-
east today and over the state to-
night. Warmer in the Western
portion tomorrow. High today, 55
northwest to 75 southeast. Low
tonight, 35 northwest to 50 south-
east.
Lake Texoma: Lake level,
612.45; temperature of the water,
72; barometric pressure, 30.24 ris-
ing. Winds northeast 5-10 mph
today, light variable tonight and
tomorrow. Partly cloudy today.
High today 82, low tonight 58;
high Friday, 84.
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and Friday. A
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restored.”
The action came after a bitter
and noisy floor fight on the res-
olution and fter rejection of a
minority report which would
have eliminated all criticism of
the state department.
The demand was approved by
a voice vote.
J. Joseph “Jiggs” Donohue,
district commissioner of Wash-
ington, D. C., pleaded with the
convention not “to turn this into
a political convention.”
He praised the record of Sec-
retary of State Acheson — but
when Acheson’s name was men-
tioned there Was a chorus of boos
which drowned out the speaker’s
words.
The resolution said in part:
.‘We demand the immediate
removal of the present corps of
leiders whose every action has
reflected incompetency, indeci-
sion and defeatism.”
The resolution named no
names, but left no doubt the
legion was referring not only to
Secretary of State Acheson but
also his top lieutenants.
A minority of the legion for-
eign relations committee —from
Colorado, Kentucky and the Dis-
trict of Columbia—tried to sub-
stitute a minority report which
would have struck out all crit-
icism of the state department.
Rogers Kelly of Texas, chair-
man of the legion foreign rela-
tions committee, declared the
minority was “trying to water
down and scuttle the American
Legion policy.”
When the chairman ruled a
vote to table the minority re-
port was in order, one delegate
shouted there was “trickery and
politics” to shut off debate.
Urging a harder - hitting war
against the Reds, another reso-
lution said:
“We again demand that our
government use every possible
means to bring the Korean war
to a speedy and successful con-
clusion.
“In this connection, we urge
that immediate authority be giv-
en the commander of the United
Nations’ forces now fighting in
Korea to attack and destroy
Communist bases and concentra-
tions of troops, supplies, and
equipment in China, or wher-
ever they may be found xxx.”
The legion turned down a res-
olution to sever all diplomatic
and commercial relations with
Soviet Russia and her satellites
and another to prohibit the pres-
ident from sending armed forces
abroad without congress declar-
ing war.
General Douglas MacArthur
had called for a greater military
effort in Korea and had accused
the Truman administration of
holding back military power
which would end the war.
The convention also urged con-
infantrymen advancing on Kum-
song.
Kumsong Ghost Town
After flying over the area,
Summerlin wrote:
“Kumsong looked like a ghost
town. It was pock marked with
bomb craters. Allied planes had
knocked out the spans from
both the road and railway
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names of legitimate teachers,
relatives, acquaintances .and
neighbors to reflect these per-
sons taught the veterans whereas
no instruction was given,” Hoov-
er said telling of the Miami
operations.
“Some students were marked
in attendance for non-existent
sessions on Saturdays, Sundays,
and holidays. Instructors and,
students were induced to sign for
lessons they neither gave nor
received.”
In one school, Hoover said, a
person was hired for the express
purpose of placing names of in-
structors on student records,
falsely indicating veterans had
received instruction. One veteran
in this school, which Hoover did
not specifically identify, was re-
cruited in a Miami bar and be-
came a “student,” Hoover said.
He never attended classes,
never received a book, and did
not know the school’s location,
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reporters, Mr. Truman repeated
that he has made up his mind
but said he would not disclose
his decision until it was politic-
ally expedient.
And, he added, he would be
the sole judge of that.
In a more serious vein, the
president said he would be busy
until mid - January preparing
three messages to the new ses-
sion of congress and would not
have time for other things until
they were out of the way.
Mr. Truman also told his news
conference that he stands on his
previous statement that Soviet
Russian agreements are nothing
but scraps of paper. This was in
response to a request for com-
ment on Soviet Foreign Minister
Vishinsky’s statement that it is
hardly possible that relations be-
tween the U. S. and Russia can
be worse in view of the presi-
dent’s “scrap of paper” remark
during a recent speech.
In commenting on a list of
campaign issues presented by
Senator Taft (R-Ohio), the presi-
dent said he is against sin, too.
Taft said, in announcing his
candidacy for the GOP president-
ial nomination, that the issues
would be liberty from socialistic
controls, honesty and integrity in
government, and “mistakes” in
judgment on foreign relations.
On other subject Mr. Truman
said:
1. General MacArthur’s as-
sertion in Miami that he had
“unquestionably wrecked” a
secret plan to let Formosa fall
to the Communists and permit
Red China to enter the United
Nations, is not based on fact
and the general knew it.
2. William M. Boyle, Jr. quit
as Democratic national chair-
man because of health. The
president said he has not had
time to think about a successor
to Boyle.
3. He wrote Senator Taft say-
ing he understood the Ohioan
had thrown his hat into the
presidential ring and was sure
Taft was going to have a lot of
fun from now on.
4. He hopes congress will pass
a tax increase bill because of
its tremendous effect on the
budget.
1 3. To apply a 10 per cent
manufacturers tax to electric
I garbage disposal units, for a
f 2,000,000 gain, and to ex-
empt children’s ice skates and
roller skates from the 15 per
cent sporting goods tax (loss
I $2,000,000).
By Chinese
U. S. 8TH ARMY HEAD-
QUARTERS, Korea, Oct. 18 (A)
— Chinese suddenly abandoned
a series of key hills in western
Korea to attacking Americans
today. But they stiffened
against Allies crunching forward
toward their Kumsong strong-
hold in the center.
Troops of the U. S. First Cav-
alry division overran four hills
northwest of Yonchon almost
unopposed.
The Americans had been fight-
ing for the ridgeline for two
weeks in one of the bloodiest
small actions of the entire Unit-
ed Nations autumn offensive.
Chinese deserted the western
hills during the night after beat-
ing off a series of flame-throw-
ing attacks Wesnesday.
The doughboys fanned out
over the charred, artillery-scar-
red ridge virtually without fir-
ing a shot.
* The unopposed advanced plac-
ed the cavalry troopers about
two miles in front of their posi-
tions of Oct. 3 when the U. N.
western offensive started.
A front line officer said the
operation “to all practical intents
and purposes is complete.”
From the center of the Korean
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FORT WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, Oct. 18 (A) —
Cattle slow, weak; declines of $1
for cattle; $2 to $3 lower for
calves. Good and choice slaugh-
ter steers and yearlings 30.00 to
34.50; common and medium 22.00
to 29.00; beef cows 20.00 to 25.00;
bulls 20.00 to 27.00; good and fat
choice calves 28.00 to 33.00;
stocner calves 20.00 to 33.00;
stocker yearlings 20.00 to 31.50.
Hogs mostly 50 cents lower;
some sows $1 lower choice 180
to 280 lb. weights 20.00; few
20.25; choice 150 to 175 lbs. and
290 lbs. 18.50 tol9.75; sows 16.00
to 18.00.
Sheep steady; good and choice
slaughter lambs 30.00; good
slaughter ewes 16.00 to 16.50;
cull and utility slaughter ewes
11.50 to 13.50; feeder lambs
20.00 to 25.00.
Gainesville Produce
Prices paid by Gainesville
wholesalers to farmers and other
producers:
Butterfat: No. 1. 58 cents.
Hens: Light 20 cents; heavey
25 cents; roosters, 15 cents.
Eggs: No. 1 candle, 50 cents;
Turkeys: No. 1 toms, 20 cents;
No. 1 hens, 25 cents; No. 2’s and
old toms, 15 cents.
Green cowhides, 17 cents.
No. 2 candle 25 cents.
Railroads Denied
Right To an Appeal
AUSTIN, Oct. 18. W—The
Third Court of Civil Appeals to-
day denied 33 railroads permis-
sion to file appeal from a district
court order upholding emergency
freight rate reductions on cattle
feed for 148 Texas counties.
The freight rates on shipments
within the state were ordered by
the Railroad Commission to be
cut 50 per cent on hay and 33 1-3
per cent on other feedstuffs.
anothe, do not want to be called
Republicans,” Dickson contin-
ued in a prepared statement.
“This group has no prospect of
winning a national election.
“They are in league with the
Republicans in that they hope
to divide the Democrats and
thereby make it possible for the
Republicans to win. It is the ob-
jective of the Loyal Democrats to
prevent these saboteurs from cap-
turing the party machinery.
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league with the Republicans.
B y “instructed delegation,”
Dickson said he meant one “in-
structed for a favorite son.” He
thought this would apply to both
the presidential and vice presi-
dential posts.
Gov. Shivers, who opposes the
nomination of President Truman
for reelection, last week jibed at
the group which Dickson will
represent. He asked what they
were “loyal” to.
Dickson said the movement
which he will direct “is dedi-
cated to assuring all of the loyal
Democrats of Texas the protec-
tion of their right of representa-
tion at our state and national con-
ventions.”
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Dickson, Austin attorney and
former first assistant attorney
general, was named executive di-
rector of the Loyal Democrats
of Texas today by Walter G. Hall
of Dickinson, Chairman.
He immediately said his ef-
forts would be directed toward
securing an instructed Texas del-
egation to the Democratic Na-
tional Convention.
Gov. Allan Shivers has said
he favors an uninstructed delega-
tion.
Dickson said the name “Loyal
Democrats of Texas” had been
adopted by Hall and other lead-
ers of the group who met in Aus-
tin Saturday under the banner of
“Volunteer Democrats.”
In seeking an instructed delega-
tion, Dickson said loyal demo-
crats hope to prevent “the shame-
ful experience of the people of
Texas having to repudiate their
delegates to the national conven-
tion.”
Such repudiation occurred in
1944 and 1948, he said, because
“the Texas delegations represent-
ed a small minority of the voters
of Texas.”
“There are a few people in
Texas who no longer believe in
the principles of the Democratic
TOWN—
— TOPICS
__By A. MORTON SMITH —-
TT IS TO BE REGRETTED that
I the citizens of Nocona have
been grossly misinformed about
the police policies in Gainesville
as regards the new highway 77
through Gainesville, the ramps
leading on and off of it, and the
highway 82 overpass on Summit
avenue.
To set Nocona citizens and our
own people right on the subject,
let us first quote from last week’s
Nocona News.
DON PETERSON, publicity
chairman for the Nocona Cham-
ber of Commerce, in his column
“Your Chamber of Commerce Re-
ports” has the following to say:
“It has been brought to our
attention that a policeman in a
patrol car has been stationed
at the new intersection in
Gainesville. He is at the west
end and at the latest report
there is no sign as to the speed
limit. The speed limit is 30
miles an hour and his business
has been pretty good lately
picking up eastbound traffic
for speeding. It will be worth
watching if you are down that
way.”
PUBLISHER S. M. PATTER-
SON of the News says addition-
ally, in his column “?”:
“On this edge of Gainesville,
the highway work that caused
a little detour around the
bridge that was built over the
by-pass, has been completed.
You can go to Ardmore or
Denton without having to go
through Gainesville as in the
past. You can also dodge the
center of town in case you are
going to- Sherman, saving time
but not distance. We have been
advised by LEE VAUGHAN,,
president of the Nocona Cham-
ber of Commerce, that motor-
ists are being picked up on the
by-pass for exceeding 30 miles
per hour. This is a violation of
the law but there have not
been any warning signs placed
at the junction of highway 82
and that by-pass. He has asked
that we warn our people.”
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THAT THE NOCONA writers
have been misinformed is stated
by POLICE CHIEF LEWIS THE-
OBALD
The chief says that no patrol
car has been stationed at the in-
tersection of highways 82 and 77.
The only time a patrol car stops
as much as five minutes at a
time anywhere in Gainesville is
at public schools for patrol duty,
the chief says.
Furthermore, he said only four
persons have been arrested on
the new by-pass. One was driv-
ing on the wrong side, one man
from Oklahoma City , was doing
80 miles an hour when the speed
limit on the by-pass is 45—not
30 miles an hour, with signs dis-
played at each end of the by-pass,
designating the speed limit in the
city. And an Oklahoma City wom-
an was nabbed for passing in a
no-passing zone at the south end
of the California street overpass.
The chief said he did not be-
lieve in speed traps and there
would be none on the highway
by-pass or connecting highway
82.
We hope the Nocona writers
will display this information for
the benefit of their fellow cit-
izens.
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lie Gow of the 3,538-ton freight-
er “Berylstone” told reporters.
British intelligence agents in-
terviewed him when the vessel
returned from Russia this morn-
ing.
In London, the admiralty and
the foreign office said they had
heard of Gow’s statements but
could not yet comment.
Gow’s account suggested a pos-
sibility that the Soviets had
failed to identify the approach-
ing ship and were trying to warn
her away from Archangel. -
British vessels ply regularly
between the Arctic port and the
United Kingdom in carrying on
Anglo-Soviet trade.
Gov/ said he made a report
later to Soviet authorities but
received no explanation. Brit-
ian has no consulate at Arch-
angel, so no immediate report to
the British government was pos-
sible, he explained.
Gow told this story of the
bombing:
The planes appeared overhead
at about 4 a.m. local time, about
ten miles outside Archangel har-
bor. The Russians dropped flares
to light up the sea.
The first bomb fell about 100
yards ahead of the ship.
“I thought at first it must be
a warning not to proceed so I
altered course. The airplanes
continued to drop flares and then
a second bomb fell astern.
“We attempted to signal the
Russians with rockets but they
had no effect and another bomb
came down.”
Third Officer William Butch-
er said the Russian planes then
made off after circling the area.
“It was the first time I have
been bombed in peace time,”
Butcher told newsmen.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (A) —
House-senate conferees agreed to-
day on a new compromise $5,700,-
000,000 tax bill. The proposed in-
dividual income tax increases are
slightly smaller than in the bill
turned by the house earlier this
week.
Half a dozen other minor
changes were made, but the new
bill remained in most details es-
sentially the same as the meas-
ure the house rejected.
The senate will vote first on the
new bill and action is possible
late today.
Senator George (D-Ga) said he
planned to call it up in the sen-
ate about 3 p. m. (CST) if pos-
sible.
If the senate approves it, the
bill will then go to the house.
Passage by both chambers
would clear the way for prob-
able adjournment of this session
of congress on Saturday.
Rep. Simpson (R-Pa), one of
the house conferees, told re-
porters the revised bill is “sure”
to pick up a number of Republi-
can votes in the house.
A combination of votes - from
Republicans and northern Demo-
crats defeated the earlier bill in
the house.
A joint senate-house committee
settled on the terms of the new
measure in a two-hour meeting.
The bill calls for an increase
of 11 per cent in the tax on the
first $2,000 of surtax net in-
come, rather than 1112 per cent
as provided in the original com-
promise.
The change shaves from 20
cents to $2 off the proposed tax
increase on single persons.
It affects all backets, since
everyone pays the first surtax
rate.
Net loss from the individual
income tax revision was esti-
mated at $68,000,000.
Other principal changes agreed
upon included:
1. Increase the maximum ef-
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