By EDWARD W. PICKARD (CONORESSMAN SAM B. HILL of Washington and his subcommittee of the house ways and means com- mittee took up the heavy task of de- termining how the new revenue of 81, 137,000,000 called for by President Roose- velt should be raised Treasury officials rec- ommended that an av- erage tax of 33% per cent should be levied on undivided corpor- i ation profits and a A tax of 90 per cent on > all refunded or un- Rep. 8. B. 01a AAA processing Hill taxes. In this the fiscal experts followed the suggestions of Mr. Roosevelt, They told the sub- committee that the proposed corpor- ation surplus tax would yield the gov- ernment $620,000,000 annually, The President has estimated that this amount will be needed to finance the new farm program and the soldier bonus, The so-called “windfall” tax on processors who successfully challenged the AAA In the courts, it was be. lieved, would yield another S200,000.- 000. This will be used to reimburse the treasury for losses suffered as a result of the Supreme court's invalida- tion of AAA. There remains an ad- ditional $317,000,000 which it is pro- 2 a wide range of farm processors. Chairman HIll sald the experts and the members of the subcommittee were agreed that the tax on undivided sur- plus should not apply to banks and life Insurance companies. There was wide divergence of opin- fon concerning this tax among lead- ers in congress, Senator James Ham- flton Lewis of Illinois, Democrat, for instance, declared himself against it as port, instead, a plan to tax the in- come from federal securities now ex- empt. Senator Borah, Republican, sald that in principle he endorsed the plan of taxing undistributed earnings, while Senator Hastings of Delaware, also Republican, denounced it as “con- fiscatory.” Senator King of Utah, Democrat, and Representative Knutson of Minnesota, Republican, were moved by the program to demand immediate cutting down of federal expenditures, and In this Mr. Borah concurred. Speaker Joseph W. Byrns and Major ity Leader W. B. Bankhead professed to see no difficulties in the way of the proposed measure, One thing that boosted the chances of the President's tax program was a report from Secretary of Commerce Roper that corporation Income in 1935 was 300 per cent higher than In 1832, N THE course of his probe into the affairs of enemies of the New Deal, Senator Black of Alabama, chalrman of the lobby committee, assumed the right to seize and examine their pri- vate telegrams, and thus his investi gation was carried Into the courts, Silas Strawn, Chicago attorney learned the committee was about to subpoena his telegrams and he ob- tained a temporary Injunction blocking such action. He has asked the District of Columbia Supreme court to make this injunction permanent. The wholesale examination of tele grams was attacked by Representative Wadsworth of New York, and defended by Senator Black. “It strikes me,” Wadsworth sald, “that we have reached a strange stage in the development of democracy when private correspondence can be seized without court procedure or search war- rant.” Black sald: “Repeatedly It has been held that the senate can call for what it pleases. There appears to have been a concerted effort by those who seek to Influence legisiation behind the scenes, through subterranean channels, to prevent us from getting evidence,” (GoTERNOR LANDON'S boom for J the Republican Presidential nomi. nation is progressing in a way that must be pleasing to his supporters. Kansas Republicans in a state conven tion pledged him the state's 18 dele. gates to the Cleveland convention, de. claring him to be “the best-fitted can- didate.,” That Kansas should support its governor is natural and expected, but he also is garnering a good many delegates elsewhere, and Indorsement in some states where the delegates are uninstructed. Sentiment favorable to Landon ap- peared in New Jersey, and Hervey 8. Moore of Trenton, a Republican leader, was contemplating starting an active campaign for him In that state, N THE third anniversary of his inauguration President Roosevelt an electric key In the White ise wich set In motion machinery t closed the sluice gates of the Norris dam in the Tennessee Valley project. This signalized the completion of that part of the vast work on the Clinch river, “I hope as many people as can will go to see the Norris dam in eastern 4 Tennessee,” the President sald in a for- mal statement. “It exemplifies great en- gineering skill, high construction effi ciency, and, above all, it is the key to the carefully worked out control of a great river and its water spread over parts of seven states, “The Norris dam is a practical sym- bol of better life and greater oppor- tunity for millions of citizens of our country, The nation has come to real- ize that national resources must not be wasted and the Norris dam is evi- dence that our program for conserva tion of these resources Is going for- ward.” ENATOR BORAH and Senator Van Nuys of Indiana, the latter a Dem- ocrat, Introduced a bill directed against certain practices of the chaln stores. The measure would make it unlawful for any person engaged in commerce to grant any discount, rebate, allow- ance or advertising service charge to a purchaser over that avallable to the purchasers’ competitors. It also would prohibit sales “at prices lower than those exacted by sald person elsewhere in the United States for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminat- ing a competitor.” : Co-operative associations would be exempted from provisions of the meas- ure, Violators would be sublect to a £5,000 fine and a one-year jall sen- The so-called Robinson-Patman anti- monopoly bill, also aimed at chaln will be passed by the senate before very long, according to a prom- ise made by Senator Robinson to a mass meeting of 1.500 independent mer- chants who went to Washington to lob- by for the measure. This bill legislates against special prices, rebates, adver tising allowances and brokerage fees giving sales advantage to chaln stores. stores, HROUGH its committee of thir- teen the League of Nations ap- pealed to Benito Mussolini and Em- peror Halle Selassie to consent to im- mediate negotiations for an end to hos- tilitles and a definite re-establishment of Italo-Ethioplan peace, Though consideration of the proposal by his cabinet council wae delayed a few days, Mussolini, according to advices from Rome, was disposed to ac- quiesce provided ter. ritory in Ethiopia al- ready occupied by Italy 1s considered hers and left out of the negotiations. Halle Selassie accepted the proposal without reservation. In recent days his armies in the northern sector have been routed in big battles and have lost many thousands of men, and the Itallans have penetrated far toward the interior of the country; and In the South the Invaders were prepar- ing for a rapid advance. Back of the league's appeal was the standing threat of extension of sanctions to Include an embargo on oil. This suddenly brought about a situation rather disconcerting for the league. Dr. Giuseppe Motta, Swiss foreign minister, gave a warning that if the oll embargo was applied his country might feel It pecessary to leave the league in order to preserve its neutrality If the comsequent threat. ened war in Europe resulted. Motta pointed out that if Italy quit the league and hosilities ensued, Switzer land, through her membership in the league, would appear in Italian eyes as a party to an hostile coalition, and would be subject to Invasion, by Italy on one side and perhaps by Germany on the other, Giuseppe Motta RITAIN'S government evidently be- lieves another war is coming, and intends to be well prepared. It made public a gigantic program for Increases in the army, navy and air forces and for swift mobilization of man power and industry. No official cost estimate was given out but authorities said the total over a three-year period would be not less than one and a half billion dollars. The program includes these features: Army--Four new battalions of In. fantry are planned. All units are to be modernized, mechanized, and re equipped. Especial attention will be pald coastal and antl-alreraft defenses, Navy—Two new battleships next year and an Increase In cruiser strength from 50 to 70, with five new ones to be laid down this year. Naval personnel also will be Increased by 6.000, a new aircraft carrier will be constructed, and the alr arm of the navy will be strengthened. Alr Force—-About 250 new war planes will be added to the home defense squadrons, bringing the total to 1,700. Twelve new alr squadrons for Imperial defense—that Is, air forces available for transfer to danger areas—will be added, and more pilots will be recruited, Following this announcement the an. nual naval estimates were submitted to parliament, They call for $340,650, 000, an Increase of $49,400,000 over the previous year, amazing revolt and attempted coup d' etat of a thousand soldiers led by a group of young “fascist” officers who thought the Okada government was | hampering the military progress of the nation. So far as can be judged at this | distance, the net results of the upris- | ing were: Admiral Viscount Makoto | Salto, former premier and lord keeper | of the privy seal; Korekiyo Takahashi, | minister of finance, and Gen. Jotaro | Watanabe, chief of military education, | were assassinated by the rebels. Pre- miler Okada escaped death, his brother. | in-law being mistaken for him and | slain. The mutineers, threatened by | loyal troops and the fleet, obeyed an edict by Emperor Hirohito and sur- rendered. Of thelr 28 leaders, two com- mitted sulelde. The Immediate concern of Emperor Hirohito and his advisers was the selec. tion of a man for premier who couid form a new government that would satisfy the various parties, First Prince Fumimaro Konoye, young president of the house of peers, was asked to un- dertake this task, but he declined on the ground of poor health. Then the choice of the emperor fell upon Koki Hirota, a moderate who is well known in both the United States and Russia. Hirota at once began picking out his ministers, saying: “My cabinet will be composed of young, able statesmen.” Hirota's selection was taken to mean that the emperor has determined to proceed with the modernization of the country, and to exercise his power to rule instead of permitting himself to be the exalted agent of military overlords, N A). GEN, WILLIAM WEIGEL, retired, one of the army's most reliable commanders, died In the army hospital on Governors Island at the age of seventy-two. He served 44 years, through Indian campaigns, in the Spanish-American war and In the Philippines, and went to France In the World war as a caplain, He was rapidly promoted through grades, to brigadier general on August 15, 1917, and to major general on August 8 1018, when he was given command of the Eighty-eighth division, a new national army unit which he trained and took overseas. Previously he had commanded the Fifty-sixth brigade, Twenty-elghth division, a Pennsylvania outfit, at Chauteau-Thierry, ORE than 150,000 workers in 13. - 000 bulldings In New York city were called out on strike by James J. Bambrick, president of the Bullding Service Employees’ International union, and the sky-scrapers from the Battery to Washington Heights were badly crippled. Elevator men stopped their cars, furnace men banked thelr fires and scrubwomen threw down their mops, and all marched ont of the buildings and formed picket lines There was some scattered fighting be tween the pickets and men hastily hired to take their places, Since the strike affected not only office bulldings but innumerable apart- ment bulldings also, the occupants of the latter were deprived of heat and telephone connections, and In many cases sick persons were marooned without food supplies. This lead Mayor La Guardia to eall the city health officials Into conference, and to declare a civic emergency and order Health Commissioner Rice to see that fires were stoked and that trips neces- sary to health of the tenants and care of the sick were made in all residence buildings of more than six floors, MMEDIATELY after President Roosevelt signed the new soll con servation-farm relief act passed to take the place of the invalidated AAA, Ad- ~ Mministrator Chester C. Daris began planning ways to spend the £500,000,000 author. ized. Under his orders more than five thou- sand emplorees of the AAA who had been waiting since January 6 for something to do : got busy placing the ho new program into ef- A FT foot, C. C. Davis The goal of the new law, Mr. Roosevelt said in announcing his signature, is parity, not of farm prices, but of farm Income He sald the New Deal has “not abandoned and will not abandon™ the principle of equality for agriculture. Davis planned, as the first move, a series of four conferences with agri cultural leaders in Memphis, Chicago, New York and Salt Lake City to for. mulate plans to take 30,000,000 acres out of commercial production this year and place them In legumes and other soil conserving crops, The new law provides benefit pay ments to farmers who cooperate In federal suggestions for conservation of soll fertility in 1830 and 1037, It pro. vides, also, for federal subsidies to states setting up permanent state pro- grams in 1938 and thereafter, ¢¢[) EMEMBER the Alamo,” the bat. | tle cry of Texas, was heard all | over the state as Its centennial céle- bration opened at the village of Wash. ington-on-the-Brazos, where the dec laration of independence from Mexico | was signed. The old “charter of em- | pire” was taken there from its place | in the state capitol rotunda in Austin, | and Gov, James V, Allred of Texas and Gov. Philip LaFollette of Wisconsin | went along to take part in the cere | monies. The party then went to Hunts. | ville, where Gen. Sam Houston gath- ered an army of Texans to fight the | Mexicans, and there Gov, Hill MeAl | ister of Tennessee made the address. | San Antonio and other cities followed | on the program, and the celebrations | will continue for months, reaching a climax In the opening on June 6 of the centennial exposition at Dallas PATTERN 5254 What more conducive to “forty winks” than this fluffy, lacy afghan! Its crocheted warmth will ward off Woman Linguist Maintains Vow of Silence 25 Years Anne Louise Reinzi, of Boston, could talk fluently In seven lan. guages, But for more than 20 vears she uttered not a single syllable of one of them to a living soul! In 1010 she became a recluse, locking the door of her home to all visitors, Gas, electricity and water companies had to turn off supplies becayse she refused to admit thelr inspectors. 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