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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Half Million Farmers May Get Double Federal Benefits New Processing Taxes Abandoned Clements Quits as Townsend Plan Secretary. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. RKXFOIID G. TUG WELL, head of the rural resettlement administration, ad-ministration, announced that a special spe-cial committee is considering a plan under which more than half a million growers of farm products would receive re-ceive double benefits bene-fits from the federal feder-al government. It provides that the rural families now getting loans from Tugwell's administration adminis-tration to put them on ineir leer ana R. G. Tugwell kcop them ofE tlie relief rolls may also receive full subsidy payments In connection with the soil conservation program now being put Into operation. There are now 450,000 recipients of the Tugwell loans and the number Is expected to increase to 525,000 by July 1. The soil conservation subsidies are to be paid to farmers who transfer trans-fer land from commercial crop production pro-duction to soil conserving growths, or who resort to other "economic" farm practices. Officials said that the rehabilitation clients already are under obligation to treat their soil wisely. Before a family can obtain ob-tain a rehabilitation loan it must agree to follow a farm management plan drafted by the government. This plan stipulates that the borrower bor-rower must conserve his land's fertility fer-tility and grow food and feed crops for home consumption. It also Includes In-cludes a financial budget. Tugwell indicated that examination examina-tion may show that the farm management man-agement plan is so closely In accord ac-cord with the AAA's soil conservation conserva-tion aims that the rehabilitation clients may already be qualified to receive the AAA subsidies. ONE of the major features of the new tax program suggested by President Roosevelt is omitted from the measure prepared by a house subcommittee and on which open hearings were begun by the ways and means committee. For political polit-ical reasons It was decided that the plan for new processing taxes on farm and competing products should be abandoned. Mr. Roosevelt's suggestion for a "windfall" tax to recapture part of the refunded or unpaid AAA processing levies was accepted by the subcommittee. A third suggestion of the President, Presi-dent, for graduated taxes on the portions of incomes which corporations corpora-tions do not distribute in dividends to stockholders, was changed to provide pro-vide levies on total Income of corporations cor-porations varied according to percentages per-centages oif profits put Into reserves. The subcommittee agreed that the corporation tax rates should be so drafted as to permit corporations, particularly small ones, to build up reserves for lean years without being be-ing compelled to pay comparatively comparative-ly high taxes for the privilege of doing so. The subcommittee figured on collecting col-lecting some $25,000,000 from taxes on dividends going to foreigners who own stock In American corporations corpor-ations and $S3,000,000 from temporary tempo-rary continuation of the capital stock and excess profits taxes. JUST as Chairman C. Jasper Bell and his house committee were about to open their inquiry into the finances of the Townsend old age pension plan organ , , 4 ization, Robert E. Clements, co-founder, secretary and director of the movement, resigned. He was summoned to be the first witness wit-ness before the committee, but said bis resignation was not motivated bv i this, but was solely , , , , R. E. Clements due to his opposition opposi-tion to political activities of other leaders of the organization. Dr. F. E. Townsend in Los Angeles expressed ex-pressed his "hearty approval" of Clements' action, and it was predicted pre-dicted other officials of the movement move-ment would follow the secretary's example. Clements appeared before the committee with a great mass ot records, ready to "account for evety penny collected." Before testifying he said: "I have nothing to hide. I'm anxious to appear. I have been responsible for financing the Town-send Town-send plan. I have collected around ?S50,000 and the organization has spent about $750,000. There Is still 5100,000 on hand." Chairman Bell had a corps of Investigators In-vestigators delving Into activities of the Townsendites for three weeks. lie asserted that leaders of the movement have become "nervous "ner-vous and tense" as the Investigation Investiga-tion progressed. lie promised revelations rev-elations that will expose the plan as a "promotional scheme to dupe old people." CEVERAL witnesses who appeared before a senate sub-committee declared that the Robinson-Patman anti-chain store bill, which has administration ad-ministration backing, would promote pro-mote rather than curb monopolies, increase the cost and lower the standard of living, and decrease employment em-ployment in whole industries. The hearing was on the Borah-Van Borah-Van Nuys bill, a modification of the Robinson-Patman measure, but the witnesses particularly attacked the latter, which already has been reported re-ported favorable. The house Judiciary Judi-ciary committee reported the Utter-bach Utter-bach bill, still another modification of the Robinson-Patman measure, and a bitter fight over the proposed legislation is expected. The Robinson-Patman bill would prohibit manufacturers from making mak-ing price discriminations In favor fa-vor of large quantity purchasers, through advertising allowances, service charges, brokeraage fees, etc. The Borah-Nuys bill would prohibit such allowances only when they were refused to purchasers of goods of "like grade, quality, and quantity." BENITO MUSSOLINI evidently expects another European war, and in preparation for it he announced an-nounced several drastic measures l&'.v.-i-.i3h..:.:::.:;:i'S:: on the seventeenth anniversary of the founding of the Fascist party. He abolished the chamber cham-ber of deputies, substituting for it a council of guilds ; and he also eliminated elimi-nated the country's large industries, leaving the medium and small private Benito industries in exist-Mussolinl exist-Mussolinl ence Tlig jatter move, he told the council of the 22 guilds of the corporative state, was to increase the nation's economic self-sufficiency. "When and how war will come, one does not know," he said, "but the wheel of fate turns fast." Mussolini asserted the large industries, indus-tries, particularly those working for the defense of the nation, would be formed into organizations called "key industries." These, he said, "will be run directly or indirectly by the government. Some will have mixed organization." HAVING sent Joachim von Rib-bentrop Rib-bentrop back to London with a modified rejection of the four . power plans for peace in western Europe, Hitler was preparing his counter proposals which British Foreign Minister Eden had requested. request-ed. Meanwhile the reichsfuehrer continued bis campaign tour, delivering deliv-ering rousing' speeches in defense of his policies. Speaking in Lud-wigsbafen, Lud-wigsbafen, in the heart of the remilitarized re-militarized Rhineland, he said : "Those who want us to grovel on our knees before agreeing to talk with us forget we are not a tribe of savages, but a European nation looking back on thousands of years of culture. "I stretch out my hand to France. We want peace for common sense reasons. Germany needs no more fame on the battlefield, but is now getting ready to seek laurels in the Olympic peace competition of nations. na-tions. Men who relish the indecent thought of victor and vanquished are not statesmen. They must be silent when peace talks start." Most of the continental statesmen states-men who gathered In London to consider the Rhineland affair went home, some of them In very bad humor hu-mor over the indecisive proceedings. The French, disinclined to consider any further proposals from Hitler, were urging that the French, British Brit-ish and Belgian general staffs get together on plans in accordance with the Locarno treaty commit-, commit-, mcnts. FOURTEEN persons perished in Mexico's worst aviation disaster. A big trimotored plane carrying ten European tourists and four company com-pany employees crashed on the ridge between the volcanoes Popo-catapetl Popo-catapetl and Ixtacclhuatl and there were no survivors to explain why It fell. Among the tourists were Prince Adolf of Schaumhurg-Lippe and his wife, Princess Elisbeth. HENRY BOYLE SOMERVILLE, aged and retired vice admiral of the British navy, was murdered by gunmen at his residence at Cas-tletownsend, Cas-tletownsend, County Cork, Irish Free State. Thrown through the door of the house was a card bearing bear-ing these words: "This British agent sent 52 Irish boys Into the British army In the last few months. He will send no more." The admiral had received previous previ-ous threats because of his recruit-lnj recruit-lnj activities. TX CONNECTION with the sign- Ing of the new naval treaty by the United States, Great Britain and France, it was disclosed in London that the two first named powers have reaffirmed the 50-50 ratio for their fleets and again promised not j to compete against each other in i naval building. The new three pow- j er pact limits the size of battleships battle-ships to 35,000 tons, retains 10,000 tons as the maximum for cruisers and provides uo cruisers of that size shall be built for six years. In the expiring Washington treaty there was an article regarding fortification for-tification of naval bases. This is not renewed in the new pact, and Japan requested Information as to the future intentions of the powers. Consequently the United States, Great Britain and Japan were carrying car-rying on diplomatic conversations on that topic. The new treaty gives the signatories signa-tories certain liberty of action in the event of unforeseen naval activity ac-tivity by powers not signatory to the treaty. So far as America is 'concerned, this "escape clause" is taken to apply mainly to Japan. KOKI HIROTA, the new liberal premier of Japan, declared in an Interview : "While I am premier there will be no war"; and continued contin-ued : "We intend to cultivate our traditional friendship with Great Britain, the United States, Russia, and. other powers, thus fulfilling our great mission of stabilizing east Asia." On the same day that Hirota made this pronouncement the soviet Russian government ordered its ambassador am-bassador to Japan to lodge a strong protest following a new border engagement en-gagement which Soviet advices said resulted from a Japanese attack on a Red frontier post. Fighting lasted last-ed for hours, entailing loss of life on both sides, said the reports. ONE of the big fights within the American Federation of Labor La-bor has been settled peacefully. It was for control of the building trades department. In the past building projects have been held up by strikes growing out of arguments argu-ments over which of two unions should do a certain piece of work The peace pact provides for appointment ap-pointment of an impartial referee to settle such arguments. The pact 'also called for J. W. Williams of the carpenters to head the reorganization department, with M. J. McDonough of the plasterers as secretary-treasurer. Each has been the leader of one of the warring war-ring factions and each has styled himself as the lawful department president. ISABELLA GREEN WAY, the ca- pable lady who has represented Arizona in congress since October, 1933, has announced in Tucson that sue win retire irom public life at the conclusion of her present term. She was first elected for the remainder of the term of Lewis Douglas, who resigned to become director of the budget, and was re-elected in 1934. Mrs. Greenway Mrs. Greenway owns and operate several ranches in Arizona and New Mexico and a hotel in Tucson, and is also interested inter-ested in some mining companies. Undoubtedly she could go back to congress without opposition, but she says she wants to devote more time to her private activities. A girlhood chum of Mrs. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, Mrs. Greenway has been a frequent fre-quent visitor at the White House during her two terms in the house. INTREPID citizens of scores of cities and towns in the eastern and New England states which were devastated by the unprecedented Hoods were digging out their homes and places of business from the mud and debris as the turbulent waters of many rivers subsided. Reconstruction Re-construction and refitting began everywhere Immediately, and this, as well as the relief of the suffering suffer-ing thousands, was aided by funds totaling more than $43,000,000 allocated allo-cated by President Roosevelt before be-fore be left Washington for Florida. Rough estimates were that the total to-tal dead in 13 states were 1G9; the homeless were 221,500, and the total property damage, $271,500,000. The last figure probably would be tripled if one took Into account the losses from interruption to industry and trade and the stopping of the wages of labor. As the floods receded In eastern Pennsylvania and New York and In West Virginia, the distress of the people was intensified by a severe blizzard; and in New England there were predictions of further heavy rains. Cities along the lower Ohio were threatened as the flood waters raced down to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, but they had had plenty of warning and were In a measure prepared. Of course many communities were submerged, but the residents bad moved to higher land. T T 7"ITII only one change, the V V house passed the senate bill to'i continue the Electric Home and Farm authority as a federal agency until February 1, 1937, or any earlier date decreed by the president. presi-dent. The authority was created to help finance sales of electrical appliances. |