By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
ONGRESS settled down to earnest
work that would clear the way for
early adjournment, the two chief mat-
ters under consideration belng taxes
and rellel, Demo-
cratic members of the
house ways and means
committee worked In
executive session to
draw up the new rev-
enue measure which
they expect will yield
about $700,000,000 in
additional taxes during
the next year, The mi-
nority members stayed
away, scornfully as-
gerting thelr presence
was useless because
the preparation of the measure was
utterly partisan. Representative A.
P. Lamneck of Ohlo, Democrat, was
insistent on his plan to raise $500,000,-
000 by a flat 20 to 22 per cent tax on
corporation income,
* or a
Harry L,
Hopkins
To produce $263,-
000,000 more and bring his plan nearly
up to the money requirement outlined
by President Roosevelt, Lamneck
would repeal the present exemption
of corporation dividends from the por-
mal income tax rate, On that, he was
in agreement with the committee pro-
gram,
Harry L. Hopkins, head of the WPA,
appeared before a subcommittee of the
house appropriations committee, also
in executive session, to urge compil-
ance with President Roosevelt's re-
quest for an additional billion and a
half to finance relief in the 1937 fiscal
Year, Various committee members at
once demanded that Mr. Hopkins tell
what had been done with the $4,800,
000,000 granted last year. He was
sald to have promised to do his best
to satisfy them, but Chairman J. P.
juchanan warned the minority mem-
bers that “this is not to be made into
an investigation.”
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, happy
and well tanned, wound up his fish.
ing cruise in the Bahamas and re-
turned to Washington, He landed at
Fort Lauderdale and boarded his spe-
cial train at once, being accompanied
for a time by Governor Sholtz of
Florida and James A. Moffett who may
be appointed assistant secretary of the
navy to succeed the late Henry Roose-
velt. Governor McNutt of Indiana,
possible keynoter of
convention, went up from Miami
greet the President,
On the way to Washington Mr.
Ga. to
farm and take a swim
pool. Passing through part of the
region devastated by the recent torna-
does, he received reports from eyewit-
nesses along the route,
Warm Springs,
ENATOR BLACK'S lobby commit-
tee won a considerable victory in
the District of Columbia Supreme court
when Chief Justice Wheat refused to
enjoin the committee _
from using the tele.
grams from and to Wil-
liam R. Hearst which
had been seized. The
Judge held that the
court had no jurisdic.
tion over the commit-
tee, and said he could
not see that the free.
dom of the press was
in any way involved.
Sald his honor: e
“I have rot been in- Senator Black
formed yet of any case in which any
court has assumed to dictate to a com-
mittee of the senate what it should do
and what it should not do, and I do
not feel that I have any right to inan-
gurate any such principle as that.”
Elisha Hanson, counsel for Mr.
Hearst, announced that he would ap
peal from the decision, and It was
certain that the case would ultimately
be taken before the United States Su-
preme court,
Continuing its Investigation, the
Black committee heard the testimony
of Fred G. Clark of New York, na-
tional commander of the Crusaders.
Mr. Clark denled that the organization
had ever engaged In lobbying, and de-
clared that it had assailed the meth-
ods of lobbyists in a national radio
broadcast,
Benator Black endeavored to show
that the Crusaders, the American Lib-
erty league, the Sentinels of the Re-
public, the Southern Committee to Up-
hold the Constitution, the American
Taxpayers’ league, the National Econ.
omy league, and similar organizations
opposed to the New Deal were sup-
ported largely by the same small group
of wealthy industrialists. One of his
investigators put In a list of contrib.
utors to two or more of the groups
named. Mr, Clark obtained permission
to Include In the record a list of hun
dreds of small contributors, who sent
in sums ranging from $1 up fn re
sponse to the radio program.
Aa
USSOLINI'S African adventure
aml Hitler's Rhineland doings
and future intentions, tangled togeth.
er, hase created a situation that
seemed to inperll the formal friend.
ship between Great Britain and
Franve, ‘The British were insisting that
ltuly be curbed, that her use of pol
son gas in Ethiopia be taken up by
the League of Nations and that peace
negotiations between Italy and Ethi.
opla be opened quickly to forestall
any attempt by Premier Mussolinl to
sign a settlement which might rise
from ruins of Halle Selassie's Ethi-
oplan empire. Forelgn Secretary Eden
indicated the British were determined
to make peace progress “before we
leave Geneva,” Britain reserving its
decision as to what to do next if this
conciliation effort falled.
The conciliation committee of the
league was making little or no prog.
ress, and In Rome Mussolini told his
cabinet that Ethiopia's armies should
and would be “totally annihilated.”
His own forces, meanwhile, were mov-
ing rapidly toward Dessye and Addis
Ababa,
France was reverting to her for
mer policy of letting Italy go ahead
with its African conquest, devoting her
attention mainly to Germany and cen-
tral Europe. The British continued to
treat all that in a conciliatory way,
which disgusted the French. Premler
Sarrant handed In his government's
reply to the Hitler settlement pro-
posals, submitting In return its own
plan. This demanded that Germany
keep “hands off” the rest of Europe
for 25 years, renouncing her apparent
Intentions of action against Austria,
Danzig and Memel, and claims for
colonles, It submitted a French peace
plan based on “collective security”
with regional mutual assistance pacts
backed by an international army di.
rected by a commission working
through the league,
EDERAL money totaling $076,000.
000 will be spent in the next four
years on low-cost rent and slum clear-
ance construction projects, provided
the administration's
housing bill, intro.
duced by Senator Rob-
ert F. Wagner of New
York, Is passed by
congress. Mr, Wagner
hopes it will be put
through during the
present session,
The measure is a
compromise of the
many proposals made
by the various rellef
Sen. Wagner ..4a housing agencles
of the New Deal and was drafted
after a series of conferences with
President Roosevelt. It would ere
tors, including the secretary of the
interior In his ex officio capacity, re-
ceiving $10.000 salaries,
The authority would be empowered
to make grants not to exceed 45 per
cent of the total cost and loans for
the remainder to any public housing
agency for the acquisition of land
and the construction of “low-rent”
housing projects. The loans would
be repayable over a period not to ex-
ceed 60 years, at such rates of inter
est as the authority decreed.
LYING through a fog on its way
to Pittsburgh, a Transcontinental
and Western Alr liner went far out
of its course, plowed through the for
est seven miles southeast of Unlon
City, Pa, and smashed into a granite
wall on Chestnut Ridge, Nine pas
sengers and the two pllots were killed.
The stewardess, Miss Nellle Granger,
managed to drag one man and the
sole woman passenger from the flam-
ing wreckage, bound up their wounds,
ran four miles to a farmhouse from
which she telephoned to Pittsburgh
the news of the disaster, and then
returned to the scene to care for the
survivors until a rescue party could
arrive. The pilots were flying on a
radio beam, and It was belleved thelr
radio apparatus failed. At this writ
ing there is no other explanation,
OMETHING new in Spanish history
took place in Madrid. The parlia-
ment, by a vote of 238 to 5, ousted
Niceto Alcala Zamora from the office
of president of the republic. This ac.
tion, accomplished by a coalition of
Socialists, Communists, Left Repub.
licans and ten minor groups, was taken
on a Soclalist motion that the presi.
dent had acted Illegally in dissolving
the last parliament before the elections
and that therefore he should be ex-
pelled from office. Back of this mo.
tion, however, lay radical sentiment
that Zamora, In using his power ac.
cording to personal whim, has ham
pered the progress of the “republican
revolution.”
Diego Martinez Barrio, speaker of
parliament, was made temporary pres
ident to serve until elections are held.
USSIA has rejected China's pro-
test against the soviet-Outer Mon.
golian mutual assistance pact, but as
serted the treaty does not signify any
territorial claim by the Soviet union
over China or Outer Mongolia. The
Russians believe that Japan plans to
set up puppet states In North China
and Inner Mongolia and then to selze
Outer Mongolia,
The Manchukuo government gave
out details of a bloody battle between
Manchukuans and Outer Mongolians
in which the latter were repulsed, los
ing six bombing planes and some tanks,
ENATOR NORRIS' bill ereating a
Mississippl Valley authority to ap
ply the TVA experiment to 22 states is’
not approved by the National Grange,
which thinks it would be absurd fo!
bring new land into cultivation by irri!
gation while farmers are being pald)
for letting their land He fallow, Fred
H. Brenckman, legislative representa.
tive of the Grange, appeared before s'
senate agriculture subcommittee and
sald the organization also objected to
the proposal to construct huge dams
throughout the Misslssippl valley for
the production of hydro-electric pow-
er. He favored a scientific program of
soll conservation but insisted upon a |
distinction between conservation and |
reclamation. He also advocated a scl
entific flood control program, but dis
tinguished between flood control and
hydro-electric power development,
Like previous witnesses, including
electrical engineers and Morris L.
Cooke, the New Deal's rural electrifi-
cation administrator, Mr. Brenckman
Informed the committee that flood con.
trol can be accomplished only by con-
structing little dams far up in the
headwaters,
IVE hundred members of the Work
ers’ Alllance, in convention In
Washington, marched to the White
House to demand continuation of the
Works Progress administration, but
neither President Roosevelt nor any
of his secretaries was there to recelve
thelr petition. The men were orderly
and the police did not molest them,
WPA Administrator Hopkins also was
absent from his office, but his assis.
tant, Aubrey Williams, received the
delegation,
David Lasser, national chairman of
the organization, told Willams the
group had been promised food and
shelter during their stay In Washing.
ton and transportation to thelr homes,
Willlams sald that under a regula.
tion promulgated February 2 no fed-
eral funds could be donated for con-
ventions of the unemployed unless
congress made a specific appropria-
tion for that purpose,
UE to the insistence of Senator
Vandenberg for publicity on
large AAA Denefit payments, Becre
tary Wallace has begun telling about
them. He made a partial report,
withholding the names of recipients
with three exceptions. This revealed
that the largest cotton rental benefit
payment, $123,747 for 1084, went to a
Mississippl company headed by Oscar
Johnston, an AAA official. Among the
largest cotton payment recipients in
1933 were the Mississippl state peni-
tentiary, which received $43,200 for
controlling production on Its cotton
acreage, and $25500 to the Arkansas
state prison.
ESOLVING itself into a court, the
senate began the Impeachment
trial of Federal Judge Halsted, L. Rit-
ter of Florida—the twelfth such case
in 137 years. It was
believed the trial would
Inst at least one week,
The defendant was
represented by Carl
T. Hoffman of Miami
and Frank R. Walsh
of Washington and
New York. The prose.
cution was In charge
of Representatives
Summers of Texas,
Hobbs of Alabama
and Perking of New
Originally approximately 60 wit-
nesses were summoned for the trial,
but 20 were excused because of with.
drawal by the prosecution of two
specifications in article seven charg.
ing Judge Ritter acted improperly In
electric rate and banking proceedings.
Judge Ritter Is charged In seven
impeachment articles voted by the
house with allowing A. IL. Rankin, a
former law partner, exorbitant recelv-
ership fees, with “corruptly” receiving
$4,500 from Rankin, with violating the
Judicial code In practicing law while
on the bench, and with evasion of
taxes on part of his 1020 and 1030 in.
comes, :
In a 12000-word reply, Ritter de.
nied all of the charges. He asserted
none of the actions cited had “brought |
his court Into scandal and disrepute”
or “destroyed public confidence in the
administration of Justice” in that
court.
J RNADOES tore across Missls |
sippl, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas,
and Tennessee, leaving death and de |
struction In thelr wake, About 400 |
persons were killed and hundreds of
others Injured, and the property losses |
ran up into the millions. The little |
city of Tupelo, Miss, suffered the |
most, with nearly 200 on the death |
list and more than a hundred homes i
smashed Into kindling wood, i
A few hours later another tornado
struck Gainesville, Ga, and In three i
minutes had nearly rulned the busi- |
ness section of the {own and killed |
more than 150 persons, In fires that
followed the storm the bodies of many
victims were burned beyond recogni.
tion.
The mining communities near Co.
lumbia, Tenn, to the north and east of
Tupelo, counted seven dead, Red Bay,
eastward In Alabama, lost five lives
to the merciless wind. Nearby
Booneville, Miss, had four killed and
Batesville, Ark, suffered one death.
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I A decision concerning a specific
action of the Securities Exchange
commission the United States
court ruled against the SEC, and in
its pronouncement It uttered a sig
nificant warning against the exercise
of arbitrary power by governmental
agencies, Especially censured were the
“fishing excursions,” often undertaken
by commissions and congressional eom-
mittees,
Remedy for Acid Condition
Is Matter of Careful Dieting
Foods Which Spur the Gas.
tric Flow Should
Be Avoided.
“As I am suffering with hyper-
moderation at meal time and taken
frequently in small amounts between
meals. Mild cheese, eggs, fish and
chicken in small servings, and milk,
cooked, refined cereals, besides the
foods already mentioned, may be
used. In very severe cases a milk
and cream diet is sometimes given
for a short time. Cream as well as
other fats Inhibits the flow of acid.
Cream soups of mild flavor are usu-
ally used often because of their fat
and milk content as well as for the
sake of variation In a diet which
must be limited.
Cream Soups,
General recipe for cream Soups :
2 cups thin white sauce
11 to 2 cups vegetable pulp
Beasoning to taste
Cook the vegetables until they are
tender. Rub through a sieve and
add the pulp to the white sauce.
Add the seasoning
if necessary.
other vegetables may be used.
Bread Pudding.
4 cups milk
antacid. Also what fruits and vege
tables contain vitamin ©, as I can-
not drink orange juice, nor eat raw
reader. A wellknown food expert
Hyperacidity 1s often caused, not
by an oversecretion of hydrochloric
acid In the stomach, but by slow
passage of food through the stom-
ach. In this case the natural acid
becomes concentrated and the re
sult is irritation in the lining of the
stomach. Acid foods and foods
which stimulate the flow of the gns-
tric julce must be avoided. For this
reason the diet must be low in ment
and condiments. Sweets are irri
tating and alcohol must be avoided.
Foods with a large amount of fiber 4 RES
such as whole cereals and raw vege. Butter
tables cannot be well taken. % cup sugar
Vitamin c Important, % teaspoon salt
It Is possible, however, to get } densdogns vazilla
plenty of vitamin © in the diet Cut bread in half-inch slices. re-
through the use of cooked apples, moving outside crusts i]
very ripe or cooked bananas or pears, slice well with butter
sweet cherries, grapes and vege a
tables of mild flavor such as pota-
toes, peas, squash and carrots. Some
persons can take a puree of spinach,
but others find It irritating because
of the oxalic acld which it contains.
Some people are able to take the
Julce of very sweet oranges.
Because digestion Is slow and
because roughage cannot be taken in
the form of raw fruits and vege-
tables, mineral oll or agar is usual
ly recommended In order to hasten
the passage of food through the
stomach. Water, which stimulates
the flow of acid, should be used io |
down. Beat two eggs and two yolks
slightly, and sugar, salt, milk and
vanilla. Strain and pour over bread,
let sonk half an hour.
hour in slow oven, 275 degrees FF.
until set. Remove, spread top with
currant jelly and on this plle lightly
whites stiffly and adding quarter
enpful powdered sugar and one ta-
blespoonful lemon juice. Return to
oven until meringue is delicately
browned,
© Bell Byndicate. WNT Bervice.
Swagger Knitted Coat
Done in Simple Stitch
Pattern No. 5534
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and you're certain to be, too, if you
elect this swagger knitted coat for
easy making and all-round wear this
spring and summer. So easy to knit
in a simple loose stitch, with stock
inette stitch for the contrasting bor-
der, you'll find Germantown wool
knits up very fast.
In pattern 5534 you will find com-
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swagger coat shown In sizes 16.18
| of all the stitches needed: material
requirements,
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| America’s Meat Consumption
Shows Rise During 1935
Meat consumption in the United
| States since 1000 has averaged 064
pounds of pork, 63 pounds of beef,
#ix pounds of veal, and six pounds of
lamb or mutton, for each man, wom-
an and child each year. Last year
| we ate a little more than the aver
{ age—48 pounds of pork, 64 of beef,
| 10 of veal and seven of lamb,
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