August 4, 1953

state funeral; Mrs Taft, Eisenhowers, Govt officials attend; Bricker gives eulogy; body and family arrive, Cincinnati; pub and private service plans

Mossadegh wins 99.9% of Teheran vote on Majlis ouster; ballot not secret; Tudeh casts large pro-Govt vote; steps up demand for Royal Ct liquidation; demands ouster of US Point 4 aides and Mil Advisory Mission; urges early gen elections; Kashani boycott seen ineffective; balloting without incident; police break up Tudeh rajlies

House (Kean) subcom hearing; W S Lasdon testifies he paid W S Mayock, a Washington tax atty, $65,000 in cash to get a ruling for members of Lasdon family to classify their sale of drug patents at capital gains for tax purposes; ruling obtained in Sept '48, saving family about $1.5 million; Mayock called 'Judge' and counsel to Dem Natl Com; K R Price, then aide to Bur counsel Oliphant, testifies he recommended ruling be denied; that he recd call from then Treas Under Sec Foley asking status of case and urging it be expedited; that Oliphant issued favorable ruling; Lasdon lawyer N D Cann testifies he had been unable to get favorable ruling; Lasdon says W Solomon told his bro M S Lasdon about Mayock; subcom counsel Tobin says records show Mayock never filed power of atty with Bur as required, that Cann was atty of record at the time; comment on W S Lasdon's Nepera Co, and on Lasdon Foundation

Repub Policy Com votes to hold election of majority leader over objections of Bridges, Welker, McCarthy, Bricker, Malone, Capehart and Jenner who sought to have election postponed on basis of Sens absence; Knowland as chmn of Policy Com, gives chair to Millikin; some dissenters seen preferring Dirksen as leader; Ferguson reptd considered to head Policy Com if Knowland becomes leader