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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C ‘Airtight’ Case Iced r ! IS NOT OFTEN that treasury agents turn up a tax fraud case against a big corporation. This is partly because most big corpora tions have their books audited by reputable firms, but also because it is almost impossible for the T-men to scrutinize carefully the compli cated books of the big corpora tions. The internal revenue bureau is so understaffed—thanks largely to the recent GOP 80th congress— that it is impossible for its agents to take enough time to go through all corporate books. Recently, however, treasury agents stumbled into what they considered an airtight ta": fraud case against the Mid-Continent Pe troleum corporation in Tulsa, Okla. The case was considered so airtight that there was not the slightest doubt, they thought, about criminal prosecution. However, the wire-pullers got busy and the criminal aspects of the Mid-Continent case are now on ice. The oil company will not have to pay a tax bill of six million dol lars plus 50 per cent penalty, as recommended by the T-men. In stead, honest taxpayers will have to make up the difference. The reason for the treasury’s case against Mid-Continent was considered so airtight was that a former accountant for the company had furnished the evidence for the government. Employee Got Data While working for the company, he had caught it making capital expenditures for plant expansion during the war years and then charging them up as “repairs.” Though the lower offices of Mid- Continent showed the real nature of the improvements, these im provements were changed to read “repairs.” when the books went up to the top office. Repairs, of course, are tax deductible, while improvements are a capital invest ment abd not deductible. Mid -vContinent officials gave careful Instructions that - the re ceipts anA orders for the improve ments be ofcstroycd, but one of its bookkeepersVjust as carefully tained them \nd turned them treasury. As aresi The agentwho first handled ^his case was Frank W. Lohn, chief of intelligence for the Kansas City district. He recommended crimi nal prosecution and sent the case on to Mike Seltzer, chief of the penal division of the Kansas City office. Baft while fthe case was still pending in Kansas City, Daniel Bolich, deputy commissioner of internal revenue in Washing ton, requested a conference at Oklahoma City. This was held, and Bolich, for reasons best known to himself, came all the way to Oklahoma from Wash ington to participate in the con ference. Lohn and Seltzer, who also participated, informed him that the Mid-Continent case was fraud and should be pros ecuted. Despite this. Commissioner Bolich ordered the investigation stopped and had the case trans ferred to Washington. When the case reached Washing ton, a conference was held in Bolich’s office, at which general counsel Charles Oliphant was not represented. This is highly unusual. For, ordinarily, a criminal case must go to the chief counsel’s of fice for disposal. It does not^go to the office of a deputy commission, er. loutisel By-Passed Bolich ordered it to his office and although the general counsel was not represented, the defaulting oil company was repre sented by Benjamin Saunders of the law firm of Charley Hamel. Hamel, former head of the board of tax appeals, and formerly in the internal revenue bureau, is a Re publican who sometimes has been retained by leading Democrats suffering from tax troubles. It was Hamel who expertly handled the income-tax cases of Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City and Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago, both during the Hoover administration. At thin conference, commissioner Bolich finally decided to let Mid- Continent off for three million—in stead of six million recommended by the T-men. He also decided against any appreciable fraud pen alty. Only after this was decided did Bolich send the case to general counsel Oliphant with instructions to close the penal side of the case —in other words, drop criminal prosecution. Deputy Commissoner Bolich was former head of internal revenue intelligence in New York, at which time he was close to many Tam many leaders. He was sent to his present key spot in Washington by Joe Nunan, another Tammany yn* n , who once served as commis sioner of internal revenue. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Change Seen for Health Measure: Frenzied Reds Acclaim Stalin at 70; Hungary Off-Limits for Americans (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) HEALTH BILL: Changes Planned There was little likelihood that it would amount to anything in the long run—since the bill seems fore doomed to failure—but Oscar Ewing, federal security adminis trator, let it be known he will rec ommend some changes in the ad ministration’s medical - insurance bill now before congress. EWING’S conviction that the measure as drawn could stand some revision came after he ob tained a personal insight into the socialized health program as prac ticed in England and other Euro pean countries. Ewing said his recommenda tions were not completely formu lated, but indicated there would be a provision in the bill to re duce the opportunity for collusion between patients and doctors to augment medical fees. The approach under considera tion by the U.S. survey group is to require the patient to pay a part of the cost of the medical service —not to a doctor, but to an insur ance fund. AS THE U.S. BILL is now drafted, doctors would be compen sated in any or all of three ways —a per capita payment irrespec tive of service, a straight salary, or a fee basis. However, it might very well be much ado about nothing, as it seemed apparent neither the peo ple of the U.S., the medical profes sion, or a sufficient number of con gressmen are in the mood for in stallation of socialized medicine in the United States. HUNGARY: Off-Limits The United States, irked and with patience worn thin, placed Communist-controlled Hungary off limits for Americans traveling abroad. The action^jtfSs taken because tt*© ^iftgtirian government has no attention to U.S. demands that Robert A. Vogeler, an official of ^ie International Telephone & Telegraph corporation had not -aftet. Labor Honored This is a photograph of the new three-cent U.S. postage stamp which will be issued to commemorate the 100th anni versary of the birth of Samnel Gompers, great American la bor leader. It will be printed in purple and will go on sale in Washington on January 27. STALIN: iber 18. . ovember 18. At that time, several other Americans were taken into custody by the Hungarians. The American note placing the travel-ban on Americans to Hun gary again demanded Vogeler’s release and reserved the right to claim damages for any injuries he may have suffered. Although the U.S. protest was di rected only to the Vogeler case, a state department spokesman said that it applied also to the ar rest of Israel Jacobsen, head of the American joint distribution committee’s Hungarian office. It was a strong note and indi cated the temper of the U.S. state department, but its effect could be determined only in the release or further detention of Vogeler and his imprisoned fellow-Americans. CUPID: Busy Fellow Cupid was a very busy fellow indeed as the holiday season came and went. And most of his activity was centered in the upper brackets of U.S. celebrities. Hardly had he sat down to rest after bringing Vice-President Al- ben W. Barkley and Mrs. Hadley together at the altar, when he was up and off again, this time to bring about the union of New York Mayor O’Dwyer and fashion stylist Eliza beth Sloan Simpson. This romance culminated with a wedding in Florida. BUT the little fellow with the wings and the bow and arrows wasn’t having any rest. With the ink barely dry on the press an nouncements of Mayor O’Dwyer’s wedding, headlines carrying a real ly romantic wallop were scream ing again. And this time, Cupid had hit where it hurt. Thousands of movie- struck females across the nation, with a goodly number of them be ing Hollywood’s own fair and famous, were shocked, then grieved as they learned that long time movie idol Clark Gable had wed. HANDSOME, he-man Gable had taken to wife the widow of the late Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. She was the former Lady Ashley. Gable gave his age as 48, his bride said she was 39. The marriage was the fourth for each. Big Birthday The Soviet-dominated world went into a frenzy as each nation and satellite strove to outdo the others in paying tribute to Russia’s Joseph Stalin on his 70th birth anniversary. THE RUSSIANS were in their usually rare form, using the oc casion to hurl a thunderous de mand for peace at the world. In order to achieve it, they would set up, they said, annual awards for those doing the most to preserve peace and to confound the “war mongerers.” That category in cluded, of course, all nations and governments out of sympathy with tiie Soviet aim of expansion. Almost fantastic was the extent to which tht Stalin-worshippers -wentjir'adulation qf Stalin. Thou sands of parcels and-crates, train loads of merchandise,\whole ex position halls of trinkets'sund pic tures, factories and socks, yooks, and horses, wine and toys, dejica- were funn< Moscow from the Elbe to Chiha, from the Arctic to the Black sea. NO ONE MAN could ever use all the gifts, or read all the hon ors. No one man could ever dis tribute them. What it was all worth was anyone’s guess, but cer tainly millions of dollars. Eastern Germany alone col lected 70 freight cars of gifts— one for each year—as a sort of whimsical reparations. The western world paid little heed to the Soviet chest-beating over a desire for peace and, so far as the press recorded, England was the only nation among the North Atlantic pact signatories to send congratulations to Stalin on his birthday. But for the Russians, them selves, to most of whom Stalin is more legendary than real, the thrilling, dramatic high spot of the anniversary celebration came in Moscow when Stalin, himself, walked out on a stage to let the people see him. INDONESIA: Uneasy Freedom The United States of Indonesia was an established fact. It had be come formally free after 300 years of Dutch rule. But the birth of freedom was no routine, casual affair. Just like the case with most republics, the birthday was grim and turbulent. Even as freedom was declared, the new nation deployed troops and maintained a state of siege in wide areas to prevent anticipated disturbances. IT WAS EXPECTED that Com- -munists and some die-hards would attempt to make trouble for the new republic and to embarrass it by creating disorders. Hundreds of troops patrolled the streets of Batavia and machine- gun posts were set up at intersec tions. Dutch troops throughout the country were confined to barracks for two days to prevent clashes. A UNITED NATIONS commis sion set a truce in the islands which ended the bloody fighting between the Indonesians and Dutch, and also supported a Dutch- Indonesian roundtable conference at the Hague last fall which led to the granting of Indonesian inde pendence. MECHANICAL BRAIN Instrument Plots Airplane Performance A giant computer, which engi neers believe can do just about anything except eat and sleep is performing amazing feats in con nection with analyses of airplane performance even before the air plane is built. Hie device imitates an airplane in flight as it develops information vital to engineers planning air- uraft for the future. It was lent by the navy’s research section for use at the Vought aircraft company plant in Dallas. According to engineers describ ing the device’s functions, it’s simple. They admit, however, that it takes years for an operator to learn how to interpret the an swers which the machine gives. However, those studying the device say it’s time well spent EINSTEIN: One Gre&t Law? Most schoolboys would react with surprise if told that gravity is still one of the most puzzling ol natural forces. They would de clare that Sir Isaac Newton had settled all that when, after watch ing the falling apple, he stated a theory that may be over-simpli fied by explaining it as a fact that “everything that goes up must come down.” However, Albert Einstein, friz zle-haired, unpretentious scientist, ranked as among the greatest in the world, and a key figure in the development of atomic power, wasn’t content to leave it at that. EINSTEIN, after a lifetime of work, had made a great discovery —a discovery he believes will ex plain the mystery of gravitation. One of the greatest of the scien tific enigmas, gravitation keeps humans from floating off the earth, keeps the earth and other planets spinning always in the same path around the sun. According to the new Einstein theory, which was announced by the Princeton university press, all the basic physical laws would be ex plained in terms of gravitation. It is an attempt to describe in one law everything that goes on every where—from the inside of one atom to the limits of the universe. Einstein has been trying to do that for 30 years. If Einstein is right, he may hold the key that will unlock all the secrets of the universe. LIKE RELATIVITY, the new theory is expressed in mathemat ics. The heart of the explanation of gravity is four equations, given In letters or symbols, not numerals. There was no explanation of what the symbols mean, but no physicists were ready yet to try to talk publicly about the new theory. It still had to be tested to see whether it covers all the known laws or observations about the way matter and energy and gravitation aehave. TAXATION: | A Warning It would be charged to politics and an effort to smear the “Fair Deal” program, but house GOP leader Joseph W. Martin struck a logical note when he warned that a tax increase in 1950 might throw the nation into an economic '’tail- spin” and cost millions of workers (heir jobs. MARTIN took a jibe at President Truman’s indication that some ex cise taxes might be lowered by ieclaring: “It appears Mr. Truman is about to fly a 600-million-dollar kite %. n&uftau tall That referred to previous state ments by administration leaders ihat they knew of no way to avoid a deficit without higher taxes. THE PRESIDENT’S PROPOSAL was referred to as a “package deal” which Martin said congress would reject. The plan would sug gest lopping 600 million dollars off the excise levies, but would call for a multi-billion dollar increase in income taxes. Martin made it clear that he would go along on the excise tax slash, but that he and fellow Re publicans would do everything pos sible to prevent any increase in Income taxes. / THE REPUBLICAN LEADER was on good tactical ground for the simple reason that; 1950 is u congressioanal election year and many Democrats would feel com pelled to go along with the GOP in an anti-tax hike fight. Has Everything CROSSING THE BAR . . . Still clutching the cash register till, a gun man, identified as Frank Kamick, was killed instantly, by a single shot by Martin Conroy, an off-duty detective, as Kamick and a masked pal attempted to hold up a tavern in which Conroy was a patron. As the gunman’s companion fled. Detective Conroy chased him down the street, firing twice, but the other gunman escaped. Medical aid was of no avail as the wounded holdup man failed to regain consciousness. ■MM .. ..I: h |i||l V mm m N|gn pi m '*"■ * mm. i-m>. This “queen” has everything —beauty, brains and great wealth. She is Senorita Anna Maria Alvarez Calderon, 20, Peruvian brunette visiting New York who holds the title of “beauty queen of the Ameri cas.” She is heiress to a 32- million dollar fortune. BERLIN: Just in Case Although an announcement made it clear that no emergency was ex pected, the United States army or dered riot-control training for all American troops in Berlin. “Riot control, or street fighting, is what troops in Berlin presum ably would have to face if any thing would develop,” said Col Julian Ewell. He added that trouble might comd from the east ern (German) police, or anywhere. HgriT to BE TIED—BUT HAPPY . • • Bob Hamilton (left) of Landover, :d. t and Fred Haas, Jr., of New Orleans, La., gaze soulfuUy Into each *» eyes, but keep their fingers crossed, after they tied in the Miami boys tied for the lead _with l99_apiece^for 54 par record for toe 72 holes. Hamilton finally won the tournament. NEW COMMANDER . . . Gen. 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