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t3 Ash $2500' flncome Tax Exemption By JACK DOHERTY of THE KEW3 Bureau Washington, D. Dec. 19. I Miss Says Again; Save tkambers Mo M. S.

State Sestets By JAMES DESMOND Alger Hiss took the witness stand in his second perjury trial in Federal Court yesterday and solemnly testified for the third time under oath that he never betrayed any government secrets to Whittaker Chambers. Hiss denied the charge once before the grand jury that indicted him and again at his SI 3 first trial last June. The former State Department official was entirely calm. But his penciled notes of digests of State Department cables and asked if low-pitched voice dropped slightly they were in his handwriting. The defendant matter-of-factly acknowl to edged writing all four, although at the first trial he had identified only three, saying the fourth merely appeared to be in his hand.

Q. Did you ever give those notes when he denied specifically handing Chambers the so-called Pumpkin Papers and 47 other documents based on State Department materials. The testimony came shortly before adjournment was taken after the accused had been on the stand under direct examination by defense counsel Claude B. Cross for an hour and a half. Cross first handed Hiss four to Whittaker Chambers? A.

I did not. 3 U. Removal of the first $2,500 of income from federal income tax rolls was advocated today by a New York social worker as the best method of keeping the nation's low-income families off the dole. Reginald A. Johnson, field director of the National Urban League, told a Congressional subcommittee Studying low-income family problems that the $2,500 exemption "would increase the income of these families by providing an extra bit of available money for their immediate Hear Charities Leader.

Currently, each income tax payer gets a $600 exemption for himself, another $600 if he has a dependent wife, and $600 each for all Other dependents. The subcommittee also heard Ed-mond D. Butler, president of the National Conferenc of Catholic Charities, plead for federal intervention to improve the living conditions in Puerto Rico so. the "mass migration" of Puerto Ricans into Harlem might be halted. "I can show you four -room apartments on Manhattan with 24 people living in them," said Butler, "and they think they are better off than they were in Puerto Rico." Butler said Puerto Ricans were forced to live in Harlem because of "compulsory segregation." They Q.

Did you ever give those notes iXKW flo hv John IVodinouk) to any person unauthorized to Dr. Frank Black rehearses Margaret Truman in Carnegie Hall yesterday as male chorus director Robert Shaw looks on. receive them? A. I did not. Next Cross handed over 43 type written documents, copied on an old Woodstock typewriter once Our Liberty Bell Moves Again owned by the Hisses, and asked if Hiss had given them to Chambers.

"I did not," the witness replied. Margaret Here To Sing; High Q. ere they ever taken to your home and copied by Mrs. Hiss? Shown Photostats. A.

They were never in my hands until this minute and they were ST, never copied by Mrs. Hiss. Not for Cupid By EDWIN HOLDEN The one and only romance in Margaret Truman's life right now is music But like any girl just be- Cross then handed the witness photostats of the State Department documents found on a microfilm in a pumpkin on Chambers farm at Westminster. and fore an important date, she admitted yesterday that she was asked whether he had passed thosa papers to Chambers to be copies. 1 1 1 certainly did not, said tha defendant.

"really excited" about her first New York concert tonight in Carnegie Hall. After running through the en- tire program a portion of which will be broadcast over a nation Hiss took the stand wearing a if dark gray, double-breasted suit, a light tie, held by a collar pin. and wide hookup, the 25-year-old a white shirt. He alternately kept his hands clasped in his lap or fo'ded his arms across his chest. could not live elsewhere, he added, because of the high rents and "because of the color of their skin." Mannstein, 62, Gets 13 Years Hamburg, Dec.

19 (U.R). A British military court today found Nazi Field Marshal Erich von Mannstein guilty of war crimes and sentenced the 62-year-old commander of German troops on the Russian front to 18 years' imprisonment. Mannstein was the last Nazi leader to face an Allied war crimes tribunal. He was found guilty of tie seemed a trifle grimmer than at his June trial. Throughout his testimony he kept his eyes fixed on Cross, except when Assistant U.

S. Attornev Thomas F. Murphy- rose for an objection. Then Hiss would stare intently at the prosecutor. If he felt any rancor toward Murphy for calling him a "Judas" and "Benedict Arnold in the first Pack-Up Bay For Truman Key West Naval Base, Dec.

19. It was pack-up day at the Little White House today as President Truman and his staff got ready to fly back to Washing tomorrow. Truman got in another swim and a sunning at the beach. The President has arranged a special Cabinet session for Thursday to go over the messages he will deliver to Congress early next month. Friday he wil fly to Independence, to spend Christmas at home and return to the White House Dec 28.

8 -S" trial summation. Hiss kept it well concealed. His testimony differed little from, that Hiss gave at the first trial, with one exception. He disclosed that in September, 1939, he had prepared a memo for the Stato Department setting forth an opinion that under international law the U. S.

could aid the western European powers against Germany without violating neutrality. This memo was marked for identification by Cross but was not offered in evidence. Hiss will return to the stand thia morning. daughter of the President told re WORKMEN prepare to move New York's Liberty BelL After almost 80 years, the bell is being returned to the belfry of the Middle Collegiate Church at Second Ave. at Seventh St from the Collegiate Church of St.

Nicholas, 48th St. and Fifth Ave, which is being razed to make room for an office building. The bell tolled for the Declaration of Independence and George Washington's inauguration. porters, "The entire romance in my life at present is music." When the remark drew smiles she added, "Seriously, believe me." Although she doesn drink or Mom, 88, Quits smoke herself, "because it interferes with her singing," Miss Truman scoffed at people who have criticized Princess Margaret Rose I III I.I I I '-T1 Cornell Boy Quaffs Quart of Martinis; Illness Shuts Clubs Ithaca, Dec. 19 (JP).

Cornell University investigated today the serious illness of a student who reportedly drank a quart of Martinis during a society initiation. The student, Harry C. Melton, of England for smoking. "I can see why," she said. "They're your own I think it is your own business.

Asked about a Graucho Marx radio crack that the Only way a Erich von Mannstein Republican can get in the White House is to marry Margaret, Miss nine of the 17 charges against him and could have been sentenced to 20, a junior from Wallingford, Pa, Truman snapped back: Right now I haven't any Republican boy death. by banned pending consideration and action by the committee on student conduct of the university faculty." He did not move nor did his face was reported recovering in the Cornell infirmary. Cornells W. de Kiewiet, atcing friends. Christmas in Missouri.

betray any emotion when sentence Nice Warm Jail Oakland, Calif, Dec 19 VP). An 88-year-old woman, accused of stealing Stf'cents worth of butter, ended three defiant days in jail today. She quietly allowed her son to bail her out for $200. The woman, Mrs. Margaret Russell, at first refused to go "too warm and comfortable," she said.

She said the charge was ridiculous "I never did such a thing in my life." It was just a misunderstanding all around, her son. Earl Russell, insisted. He said he thought his mother was in a Los Angeles rest home and didn't even know she was in jail until last night. Mrs. Russell was arrested Thursday on complaint of Carl Becker, was pronounced.

Then he turned president of the university, an smartly on his heels and marched out of the packed court room. Miss Truman plans to leave here Thursday to spend Christmas with her parents at the family homestead in Independence, Mo. She Only at the door did he hesitate. He turped sharply for a second look at the public galleries where his- wife and 18-year-old son were said that she might sing there with the choir of the Trinity Epis sitting. copal church on Christmas kve.

societies at which Melton dranic "an excess of martinis." The paper said the initiation lasted an hour and a half and that Melton in that time drarik a quart of cocktails. 15 Hours in Coma. Whitman Daniels, assistant to De Kiewiet, said that Jo his knowledge the Sun's report was correct. Melton was conscious when he. entered the infirmary, but lapsed into unconsciousness shortly afterward and remained in a state of coma for 15 hours Daniels said.

nounced he had stricken upper class social societies from the list of recognized student organizations. The clubs, termed drinking societies, by the Cornell Sun, student daily newspaper, are the Ma jura and Bethl'Amed Mummy The Sun said De Kiewiet action resulted from an initiation conducted last Friday by the two All Meetings Banned. In an announcement, De Kiewiet said all meetings and all activities of the two organizations "are hear- "No solos," she added, "I'm just He was found guilty of inhuman treatment of Russian prisoners of another member of the choir. war, using Russians as slave labor, After Christmas she will return here to complete arrangements for directing the execution of Soviet political commissars without trial her national concert tour which opens in Richmond, Feb. 2 and will end in Bowling Green.

O- the and employing a "scorched earth policy" in his retreat from the special officer for a grocery store. Her trial was set for public court Crimea to Poland. tomorrow. I night of March 30..