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1 rifr, fw l' 9 1 111 1111 I I. 1 r1 I II' HTi i i 1 A-2 THESIW Tuesday, Feb. 8, 1971 UA Files Firs bard Lawsuit Maior Par Meanwhile workers are being paid the part of the raise the Pay Board said it would approve, Woodcock said. In other economic matters: The Senate confirmed the nomination of George H. Boldt to continue as chairman of the Pay Board.

Only Sen. William Proxmire, was heard to WASHINGTON (AP)' The United Auto Workers yesterday presented the federal Pay Board with its first major lawsuit, accusing it of acting illegally by denying a pay raise to aerospace workers. The long-promised suit alleges that the board exceeded Its authority, ignored its own rules, failed to hold required public hearings, and based its action not on logic but on an assumption that aerospace workers would not strike their depressed industry. "We allege that the orders were taken on the basis of politics and administrative convenience, rather than facts and reason," said UAW President Leonard Woodcock. Pay Board spokesmen had no Target of the UAW suit is the Pay Board's rejection last Jan.

5 of contracts containing a 12 per cent first-year pay raise for 31,000 workers at three aerospace firms. The AFL-CIO International Association of Machinists said yesterday it would file a similar suit next week to recover the same raise denied then to about 70,000 of its members at other aerospace companies. The Pay Board rejected a 51-cent hourly pay raise. It said later it would allow a raise of 34 or 35 cents in the first year and intends to approve the rest if added to the second year of the three-year contracts. Both unions said they would not renegotiate their contracts, but would sue the Pay Board for the full 51-cent raise.

voice a dissenting vote. Proxmire objected also to the nomination of John E. Sheehan to be a governor of the Federal Reserve Board, arguing that he lacks experience as an economist. But Sheehan was confirmed by voice vote as was Boldt. No objections were raised to the nomination of C.

Jackson Grayson as chairman of the Price Commission and he was confirmed without dissent. Dr. Herbert Stein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, told the Joint Economic Committee that it will take two years to feel full effects of the recently negotiated dollar devaluation. He said also he personally opposes Democratic proposals to create 500,000 public-service jobs, which he said would cost $2.5 billion, or to create 100,000 jobs each month, which he said would cost $12 billion. Both ideas are too expensive, Stein said.

The UAW lawsuit argues that most of the 51-cent raise was a cost-of-living catch-up called for in letters of agreement signed in 1968, the union said. This money, it argued, is beyond the Pay Board's reach. It amounts to 34 cents an hour for workers at McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Co. and North American Rockwell and 35 cents for LTV Aerospace Corp. The rest of the raise is all that should have been considered by the board, the union said, and falls well within its 5.5-per-cent guidelines.

Hails Measure as 'Realistic and Enforceable9 'q' i i'a Nixon Approves Campaign Reform Bill Request Denied by an unlimited amount. The firm is the sales outlet for Toyota cars in the United States. The commission spokesman said that the argument was rather specious in that it failed to list a specific price increase. The Toyota firm said that if It increased prices, fewer people would buy their cars in the United States, and therefore imports would fall. be spent on broadcast ads, meaning the ceiling on a presidential nominee's radio-TV budget this fall will be $8.4 million.

The Republicans spent an estimated $12.1 million in 1968 while the Democrats spent about $6.1 million. The law sets no over-all campaign spending limit, but does limit to $50,000 the amount a candidate for president or vice president can contribute to his own campaign. Likewise, Senate candidates can contribute no more than $35,000 to their own campaigns, and House candidates $25,000. Periodic reports must be filed by candidates after spending reaches $1,000. The reports to the Senate secretary, House clerk, comptroller general or appropriate state election officials must identify each person contributing $100 or more.

The law also requires broadcast stations selling air time to federal candidates to charge the lowest unit rate during 45 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election. At other times, the stations can charge the same rates charged for comparable use by commercial advertisers. Further, the bill specifies that newspapers and magazines cannot charge political candidates more for campaign advertising than they charge for comparable use of the space by other advertisers. Backers say the legislation is designed to end secret campaign financing via District of Columbia and intrastate committees, and will be the first coverage of spending in primary elections. TUT A forward in an area which has been of great public concern." Noting that the measure stiffens reporting requirements for the source and use of campaign funds, the President said: "By giving the American public full access to the facts of political financing, this legislation will guard against campaign abuses and will work to build public confidence in the integrity of the electoral process." The measure repeals the loophole-ridden and little-enforced Corrupt Practices Act of 1925.

Asked whether the administration would enforce the new provisions, White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler responded, "Yes." Principal provisions of the law apply to both primary and general election but Jury With Samples of Handwriting With $490,000 Tax Liens WASHINGTON (AP)' Hailing it as "realistic and enforceable," President Nixon signed legislation yesterday to limit political-advertising expenses and seal campaign finance-reporting loopholes. The law goes into effect in 60 days, so it won't apply to early presidential primaries but it will cover later primaries, and will limit to $8.4 million the amount a presidential candidate can spend for radio and television advertising this fall. Nixon signed the legislation the most comprehensive change of campaign practices law In a half centurywithout the public ceremony which often accompanies presidential approval of major measures. In a three-paragraph statement, Nixon called the bill "an important step Author Must Supply IrvingsHit NEW YORK (AP) The government slapped tax liens totaling more than $490,000 yesterday against author Clifford Irving and his wife, as Irving went before a federal grand jury probing his claim that he helped write billionaire Howard Hughes' autobiography.

The Internal Revenue Service filed with the county registrar a lien for $246,994 against the 41-year-old Irving, and $243,118 against his wife, Edith, 36. Mrs. Irving, using the name "Helga R. Hughes," banked $650,000 in three checks written by McGraw-Hill Inc. for Hughes as payment for his life story, according to her husband.

She withdrew the money from one Swiss bank and deposited $442,000 of it in another under the name "Hannah Rosencrantz," Swiss authorities have reported. Irving refused to tell newsmen what, if anything, he said to the grand jury. "On the advice of my counsel, I have no comment," the usually talkative writer said. The U.S. attorney's office also refused comment on the jury's probe, now in its second week.

It is investigating Irving's claim that he met with the billionaire recluse in Mexico, California, Florida and the West Indies, gave him two of the royalty checks and turned the third over to a Hughes aide. The subsequent deposits and withdrawals of the checks were carried out at Hughes' request, Irving has said. Hughes, who has not been seen in public for more than a decade, lives in seclusion in the Bahamas. A voice on a telephone interview Jan. 9 and court Sitting Pretty A sea gull rests on the head of the "Little Mermaid" statue in Copenhagen, Denmark, af- riTcirrh mfns -iiuuse approves iviiiiion i eals Program for Elderly Toyota Price Rise WASHINGTON (AP) In the first case of its kind, the Price Commission has rejected a request by a seller of Japanese cars to raise prices on grounds that President Nixon wants imports to decline sharply, commission officials said yesterday.

The commission denied a request for an exception from price controls filed by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., to increase prices on the Japanese models the main impact in primaries is expected to be through the reporting requirements rather than the pcr-voter limitation on advertising. The law limits for the first time in history categories of spending by White House candidates. Nixon vetoed in October 1970 a measure which limited only radio and television expenditures, saying it plugged "only one hole in the sieve." Spending limits are calculated on a formula of 10 cents per potential voter, or $50,000, whichever is larger. They apply to all candidates for president, vice president, Senate and House and cover their spending on television, radio, newspaper, magazine and outdoor advertising, and paid-telephone campaigns. No more than 6 cents of each dime can day that neither a formal Swiss request for her extradition, nor an application for her temporary arrest pending formal extradition has been received.

A spokesman for the IRS said the hens against the Irvings related to the tax year 1971. They establish, he said, "a priority for the Internal Revenue Service against other creditors, tying up the assets of the persons against whom the liens have been issued." Later in the day, Federal Judge Morris Lasker ruled that Irving must supply the grand jury with samples of his hand writing. At a hearing before Lasker it was revealed that Irving had declined to give the samples after his lawyer objected that it was not a proper request by the U.S. attorney. The judge held it was proper.

The nature of the handwriting samples was not revealed. "We migjit ask him to write 'H. R. Hughes' five times to make a comparison," said one federal authority with a smile. The IRS also filed a tax lien for $22,446 against Richard R.

Suskind, who says he worked for Irving as a researcher on the Hughes book. Suskind, so far the only person who has corroborated Irving's claim that he met with Hughes, arrived by plane from his home on the Mediterranean island of Majorca to appear before the grand jury. He had no comment. Suskind has sworn in a court paper that he was with Irving and a man he believed to be Hughes in a motel in Palm Springs, last June. Congress last April.

"Viewed against the vital national objectives which our foreign assistance programs are designed to pursue, this act is a great disappointment," Nixon said. Nixon's action on the authorization bill nearly completed the revival, in modified form, of the program which the Senate briefly appeared to have killed last Oct. 29. The only thing left is House-Senate compromise of a $3 billion bill approved by the Senate last Friday actually appropriating money for foreign aid and for related programs. The bill Nixon signed takes a step toward sharing the U.S.

foreign-aid load with other rich nations and calls for reducing the 31.5 per cent U.S. share of United Nations operating expenses to 25 per cent. 'Share the Wealth' (Continued From A 1) Hills, introduced a rival bill which would phase out the exemption over a five-year period. Under present law, an insurance company incorporated in California is permitted to deduct Its annual home office property tax payment from the amount of insurance tax it. owes the stale.

Robertl's bill and constitutional amendment would end the deduction, originally designed to encourage insurance companies to locate home offices in California. Robcrti claimed 135 insurance companiesabout one out. of seven operating in California used the deduction last, year and it amounted to a $12 million loophole. of to of by He WASHINGTON '(AP)' The House voted yesterday to set up a $250-million two-year pilot project to provide free or low-cost meals and services to needy persons 60 years of age or older. Nixon Chides Business Leaders for Complaints Nixon Reluctantly Signs Foreign-Aid Bill i-i.

01 APWIrDhol CLIFFORD IRVING arrives for grand jury papers attributed to Hughes have stated that Hughes never met Irving. The grand jury has also called Mrs. Irving, a Swiss born abstract artist who is in New York with her husband and two children. They live on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Ibiza. Swiss authorities have asked Interpol, the international police organization, for the arrest of Mrs.

Irving for bank fraud. The U.S. State Department said yester ment, severely cuts the amounts he requested for development and security assistance and "is below minimum acceptable levels." Nor does it include, the President said, major reform proposals which he sent "I mean it," the wife said once again. "I am going to leave you." Four stenographers, two about 25 and two a little older, Including a very good looking brunette, lurched past the wife and settled down at a table already crowded with three men and a woman. One of the stenographers stood, and the other three solved the matter of having no chairs by perching themselves on the knees of the men.

"You with anybody this weekend, honey?" asked the brunette of the man whose knee she occupied. "Just you," he said. She kissed him. The round-trip fares are $59.95, which Is supposed to include three days and two nights at a hotel. But with arrival at midnight on Friday and departure soon after noon on Sunday, it Is more nearly two nights and one day.

While bar cars A and were overflowing with drinking passengers on Friday night, the four parlor cars were very quiet. About 100 passengers slept most of the 250 miles between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, some of them preparing for a night in the gambling parlors. "This is the geriatrics ward," one of the trainmen said. Many of the sleeping passengers were gray-haired women wearing posture shoes, good for long hours at the slot machines. 1.

I AP Wirephoto ter the harbor landmark was splashed with white paint. Police are probing the incident. appropriations for fiscal year 1973 and $150 million for 1974 for grants to states having programs approved by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The grants generally would be based on elderly population statistics and would cover 90 per cent of the cost of the state-administered programs. In awarding contracts to public or private nonprofit institutions, states would be required to give preference to low-income individuals and assure that, to the extent feasible, some grants are awarded for projects operated by and serving the needs of minority individuals.

Projects receiving grants would be required to: Heed the advice of nutritionists and guarantee one hot meal daily five days a week, each meal to provide a minimum of one-third of the daily recommended dietary allowance. Locate the project near high concentrations of elderly people and, where appropriate, provide home delivered meals to eligible persons who cannot leave their homes. Provide participants with services such as recreational activities, health and welfare counseling, and information services not otherwise available. Those applying for the meals must show need. The amount they will pay, if anything, will be determined by state standards of ability to pay.

Peace Plan Critics type of criticism is likely to be "What it does is to put issue back on the front burner," he said "What it does also is build up Muskie." Sen. Muskie, D-Maine, had no immedK ate comment. He has been a principal administration target since he sharply criticized the Nixon peace offer. Sen. Bill Brock, in a speecn on the Senate floor, asked "Is it noj possible that criticism of the peace offer, voiced in this country before Hanoi had even had time to study it, might undermine the chances for a peaceful settlement until after the November eled tion?" Democratic Party Chairman Lawrence F.

O'Brien said "I simply cannot accept the suggestion by the White House press secretary that Mr. Haldeman tha President's chief of staff was expressing only his personal opinion "President Nixon should instruct Hat deman either to name those who he ac cuses and document his charges or to retract the statement and issue a public apology," O'Brien said. WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon signed a $2.75 billion foreign-aid authorization act yesterday but described it as a great disappointment which hampers his conduct of foreign affairs. The measure, Nixon said in a state Thai Vegas Special Swings, Man The legislation was sent to the Senate after winning approval by 350 to 23. It is similar but not identical to a bill already passed by the Senate.

The bill would authorize $100 million in six months and that his policies should generate further expansion and more jobs. "Nobody says the road to full employment is quick and easy but we are on the road," Nixon said. "If we were ever to permit this nation to turn isolationist in a foreign policy," he said, "we would be inviting another war. If we were to let this nation turn protectionist in its economic policy we would be inviting a trade war In urging an increase in productivitywhich he termed "the secret of American success" Nixon said too many businessmen and working men for too long "thought of the American economy as a kind of giant turtle fat and lazy, with a protective shell that seemed impregnable "The time has come for that turtle to stick its neck out and get moving and as it does, it will show that America's competitive spirit is alive and healthy, ready to lead the world into the new prosperity." Nixon Aide Hits (Continued From A 1) cratic presidential aspirant said. McGovern said the United States should announce total withdrawal from Indochina, and an end to all military assistance to the government of Nguyen Van Thieu as of May 1.

"At the same time, we should state the obvious that President Thieu has no claim to legitimacy in South Vietnam and that we do not recognize him as the legitimate leader of that country," McGovern said. Meanwhile, Sen. Robert J. Dole of Kansas, the Republican chairman, said presidential candidates "have a special obligation to put the nation's interests ahead of their party's or their own," in dealing with the war issue. Dole said Sen.

Edmund S. Muskie's statement on the war "might well have the effect of prolonging this unhappy war" because it indicates the Communists might net a better deal from him than from the Nixon administration. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said Haldeman's WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon mildly lectured the nation's business leaders last night lor complaining about his economic controls. He suggested they adopt their own non-inflationary wage-and-price policies. He also said that businessmen should put aside pleas for a protective shell against international competition, roll up their sleeves and increase productivity.

The presidential lecture came in the form of questions Nixon posed in an address to the White House Conference on the Industrial World Ahead, a meeting 1,500 executives officers of leading U.S. corporations who are looking ahead 1990 in their three days of sessions. Nixon defended his decision to impose wage-and-price controls and to send to Congress a red-ink budget. "There is going to be a lot of complaining," Nixon said. "I am prepared to take the heat, because I know I have put first things first and full employment without inflation in a period of peace comes first "Are you going to crawl inside a shell and demand protection from world competition, or are you going to roll up your sleeves and increase productivity? "Are you going to expend your energies complaining about controls, or are you going to adopt wage-and-price controls that will remove the pressures inflation and the need for controls?" Nixon said consumer prices rose 3.4 per cent in 1971 compared with 5.5 per cent the previous year.

"That is the right direction for inflation down," he said. "That shows it can be done." He said civilian employment increased more than a million jobs in the past Terrorists1 Murder Sailor RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Security authorities announced last night that terrorists machinegunned to death a British sailor from a visiting warship. was David Cuthbcrt, 19. SIieII Seek Fiflh Term WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, 74, the only woman member of the Senate, announced she will seek re-election to a fifth term.

(Continued From A 1) tambourine for one woman and left hand with fingers for another. The mayor and a number of other Las Vegas officials had flown to Los Angeles earlier in the day to make the trip. Four sweating bartenders were struggling unsuccessfully to keep up with the demand of the drinkers. Amtrak had stocked alcohol enough for 500 persons, but an hour before they reached Las Vegas, the Scotch, bourbon, vodka and gin supplies were exhausted, and determined drinkers were sipping such mixtures as Galliano with quinine water. A fine-handed $20 limit poker game was under way at a table in bar car four amateurs and an Amtrak employe who played the other four players like a fisherman playing trout.

One of the other players, a 30-year-old man in a blue shirt, was carrying on an argument with his kibitzing wife. "I am going to leave you if you do what you did last time," she shouted. In a loud aside, she told listeners that her husband had lost $1,300 on their last trip to Las Vegas. "This is our fifth wedding said. "Bugoff," her husband shouted, throwing out another $100 bill to be changed.

The Amtrak man slid five $20 bills across the table and put the $100 bill under his growing stack. t..