THE NOME NUGGET
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CONGRESS BUYS A HAT
Any Congressman would laugh at his wife if she
came home and said she had saved $20 by not buying
a dress, so she had used half of it to buy a hat. But
at this moment a good many congressmen are indulg
ing in something like that kind of thinking about the
excise tax bill.
Congress has “saved” about $2,000,000,000 in rev
enues by acting before excise taxes producing that
amount expired April 1. But it has cut “luxury” taxes
by $1,000,000,000. That uses half the “savings” and
adds $1,000,000,000 to the deficit.
But since everybody is so happy about it perhaps
we should not insist on unpleasant mathematics. Con
sumers are hailing the prospect of prices reduced by
equal amounts and businessmen are predicting a boost
to buying. We hope it works that way. If business
revenues should be sufficiently increased, some of the
lost income could be regained in income taxes.
Even so, Congress may yet wish it had taken a
little more time and care to find out where cuts were
most needed, both as a matter of justice and as stimuli
to lagging business. Some of the so-called “luxuries”
on which heavy excises were levied are necessities to
most citizens. But some are luxuries and might well
continue to carry a heavy tax so long as the nation is
going deeper into debt.
Oh, oh! There is that unfortunate word every
body is trying to forget. Mention of unbalanced bud
gets, deficit financing, and in increased debt limit
does take some of the fun out of a tax-cutting spree.
Still, a $995 fur coat may now be bought for $912,
and it will cost a nickel less to go to the movies. And
Congress didn’t buy a dress—only a hat.
TRUMAN S LIBRARY
In case you’ve been wondering about that library
that former President Harry Truman was going to
build, it’s been incorporated. And the Harry S. Tru
man Library, Inc., will hold birthday parties around
the country on May 8 to raise funds for the building
to hold those papers.
Harry, himself, will celebrate two 70th birthdays
—the first party being held in Washington a day ahead
of time. The guest of honor, who now seems happier in
New York, will attend a library party there on the
proper date.
Case Against
Cpl. Dickenson
Needs More Proof
WASHINGTON, UPi — The
Army’s case against Cpl. Edward
S. Dickenson appeared Saturday
to be hanging on the ability of
the prosecution to provide direct
links between Dickenson and men
he is accused of having, informed
against while a prisoner of war
in Korea.
The court is on record as say
ing it will throw out* all testi
mony which cannot be tied direct
ly with Dickenson.
A principal prosecution witness,
Edward M. Gaither of Philadel
phia, took the stand Friday for
more than an hour.
The witness, who glowered
fiercely at Dickenson, said he was
“out to' get’ the defendant.
One of the specific counts
against Dickenson charges that
stool pigeon activities on his part
led to prolonged beatings of Gai
ther by the Reds.
Gaither, a short, wiry fellow
with tousled hair, told the eight
member court martial he was
beaten and put before a mock
firing squad seyeral days after he
had told Dickenson of his escape
plans.
At one point in his testimony,
Gaither leaned forward from the
witness chair and snapped at
Dickenson: “Don’t you like it?”
Dickenson displayed no emotion.
WASHINGTON, (/PI—A court
martial trying Cpl. Edward S.
Dickenson refused to accept today
a group of documents which the
prosecution contends show he
collaborated with the Reds while
he was a prisoner of war in Korea.
Guy Emery, defense attorney
for the Cracker’s Neck, Va., youth,
objected to introduction of the
documents on the ground that
Martin Christensen was not com
petent to identify Dickenson’s sig
naure. Col. Richard F. Scarbor
ough, law officer on the court
martial, agreed and the documents
were not admitted.
Bidault Gets Free Hand
To Negotiate for France
At Geneva Conference
PARIS, (/PI—The French Cabinet
Saturday gave Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault a free hand to
negotiate for France at the Gene
va Conference.
Bidault had demanded that the
Cabinet let him go to the Asian
parley with no strings attached.
By giving him a carte blanche
on handling negotiations on Indo
china and Korea, the cabinet
headed off what might have re
sulted in a collapse of Premier
Joseph Laniel’s government.
The Fire Department was call
ed to the residence of Clem Bou
cher yesterday afternoon by an
overheated smoke stack. No dam
age resulted.
The mosquito that bites always
is a female.
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Stevens Says He Was
Not “Afraid” of McCarthy
(Continued from Page One)
“So at no time did I ever want
him to cease and desist,” Stevens
asserted.
Stevens denied he was trying
to minimuize the worth of Mc
Carthy’s investigation, but testi
fied the Army’s own pro'be for
suspected subversives at the big
radar center would have reached
the same end if McCarthy had
stayed out of the picture.
Stevens said the Army had in
formation on its own on all cases
brought to light by McCarthy.
Noting that Stevens conceded
some suspensions had been speed
up by the McCarthy investigation,
Jenkins asked if McCarthy had
not done.“an important piece of
work that enhanced national se
curity, time being of essence in
detection of Communists” in the
Army.
Stevens replied that all could
agree that subversives should be
ousted as fast as possible.
Jenkins asked if Stevens had
not “damned with faint praise”
the McCarthy investigation. The
secretary denied any effort to dis
credit or halt the investigation
and insisted he was just “calling
the shots as I saw them.”
Harold Asmasuk and Rita Ka
karak of Lost River were mar
ried by the U. S. Commissioner
last Friday and they plan to re
turn to Lost River soon.
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“Infidelities Letter”
Included Out of Spite,
Roosevelt Contends
PASADENA, Calif., I/P)—James
Roosevelt says his estranged wife
included the “infidelities letter’’
with her separate maintenance
suit out of spite.
The late President’s eldest son,
a congressional candidate, filed
a memorandum in court Friday
that said “inclusion of the letter
can only be construed as a delib
erate act designed to cause great
notoriety and publicity . . . with
out regard to the harmful effects
... on the children and others.”
Mrs. Roosevelt, in her separate
maintenance suit, accused her
husband of adultery with three
other women not named in the
1945 letter.
Roosevelt, a controversial poli
tical figure because of the sensa
tional marital dispute, is seeking
the Democratic nomination in Cal
ifornia’s 26th congressional dis
trict. National Democratic Chair
man Stephen Mitchell has urged
that he withdraw until his domes
tic affairs are settled.
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