Show stew 4 wres y summarizes THE WORL WORLDS DS WEEK 0 western newspaper Mw paper union borry berry claim Cau causo of row LONG T ONG existing warfare between dr A E morgan chairman of tho the tennessee valley authority and nd his follow fellow directors david lilienthal and harcourt morgan has come to a climax due to the claims of sen george L berry for because his alleged marble quarries were hooded flooded in tho the norris morris dam area doctor morgan has demanded a showdown in tho the form of A E morgan a congressional investigation vesti gation ot of the whole TVA setup and its activities A commission appointed by a federal court in tennessee reported the claims of berry and his associates were worthless because their properties could not be profitably operated commercially chairman morgan then issued a long statement revealing that the quarrel in the authority was due not to differences between himself and his colleagues over policy but to his efforts to obtain honesty openness decency and fairness in government ho he said the berry marble case represents the kind hind of difficulty with which as chairman chaiem in of the TVA board I 1 have been faced in the effort to maintain good stand ards of public service to a steadily nril increasing degree I 1 havo have con tended with an attitude of conspiracy secretiveness rind and bureaucratic manipulation which has made the proper conduct of TVA business difficult the statement declared that ber bar ry charged morgan with blocking a sacred binding agreement when the TVA chairman halted the friendly agreement reached with lilienthal lillienthal and harcourt morgan in my opinion a friendly agreement in the face of what seemed to me to be an obvious intent to exploit was not a good public policy and lacked several degrees of being sacred said the chairman doctor morgan intimated that the berry deal was only a part of tho the issue of honesty and decency which he had to face and that there w was as a lot more he would like to tell a congressional i gres committee slaps little business OF COM COMMERCE MERtE S SECRETARY ROPER told president roosevelt that tho the little business man appears to be forsaking the policy of self help and Is looking more and more to the government to solve hij problems mr roper based his conclusion on on an analysis of 1000 letters from among communications that grow grew out of the little business conference recently held in washington tho the secretary said he was impressed by the fact that tho the becom in the letters showed ittle understanding ot of the broad as acts of the problems of 0 govern nent and ho he implied that small business us iness men were largely self seek rs nothing was said of the reso unions adopted at the little busl busi ass conference which demanded hat the government cease regula ion and interference with business tax arclie t to business and halt where it affected business orn lorn cut 17 of 12 commercial corn producing states were told by the adjustment ration that they might plant this car in corn acres in this compares with acres 11 in 1123 counties harvested last year the cum complete national goal for 1038 including the e commercial corn a acreage cledge pilot merit 1 I la Is to bushels tho the 1038 allotments by states and total acres harvested in the total number of counties in each state follow illinois 1938 allotment fl ac acres resin in counties against acres harvested in counties in 1937 1037 indiana 9 acres for 77 counties against in 02 92 counties iowa acres in 99 counties against in 99 counties kansas acres for or 27 counties against in counties I 1 kentucky acres tor for tour four counties against in counties michigan acres for or five counties against in 83 63 counties minnesota acres in 45 counties against in 87 counties missouri Misso url acres in 6 counties against in counties nebraska acres in 84 64 counties against in 93 counties south dakota acres in 17 counties against acres in 69 counties wisconsin acres in 6 counties against in 71 counties ohio acres in 57 counties against in 88 counties under the new farm program acreage allotments will be set by b county committees for individual farms tax bill battle battla starts R TO L DOUGHTON of north carolina chairman of the ways and means committee submitted to the house the revenue bill formulated by a majority of the committee and I 1 the struggle over 1 11 this measure began X at once the administration leaders claim the act will N stimulate trade tr ado and remove hardships on both big and lit I 1 tio business without 1 g i lowering the aggregate 1 federal income R L Dough doughton tou 11 mr doughton knew he had a flight fight on his hands but predicted the speedy passage of the measure substantially as ie reported deported the most vulnerable provision admittedly mitt edly was a proposed penalty tax on closely held hald corporations mccormack of massachusetts and lamneck of ohio filed a separate report attacking this feature republican members of the committee united in a report which blamed now new deal taxes for the franklin D roosevelt depression and which charged cli arged that the tax on closely held corporations Is a political weapon to be ba used to purge the nations business structure of corporations po rations controlled by new deal foes chairman pat harrlson harrison democrat mississippi odthe of the senate fl nonce nance committee said his group would begin hearings soon on the measure A majority of his committee Is reported to be opposed to several provisions of the house bill including the retention of the principles of the undistributed profits tax IN disaster in california S SOUTHERN california cope dally tho the region about los angeles was swept by a destructive flood following extraordinary rains nearly 50 persons were drowned or killed in landslides and thousands fled from their homes it was w s thought the property damage might reach for a time los Ari angalea geles was cut oft from all communications except by short wave radio boath of dannunzio RIELE DANNUNZIO poet G gabriele GAn playwright soldier and italian patriot died at his villa in gardone riviera R of a cerebral hemorrhage lie he would have been seventy five avo years old in a few cw days the demise of this really great man saddened caddene d the whole italian nation for ho he lind made himself the idol of the people especially by his be bold d be seizure azure of flume after the world war an and d his aerial exploits in that conflict the world ot of letters also mourned him deeply 5 rolls increased C CONGRESS having sent the ter billion dollar emergency relief appropriation to the white house tho the officials immediately ate ly authorized the state administrations trat ions lons to hire moro more relief workers this month aubrey will williams jams noting acting ad during the c con on vales cence of harry hopkins a estimated sti mated that tho the march marc h increases would pull up local enrollments from 15 to 25 per cent depending on state stat I 1 needs williams said ho he expected largo industrial ca centers aters to furnish heaviest est demands for a slice of the new relief money but added there is no part of tho the country that Is not affected in some real degree british air program phe 11 E british government rint ont n bounced 0 d the greatest air force estimates in the nations history and disclosed that a corps of scientists had been mobilized to aid in secret air defense plans for the fiscal year beginning april I 1 the air force estimates total I 1 next was announced a 23 per cent in crease in army appropriations tor for the coming year gets out of china THE HE fifteenth united states infantry left after a quarter century of service in north china during which its officers boast it has hafi not fired a shot in anger the regiment stationed there under the boxer protocol is being withdrawn permanently to be replaced by a marine detachment soviet chiefs face death WITHIN a short time we may expect to read of the execution of 21 prominent citizens of so alet russia latest victims of dicta tor blood purge they were put on trial before a military tribunal and there was little doubt as to their fate among the accusations cusat ions against them were conspiring with foreign powers to dismember the soviet union plotting to assassin nato nate lenin and stal A alexas axis itskov y in inspiring the assassination of serget sergel and putting to death the writer maxim gorky and two others previously supposed to have died of natural causes most prominent of the men put on trial were former premier alex is 1 I who succeeded lenin and held office for nearly two years and nikolai Buk harln harin chronicler of tho the red revolution and editor of the government newspaper be fore march 1937 all of the accused men admitted their guilt but krestinsky former ambassador to berlin tried to repudiate his confession the others one after another told in court of their alleged conspiracies and trea sons three taken as spies government agents and new byork VJ york police broke up a ring of spies engaged in selling secrets of the american army and navy to a european nation described as a world power but otherwise not named three alleged members of the ring were under arrest and held in heavy ball two of them a for mer mar zer sergeant geant in the united states army and a private in the army were said to have confessed the third was a german girl hairdresser on tho the german liner europa the G men were diligently searching for other members of the band guenther Guenth cr gustav the ex sergeant who is a deserter said he was engaged in obtaining secrets and information concerning military operations of the united states army and was forwarding it through confidential channels to various addresses in europe erich glaser the private had been stationed at mitchel field new york the largest army air base on the east coast and key to the air fortifications ot of the itan area he supplied certain air corps codes to johanna 11 holman the woman arrested admitted she was the Il allason lason of officer licer and paymaster between the ring and its employers secret code keys and considerable quantities of money were found on her person senate to probe reds COPELAND of new S SENATOR york successfully put through his resolution for a special investigation of subversive activities of communists communist in the merchant marine it will be conducted by a committee named by garner about the same time harry bridges C I 1 0 leader on the west coast arrived arrived in washington to resist being deported ns as an undesirable alien bridges also demanded a hearing before the senate committees on commerce and labor |