Show lf a washington D 0 NEW TAX BATTLE biggest tight fight on capitol capital hill when it comes to writing now new taxes Is going to bo be over the sales tax wall street forces already have laid pipe lines to certain congressmen for a sales tax instead of heavier corporation po ration taxes and it Is going to bo be a knock down drag out battle the man in tho the thick of this light fight Is now relatively obscure but tile alio public will hear a lot about him shortly ile he Is randolph paul bet ter known to ford standard oil and big firms who hire the notions nations best tax experts than to the rest of tho the country paul has written a number of books on federal income taxes and gave up a law practice to work for virtually nothing for the government despite its his background however big business will got gel no comfort from randolph andolph ll paul when it comes to the sales tax ile ho is opposed to this levy primarily because it induces inflation if you add lour four cents on the sales price palco of any commodity paul or ar kues and a few moro more pennies on the price of a whole row of other commodities labor has an excuse to ask for on an increase in wages prices havo have gone up and labor claims it Is entitled to the increase then once onca tho the increase is granted industry has an excuse tor for increasing prices and the whole ung thing is started all over again it can be tho the most vicious circle in our economic life t anti sales TAX instead ot of a sales tax paul favors a series of very stiff taxes all along tho the line most drastic of his proposals is to tax lowest bracket incomes paul points out that it if you talie take 72 per cent from tho the big business executive making a year ho he merely increases salaries to his associates so socia tes spends more money on institutional advertising and decreases his net income this in the end also leads to inflation paul is in favor of taxing tho higher brackets very heavily but warns that the additional attainable tai nabla from this source Is peanuts compared with what the country has to raise to meet the war bill the real spending power of the notion nation is in the lower bracket incomes and paul contends these will faveto have to bear the big part of the war budget other paul proposals are 1 heavy corporation taxes 2 stiff excess profits taxes 3 plugging all loopholes in the tax lawsl 4 on an excise tax on certain specific luxuries which would not increase ln creaso the cost of living ills ilia recommendations are sure to be adopted in toto by secretary Morgen thou and the white I louse house whether congress will adopt them will be ba decided only after one of the toughest tax battles in history especially over the sales tax HOW TO SEE HENDERSON leon henderson enderson II Is guarded by so many secretaries and functionaries function aries that even members of congress have a hard time getting to him officials of alaska bothered by a serious price problem in the territory tried tor for days to get an audience with the price czar finally a little gray haired lady found the answer mrs john mccormack wife of alanskas select selective lve service head attended a womans comans club function in washington at which henderson enderson II submitted to questioning mrs mccormack put the alaskan price problem to henderson enderson II on the floor of the club meeting and he promptly invited her to call at his office next day for a detailed explanation the people around the office said henderson I will try to keep you out but bu pay no attention to iem em you lust just march straight into rry nv office mrs mccormack followed instructions she saw henderson and came away with a promise of action CAPITAL CHAFF 41 attorney general francis biddle Is personally reviewing the recommendations ions of all allen alien enemy hearing boards which pass on charges against alien residents in the U S C C the bluefield bluefeld Blue neld VV W va chamber of commerce has taken an unusual step for a chamber of commerce advocating the curtailment of nonessential federal spending the chamber listed a number of pet local projects it was willing to forego for the duration of the w war 41 L L earlo earle davidson Dav ldson hustling young publisher of the greenville mich dally daily news mews has won praise from treasury officials tor for his highly sue suc work in boosting defense defence bond sales chairman of the defense savings committee of his art area davidson Dav ldson address om rallies every day and Is up a remarkable record at one meeting defense bond subscriptions totaled tl fl returning from rio by pan american can clipper undersecretary of state sumner relaxed in his bis first bridge game in seven years |