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Hungry Horse news., 1948-09-17
To Open Timber Bids

Bids will be opened at the Hun
cry Horse project next Wednes-
day for the sale of 5,475,0O0 board
feet of standing saw log" timber
in the Hungry Horse reservoir.
3,225,0O0 board feet is on Hungry
Horse and Emery creeks and g.
$4,000 on Wounded Buck creek.
Bids will be opened next Fri
day for the sale of 10000 board
feet Of downed timber.
Hungry Horse news., 1948-09-17
Pictures by McCloud

Pictures in this issue Of the
Hungry Horse News are by Ed
die McCloud, bureau of reclama-
ton photographer at the Hungry
Horse project.
This past weekend with the
annual state press meeting in CID
cier Park station, we took our
first time off since last May. For
pictures, we spent an hour Tuesday
morning with Eddie going through
his negative file. His pictures are
good. We plan more frequent days
off
Hungry Horse news., 1948-09-17
Seek Power Plant Unit.

Opened in Denver October IA
will be bids for an oil purifier and
filter paper drying oven for the
to be built IN connec-
ton with Hungry Horse dam.
Hungry Horse news., 1948-09-17
Corbett Gets Timber

Charles Corbett, Coram, Thurs
day was successful bidder on 1913,
900 board feet of Flathead ma
tional forest timber in the vicin-
ity of Hungry Horse lake. He Of
fered 1929 a thousand for the 49,
900 board feet of larch and $4,000
fir: S10.21 for the $4,000 spruce,
and S12.18 for the 1000 board
feet of white pine. Dead wood
brought so cents a cord.
Hungry Horse news., 1948-09-17

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The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-09-22
Kills Siepfaiher 10
Protect Mother

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. FL. GA
NP)-Russell Mitchell, a 23-year-
old veteran, killed his stepfather
with a German automatic Sunday
during a fight in which the vet
eran says he was keeping 52-year-
old Nose Russell from beating his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell
Russell.
According to young Mitchell's
testimony, his %stepfather argued
with his mother earlier in the we
ming and drove her from the house
with a pistol. Members of the
family broke up the fight. Later
the veteran and his stepfather re-
newed the argument and Mitchell
produced an automatic he had
brought from overseas. He shot
Russell five times
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-09-22
Fine Three Whites for
causing Near ''Kaee
kIot'' Iowa

MERRILL, Iowa, Sept. 22. GA
NP)- Three white youths, who
caused a near race roit" during
the Merrill Agricultural Days fes-
tival, were fined 500 each and
given suspended sentences OF 30
days in the county Jail in Mayor
Frank Todd's court here last
week. The trio, Eugene Plueger,
IS, and his brothers, Robert, 70,
and Donald, Il, all OF LeMars,
Iowa, we're charged with assault
and battery against three Negroes.
According to County Attorney,
Morse Hoornemann, the victims,
employed on a road project near
here, we're quietly playing pool at
Merton Jessen's pool hall when
the Plueger boys attempted to
force them to leave. The pro-
prietor testified that the victims
were not causing any trouble. He
said he told the Pleuger trio that
they could leave the place if they
did not approve of the Negroes
presence.
The brothers left but returned
later and started a fight. Some
one threw a beer bottle during
the scrap which injured another
white patron in the pool hall. The
brothers set upon the Negroes,
who did not fight back or defend
themselves, but started running.
A group of white men took out
after the victims and their pur-
suers, with the idea of stopping
the brothers.
Police Chief Marienau, il
speaking of the incident, said: eli
every man in a potentially dan
gerous situation showed COO
Evening star., 1948-11-25
Sale! Boys Sheep Lined Coats

Brown cotton moeskin on the outside {. highly Wind
resistant and woter-repeIent Then lined with thick,
soft sheepskin! Just about the wornest combination
there is! FuIbeted, storm wrstets ond moutondyed
lamb collar. Sizes 8 to l8.
Students Shop, Floor, Washington and 81
Evening star., 1948-12-31
Traffic Death Toll Expected
To Drop for Second Year
by the Assoeiatsd Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 31.-The Nations
1948 traffic death toll is expected to
stay under $4,000 and show a drop
in fatalities for the second straight
year.
This prediction, despite an in
crease in travel, was made today by
the National Safety Council A toll
Of $4,000 would be at least 300 under
last year.
A close finish between 1s47 and
1948 was expected by the council
when deaths in October jumped
per cent. The November toll, how
ever, dropped 4 per cent from the
same month last year-2,930 deaths
compared with $3.50.
This brought the 11-month total
for 1948 to 28,670 deaths compared
with 29,110 for the same period last
year, a drop of per cent. Council
officials said 1t is unlikely that the
December toll will be large enough
to send the 1948 total above $4,000.
While the council considers the
expected saving Of 300 lives as
slight, it reported the gain was
made despite greatly increased
mileage and consequent greater
risk of accident. -
Based on mileage the ten-month
death rate is the lowest in history
II for 1948 compared with 8.4 for
1947 and lis for 194l. =
Evening star., 1948-12-31
Interior 10 Retire Horton,
Pioneer in West Survey

Albert c. Horton, jr., a pioneer in
the survey of public lands in the
West and Southwest, will retire from
Government service tomorrow after
nearly 40 years in the Interior
Department.
One of the best known cadastral
engineers in the country, Mr..
Horton spent most of his service in
the field but was appointed chief
of the Division of Engineering, Bu-
reau of Land Management, in jan
uary, 1947. He has been making
his home in Brookmont, Md. He
plans to move to Denver, Colo.
Mr. Horton served first as a con-
tract surveyor in Nevada in 1907
and was transferred to the General
Land Once as an examiner of sur
veys on April 26, 1909. One of his
early achievements was his feat In
surveying Unaweep Canyon in Col-
orado, a region so rugged that pri-
vate contract surveyors declined to
bid on the job. AS consequence,
Mr.. Horton executed the first sur.
vey in the United States under the
direct Government system in July,
1910.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
Coal Exploration 10 Begin
In BerIin's French Sector
BY the Assoeioted Press

BERLIN, Dec. 31.-Blockaded Ber.
Inns dream of coal mine in its own
backyard will be put to scientific
test.
A construction company has been
authorized to conduct exploratory
drilling on vacant land in the French
sector, 1t was announced today.
If the drilling shows suficient
brown coal deposits to merit further
investment, tunneling will begin in
the summer and the first coal may
be available by next fall.
City officials hope as much as 300
tons of brown coal day may event.
ually be mined in Berlin. But they
have cautioned Berliners against
undue optimism.
The existence of coal veins under
Berlin has been known for many
years. Until the Soviet blockade.
mining inside the city was regarded
as economically impractical. Coal
now is being lugged in by plane.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
U.S.. Moves to Tax Jack Benny
S3,O8O,OOO in Radio Deal

direct employe" of the sponsor, the
American Tobacco Co.
The development in the Benny
case fitted in with growing evidence
that the recent capital gains ex-
citement in the radio and movie
star field is turning into just an
other broken "tax saving bubble"
Few Deals Affected.
The once-widespread hopes fol-
savings through lower capital gains
rate have heen dashed under bureau
scrutiny. 1t has become clear that
comparatively few deals could
qualify for capital gains treatment.
AS a result, a number Of contract
negotiations repeatedly have been
hedged in recent weeks with pro
tective" clauses providing that:
/. The deal will be off if the
bureau rules that the income tax
applies rather than the capital gains
tax.
2. The deal can stand, even if the
bureau makes an adverse ruling, but
there must be extra compensation
to the star for loss of the hoped-for
tax saving.
The capital gains craze was
touched of by bureau approval OF
a deal which sent radios Amos n
Andy from NBC to CHS. The trans
action involved sales of property
rights in the fictional characters.
Freeman F. Gosden and Charles
j. Correll, creators of the radio
pair, got the approval because the
bureau accepted the characters as
being property-or a capital asset
subject to sale.
There Is no clear-cut rule telling
whether income rates or capital
gains rates apply to every case that
arises, but the bureau applies these
tests:
l. If the thing sold is property
rather than personal services, it is
capital asset and the profit from
the sale is taxable as a capital gain
at the option of the seller.
2. If the sale price is in line with
the value of the property, it is con-
sidered a genuine property sale
and suitable for capital gains. If
the price is so high it shows that
personal services rather than prop
erty are being sold, income tax
rates apply.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
Crosby Top Film Star
Fifth Year Straight
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 31.-Bing
Crosby for the fifth straight year
has won the Motion Picture Herald's
tabulation of the top movie box
office leaders. He also was picked as
top international attraction by
British exhibitors.
The trade magazine said yester-
day Crosby Is the first star to win
the poll so many times and is thus
entitled ito the all-time boxofce
championship"
Betty Cradle was runner-up to
Crosby in this years poll-same as
last year. 1t Is the sixth time that
Miss Cradle has hit the top 10
money-makers. In third place are
Abbott and Costello, absent for
three years.
Others, in order, are Gary Cooper
Bob Hope, Humphrey Bogart, Clark
Gable, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy
and Ingrid Bergman.
Movie cowboys finished this way:
Roy Rogers. Gene Autry, Bill Elliott
George "Gabby" Hayes, William
(Hopalong Cassidy Boyd, Charles
Starrett, Tim Holt, Johnny Mack
Brown, and Andy Devine.
On the British-picked interna-
tional list, Crosby led with the rest
trailing In this order: Anna Neagle
Margaret Lockwood, John Mills
Michael Wilding, Frederic March
Hope, Danny Kaye, Myrna 10y and
Gregory Peck.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
|GriII Case Is Closed
Regardless Of Results
Of Probe, Barrett Says

Police Chief Robert ]. Barrett
today said it makes no difference
what the investigation he ordered
into the conflicting testimony of two
policemen in the Mitchell's Grill
case turns up because the case iS
closed.
Maj. Barrett had assigned Inspec.
tor George Wallrodt to make the
investigation after two undercover
men had told different stories before
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board hearing into charges against
the grill. The report was expected
to reach Maj. Barrett this week.
The ABC board found the grill
guilty of Al liquor law violations but
the Commissioners reversed Its
finding last Tuesday.
Wallace Made Investigation.
Pvt Samuel E. Wallace made the
investigation on which the charges
against the grill were based, but
Pvt. Frank Manthos started things
off by telling the ABC Board that
Pvt. Wallace had admitted sand.
bagging" the grill.
When Maj Barrett was asked by
reporter about the status of the
Wailrodt report, he answered:
What difference does that maker
The case is over and is closed an
far as I'm concerned"
Maj. Barrett was then asked II
he meant that when the Wallrodt
report was received it would mean
nothing. He said:
Absolutely"
Doubts Detectives Story.
Apparently dissatisfied with the
results of the Mitchells Grill case,
Maj. Barrett said yesterday he did
not believe the story of a detective
who supported a part Of Pvt. Man.
thos' testimony. The man he re-
ferred to was Precinct Detective
Charles K. Daub.
Two witnesses who testified in
favor of the grill at the ABC Board
hearings were transferred to new
assignments yesterday, but Maj.
Barrett denied vigorously that the
transfers were connected with the
grill case.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
Ex-Emp|oye's Action
AGAINST Star Dismissed

From Yesterdays Last Edition.)
Judge Jennings Bailey of District
Court this afternoon dismissed
part of suit brought by Miss Mary
Carter Roberts, newspaper book re-
viewer, in which she sought $1,000
damages from The Star on a con-
tention that she had been wrong
fully dismissed from position on Its
staff.
At the same time. Judge Bailey In
a memorandum opinion refused to
dismiss another portion Of the COM
plant in which Miss Roberts seeks
SIC, 900 damages from the Washing
ton Newspaper Guild, which she
charges with arbitrary" conduct in
failing to press for arbitration OF her
dismissal. Affidavits as to the part
of the suit pertaining to the Wash
ington guild raise issues Of fact
which should be tried" Judge Bailey
said.
In dismissing the portion pertain
ing to The Star, Judge Bailey said
$50 far as the action Is against
The Star, the complaint shows no
refusal on the part of The Star 70
submit the matter to arbitration"
Judge Bailey in November dis
missed another portion Of the suit
in which Miss Roberts sought
$15, 900 damages from the American
Newspaper Guild. Counsel for her
previously had announced the in
tention of appealing from dismissal
of that part of the suit. In his
opinion today, Judge Bailey said:
"' The American Newspaper
Guild was made a party defendant
but being a nonresident of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, no valid service
was made upon it and. as I stated
at the hearing, the complaint should
be dismissed as to it,"
Evening star., 1948-12-31
By the Assoeioted Press

The Federal Government appar.
entity is going to grab an estimated
So, ,O80 900 which the entertainment,
world speculated might be headed
for Jack Benny's highly advertised
private vault.
Mr.. Benny's lawyer said thai
comes as no surprise to the radio
comedian.
Well-informed sources say the
Bureau OF Internal Revenue has ad.
vised Mr.. Benny he will have to pay
income tax on the money he re-
ceives for switching his program!
from NBC to CHS.
Trade reports say that $4,000, ,00C
or more is involved in the deal.
Had the bureau held that the
capital gains tax applies to the
transaction, the levy would have
been only 100000. But the income
tax rate would be II per cent, OF
about $3,oso,00o.
Satus Unaffected.
Mr.. Benny was reported unofficial-
ly to have been told that the con-
tract involves personal compensa-
ton taxable at income tax rates
and not sale of porperty which
would qualify it for the Is per CEN
capital gains levy.
His attorney, Lloyd Wright, said ir
Hollywood the transaction does mo-
affect Mr.. Benny's status.
His services as q radio artist will
continue to be paid for at the same
rate as heretofore and Mr.. Benny
will, of course, pay personal income
taxes on his income like any one
else"
MIR. Wright said Mr.. Benny Is g
Evening star., 1948-12-31
Rejected by Hospitals,
Baby Dies in Baltimore
BY the Associotsd Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 31.-A s.
month-old girl died from bronchial
pneumonia and malnutrition after
being shunted between two hospitals
and finally sent home, police and
doctors reported today.
The child first was taken to City
Hospital Wednesday night on 8
doctors order, the mother, Mrs.
Martha Lee Funderburk, colored,
told Policemen Joseph Kaminski
and John Horn of Baltimore County.
Hospital officials sent the mother
and child to Sydenham Hospital,
which directed them back to City
Hospital in the morning.
DR.. William Keene at City Hos
pital told them to return at 8 o'clock
that afternoon. The baby died at
LAS pm.
DR.. Keene said "the death of the
baby is very unfortunate. We don't
admit everyone who has pneumonia
to the hospital. They can be
treated on the outside"
DR.. Keene said when he first saw
the baby he suspected pneumonia,
but that an x-ray was negative.
Then. he said, he believed the child
was suffering from whooping cough
so he sent the mother to Syden-
ham which handles contagious dis
ease cases.
When Sydenham authorities de-
cided 1t wasn't whooping cough, they
told Mrs Funderburk to take her
baby back to City Hospital. DR..
Keene said the child appeared
better" and while he thought she
had trace Of pneumonia he told
the mother to return to the hos
pital in the afternoon.
Mrs. Funderburk and her husband.
Hasin, are tenant farmers In sub.
urban Dundalk.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
Congressional Probe
Planned on Erroneous
Intelligence Report
BY the Assoeioied Press

A congressional committee
plans to investigate an erroneous
intelligence report made by an
unidentified Government agency
during the tense international
situation of last spring, it was
learned today.
The House Armed Services Com
mittee probably will hold public
hearings on an incident referred to
in the recent report of a task
force" committee of the Hoover
Commission on Government re-
organiza alton, a leading Democratic
member said today. He requested
that his name not be used.
Such an inquiry presumably
would bring to light what agency
made the erroneous intelligence
estimate as well as what interna-
ton situation was involved.
The Hoover Task Force Committee
studying the national security Or
ganization said it received testi-
mony that lin the Spring of l948,
mistaken intelligence estimate
prepared by a departmental intelli-
gence agency. stimulated recon-
mendations which-if followed
might well have had serious con-
sequences
This was averted, however, the
committee said, when the Central
Intelligence Agency (Which co-ordi-
mates information picked up by de-
partmental intelligence units made
a correct evaluation of the mislead-
ing report.
Contradicting statements that the
error was made by Air Force intel
Iligence, Defense Secretary Forrestal
said that following an investiga-
ton" he was convinced that Air
Force intelligence was not RESPONSE
BILE for the error"
MIR. Forrestal refused to say who
did make the mistake, contending
that the testimony taken by the
committee was confidential.
Word that the House Armed Serv-
ices Committee would inquire into
the incident also raised the possibil-
ity that the whole state of the Ma
tion's intelligence system might be
Scrutinized
The Hoover committee said 1t
found disturbing inadequacies in
our intelligence system"
1t said it was concerned by the
somewhat haphazard method en-
ployed by the services in the selec-
tion Of officers for important intel
ligence posts" and noted that the
Army's Intelligence Division has had
seven chiefs in seven years, "some
of them with no prior intelligence
experience whatsoever. 1t recon-
mended establishment of intelligence
career programs.
Evening star., 1948-12-31
by the Associated Press

Senator Taft of Ohio rallied
regular Republican support to-
day against an effort by 13 self
styled COP liberals" to oust him
from Senate party leadership.
The rebels called in blunt terms
for Senator Taft's political head
and chose Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusettS to oppose him.
Senator Ives of New York, as
spokesman, said the group wants
Senator Lodge to replace Senator
Taft as chairman of the Senate Re
publican Policy Committee because
they feel that under the Ohioan
their party "is in a state of almost
suspended animation"
The showdown will come Monday
at caucus of all Republican
Senators.
Senator Ives said Senator Lodge
reflects the moving forces of the
Republican Party-the more mod
ern philosophy of the party"
Senator Taft replied with a tart
prediction of his own election "by
a substantial majority of the Re-
publican Senators"
The group of Senators who have
met failed to state any criticism
of the Senate Republican program
during the past two years as guided
by the Policy Committee of which I
have been chairman" the Ohioan
told reporters. I'm fact, they nearly
all supported it wholeheartedly-
nor do they now indicate any re-
spect in which they wish to change
that policy"
There was strong evidence that
Senator Taft's move to change the
rules so that he can remain at the
policy helm had much more sub
stantial backing than the liberal
group could muster.
Their 13 publicly-as acknowledged
members represent less than third
of the AZ Republicans who will sit
in the new Senate.
There were signs also that they
may have weakened their case
against Taft by the advance choice
of one of their number to oppose
him.
Senator Bridges of New Hamp-
shire, who described himself as "a
Evening star., 1948-12-31

In this regard, Senator O'Conor
declares the Government is lucky
to have kept some of the top-f1ight
men it has. He cites reports that
FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover has
turned down $4,000 to $4,000 a
year offers from private industry in
order to remain in the Government.
But many Government officials
can't afford to make that sacrifice,
the Marylander points out. In
justice to their families, they must
accept private industry salary offers.
"One man, who had served for Is
years in the United States Forestry
Service at a salary of $1,000 a year,
recently went to the American Pulp
and Paper Association at salary
of $4,000" Senator O'Conor writes.
An industrial chemist in the Agri-
culture Department, with "a years
of service at $6,400 a year, recently
accepted a job in private industry
at an increase OF from 100 to 200
per cent in salary. An attorney
who had spent 10 years, the best
part of his life, in the service OF his
Government for $500 year, gave
up his job not long ago for $50,-
O0O-a-year law practice"
The capable and likeable Mary
land Senator cites the resignation
Of the three chairmen of the Fed
eral Communications Commission
during the last few years. All three
of them-James Lawrence Fly, Paul
Porter and Charles r. Denny-are
receiving much more money than
the $4,000 salary they received in
Government, he points out.
Thurman Arnold and Wendell
Berge, both former Assistant Attor-
neys General; the late Budget
Director Harold Smith, former
Undersecretary of Treasury Daniel
w. Bell, former Board of Economic
Welfare Chief Milo Perkins - all
are cited as top Federal officials
who resigned to take better paying
jobs in private industry.
TYPICAL-Senator O'Conor cites
the case of an important business
man, whose salary is greater than
the Presidents and who was asked
by a cabinet member to come to
Washington as head Of an i'm
portant bureau. The businessman
would have made an excellent
bureau chief.
How much would I be getting?"
asked the businessman.
Ten thousand year." the cab
met of1icer replied.
What would the next two or
three people under me be getting?"
the businessman asked.
The Secretary replied, "Ten
thousand dollars a year."
Then I don't know what you
need me for" said the businessman
In recounting the incident, Sen
ator O'Conor says: THE point was
that there was nothing in the posi-
ton offered to the businessman
that distinguished him from his
subordinates. The businessman
said he wasn't concerned particu-