Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Tax Refunds to Cover Portal Awards Study Enemy's Food Needs Congress to Press Probes b by Western tl a tI Wham r see et I lb bI I r Iii thy r are ran r f PORTAL Tax Relief The burden of portal to portal back pay will largely be shouldered by Uncle Sam when and end If it union members are awarded their sub against industry a as asa a I result of Secretary of the Treat Treas- Treasury ury Snyders Snyder's announcement that thit such outlays outlay are deductible against taxes levied In tn the years yean affected Because portal payments to work- work worker workers worker er ers will be liable Hable to taxation how how- however however ever the U S stand to recover tome some of or the refunds refund In personal in In- In Income income come taxes In many Instances the portal claims run Into hundreds of dollars dollari per worker leaving them open to a heavy hea vy bite under the high wartime rates ratel Under Snyder Snyders ruling that indus indus indus- industry try could claim credits credit on taxes paid In the years year years for which portal demands demand were granted companies would be able to take advantage of or high rate rates and excess profits levies of the war years At the tame lame time they would be entitled to a 8 6 per percent percent cent Interest on the money collect collect- collected collected ed from them to cover their tax liabilities lia ties FOOD Enemy's Need Declaring that the U S could not afford to permit the American flag lIag to fly lIy over a gigantic Buchenwald former President Herbert Hoover undertook another survey of food needs In the U S and British occupation pation tones zones tn to Germany In addition to providing for es es- es essential German relief Hoovers Hoover's Jun jun- jun junket ket bet was wai wa aimed at making the retch reich as U aa supporting sell In food needs ai as possible Improvement In the food situation would lead to a reduction In present pre lent U S relief costs of million dollars annually The former president had the assistance of two food experts on his hia tour being accompanied ac ac- ac accompanied companied by Dr Dennis Fitzgerald Fitzgerald ald chairman of the International emergency food lood council and former Ambassador Hugh Gibson who aid aid- aided aided ed him In World War I relief work At the same lame time that Hoover headed westward Hallam Tuck his associate on the famine study tour of last spring headed eastward to survey lurvey food conditions condition In Japan Ito Ito- Ko Ko- KorE rca rea rE a and the Tuck also alto will be concerned with the long long long-II as well as II short range requirements of those thOle Asiatic countries In an sun effort to boost their food output GANGSTER Back Backon on Page 1 Although he ha has haa been living In seclusion In his hie villa on Palm Island In Biscayne Bay Fla for the lest last seven years yean following his hll release from federal prison Scar Scar- Scarface Scarface face AI Al Capone Capon still It III proved to be Page 1 I news The former overlord of Chicago vice whose name became a symbol of the of the rip roar rip roar roar- i nA Q A I SCARFACE AL Still till Nw Newsy y ing tog mude made the headlines the country over when he suffered Buffered a stroke of apoplexy and lay near death His wile wife faithful as ever prayed at It his bedside and the rest rut of the Capone clan hurried in from Mercer Wis and Chicago go Secrecy continued to shroud the Capone villa While sleek autos filled tiled with mysterious characters whizzed In and out of the private grounds reporters and waited walled out outside to get their information second h hand v Capone had not appeared in public since 1941 and rumors rumon i persisted that paresis had left him with the mind of a year old On the other band hand it wet was said that his supposed debility was wal a blind that he was wasas as aa hale as ever and running the lang gangs gang's gambling and vice busi busi- business busi- busi business ness at a distance getting his cut cutout cutout out of the lucrative profits PICKLES Enough for Everybody Each American will have about 37 pickles coming to him this year ac ac- ac according cording to National N a tiona I Pickle Packers association The 1946 1945 crop of or bushels of cucumbers for pickles was ex ex- ex expected petted to be great enough to meet the new growing demand fur pickles according to the he packers An estimated pickles pickle of all varieties will be produced Laid end to end en the pickles pick would reach from the earth ea rth to the moo moon I I Flame Restores Sight Sight I Already blind in his left eye Rich Rich- Richard ard and Hebert year old Purple Heart bearer of Chicago had been told by army doctors that he might lose loe the sight of his hie right eye as BI well within 10 years At the front Heberts Hebert's luck bad had been all bad He had bad been hit in the leg Ie by shrapnel in Germany and boa hos- v vv vs v s rv t ra y F a aFlame Flame from boner boiler door restored sight of f Richard Hebert Debert shown aboWD with wife Charlotte before being blinded by s shell explosion upon his return to action as a an Infantryman Back home Hebert kept a stiff upper lip Up and looked ahead cheer cheer- cheerfully cheerfully fully He Me made mada himself useful around his hil fathers father's father business establishment and married a former schoolmate Then one day he went down to the basement to fix the fire lire Coal he shoveled into the tinDer Boiler apparently caused gas gu to accumulate late When he be stirred the fire lire a ball of flame shot ahot out of the boiler door singeing his arm and the lid of his blind eye When he came back upstairs he sensed a change Putting his hand over his right eye he peered out of the left Hebert had two good eyes eyel again CONGRESS Busy BlUY Bodies GOy GOT congressional investigators prepared to dig dl deep into war war far ex ex- ex and American un-American activities ties tle with the full tun support of the first Arst Republican majority in 10 18 years yeara Senate Republicans beat down an en effort of the Democrats to transfer duties of the war investigating com corn to the Inactive committee on expenditures In the executive de do- do department by a 47 to 45 43 vote The watchdog watch watch watch- iol over efficiency of the war effort under President Tru Tru- Truman Tru- Tru Truman man while he be was waa still senator lena tor from Missouri the war investigating committee widened its Ita scope under Senator Mead Dem IDem N Y V YI to probe Irregularities In munitions contracts In the wake of disclosures of the close relations rela existing be be- be between between tween congressmen and army of of- of officers with war contractors the GOP voiced Its determination to dig deeper into wartime dealings Not always alway a In favor during the liberal New Deal administration the house houe un-American un activities com eom committee promises to enjoy smoother sledding under the Republicans Now headed beaded by Representative Thomas Thomal Rep N J the committee laid plans plane for an early probe of Communism Com Com- Communism in government departments labor unions Hollywood and col col- col colleges colleges leges and schools COMMODITIES V U S Eyes Eyer Trade In an effort to prevent serious breaks In commodities Secretary of or Agriculture Anderson announced that the departments department's commodity exchange authority would be freed treed freedor ot or other duties to permit full time policing of or the markets Anderson disclosed the move In Inthe inthe the race face tire of or growing speculation Re Re- Re Remembering Remembering the big break in cotton last October and the alleged manipulatIOn manipulation lation of or butter priceS price in New NewYork NewYork York department authorities acted to 10 check future slumps affecting prices Studies are being completed on the factors In the cotton break with Anderson ready to ask for ad regulatory authority if war u ar ranted by the Investigation Meanwhile grain prices price remained strung as the government announced it would increase its It wheat wheal export program by 50 million bushels bushel In Inthe inthe the current crop year to a total of 3 0 million JaAnto o Ride attentively through a man mans man's term tarm arm and you will hear it preaching preach ing what hJ h hO he practices A B It Bryan Agriculture na hd has multiplied multiple iu its I human lIY by hy running hitching in its inI I labor to 0 the gasoline engine and mi ran I proved machinery and the electric motor And nJ I may say in n passing that h no nu bunt boon b ln i It runt lur lilt lal has hd lifted greater burdens burden horn the huk Od b jl JI farm women umen than tin tale uru ur clot reni n AIM A I w n s GERMANY G Pol Polish h Claims Claim Should the U S oppose Polish claims to the square miles of ot former eastern German territory taken over by the Poles under the Potsdam agreement this country C un faces face a stilt stiff light fight with the Russian bloc With the U S bringing the full tun force of its prestige pre Into play pta however it may secure modification of the Polish claim or cudgel out Other concessions from the Reds Beds Red Poland served notice of Its Ita de do- do determination termination to permanently affix amx the new territory at al the deputy d tJ for for- eign ministers meeting in London called to lay the groundwork for the Big Bi Four conference In Moscow in March Mareb to formulate a German treaty Since given n control of the territory at Potsdam the Poles Pole said they have bave moved Germans Germana out and Poles poes In Nub of the disagreement lies liea in Inthe inthe the Poles contention content on that they were led to understand they were given full sway away over the territory at al Pots Pots- Potsdam dam The U S on the other hand band band holds that tha t they were He merely given liven temporary administrative control With the question of or Germanys Germany's Germany final postwar borders to be settled at a peace conference confer nce As matters stand the Poles hose have ha e a g good od chance to re re- re retain tain tabs most moet of or the territory BASEBALL LL Big Feller How times do change changes I In 1897 1807 Denton ICy Cy Cyr Young the greatest pitcher of or them all signed up with the Cleveland Indians for 2000 a year after a banner season the summer ummer before when he won 29 I and lost boat 16 18 Almost BO 50 O years later year old Bobbie Bobble Feller time all-time strikeout king came to terms with the same lame Cleveland Indians for 1947 for tor basic pay of d and bonuses based baaed on attendance that could bring his bia net up to He is it to receive an extra when adult home attend attend- attendance attendance ance reaches and for each additional up to 1000 1000 sr t tt t aa aaA A 4 t tad ad i k k rte M t tt M BOBBIE FELLER Dm Due for Mint MilOt After that that he will be polo palo for each additional up to Should Blazin Bobble Bobbie pull down this year he will become the highest paid player in history sur sur- sur surpassing passing Babe Ruths Ruth's Ruth in 1930 1030 31 31 The great Ty Cobb never made more than the he drew drewIn drewin in 1926 1928 and the colorful Dizzy Dean outstanding pitcher er and showman ot of o the only reached in 1935 INDIANS S Would lie He freed After Arter years of federal supervision sion slon the American Indian may be freed if Ir congress acts ads favorably on a proposal of Senator Langer Longer mep Rep N D 1 to 10 abolish abollah the office of Indian affairs lr to the Interest of economy Five other members of the sen sen- senale's ates ate's civil service committee backed Langers Langer's measure Senator Chavez New Mex declared that the Indian sought no nil special favors from the U S but only wanted education education- educational al opportunities sanitation water wa ter tern and n nd land Id of his own Senator Ecton I Rep limp Mont backed Chavez state state- statement statement ment asserting that progressive Indians In In- In Indiana diana chaffed under the need to ob oh- oh obtain tain tamn permission for productive ex ex- ex FrOm Felon also agreed with Langer Larger that Thal the government nt would have to provide le for aged Indians probably I through the social security act In the Ul meantime Eaton urged that younger Indians Indian be educated to S I s- s sai sume lull full citizenshiP on reaching 21 ai ar II d quipped to make their U r own way ay Test T H elV ew Drug DrugAn An extract of brain tissue Has bern tiei-n d II I superior to penicillin In um n h I K bacterium bac when tested in iii animals according to Dr Leo Leot U G t and Sister Eva Maria Marla Marlah yuck h MJ S J m at the Cincinnati Ohio turn run Dm tint I Thomae The Th bacterium Staphylococcus 01 news Ill I'll is the organism causing mh OI oh c conditions as II boils bolls abscesses t 11 of 01 rood food poisoning one oie 01 t I iii lit I u meningitis I pneumonia and 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