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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Wirt's Red Plot Story Flattened Out by Investigators Senate Votes for Extra 10 Per Cent Income Tax Auto and Coal Troubles. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Tn. WILLIAM A. WIItT, the really eminent educator of Gary, ImL, told Ida story of a "red plot" to overthrow the government X-1 lA " 1 ...JH..:.'.J1 or tne uiiiteu states, so far as the Democratic Demo-cratic majority of the house Investigating Investi-gating committee permitted, and the general opinion throughout the country was that It was "not so hot." The Democrats declared de-clared It was utter Dr. W. A. Wirt who hoped to (Ind good political material mate-rial In the affair, asserted that gag rule had been enforced. Tho revelation of the alleged Behemo of the radicals, said Wirt, came to him at a dinner glveD by Miss Alice Barrows at a country house near Washington. The other guests were Robert Bruere, David C. Doyle, Miss Ilildegarde Knee-land Knee-land and Miss Mary Taylor, all, like the hostess, connected with the government, gov-ernment, and Lawrence Todd, chief of tho Tass, otliclal Soviet government govern-ment news agency In the United .Slates. From their conversation, Wirt said, he gathered that men high In the councils of the administration admin-istration were plotting the overthrow over-throw of the American social order and that they considered President Itoosevelt as another Kerensky to be followed by another Stalin. The six men named by Wirt were Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace; Wal-lace; Prof. Itexford Guy Tugwell, assistant secretary of agriculture and recognized head of the brain trust; Prof. Milburn L. Wilson, head of the subsistence homestead division of the Department of Interior; In-terior; Dr. Robert Kohn, head of the housing division, of the public works administration ; Dr. Frederick Freder-ick Howe, consumers' counsel for tho agricultural adjustment admin-' admin-' Istratlon, and Henry T. Ralney, speaker of the house of representa-j representa-j ' tives. I I 1 , The most serious charges made by the gentleman from Indiana were di-, di-, rected at Professor Tugwell ; but i his basis for these, as for prac- ' tlcally all of his story, was hear- . any, second-hand Information and vague statements by some of his fellow guests at the dinner. In that lay Its weakness, though there are many serious-nilnded Americans who Insist that there should be a real Investigation of any government govern-ment officials seeking to undermine the present form of government. The committee, having heard Wirt, adjourned for some days with the Intention Of calling as witnesses those who attended the country bouse dinner. Some of them already had denied flatly or belittled the statements made by Wirt T OTS of bickering resulted from the Wirt case, and In this some of the Democrats concerned did not make a good showing. Chairman Bulwinkle of the committee, for Instance, In-stance, asserted that Wirt was Imprisoned Im-prisoned at Gary during war times for pro-German activities, and this was Indignantly denied by numerous persons who were in position to ; know Its truth or falsity. Secre- I tary of the Interior Ickes accused Doctor Wirt of having sought to obtain public works money for a "Fairyland" project in the Indiana dunes by which Doctor Wirt was to sell 2,000 front feet of dune land along Lake Michigan at $30 a foot, a total sale price of $100,000. The project was disapproved by the Public Works administration as "visionary "vi-sionary and impractical," Mr. Ickes said. Doctor Wirt Issued a denial of Secretary Ickes' tale, explaining that he had no connection with the proposed project and that the company com-pany with which he was connected had held the land In question for 12 years to preserve it for park purposes. Representative McGugin of Kansas, Kan-sas, Republican member of the Investigating In-vestigating committee, was "gagged" when he tried to make a speech on the case In the house, but managed to get It Inserted In the Congressional Congres-sional Record. At the same time the Department of Justice was seeking seek-ing to revive a five-year-old matter In which McGugin appeared as a lawyer for Mrs. Barnett, wife of the wealthy Indian, Jackson Barnett TESriTE the opposition of the house leaders and the doubt of Its approval by the President, Senator Couzens persisted In his effort to put through his amendment amend-ment to the tax bill calling for a flat 10 per cent Increase in all Income In-come tax returns. Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate finance committee com-mittee had approved it as an emergency emer-gency measure and showed no disposition dis-position to reconsider. When the Couzens amendment was first voted on In the senate it was defeated by the bare majority cf 4G to 44, the Michigan senator changing his vote to the negative so as to move a reconsideration, lie got busy among his fellow senators sen-ators and was successful first In having the vote reconsidered and then in the measure's adoption by a vote of 4.'5 to 30. It was certain the proposal would he firmly opposed op-posed when the revenue bill went into conference. Under the Couzens proposal, a person subject to a normal tax of $100 on his 1031 Income would pay $110. Next day the senate adopted the La FoIIctte estate taxes amendment to the bill, thus adding nearly $100,-000,000 $100,-000,000 more to the tax load of the country. The amendment puts a tax of per cent on estates of $10,000. This percentage Is Increased rapidly rapid-ly until GO per cent Is levied by the government upon estates of $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 and more. Under the present pres-ent law, estates up to $50,000 are exempted from the tax. DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S flsh- lng trip on the Nourmahal ended end-ed with the arrival of the yacht at Miami. Friends advised against his landing, remembering the attempt at-tempt on his life there two years ago, but he laughed at their fears. However, he and Secretary Mcln-tyre Mcln-tyre drove directly from the pier to the train and the President was back In Washington on the next day. General Johnson, Donald Rich-berg, Rich-berg, Secretary Mclntyre and some twenty White House correspondents correspond-ents and their wives narrowly es: caped death as they were going from Coral Gables to meet the President at the water front A big combination automobile trailer In which they were riding got across the railway tracks Just In time to avoid being struck by a speeding train. TUST before he left Washington " for Miami to meet the President and accompany him back to the Capital, General Johnson decreed I 4 - I A a rauicai reorganization reorgan-ization of the NRA along lines similar to those of the army. The most important im-portant part of this shakeup was the appointment of Lieut. Col. G. A. Lynch, an Infantry officer of the regular regu-lar army, as John- Col.G.A.Lynch r i g n -n a n o man. Colonel Lynch, whom the administrator describes as "the most advanced thinker in the United States army," is given full jurisdiction over all matters not otherwise assigned. He has "complete "com-plete authority to approve codes, orders, or-ders, amendments and other modifications, modi-fications, and may sign codes that do not require the signature of the President. The NRA administration administra-tion no longer will be a one-man affair, and indeed, the ground is now laid for the retirement of General Gen-eral Johnson, which has been predicted pre-dicted for some time. T ABOR conditions In the Detroit - area, mostly affecting the automobile auto-mobile industry, remained In chaotic condition, despite the partly successful suc-cessful efforts of government mediators. media-tors. The strike at the plant of the Motor Products corporation, which had caused a shutdown of the factory fac-tory of the Hudson Motor company, was settled when Edward P. Mc-Grady, Mc-Grady, assistant to Gen. Hugh Johnson, John-son, laid before the strikers terms that had been accepted by the corporation. cor-poration. The workers agreed to the terms, which called for a 10 per cent Increase In pay and arbitration of disputes - over piece work pay rates. This enabled the Hudson plant to reopen. The 1.700 employees of the Campbell, Camp-bell, Wyant & Cannon foundry at Muskegon, Mich., struck. The concern con-cern makes castings for automobile builders. The 4.G00 employees of the Nash Motor company still were on strike at Kenosha, Wis. The Mechanics Educational Society Soci-ety of America, an organization of tool and die makers, had voted to strike unless executives of jobbing plants met their demands for a 20 per cent pay increase and 35-hour week. There was a strike by S00 employees em-ployees of the Detroit-Michigan Stove company who demanded a 20 per cent wage Increase, and pickets pick-ets attacked men who approached the plant to work. A DMIXISTRATOR JOHNSON'S order to the bituminous coal Industry In-dustry to put Into effect a seven-hour seven-hour day and new minimum wace rates was bitterly attacked by southern coal producers at a code revision hearing in Washington. Especially objectionable to the Alabama, Ala-bama, Tennessee and Kentucky operators op-erators was the reduction In wage differentials accorded southern coal fields. SECRETARY OF WAR DERX completed the formation of the committee which will Investigate the army air corps and Its tragic attempt to carry the air mails. Newton New-ton D. Eaker, war-time secretary of war, accepted the chairmanship of the committee which was declined de-clined by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. The other civilians named to assist the military members are Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technol-ogy ; Dr. George W. Lewis, director of aeronautical research for the national na-tional advisory committee on aeronautics; aero-nautics; Clarence D. Chamberlin, noted transatlantic flyer; Maj. James II. ("Jimmle") Doollttle, widely known flyer and aeronautical engineer, and Edgar S. Gorrell, president Stutz Motor Car company. BEFORE the criminal court In Washington Bishop James Cannon, Can-non, Jr., of the Methodist Church South, and Miss Ada L. Burroughs rf V.UUrncTA hla r A I A tlon s recovery program, pro-gram, the financing of housing projects all over the country coun-try with federal funds. New homes are to be built ; old homes are to be repaired, re-paired, remodeled, spruced up. Mortgages Mort-gages are to be given on generous aid in the anti-Al Smith campaign of 1928, were finally arraigned to answer to charges of having hav-ing violated the corrupt practices act. If convicted they would face a possible term of two years In prison . , or a nne or :tiu,wv Bishop Cannon or both The gpe cific charge is that only $17,300 of the $G5,300 contribution made by Edwin C. Jameson of New York to the anti-Smith movement was reported re-ported by the anti-Smith Democrats' headquarters committee. It was indicated that the defense would contend that Miss Burroughs did not have to report the $48,000 in question, arguing that It was spent within the confines of Virginia Vir-ginia by the state antj-Smith committee. com-mittee. IF HENRY A. WALLACE has his way, Arthur W. Cutten, millionaire million-aire member of the Chicago wheat pit, will be barred from future trading trad-ing on grain exchanges. The secretary secre-tary of agriculture summoned Cut-ten Cut-ten to appear before the Grain Futures Fu-tures administration in Chicago on May 14 to answer charges of falling fall-ing to report his trades, as required by the grain futures act, with making mak-ing false reports, and with concealing conceal-ing his trades through false entries, dummy accounts and other collusive col-lusive practices. The alleged offenses of-fenses were committed in 1930 and 1931. OFFICIALS of the Public Works administration were elated by a report received from the F. W. Dodge corporation which Indicated a pronounced spring Increase In job-creating building activity in which the federal public works program pro-gram was a leading factor. Reporting on the volume of contracts con-tracts awarded In March for both publicly and privately financed building in the 37 states east of the Rocky mountains, the Dodge corporation corpo-ration Informed the PWA that $179,-163,000 $179,-163,000 of contracts were awarded last month compared with $96,716,-000 $96,716,-000 In February. Publicly financed building accounted for $126,210,000 of the March total, and privately financed building for $52,953,000. The $126,210,000 of publicly financed work contracted for last month Is about five times the amount contracted for in March of 1933 and nearly three times the amount contracted in March of 1932, according to the report WILLIAM WALLACE MCDOWELL MCDOW-ELL of Butte, Mont, the new American minister to the Irish Free State, collapsed and died of heart disease during a banquet In his honor given by President Eamon Dr Valera in Dublin castle. Mr. Mc Dowell was responding to congratulatory congrat-ulatory speeches when he fell back into his chair and expired almost instantly. FRANK WALKER, chairman of the President's national emergency emer-gency council, made announcement of the next step in the administra- est low and pay-Frank Walker ment permitted over 10 and 20 years. All of the activities of the government gov-ernment related to housing such as the subsistence homestead plan, the Home Owners' Loan corporation, the home loan bank board, the farm credit administration, the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture's program of new housing for farmers are to be co-ordinated under a single authority. author-ity. There Is both an emergency and a permanent program In the scheme, and the temporary program as contemplated con-templated will be a rousing campaign, cam-paign, with citizens, real estate men, building contractors, union leaders, and laborers all being exhorted ex-horted to join In a patriotic movement move-ment toward the restoration of the still slumbering construction Industry. In-dustry. by Western Newspaper Unlia, |