Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-06-20 | Page 13 | Business Today

z Today Today Today-i hl Chiefs t I peel Feel LashOf Lash I I. I Of Congress I V MARLOW d rl YORK June 20 W Wide ide V V E k I Dollars talked this week not loudly enough ough to o dr drut drown I frt t and critical voices ut and year dollar-a-year hOts shots I af the war production board I raking king in the sharpest arp st m of the agency since its ith crea- crea last January 4 r rt 1 on e Americans tried to neglect by 1 I up P for past 2 ing around for rubber scrap and tit king of new oil pipelines in for armaments I 1 fl bing to week- week t meant would I ills n Te e been spent in the fiscal year and that in the W this month ari S year ear the figure would y r. r b to I BUt jut while the money torrent d all going out the Q it pointedly reminded the theloa ways and iid means committee loa a s 's II fiat t. t Continued delay in shaping the thet tr t I tax billUS bill billnI nI US depriving the treasury of sub- sub II and badly needed revenue cd that thet taxation appeared to be bei i ithe cd only phase of the administrations administration's r tion's ions program def- def behind schedule I I r III Pigeonholed L t The Tie president made the state- state I tent cent et a few hours after the committee corney com corn ey f sittee had hed pigeonholed the treas- treas i 1 uy try's latest recommendation to Se Emit the annual net income of inq in in- q to and married b couples to after deductions fu I for taxes contributions and debt z It I payments Do Donald onald ald M. M Nelson W P B chief 71 g I I into the tax picture by p opposing the proposed 94 per cent excess profits tax fax on corporations 1 a the grounds it might endanger o he the e full success of our war ion lion program That program he said is over overn the le hump but he warned that the theli n li I American merican people even got to tD D the tie foothills of the I 1 hardships and discomforts 1 to n be endured if the production i program ram were to be maintained s The me criticism of Nelsons Nelson's agency p I double since it came from tg both nth houses of congress was on the senatorial side r- r A senate committee said some Ail Ati t year a men were Impeding imI im- im I leding and delaying the od f io tion loa program because of private 1 Interests and called for a change Joe In n men and methods I a. a I A house subcommittee I L ted the year doller-a-year men of a I 9 charge they had used their jobs z rg to o further their own business but I said Mid there was abundant evidence I of confusion red tape and the lack of a clearly dearly defined dermed authority in I the er Members of the senate committee commit- commit tee l made it clear their report J J. J tt teat rent no reflection upon Nelson Rubber Czar 1 teator Zator Wheeler D Mont in g 1 move urged appoint- appoint r nt of a rubber czar having no not t 1 with private rubber or I petroleum companies 1 r P He was one of three senators senators- tie the e others were Smith D S. S C. C ad IId d Butler D Neb who who called on w the president to break the t Wi B bottleneck Smith asserting that all the officials handling the rubber program were K g shots from the various rubber rub- rub to br companies said d They are doing everything in r I their lher leir power to keep their little T I P from being upset E either now or after the war t P Soon afterward a bill was being il I Prepared to put the rubber pro- pro 5 J I k ram gram agency ram under an Independent z I I J The senators' senators complaint against fette the W Wp P B came quickly after start IIII I of at the ti the day 16 wide nation-wide rubber l B p salvage campaign last Mon- Mon day day The drive may determine r hether motorists of the middle J 3 fl t. t must undergo gasoline raI ra- ra I jJ fj Cr along B with those in the thea 3 a east 10