Show P bd F W y nv summarizes I 1 THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western union morgan removed ROOSEVELT ROOSEVE LT re PRESIDENT moved dr arthur E morgan as member and chairman of 0 tho the tennessee volley valley authority report ed this action to congress in a special aka message and left washington tor for a visit to warm I 1 springs on ga thus the entire TVA row was thrown into the lap of congress and senators and representatives senta tives continued 1 to scrap over cheth er cr an investigation A E U 5 morgan organ of the huge project should be made by a senatorial committee or by a joint committee ot of both houses mr roosevelt ousted morgan after receiving from acting attorney general jackson an opinion that he ha possessed the required authority this Is questioned by senator borah and other authorities and it Is presumed the matter will be taken up to the supreme court morgan who was in chicago consulted legal friends but would not announce his plans senator bridges and some others hotly denounced the presidents action as dictatorial and unjustified the president told congress ho he had named harcourt morgan to succeed A E morgan as chairman of TVA but lie he did not appoint his successor as a member of 0 the board reasons tor for tho the removal of morgan as given by the president were that he had made grave and blous ll s charges against his colleagues and refused to substantiate them at the white house hearings and that he had obstructed the work of the authority tho rity efforts of administration leaders in congress were exerted to see that no avowed enemies al 0 TVA should be named on the investigating committee majority lead leader er barkley declaring tills this a prime consideration he favored inquiry by a joint committee of five members from each house senator nor wanted iadone it done eniy y senators and mr morah borah thought that would be satisfactory 7 ar house shows its temper E the house of depre senta tives want any more TVA projects started while the affairs of the authority are in such a muddle by a vote of to it refused to concur with the senate in appropriating funds to start construction of the dam at gilbertsville Gilberts ville ky in opposition were III democrats and 75 republicans the vote sent the matter back to fo conference months ago anthe house appropriations committee rejected the proposition to appropriate to begin the gilbertsville Gilberts ville dam and the holste left the item out of the bill i the senate was induced by norri and to put it back b but ut still the house refused profits tax out PAT HARRISON meant what ho he said about altering the revenue bill that was passed by the house ills senate finance committee Is making the changes by a vote of 17 to 4 it eliminated from the measure the undistributed profits tax principle substituting a flat corporation income tax of 18 p pr r cent As a further moans means of stimulating business and investment the committee adopted a provision drastically modifying the capital gains and losses tax the committee removed capital gains on assets held tor for more than 18 months from the income tax category and substituted instead a flat rate of 13 15 per cent which was what business and industry wanted in an effort to clear the way for speedy enactment of the tax relief legislation the committee rejected a system of wartime taxes and a system of processing taxes on wheat corn cotton tobacco and rice which the administration desires to finance proposed additional b bounties antles 0 to farmers amounting to a year house passes navy bill WITH ITH only votes in opposition the house passed the administrations billion dollar navy bill the measure authorizes construction st of the largest battle fleet in american history by adding 40 combat ships 22 auxiliaries and air planes the war department announced that army and navy officers were about to study plans for ment program that would put more than two million men under arms within four months of a declaration of war for this the army would require recruits and the navy the first under tinder existing plans would be sought as volunteers in the first month before selective draft machinery uko like that of was put into operation already prepared for quick submission to congress Is a draft of a selective service law ll 11 britain ready to fight G REAT BRITAIN will not flatly VJ V J pledge itself to fight to save czechoslovakia from german aggression gres sion but she will use her armaments sto to fulfill her treaty obligations to france and belgium and Is ready to go to war in their 1 defense it if they are unjustly attacked that was the warning to hitler uttered by prime minister chamberlain in the house of corn com mons in the most neville nevil important statement chambe chamberlain lain of british foreign policy since the world war declaring his belief that peace will be maintained chamberlain said 1 I cannot imagine any events in europe which would change the fundamental basis of british foreign policy which is 13 the maintenance and preservation of peace however that does not mean that nothing would make us fight cheers greeted this declaration though he said central europe was not an area where vital british interests teresta are at stake he gave plain warning that it if german aggression should result in war there britain DrIta ln might bo be forced into it ile he urged peaceful settlement of czechoslovakian german minority problem and offered britaina Brit ains help in this ile he flatly turned down soviet rus sias call jor for consultation against aggressor nations the prime minister said that in the case of italis don conquest quest of ethiopia a task beyond its powers was imposed on the league of nations and he admitted that his original belief in the league as an effective instrument for preserving peace was profoundly shaken but he still belle believed ved the league might be revivified and strengthened members cheered this declaration interpreting it as an invitation to the great powers outside the league the united states ger many japao japan brazil and italy to associate rhems themselves elves with it to savo save camps representative 14 representative R of virginia a member of the appropriations committee told the house congress soon will be called on to provide a huge sum for continuation of the work relief relict program and that in anticipation of this his committee has token taken steps to keep open civilian conservation corps camps scheduled for closing in july as an economy measure 1 I have discussed this matter with the president said woodrum 1 I learned that there Is 13 Impo impounded unde d in the treasury the um sum s of which congress ampro appropriated printed for or the for the current year program and which will not be used an appropriation of 60 50 millions will enable the corps to carry on its present program through tho the next fiscal year roosevelt olf warns south ON 0 N INS HIS way to worm warm springs president roosevelt paused in gainesville ga long enough to deliver sharp criticism of those southerners who are keeping the wage hours legislation deadlocked in tho the house of 0 represents representatives tives and who have opposed other of his new deal measures ile he asserted that southern workers are underpaid unde reald and underemployed under employed and warned that unless this condition Is changed the south cannot and will not succeed in establishing successful new industries dus tries ile ho attacked selfishness on the part of a few for holding back national progress and prosperity and added this nation will never permanently got get on the road to recovery it if wo we leave the methods and the processes of recovery to those who owned tho the government of the united states from 1921 to 1933 2933 11 he referred sarcastically to those who insist on a balanced budget but offer no suggestions on how this can be achieved without putting dollars ahead of human lives they have the same type of mind said he as those representatives of the people who vote against legislation to help social and economic conditions proclaiming loudly that they are tor for the objectives but do not like the methods and then fall utterly to off offer or a better method of their own wheat crop estimate prediction by the bureau of agricultural economics of the department part ment of agriculture Is that this years wheat crop will be bushels or ICO bushels in excess of the 1932 30 average the survey estimates that the wheat car ry over in 1939 1039 will be around bushels the record wheat crop Is based on the following factors it if farmers seed the acreage indicated in the prospective planting report and if average yields are obtained this years spring wheat crop including durum will total about bushels this together with the winter crop of about bushels indicates a prospective output of bushels mexican oil seizures PRESIDENT RESIDENT CARDENAS of aco 1 co announced the expropriation tion of oil properties belonging to american and british companies and valued at some wells refineries and tankers were seized and workers took control of all company offices in the republic the american and british employees and their families fled for the present tho the oil industry in mexico was paralyzed cardenas made a public promise that the government would pay jn for the seized oil pr properties olier ties vicente herrera herrara was appointed general manager of the new national tio nal petroleum council tetlow heads coal board P percy ERCY TETLOW a lieutenant of john L lewis has been elected chairman of the national bituminous coal commission to succeed C F hosford resigned tills apparently puts the C 1 I 0 chieftain in full control of the commission in which his influence has been predominant tetlow began his career as a coal miner in ohio and was an official of the united mine workers when appointed to the board victory for poland 0 NE immediate threat of euro war seemed to bo be dissolved when lithuania yielded to the demands of poland for resumption of normal diplomatic and trade relations and virtually I 1 A gave up its claim to vilna former I 1 capital of the country which the poles seized 18 years ago general amig ly ty chief of the polish army and 1 strong man of po 77 general land had mobilized his troops on the s lith js border and polish warships were cruising off memel so there was nothing for the litas to do except give in polish troops that had been concentrated in vilna paraded in celebration of the bloodless victory but in warsaw the celebration was distorted sorted into a pogrom in which riotous throngs attacked all the jews they could find killing several and wounding scores of tow jew ish owned shops weri wes mashed be fore the police chuld restore order |