at his right.
Hughes' Great Flight
OWARD HUGHES and his crew
of four completed their remark-
able flight around the world when
they
: New York, 3
19 hours and
after
port,
days,
17 minutes
starting from
ered 14,824 miles
and made six stops
for refueling — at
Paris,
Omsk,
neapolis.
They cut
Howard
Hughes the record made by
Wiley Post in 1933, but Hughes said
after landing that he still consid-
ered Post’s solo flight was the most
remarkable job of flying ever done.
On the hop across the Atlantic
the time made by Lindbergh was
nearly halved.
With Hughes, wealthy sportsman
and aviator who financed and or-
ganized the flight, were Harry Con-
nor and Thomas Thurlow, naviga-
tors; Richard Stoddart, radio operas
tor, and Ed Lund, flight engineer.
Hughes himself was at the con-
takeoffs and landings.
gator loaned by the army air corps.
The chief perils encountered were
lated much ice.
tion with the land was maintained
most of the time except for six
hours before Minneapolis
reached. During that period their
transmitter was out of commission.
The monoplane, named ‘‘New
York World's Fair, 1940,” was wel-
comed at New York by Mayor La
Guardia and Grover Whalen and a
tremendous crowd. The weary fli-
ers soon got to bed, but next day
the metropolis gave them one of its
customary ticker-tape receptions
with a parade. The wives of Stod-
dart, Connor and Thurlow were at
the airport to meet their husbands.
Katherine Hepburn, the movie star,
bade Hughes good-by when he start-
ed and welcomed him back. In Hol-
lywood it is rumored they are en-
gaged or possibly secretly married.
Another woman deeply interested in
the flight was Miss Elinore Hoag-
land of New York, fiancee of Ed
Lund.
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Deficit to Be 4 Billions
IN REVISED budget estimates for
the current fiscal year, given out
in Washington, the President fore-
cast a net federal deficit of $3,984,
887,600, an increase of $2,525,639,500
over last year’s deficit and $3,035,-
000,000 more than he had estimated
in January for the 12 months end-
ing next June 30.
The deficit, which will increase
the gross public debt by $3,485,000,-
000, will be financed, the President
indicated, by a reduction of $500,-
000,000 in the working balance of
the treasury’s general fund; by the
use of $680,000,000 in special issues
of government obligations and by
$2,805,000,000 in new federal financ-
ing.
The gross deficit was estimated
at $4,084,887,700, in which is includ-
ed $100,000,000 for debt retirement.
The business slump, which grew
sharper after Roosevelt submitted
his budget estimates to congress
last January, was blamed by him
for the inaccuracies of his forecasts.
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Japan Cancels Olympics
APAN evidently thinks the war
in China is not near its end. The
Tokyo government has cancelled
the Olympic games of 1940, drop-
ping all plans to be the host of the
world’s athletes. The announce-
‘ment, made by Marquis Koichi
Kido, public welfare minister, sur-
prised even the Japanese organiz-
ing committee, and the members of
that body declared the games would
be held, ‘whether or not the gov-
ernment supports them.”
In Tokyo it was said the govern-
ment's action was due to the cost
of financing the games and to mili-
people.
Though the government lacks
money and materials for the neces-
to contribute $1,250,000 to-
the cost, and only a few
days ago 40 men for the Japanese
selected and
started training.
Count Michimasa Soyeshima,
member of the International Olym-
pic committee, said Japan might
“1 hope Japan can bid then,” he
said. ‘“‘Apparently it is impossible
to bid even for the 1944 games.
The cancellation was inevitable un-
der the present circumstances.”
It was expected the international
committee would meet soon to de-
termine the next move. London
and Helsingfors, Finland, were men-
tioned as possible sites for the 1940
games,
Senator Thomas Wins
ICTORY of Senator Elmer
Thomas of Oklahoma in his fight
for renomination by the Democrats
was hailed by the New Dealers as a
i sa direct result of the
campaign speaking
tour of President
Roosevelt. The Pres-
ident told the Okla-
homans what a help
the senator had
been to him and how
much he had done
for the state; and
he gave some
swipes to Thomas’
rivals, Governor
Marland and Repre-
the
good majority. For governor they
named Leon C. Philips, much to the
disappointment of Alfalfa Bill Mur-
ray.
In the course of his trip across
the country, Mr. Roosevelt, in his
capacity of head of the Democratic
party, first boosted the cause of
Senator Barkley of Kentucky, his
staunch supporter, and cleverly
avoided hitting too hard at Gover-
nor Happy Chandler, who seeks
Barkley’'s seat.
In Arkansas Mr. Roosevelt found
time to say kind words about Sena-
tor Hattie Caraway.
Passing through Colorado and Ne-
vada, he avoided politics in his talks,
for Senators Alva Adams and Pat
McCarren, both of whom have op-
posed some of his chief policies,
are mighty strong in their states.
Both of them boarded his train but
their reception was decidedly cool.
The President delivered the only
set speech on his program at the
San Francisco world’s fair adminis-
tration building. He then reviewed
the United States battle fleet of
66 vessels, and spent several hours
aboard the cruiser Houston. Next
day he spent in Yosemite National
park.
After three days in California
the President boarded the Hous-
ton at San Diego and went to the
Galapagos islands for some fishing.
Thence he was to pass through the
Panama canal and come back home
by way of the southeastern states.
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Van Nuys Nominated
oO PPONENTS of Senator Freder-
ick Van Nuys of Indiana ac-
cepted defeat with wry faces. They
had intended that he should be
‘‘purged”’ for his fights against New
Deal measures, but realized his
threatened independent candidacy
would split the party in the state
wide open, and also would injure
the presidential aspirations of Paul
V. McNutt, So Governor Town-
send invited the senator to present
his name to the state convention,
and Otis candidates withdrew.
an Nuys was then perfunctorily
renominated without anyone saying
a good thing about him,
Wheat Loan Basis
S ECRETARY WALLACE an-
nounced the government loans to
wheat raisers. They will average 59
to 60 cents a bushel. Only farmers co-
operating in AAA crop control who
have not exceeded their soil deplet-
ing acreage allotment by more than
5 per cent will be eligible to the loans
for which the RFC has provided 100
million dollars.
Under the loan plan the wheat
farmer stands to win much and to
lose nothing. If he is able to sell
his wheat eventually for more than
the loan, he will sell and pay off
the loan.
If the farmer is unabie to get more
for his wheat than the loan rate he
can default payment of the loan and
let the government take his wheat.
semen
PWA Aid 'Conditional'
which Harold Ickes is head, with-
drew the outright allotments of
about $10,000,000 for power projects
that would have competed with pri-
vately owned facilities, and substi-
tuted ‘conditional’ loans and grants
for 21 of the projects.
This action followed upon publica-
tion of the fact that the PWA had
approved loans and grants totaling
$55,000,000 for 54 duplicating public
power plants and that the private
companies affected had not been
given opportunity to sell their plants
at a reasonable price.
New Air Board Meets
N EMBERS of the new Civil Aero-
A nautics authority got together
in Washington and prepared to take
up their work. Edward J. Noble
presided as chairman. Other mem-
bers are: Harllee Branch, second
assistant postmaster general, vice-
chairman; G. Grant Mason, Pan-
American Airways official; Robert
Hinckley, WPA director for far
western states, and Oswald Ryan of
Anderson, Ind., general counsel for
the federal power commission.
Clinton M. Hester, assistant treas-
ury general counsel, has been as-
signed the independent administra-
tive position. He is responsible to
the President. The board is re-
sponsible to congress.
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Du Pont and Raskob Hit
THE United States board of tax
appeals ruled that Pierre S. du
Pont and John J. Raskob must pay
back federal taxes of upward of
$1,200,000.
The board held that a series of
transactions by which DuPont of
the Wilmington dynasty, and Ras-
kob, former chairman of the Demo-
cratic national committee, sold each
other large blocks of stock, could
not be considered eligible for pur-
poses of tax reduction.
Raskob's share of the payment
will be between $800,000 and $900,-
000, and DuPont's will be at least
$400,000,
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Canton Bombed Again
OMBING of Canton, great South
China port, was resumed by the
Japanese airmen, and in three suc-
cessive days hundreds of civilians
were killed by the warplanes. Un-
counted numbers were driven to
abandon their homes.
In one of the boldest moves in
the war, powerful Chinese guerilla
contingents landed secretly on Na-
mao island, off Swatow. They
claimed to have recaptured a con-
siderable part of the island which
had been taken by the Japanese.
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Justice Cardozo Dies
ENJAMIN N. CARDOZO, asso-
ciate justice of the United States
Supreme court, died at Port Ches-
ter, N. Y., of a chronic heart ail-
him from work on
the bench since last
December. He was
sixty - eight years
old. Descended from
Spanish Jews who
came to America in
1750, he was born in
New York city and
bia university. He
President Hoover in 1932 and lined
up with the liberal minority. His
scholarship and hard work won the
highest respect. Chief Justice
Hughes, informed of Cardozo's
death in Italy said: “It is an irre-
parable loss to the court and the
nation. He was a jurist of the high-
est rank and noble spirit.”
Probably President Roosevelt will
not appoint Cardozo’s successor be-
fore fall, for the court is in recess
until October. But speculation as
to his choice began immediately.
The name most frequently heard in
the discussions in Washington was
that of Sen. Robert Wagner of New
York, one of the President's chief
lieutenants in the field of social leg-
islation. Other New Yorkers men-
tioned are Ferdinand Pecora and
Samuel Rosenman, state Supreme
court justices, and Solicitor General
Robert H. Jackson. The Far West
is not now represented on the court.
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TVA Inquiry Opens
NVESTIGATION of the activities
of the TVA by a congressional
joint committee was in
’
would continue ‘until we run out of
money.”
NATIONAL PRESS BLDG
WASHINGTON.—President Roose-
velt addressed a letter to Chairman
Stuart Rice cf the
central statistical
board the other
day, in which he
Too Many
Reports
in business. The President's letter
indicated a feeling that, if there are
80 many reports as complaints have
disclosed, something ought to be
done about it.
It is now Mr. Rice's job to find out
ing these floods of reports which
government demands. But how
about me finding out, too, I thought!
I started on the job like a bird dog
through the bush. It did not take
long for me to realize that I had set
myself to a task that is likely to
occupy Mr. Rice and his staff of
several hundred perhaps a year to
assemble an answer. I learned a
lot of things, however, and that is
the reason I am writing about “‘offi-
cial reports’’ at this time.
Speaking generally, at first, I can
say that never in all history has
there existed a condition such as
business men and women now face,
and, of course, within the last few
years farmers have had to make
out reports, too. The reason for
the wtatement that the condition is
worse now is that the situation rep-
resents a growth. Year after year,
generation after generation, suc-
ceeding Presidents and succeeding
congresses have added to the func-
tions of the national government.
Government has gone into new
fields, taken on new obligations, new
commitments, increased its scope of
regulation of this and that and the
other. As these functions have in-
creased, more and more reports
have been ordered and required;
more facts have been needed, and,
in addition, bureaucrats have rele-
gated to themselves additional and
unanticipated powers. Now, what
we have is a tangled mess, a slimy
octopus whose tentacles reach into
every corner and nook and cranny
of the nation.
Before considering some of the
horrible details (which are horrible
only because they are so general in
nentioned above how succeeding
Presidents and congresses have ex-
panded the functions of government.
Those Presidents and members of
the congresses were elected by the
voters. The campaigns, in nearly
every instance, included har-
ranguing for establishment of some
new agency, passage of some law
to drive money changers out of the
temple; to prevent grinding the lit-
tle fellow, the poor, into the earth:
to regulate monopolistic business; to
care for the aged after their lives
of useful work had been spent; to
collect new taxes here and there;
to assure the agricultural communi
a thousand and one things were
campaigned for or against. So the
people voted and elected a Presi-
dent or a senator or a representa-
They also elected a governor
and the various officials of their
state wherein a legislature operated
It has not mattered, therefore,
whether there has been a Democrat
or a Republican in the White House,
except in the matter of degree to
which the new laws have been en-
acted. The growth has gone on just
the same. Every time a politician
conceived an idea to get votes, he
campaigred on it—and a new law
resulted. With the new law came
another deluge of “official reports.”
In a general way, therefore, the
bility. But the chief responsibility
must rest with members of the house
and senate and the various Presi-
dents who have served in their turn.
Why? Because no one can be ex-
pected to understand fully this gi-
gantic machine called government
unless that person has had an op-
portunity to study the machine. The
layman has not had that chance.
Presidents and congresses have had
the chance.
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To get down to the details; that
is, to relate some of the incidents
pense enters directly into the cost
of the dairy products for which the
consumer pays. It could easily re-
sult in an increase of one cent per
bottle for the milk served to its
customers.
It takes no stretch of the imagina-
tion to conceive what the cost is
for a large corporation to handle
its official reports to various agen-
cies of the national, state and local
governments if that corporation op-
erates, say, over half of the United
States. The expense runs into mil-
lions upon millions of dollars an-
nually. Who pays? You and I, the
consumers.
I have not had access to all of
the records required by the depart-
ment of agriculture because many
of them are confidential, but I be-
lieve it is safe to say that some
fifty-odd reports have to be made
respecting every farmer who has
signed up in compliance with the
crop control laws and the land con-
servation program. 1 think the
farmer directly involved has from
eight to ten of these reports and
official documents; the county com-
mittee which inspects and reports
on him has others; the county agent
has still more reports to make-—all
still involving this one farmer but
including others as well—and these
are followed by regional and na-
tional reports until all totals are
entered here in Washington.
Or, at the risk of being too per-
sonal in dealing with a national
problem, I might cite my own ex-
periences. Mine is what is called a
one-man office. That is to say, with
the aid of a secretary, I must run
my own little business. But even
as inconsequential as that office is,
consider this situation: I must file
an income tax return annually. That
return must include an extra state-
ment which covers a general outline
of my meager income and the ex-
penses of my office. I must pay
ten dollars a year for a “license”
which gives me the privilege of
writing to earn my living, but I
must file a report before I get that
license in the District of Columbia.
Twice a year, I must file a report
of my gross return from my work in
the District of Columbia—and pay a
tax on that income. Each month, 1
of Columbia employment board,
showing how much I pay my secre-
tary, how many hours a week she
works and pay a tax which theoreti-
cally is saved up and paid to her in
case she is unemployed. Each
month, also, I am required to file a
report with the United States social
security board, giving the same in-
formation—and pay another unem-
ployment tax. And each three
months, I am required to file an-
other report with the social secur-
ity board which seems to be a report
showing that the monthly reports
are correct.
* ® *
It has been my good fortune to
virtue of four long
What's years of night
The Use? school, so I have
not had to hire a
lawyer to help me with my reports.
They have been comparatively sim-
ple, generally. But that is not the
case with a larger business.
Lawyers, however, would be no
help in the circumstance that I am
now about to relate. A young lady
who had served as my secretary
several years left my service. When
I filed the last monthly report for
her name and paid the tax, I at-
tached a letter explaining that she
was leaving and that there would be
no further reports in her name as
far as I was concerned. The letter
would be complete.
ber. In March, 1938, I received a
that I had not paid the tax on the
the month of February, 1938. Not a
word about the other months from
October to February. And if I didn’t
pay, said the notice, there were
penalties, court proceedings, etc.
Yes, you guessed it! I threw that
notice into the waste basket. Two
months later, I had the honor to be
visited by an inspector. He was
courteous and gentlemanly, but
firm. I must pay the tax-—not for
February, but for December. You
can let your own imagination run
high, wide and handsome about the
results of that visit.
Well, I merely bring out those
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