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-
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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
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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
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