By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
ONGRESSMAN SAM B. HILL of
Washington and his subcommittee
of the house ways and means coms
mittee took up the heavy task of de-
termining how the
new revenue of $l.
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-
ation profits and a
tax of 90 per cent on
J all refunded or un-
Rep. S. B. pald AAA processing
Hil 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 $200,000,
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-
posed to raise through excise taxes on
a wide range of farm processors.
Chalrman Hill said the experts and
the members of the subcommittee were
agreed that the tax on undivided sur-
plus should not appl banks and
life Insurance compar
-
There was wide divergence of opin-
lon concerning this tax
ers In congress. Senator James Ham.
ilton Lewis of Illinois for
.
¥ o nel
among lead-
Democrat,
ditional
An unnecessary a¢
business, and indicated he would sup-
port, instead, a plan to tax the in.
from federal securities now ex-
xderal
Se Borah, Republican,
come
empt.
said that |
plan of taxing undistributed earnings,
while Senator Hastings of Delaware,
also Republican, denounced it as “con-
fiscatory.” King Utah,
Democrat, and Representative Knutson
of Minneso
by the progr
cutting down of federal expenditures,
and in Mr. Borah concurred.
Speaker Joseph W. Eyrns and Major-
ity Leader W, B.
seo diffic los
the proposed measure.
One thing that boosted the chances
of the President's tax
report from
Roper that corporation income in
Senator of
this
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to no in the way
Secretary of
1985
Senator Black of
of the lobby committ
right
vate
gation
Silas
learned
subpoena
chalrman
to seize and ex heir pri
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and his
the courts,
attorney
telegrams, thus
Chicago
the committee
his telegrams
was
and he ob.
such action,
this injunction permanent,
The wholesale examination of tele
grams was attacked by Representative
by Senator Black.
“It strikes Wadsworth
“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 said: “Repeatedly it has been
me,”
to influence legislation behind the
scenes, through subterranean channels,
to prevent us from getting evidence.”
OVERNOR LANDON'S boom for
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
slaring 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
aninstructed,
Sentiment favorable to Landon ap-
peared In New Jersey, and Hervey 8.
Moore of Trenton, a Republican leader,
was contemplating starting an active
sampaign for him In that state,
OF THE third anniversary of his
inauguration President Roosevelt
pushed an electric key In the White
House which set in motion machinery
that 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
Tennessee,” the President sald In a for-
mal statement. “It exemplifies great en-
gineering skill, high construction efli-
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.”
SENATOR BORAH and Senator Van
Nuys of Indiana, the latter 8 Dem-
ocrat, introduced a bill directed against
certain practices of the chain 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 available 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 assoclations would be
exempted from provisions of the meas-
ure, Violators would be subject to a
$5,000 fine and a one-year jall sen-
tence.
The so-called Robinson-Patman antl.
monopoly hill, aimed at chain
stores, 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 rebates,
tising and brokerage
giving sales advantage to chain stores,
also
prices, adver.
allowances fees
HROUGH
teen
its committee of thir
League of Nations
Benito Mussolini and Em-
peror Halle Selassie to consent
mediate negotiations
for an end to hos
tilities and a definite
re-establishment of
Italo-Ethiopian peace.
Though consideration
of the proposal by his
cabinet council was
deinyed a few days,
Mussolini,
to advices from Rome,
wns disposed to ae
quiesce provided ter.
ritory in Ethiopia al-
ready occupied by
Italy is considered hers and left out
of the negotiations.
Halle Selassie accepted the proposal
reservation. In recent days
the ap
pealed to
fins.
Tr
LO in
routed in big battles and have
lost many thousands of men, and the
Italians have penetrated far toward
interior of the country; and in
the South the invaders were prepar-
ing for a rapid advance.
Back of the league's appeal
standing threat extension of
include an embargo on
This suddenly brought about a
was
of
league. Dr. Giuseppe Motta, Swiss
foreign minister, gave a warning that
if the oil embargo was applied his
feel It necessary to
leave the league In order to preserve
its neutrality if the consequent threat.
ened war in Europe resulted,
that if Italy quit
league and hosilities ensued, Switzer
land, through her membership in the
league, would appear in Italian eyes
a8 a party to a hostile coalition, and
would be subject to Invasion, by Italy
on one side and perhaps by Germany
on the other,
out
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 alr forces and
for swift mobilization of man power
and industry, No official cost estimate
was given out but authorities sald 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 anti-aircraft defenses,
Navy-—-Two new battleships next
year and an Increase In crulser
strength from 50 to 70, with five new
ones to be lald 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 1,750.
Twelve new alr squadrons for imperial
defense——that Is, alr forces avallable
for transfer to danger areas—will he
added, and more pilots will be recruited,
Following this announcement the an.
nual naval estimates were submitted
to parliament. TLey call for $340,650,
000, an Increase of $40,400,000 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 progresg cf the
nation. So far as can be judged at this
distance, the net results of the upris-
ing were: Admiral Viscount Makoto
Watanabe, chief of military education,
were assassinated by the rebels,
miler Okada escaped death, his brother.
in-law being mistaken for him and
slain,
mitted suicide.
The immediate concern of Emperor
Hirohito and his advisers was the selec.
tion of a man for premier who could
form a new government that would
satisfy the various parties, First Prince
the house of peers, was asked to un-
dertake this task, but he declined on
the ground of poor health. Then the
cholee 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,
Al. GEN, WEIGEL,
N WILLIAM
L retired, one of the army's most
reliable commanders, died In the army
hospital on Governors Island at the
age 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 captain, He was
rapidly promoted through grades, to
brigadier general on August 15, 1017,
and to major general August 8B,
1018, when he was given command
of Eighty-eighth division, a8 new
unit which he trained
Previously he had
Fifty-sixth brigade,
Twenty-eighth division, a Pennsylvania
Chautean-Thierry,
of
on
the
al army
OOK Overseas.
gd the
outfit, at
NORE than 150.000 workers In 11.
i 000 buildings 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 thelr
cars, furnace men banked thelr fires
and scrubwomen threw down thelr
mops, and all marched out 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.
telephone connections, and
cases sick persons were marooned
without food supplies. This lead
Mayor La Guardia to call 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,
in many
MMEDIATELY after President
Roosevelt signed the new soil con
scervation-farm relief act passed to take
the place of the invalidated AAA, Ad-
, h ministrator Chester C.
Daris began planning
ways to spend the
£500,000,000 author.
ized. Under his orders
more than five thou
sand employees of
the AAA who had been
waiting since January
6 for something to do
. got busy placing the
fF. | new program into ef:
Sint fect,
C. C. Davis ye 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 agril-
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
soll conserving crops,
The new law provides benefit pay-
ments to farmers who co-operate In
federal suggestions for conservation of
soil fertility in 1036 and 1037, It pro-
vides, also, for federal subsidies to
states setting up permanent state pro-
grams in 1038 and thereafter.
Pom amin
ns
st) EMEMBER the Alamo,” the bat.
over the state as its centennial cele.
bration opened at the village of Wash.
laration of independence from Mexico
was signed. The old “charter of em
pire” was taken there from its place
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ICARAGUA has
some 5BOOOO
Boclety,
service
an area of
square miles,
about equal to that of New
York state, and a pepulation
of approximately 650,000, close to that
of the city of Buffalo, It is the largest
of the Central American republics;
many consider it the most beagtiful,
Much of the Interior 18 mountainous:
the coasts are generally flat.
Atlantie, Most of its people live in the
cities In the western part of the
public, for the rainfall here Is
erate as compared with that
eastern coast: the climate,
re-
mod-
of
fertile,
agua, Masaya and Granada are located
near the west coast and along
line of railroad, exten
port of Corinto, on the Pac
nda, the main port or
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the one
from
earthq:
among very fertile
} are the center
Indian
to the
an
portance wgrowing
district on the Sierras, located between
the lakes and the Pacific.
Granada owes her early growth to
the that she was the chief port
for the trade between America
and Spain, by way of Lake Nicaragua
and the San Juan river. Her leading
citizens are not only landed proprie-
tors, but merchants who sell goods in
person over the counters of thelr
stores,
Matagaipa, the largest town off the
raliroad, Is the center an im-
portant coffee-growing district. Be.
cause of Its altitude, It has a more
agreeable climate than the cities lo-
cated in the plains: but the absence
of a railroad, or even a good highway
connection with the outside world, has
thwarted its growth,
East and West Are Divided,
Eastern and western Nicaragua are
divided by mountains and jungle cov-
ered country, which have effectively
prevented intercommunication except
to & very minor degree. The physical
separation has operated to prevent
close political union and a common na.
tonal outlook: to hamper trade and
commerce; and to obstruct a desirable
interchange of people and ideas,
In addition, the lack of a practicable
route to Its east coast has forced vir
tually all of Nicaragua's foreign com.
merce to seek a longer and more
roundabout route via the west coast
and the Panama canal. For these rea-
sons it has been the desire of the
government of Nicaragua for many
years to open a means of eommunica-
tion between the west and east, either
by the caunsalization of the San Juan
river or by the construction of a high-
way or a railroad. A highway has
been under construction from Mana.
gua through Tipitapa to Rama, on the
Bluefields river, where boat connec
tions can be made with Bluefields, the
largest port town on the Caribbean,
The population of the country is
overwhelmingly of mixed Spanish ani
Indian blood, with Spanish the uni
versal language, although one finds In
Granada and the other large towns
many families of pure Spanish blood,
Perhaps 10 per cent of the population
is pure Indian, found mostly in the
area around Masaya and Matagalpa
and in the thinly settled cattle-ralsing
sections of the province of Chontales,
east of Lake Nicaragua.
Still farther to the east, along the
rivers that drain Into the Caribbean
north of Greytown, the Sumo Indians
fact
Central
of
and timid race and have resisted all
Spanish influence,
The Mosquito Coast.
Part of Nicaragua's Carribean coast
has the world’s worst real estate title
“The Mosquito Coast.” It gets its
name not from the prevalence of mos
quitoes, but from the Misskito Indians,
Here there Is decided evidence of negro
of a siave ship that was wrecked on
the coast years ago. These blacks, or
nixed Indians and blacks, called
“Sambos” or “Zambos,” were aug.
mented by escaped slaves from the
plantations that sparsely dotted the
const In later years, and by renegade
slaves from Jamaica and other islands
of the West Indies,
The Mosquito coast was also a
was visited by many trading ships
seeking turtle shells. As a result, the
blood of the inhabitants became badly
mixed, and characteristics of many
races can be detected in the present.
day population,
San Juan del Norte (Greytown), at
the mouth of the San Juan river, has
an English-speaking negro
Long the had
population,
an excellent
community,
but drifting sands have closed the en-
ago port
occasional schooner calls
In the boom days, Mari-
anal company undertook the
ction of a canal, Greytown had
when the
fons of being a metropolis:
ary community
now it
of rusted
+ shacks, a popula-
tit
it
}
the government offic
yu 8 friends,
gus }
large part of family,
usual car-owner always has his
fam iy
his
the
Cars Nearly All American.
Practically all ears are of American
make, and it is a trib to thelr stor
diness that they can stand the usage to
which they are subjected. New cars
are frequently equipped with extra
spring leaves, as spare parts are hard
to get, and for service on Nicaraguan
roads springs have to be strong.
The cars on the roads are few and
far between, but they add the touch
which shows that you are traveling
in a civilized country. The creaky ox-
cart is the usual means of locomotion.
Small but sturdy animals, with yokes
or pulling bars lashed just behind the
horns, draw these carts creaking and
groaning over the tralls, but they get
through mud that will stop a strong
pony.
It is not necessary to ask for road
directions; there is never more than
one road or trall in the direction you
want to go. A question as to distance
is futile, for no peon has any concep
tion of time or distance. A league may
actually be any length from one to six
miles. The usual answer to the ques
tion, “How far 18 it to any place? is
“No hay mas,” the Nicaraguan equiv-
alent of the answer, “Not fur,” which
one so frequently gets from the small
darky on our southern roads,
Coffee ls the Main Crop,
The prosperity of the country de
pends upon the coffee crop and its
price. Crops have been good in recent
years, but the price has been very low,
For its future Nicaragua looks to the
building of the canal linking the Pa.
cific and the Caribbean. A prosperous
Nicaragua will no doubt mean a quiet
Nicaragua, for prosperity will mean
roads, railroads, and other public im.
provements, A hungry man in Nicara-
gua is a prospective recruit for one of
the bandit gangs. DBanditry probably
will cease when any man seeking work
can get it and when every man can
boast of the few dollars rattling around
in his pocket,
Gold In small quantities has been
produced In Nicaragua for hundreds
of years, The richest mines are in the
province of Chontales. This area Is
also bandit-infested, and the mines are
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development of the properties on a
large scale,
Hoever connected at one time with Its
management. Here only the richest
strikes are now worked, the ore being
brought to the mill by pack mule. The
Javall mine at Santo Domingo Is
worked on a larger scale and at con
siderable profit to its owners,
Putting a canal across Nicaragua is
a matter of utilizing some geographic
features and overcoming others. Of
outstanding importance physically are
the country’s mountaips and its two
great feesh-water lakes in Its central
basin, “the Great Lakes of Central