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'T -e'f 1 Strengths, Weaknesses of Russian Spies Your fncojnc Tax Choosing Correct Taxpayer Class RyC.K.Hodenfield Associated. Fresa Staff Writer (Second of i Series.) YOU CAN SAVE MONEY by correctly choosing the taxpayer class Into which you fall when making out your Income tax return. i Basically there are four classes of returns: TcTi Vf I 1 1. The separate return. 2.

The joint return. 3. The special joint return for certain recent widows and widowers. 4. The special "head of household" return for tertain single persons or those legally separated from their husband or wife.

The separate return is for single taxpayers or those married taxpayerj who prefer to file Individual returns. In practically all cases married couples do better by filing a joint return. However, they must file sepa 1J I llilllf IP mm rate returns if: 1. Either the husband or wife was a nonresident alien any time of the year. 2.

Husband and wife use different tax yeais. The husband, for instance, may report on a fiscal year basis such as from July I to June 30, while the wife pays taxes on a calendar year basis. 3. The husband and wife became divorced or legally eparated at any time of the year, up to and Including Dec. 81.

If the separate return is used, each individual must report his own Income and list his own exemptions and deductions. Illustration by John troth. "I HAD GREAT NEWS FOR THE FBI AGENTS. I RAN THROUGH THE STREETS OF, PARIS TO MEET THEM." ORIS MORROS "I HAD FINALLY CROSSED INTO THE DARK UNDERWORLD OF SOVIET ESPIONAGE. IT WAS A CON.

TRADICTORY, ALMOST UNREAL EXPERIENCE." By Boris Morros With Bill Davidson Counterspy Boris Morros Says Red Agents Could Be Brilliant And Strangely Inefficient on the Same Case; Tells How Plot To Kill Tito Was Called Off 12 Minutes Before Scheduled Time June 23, 1950 two days before the Korean War broke out. Tcherniavsky told me that the G.P.U. had devoted years to preparing a revolution that would break out in Korea on June 25. TOMORROWVX I i a HLm." Fa Fable anions PRACTICE: Once, when he was a child of seven, violinist Mischa Elman was taken to the home of a wealthy wotian to play for her guests. He played a difficult composition which contained several long rests.

When he had finished, young Elman turned to his hostess for an approving word. "Well done, child," she said. "But you must practice more. Then you won't have to stop so often." E. E.

EDGAR. been replaced in Vienna by Aphanassy Yefimov, a member of the G.P.U. who had a "cover" job as Soviet member of the Allied economic commission. March 17, 1953: Met with Yefimov. He was very nervous about something.

Finally, he told me he has been assigned to liquidate Tito. Six men have been assigned to assist him. Yefimov is to be disguised as a priest. He has two alternative dates for the job March 28. 1953, and a day in June, 1953.

May 4, 1953: I met Yefi-mov's boss, Christopher Petrosian, who told me that phone call from Moscow, canceling the plot at all costs. Yefimov got word of this just 12 minutes before the murder was to take place. In those 12 minutes, Yefimov had managed to halt all the cogs in the complicated machinery set up for the assassination, but the strain of it had put him in a mental hospital. Petrosian said the Yefimov's life would not have been worth anything if he, Petrosian, had not stopped him from completing the mission. Instead, Yefimov was promoted.

The meticulousness of Soviet planning, Incidentally, was also illustrated by what I heard on me: (2) he liked vodka, and (3) he liked women. Gradually, I began to piece together the story. I wrote in the notes I kept: Oct. 6, 1950: Soble let slip the information he had received from the "atomic cou pie." They had photographs and location of the bunkers where United States atomic bombs are stored. They knew the exact number of atomic bombs in the United States, and they knew the production rate.

I Feb. 21, 1951: Soble came' back to Paris from Vienna. To Impress me, he said that he was going to have dinner on Monday with the finest and richest people he had ever met. Soble told me that this man controls a large part of the celluloid business in Austria. Soble said that the man's wife and her sister (the wife ip the (Fourth of a Series.) WHEN I RETURNED to the United States from Moscow in February, 1950 I had finally crossed into.

the dark underworld of Soviet espionage. It was a contradictory, almost unreal experience. For example, 'in the same afternoon (in Paris( Vienna or Zurich), I might talk to Alexander Korot-kov. chief of the foreign division of the Soviet secret police; then I'djiave a conference with my "associate from Hollywood," who actually was a-United States Government agent assigned to be as close as possible to me at all times. While the Soviet espionage system was often it could, on the same case be strangely inefficient.

Typical of this is wnat I call "The Case of the Atomic Couple." In October, 1950, Jack Soble, the Lithuanian secret-police agent turned United States citizen and the head of my Soviet spy ring came up with quite a coup. He had met a man with whom he had attended the University of Leipzig in the 1920's. Soble said the man came from one of the wealthiest and most aristocratic families in Vienna, but had always been a strong Communist sympathizer. Soble had asked the Austrian millionaire to co-operate in helping him obtain important United States atomic secrets. The secrets came from the Austrian's sister-in-law and brother-in-law," naturalized American citizens who had worked in Las Alamos, N.M.

If husband and wife file separately, both must have income under the laws of their state. Many states hare community property laws where the wife has half the family Income even thouth she earns nothing herself. In these states, where ex-penses are paid from community income, the deductions may be split equally between man and wife. In all cases where husband and wife file separate returns, if one itemises the deductions, the other must also itemize. 1 If you file separately you may use either the form 1040 or the 1040A, depending on how you qualify.

A HUSBAND AND WIFE may file a joint return and get the advantage of the lower tax rates even If one of them had no income during the year. Both husband and wife must sign the joint return, and it must include all the income, earned by both of them. You can file a Joint return if you were married any time during the year, and remained married for the balance of the year. The joint return is a financial boon to most married couples because of the way the tax rate goes Up as income" increases not because you pay on any less income. In effect, the joint income is split into two equal parts and the tax is found for one of the parts.

The tax is then doubled. Your total tax, then, is the combined tax on the two halves, usually considerably smaller than it would be at the tax rate on the total income. If your husband or wife died anytime during 1957 tven on the first day of the year you can still file a joint return and claim an exemption for your deceased spouse. In general, you file just as you would have had your spouse lived through the year. If your husband or wife died during 1955 or 1956 you still can get a tax break from Uncle Sam if you meet certain qualifications.

That brines us to the special joint return for certain recent widows and widowers. World's Only fully Automatic Cfsantr ELEGTROLUX Yefimov is in a hospital recovering from a nervous breakdown. He said that on a certain date in March, Yefimov was to execute some very secret and very dangerous person. All the machinery was in motion for the assassination when Pe rWry-AHwWnJ Mot m4 tonfet 6178 Dilmir PA. 5-8480 tor INI PHOTOGRAPHY MARTIN SCHWEIG 4657 MARYLAND AYE.

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together. In 1957, the New York Federal grand Jury investigating espionage subpoenaed Dr. Henry Spitz and his wife, Beatrice who had worked in New Mexico. They trosian got an urgent tele- "atomic were both graduates and had Ph.D's. March 3, 1951: Soble told escaped prosecution by reap plying, in Vienna, for Austrian BUSY HOMEHAKERS CAN NOW BAKE BREAD AT HOME WITH Spruance OLD FASHIONED BREAD MIX citizenship, which they had re linquished when they became American citizens in 1947.

On July 29, 4950, I first found out about a plot to as Makes Bread Baking sassinate Premier Josip (Tito) Broz of Yugoslavia. I was sup posed to meet my Soviet se cret-police contact, Vitaly Tcherniavsky, in the Prater Park in Vienna. His wife showed up instead. She was very excited. She said, "Vitaly a -SISAF; Enjoy the thrill ef baking bread in your own kitchen.

It's quick and easy perfect resold every time. Every bag makes 4 nourishing, flavor-packed loaves aroma like the kind in Grandma's kitchen. So much better than store bought bread and costs less! has been detained on very important, dangerous work." The next day, the newspapers headlined the mysterious disappearance of three Yugo slav officials from a train in a tunnel near Vienna. Later, I me the American "atomic couple" were at the millionaire's home the night he had dinner there. He told me that during the war, the celluloid man had lived in Vienna and the "atomic couple" had lived in the United States.

Now, he said, the "atomic couple" live In a villa on the outskirts of Vienna. May 9, 1951: Today, I met Soble in Zurich for a confer ence. (During my counterspy years, I was moving constantly, all over Europe and between Europe and the United States.) He went with me to the railroad station from which my airport bus was to leave. While we waited for the bus, he met a very heavy man about 40 years old. Soble embraced him, but did not introduce us.

Later, Soble Identified the man as the rich Austrian. June 10, 1951: 1 attended a party in Paris with Soble. He got very drunk and bragged about his friend, the rich Austrian. To my amazement, he suddenly blurted out his name Low Beer. After 1 left the party, I ran as fast as I could to the Champs Elysees, where the two FBI agents were waiting for me.

When I told them the name Low Beer, they were elated. i MY INFORMATION helped the FBI to put a lot of pieces was told by the G.P.U. that the murders were an experiment to prepare for the assassination of Tito. In October, the Russians Leonid Dimitrievitch Petrov, chief of United States operations in the foreign division of the QPU (secret police), was to go to Vienna to receive the secret information personally. However, Petrov had a woman friend in Prague, and he decided to make a detour to that city before meeting Soble and the Austrian.

He missed his plane to Vienna and his carefully planned meeting with Soble. Soble stood waiting in a downpour of rain, carrying a sheaf of espionage reports that would have blown the lid off the entire Soviet intelligence system if he had been caught with them. Not only that, but the Austrian millionaire became upset over this appalling inefficiency and began to balk. WHEN I REPORTED THIS to the FBI, I was told that my top assignment was to find out the identies of the Austrian millionaire, the "atomic couple," or both. Again, it was a contradiction in the Soviet intelligence system that enabled me to do it.

For while Jack Soble was one of the most skilled professional spies in the world, he had three weaknesses: (1) He liked to impress Get 4 Heavy Duty All Metal Bread Baking Pant. Send $1.00 and picture of the Sprnance girl from front of package lot RUSSELL SPRUANCE COMPANY Frnt Umbar PMtacMphK 17, Pa. sent me to Yugoslavia. I was told to function as a United States movie producer interested in Yugoslavian arts; actually, I was supposed to "case" the country. When I returned to Vienna, Tcherniavsky made me write a 70- page report on my trip, which was forwarded to Moscow, One point interested him immenselythat I saw many RELAX-0-CUSHION Catholic priests who were trav eling to Rome in connection with the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

BY NOW, Tcherniavsky had LOSE UNWANTED INCHES THE PRIVACY OF YOUR HOME! YOUR OWN LEISURE TIME! SLENDERIZE AT HOME This return cannot be filed on the short and easy form 1040A; you must use form 1040. On the return you claim only your own exemption and deductions, but you use schedule two on pare 11 of the instructions in figuring your tax and thus you get the benefit of the split income provisions. Providing that your spouse died at anytime during 1955 er 1956, you get this tax break if: You have not remarried through the end of 1957 (if you have, of course, you can file jointly with your new spouse); you were entitled to file jointly with the deceased spouse at the time of death (he or she was not a non-resident alien, and since that death you have maintained a home which is the principal living place of a child or tepchild for whom you are entitled to claim a dependency exemption. IF YOUR SPOUSE died earlier than in 1955, you may till get a tax break if you qualify as a special "head of household." This return, which can be made only on the form 1040, is for single, divorced or iegally separated persons who maintain a household. It also applies to anyone married during 1957 to a nonresident alien.

If yotl qualify as a "head of household" your tax bill will be lower than if you filed separately. Your special rates will be found in schedule three on page 11 of the Instruction booklet that comes with form 1040. You will note that they are lower than those In schedule one for ingla taxpayers. These are the requirements you must meet: 1. You must maintain a home which is the principal residence of your unmarried child, stepchild or grandchfld, even though not a dependent of yours, or any other relative whom you are entitled to claim as a dependent, or 3.

You must pay more than half the cost of maintaining separate household for your mother or father, if either justifies as your dependent. The test here is whether you pay more than half the cost of keeping the home, including uch things as mortgage interest, rent, taxes, insurance on the home and the like. The next article will deal with exemptions, the biggest ingle device in the book. Bennett Cerf 1 Try and Stop Me A BUSY BEAVER BANK CLERK, keenly aware of old Mrs. Gottplenty's million-dollar balance, began giving her the red-carpet treatment.

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BOBBY FISCHER Is a 14-year-old boy living in Brooklyn. He is also chess champion of the United States and qualified, with famed Samuel Reshevsky, to represent the United States in the world championship interzonal tournament to be held in Europe next year. Chess is associated In the public mind with two old codgers facing each other over the board, their equally stolid expressions broken only by Van Dyke beards and curving pipes. Master Fischer is beardless no oddity at his are and doesn't smoke. But he can play chess.

Early in the fall of 1957 Bobby upset more than 200 of the country'! top-rankinr players to win the United States open chess championship. Then earlier this month he capped his growinr list of honors and became the United States champion, winnine; the Leasing J. Rosenwald trophy at the Manhattan Chest Club of New York. His brilliant play has won him the title of master, lead the rudiments of the game from his sister Joan when he was six years old, Bobby spent the next seven years studying the game, playing with friends, and poking through foreign language chess books to absorb the moves of classic games. Two years ago he entered his first big tournament, the United States junior championship, and won in a breeze.

Not only In actual triumphs but in manner of play has Bobby earned the plaudits of the chess world, one of his victories bringing from the "Chess Review" the description as "The game of the century." The great concentration he shows in tournaments at which he once used to burst into tears when he lost is in sharp contrast to his restlessness in hit high school classroom. Told that Bobby sat for five hours at a chest tournament, one of his school teachers gasped, "In my class, Bobby couldn't sit ttill for five minutes." Said to be of generally superior intelligence by school authorities, Bobby it no better than an average ttudent. His wakeful moments art for chess. The problems of this sport are his problems, during meals, while watching television and at his bedside where there is a permanent chess board with pieces arranged. Although these chess triumphs of her teen-age son are sources of pride to Mrs.

Regina Fischer, she is not a forthright adherent of the value of her son's singlemindness on the subject. "For four years," she told one interviewer, "I tried everything I knew to discourage him. But it was hopeless." During his summer vacations, Bobby is to be found nightly at his "favorite hangout," she continued, and "sometimes I have to go over there at midnight to haul him out of the place." The hangout: the ancient and dignified Manhattan Chess Club, "hangout" of numerous champions and chess masters. Among the club's membership is international grand master Samuel Reshevsky, considered perhaps the finest player in the western world. But, in the recent tournament, the youngest American ever to be awarded the title of chess ms-ter, Bobby Fischer, edged grand piaster Reshevsky with a score of 10V4-2V4 to 9V4-3V.

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