European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                House planning to Block repeal of gift deduction Washington a More than half the members of the House of representatives Are cosponsoring a Bill that would Block president reagans plan to repeal the Charity deduction for those who do not itemize gifts on their tax retaining the deduction is essential to ensure that charities continue to receive donations from a majority of tax witnesses representing medical the arts and veterans told the House ways and Means committee the provisions on charitable contributions in the tax Bill that Reagan recommended to Congress Are danger Ous to our society said Jean president of Tufts University and head of the new England Board of higher americas position in the world rests less on our Mili tary Power than on the educated brains of our people and our reputation As a caring and effective Mayer reagans plan to make major changes in the Federal income tax includes two provisions of special importance to one would reduce the tax incentive for Large gifts by Wel Todo americans by making a share of some property contributions subject to a tougher minimum the other would repeal the write off for donations by the 63 percent of taxpayers who do not itemize Harold who chaired mondays has introduced a Bill to make that deduction Jack senior vice president of United Way of told the committee that 231 House members a majority including 17 members of the ways and Means have signed that failure to make the Noni Emizer deduction permanent would result in forcing the charities to look to the Rich for Moskowitz in would make it impossible for Public charities to keep up with the demand for services even As the Federal government is reducing its he a 1981 Law allows Pepple who do not itemize deductions to still write off a share of their this the Law will permit such people to deduct half of their donations in there will be no the Law is due to expire after Reagan wants to repeal the deduction at the end of this look Magazine founder Dies at 82 after bout with cancer july 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 a photo dont mess with Granny Estelle shows How she used her Walker to hold off two teenagers who entered her new Home and threatened her grand she testified against the pair last new York not Gardner cow Les founder and publisher of look mag Azine and head of one Branch of a family communications Empire that included Book publishing and television died of cardiac arrest at Southampton Hospital on Long is land after a Long bout with he was 82 years old and had Homes in and a Liberal Republican and International Cowles was for Many years an influential voice in urging the United states to move away from isolationism and toward a More Active role in world he died it was through his publications that he exerted his greatest especially through a general interest Magazine that focused Early Atten Tion on the civil rights Cowles was born in 1903 in his Gardner thought he looked Irish and gave him the lifelong nickname of after growing up in Des Moines and graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard Cowles returned to Iowa in the mid1920s to begin his career at the Des Moines Register and the newspaper base established by his a the papers financial Success made possible the family expansion into other areas of in 1959 Cowles founded puerto Ricos first English language the san Juan the paper won a pulitzer prize for editorial writing during its first later Cowles bought the monthly supermarket Magazine family other acquisitions included television stations in Memphis and several Florida newspapers and Florida real look stopped publishing in Gardner Cowles tax evasion conviction of Nevada judge is upheld san Francisco up a Federal appeals court has upheld tax evasion convictions against judge Harry Claiborne of the Only Federal judge in this Cen Tury to be convicted of felonies while serv ing on the was fined and sentenced to two years in prison in 1984 by District judge William Hoffman of who was assigned to Nevada for the the 9th circuit court of appeals monday rejected Claiborne argument that Federal who Are appointed for Are immune from prosecution for Felo Nies until they Are impeached by Claiborne was convicted by a jury in a gust 1984 on two counts of failing to report in income on his 1979 and 1980 tax the Money was received from Legal fees earned while he was a defense attorney but paid after he became a he was sentenced in october to two years in prison but remained free while awaiting the outcome of the Clai borne can now try to Appeal to the supreme but his attorneys were not immediately available for Claiborne is the first Active Federal judge convicted in this Century and Only the Sec Ond to be accused of a in 1983 Alcee Hastings of Miami was acquitted of bribery and obstructing Claiborne once called Federal strike Force attorneys in Las vegas who investigate organized crime a Bunch of he said the Justice department conducted a Ven Detta against him in retaliation for his Proad lawyers believe Burger is out of touch Washington up chief Justice Warren Bur who called some advertising by lawyers sheer shyster is out of touch with the realities of practising attorneys lawyers were Quick to respond to burgers comments on the practice of which the supreme court has upheld As Hes very Joel Hyatt said his Hyatt Legal has 170 offices and advertises heavily on he practice Law in a different i suspect he thinks most lawyers who Are advertising Are basically unsuccessful lawyers using undignified ads in an attempt to build their the Washington Post reported that at a meet ing of the commission on professionalism of the american bar said the actions of a tiny handful of lawyers advertising in flagrant ways Are pulling Down the professions i will say never my advice to the Public is under any engage the services of a lawyer who Burger said sunday Accord ing to the any idea we need the kind of advertising i am address ing the kind that i Call sheer is he Adrian outgoing chairman of the Aba commis Sion on said he was not surprised by burgers comments and added that there Are Many lawyers who would but others feel advertising can and is being used As a tool to make the Public More aware of Legal needs and ways to meet he he said the Aba takes no position on but the commission does Monitor Legal Foley said most of the ads he has seen Are who does not do any said he does not personally object to Stephen of Jacobi and a firm with offices throughout the metropolitan new York new Connecticut and said Burger is out of touch with his Meyers said information from a study released six months ago by the Federal Trade commission showed lawyer advertising resulted in a decrease in lawyers fees without sacrificing teens disrupt state witness in fall trial Chicago up the bombing con piracy trial of four alleged members of the puerto rican nationalist group fall was disrupted monday by sympathetic spectators who tried to intimidate a prosecution the disruption came when five teen agers Rose from their seats As Alfredo men a former fall  took the each of the five had a Black letter printed on his White spelling the word or traitor in judge George Leighton asked the jury to leave the then angrily chastised the four women and a charging that they had tried to intimidate and influence the four defendants Are accused of conspiring to make and Plant bombs at two military installations in Chicago during the 1983 Independence Day Holiday Jose Luis Alejandrna Edwin and Alberto Are charged with seditious conspiracy and maintaining Safe houses where weapons and blasting material were the defendants Are suspected members of the armed forces for National Liber or which has claimed responsibility for More than 130 bombings since including those of the new York and american Stock exchanges and the world Headquarters of Chase Manhattan