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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over LoLby Committees Quarrel Over Magnate Ilopson President Presi-dent Signs Social Security Act Tri-Power Conference Confer-ence on Italo-Ethiopian Question. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ) Western Newspaper Union. WILL ROOKIES, famous uctor and humorist, and Wiley Post, one of the best known filers in the world, crushed to tlieir death in a plane while flying from Fairbanks to I'olnt Harrow, Har-row, Alaska. The two men, close friends, had been enjoying an aerial vacation trip In the North, and Post Intended later to lly to Asia. News of the fatal accident was sent to Seattle by Sergt. .Stanley K. Morgan, signal corps operator at I'olnt Harrow. Ho said lie bad recovered the bodies from the wreckage. T IVALS In the matter of publicity, the house and senate committees on the activities of lobbyists got Into a tangle that certainly didn't enhance CMFTY commissioners representing the Methodist Episcopal church, the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and the Methodist Protestant church have been In Session In Evanston, El., and have agreed upon a form of union r.:it is to he submitted to the general conferences of the three churches and, If ratified by them, to all tiie annuai conferences. The new organization, it was agreed, would be called the United Methodist church and would consist of six Jurisdictional or regional conferences. PAKMKUS who believe mat their 1 individual rights are being encroached en-croached upon by the administration's agricultural policies are offered a chance to get together by the organization organi-zation and incorporation in Chicago of the Farmers' Independent Council of America. Dan D. Casement, a farmer of Manhattan, Kan., is president of the body. Stanley F. Morse, South Caroline farmer and consulting agriculturist, agri-culturist, is executive vice president and Chris J. Abbott, Nebraska stockman stock-man and farmer, and Clyde 0. Patterson, Patter-son, Illinois Jersey breeder, were incorporators. in-corporators. Dr. Charles W. Burkett, agricultural authority of New York and formerly director of the Kansas agricultural experiment station, and L. G. Tolles, farmer and past master of the Connecticut State Grange, are other vice presidents of the council, and Dr. E. V. Wilcox, representative of the Country Gentleman, District of Columbia, is secretary-treasurer; Fred L. Crawford, Michigan congressman congress-man and farm owner; E. E. Dorsett, farmer and past master Pennsylvania State Grange, and Kurt Greenwald, farm manager and agricultural engineer, engi-neer, New York, are directors. "To me there is but one issue, whether we are going to have a constitutional con-stitutional government or have a dictatorial dicta-torial regime," said Charles E. Collins, Col-lins, Colorado cattleman and president; of the American National Live Stock association, regional vice president of the new organization. SECRETARY of Agriculture Wallace has changed his mind about the reduction re-duction of wheat acreage for 1030. Instead In-stead of asking the farmers for a cut of the population against V) per cent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection pro-tection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a Job and against poverty-ridden old age. "This law, too, represents a corner stone In a structure which is being built but Is by no means complete a structure Intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations administra-tions of the government against the necessity of going deeply Into debt to furnish relief to the needy a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation de-flation and of inflation in other words a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure struc-ture of vastly greater soundness." CAPT. ANTHONY EDEN of Eng. land, Premier Pierre Laval of France and Baron Pompei Alois! of Italy met in Paris, as arranged, to see ''i ..-AT i - ' their dignity. Howard How-ard C. Ilopson, the long sought head of the Associated Gas and Electric Utilities system, permitted the emissary of the house committee to find him, and Senator Hugo Black (lew into a rage and had bis cummitten threaten Ilopson with If they couldn't devise de-vise a way to avert the Italo-Ethiopian war, due to begin in September. Sep-tember. Eden had a plan all prepared and after outlining It to Laval he laid It before be-fore Baron Aloisl. The latter, of course, had no power to assent but was1 compelled to :;r" .";:: lljftp!il of 15 per cent, as was announced recently, the figure is now placed at 5 per cent. Wallace told reporters report-ers that the change was decided upon after the government's August Au-gust 1 survey of crop conditions indicated that total wheat production pro-duction this year f v 1 , I IP J submit the proposals . , - , to Premier Mussolini. Baron Alo,si That II Duce would accept It without change was considered unlikely, but it formed a basis for discussion. According to the best information, the Eden plan embraced these chief points: 1. Important economic concessions for Italy in Ethiopia. 2. A proposal that Italy be given the right to colonize and exploit rich, sparsely Inhabited portions of the Ethiopian uplands probably under a League of Nations mandate as 1s provided pro-vided for former German colonies in article XXII of the League of Nations Na-tions covenant. 3. The offer of an outlet direct to the sea for Ethiopia, as a measure of compensation for its concessions. It was understood in Paris that Mussolini still demanded what would amount to a mandate over Ethiopia so that he would have political as well as economic control over the country. coun-try. This Great Britain does not like, and France is rather on the fence. The British insist that in any case there must be an Immediate showdown. show-down. One correspondent . said if Great Britain adhered to the policy at which Eden hinted in his conversation conversa-tion with Laval, it would mean either dissolution of the League of Nations or else collective sanctions against Mussolini, involving the risk of a European Eu-ropean war. "NJOBODY liked the new tax bill that congress was working on, and the senate finance committee had hard work making up its mind as to the contempt procecuniBS H. C. Hopson lml(,ss le appeared before be-fore It. Chairman O'Connor of the house body was angered by Ibis an 1 declared : "Ilopson is In my custody. I've got him. Nobody else has got him. Nobody else is going to get him." The elusive, chunky utilities mag-Dnto mag-Dnto told the house committee about his various companies and related the saga of bis travels while he was being be-ing sought. But he politely refused toan-8vcr toan-8vcr questions concerning the sources and amount of his income. He testified testi-fied that he "believed" the Associated Gas system had spent "eight or nine hundred thousand dollars" In opposition opposi-tion to the Wlieeler-Rayburn utility control bill. "That's just a small fraction of the $300,000,000 equity in our companies which would be destroyed if the bill becomes law and remains law," he declared. de-clared. To one question by Cox of Georgia Hopson replied: "I resent that Inquiry. In-quiry. No gentleman would have asked It." Whereupon Cox threatened threat-ened to kick him out of the room unless un-less he withdrew the answer, and Hop-son Hop-son mildly withdrew it. O'Connor introduced in the house a resolution that severely slammed the senate, but it dropped when word came that Senator Black would wait to take Hopson after O'Connor's bunch was through with him. However, It gave opportunity for a ridiculous quarrel between the New Yorker and Rankin of Texas. Late in the day Hopson calmly walked into Black's committee room and asked : "Is some one here looking look-ing for me?" Black and his committee then questioned the utilities man for an hour or two and got mighty little out of him except smooth sarcasm that made the chairman quite furious. At that time both Hopson and his attorney attor-ney had been served with contempt citation. GOV. MARTIN L. DAVEY of Ohio has "pulled a fast one" on the Republicans in behalf of the Democratic Demo-cratic party. The G. 0. P. leaders were demanding a state-wide by-election in Ohio to fill the vacancy created cre-ated by the death of Representative-at-Large Charles V. Truax, believing the result would demonstrate, even more clearly than did the Rhode Island Is-land election, the waning strength of the administration. But Governor Da-yey Da-yey went to Washington and consulted consult-ed with President Roosevelt and then announced that he would not call and could not be compelled to call a special spe-cial congressional election until next year, nis declared reason was the cost, not fear of party defeat. Court action to force the calling of the election elec-tion has been started but Davey says there is no restriction of his discretion discre-tion In fixing the time of the election. SURROUNDED by a group of notables not-ables and in the glare of photographers' photog-raphers' flashlights, President Roosevelt Roose-velt put his signature on the social security act, of which he said : "If the senate and house of representatives representa-tives in this long and arduous session had done nothing more than pass this bill the session would be regarded as historic for all time." Among those who were present were Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York and Representative John Lewis of Maryland, who jointly drafted the bill ; Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Per-kins, who had a hand in its making, and Senators Pat Harrison, William King and Edward P. Costigan. In a talk intended for reproduction on the sound screens of the country, the President said : "This social security measure gives at least some protection, to 30,000,000 of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment compensation, com-pensation, through old age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the prevention preven-tion of 111 health. "We can never insure 100 per cenr. iv - - i form it would recommend. recom-mend. First it altered almost every provision of the bill passed by the bouse and changed it from a "soak the rich" measure to one which would soak practically every one. This was done by lowering low-ering personal income tax exemptions and ctni'tiiKr t-ho eiirtftv in. vuuiu auiuuuL lo ymj 60S,000,000 bushels as Sec'y Wallace compared with domestic requirements of 635,000,000 bushels. The step was taken, he asserted, to assure ample supplies for domestic consumers. He said that it was expected ex-pected to place the country in a "strengthened position" in the export market. He added the change in policy pol-icy will not result in any marked reduction re-duction in benefit payment to farmers. He did not say what the exact reductions reduc-tions in the payments would amount to. AAA officials estimated that approximately approx-imately 52,000,000 acres would be placed under contract this year. They asserted that the government is given "adequate powers" to deal with the situation if a bumper wheat harvest should result in 1936. WHEN the President's social security se-curity bill was finally enacted into in-to law, the senate adopting the conference confer-ence report already agreed to by the house, probably many thousands of men and women al'. over the country began figuring on the pensions they would receive under its terms. It is unlikely that oue in a thousand has any clear idea of how the new pro-giam's pro-giam's pension system will work, so we reprint here a neat summary prepared pre-pared by the Associated Press showing show-ing its operation as applied to "Bill Jones" : "Suppose young Bill Is twenty when the law goes into effect and makes an average monthly salary of $100 until he is sixty-five. He wjll get a monthly pension, until his death, of $53.75. "In detail, here is what will happen to him : "In the calendar years 1937, 1938, and 1939 he will pay a salary tax of 1 per cent, or a total of .$36 for the three years. In 1940, 1941, 1942 he will pay 1 per cent, or ,$54. In 1943, 1944, and 1945 the tax will be 2 per cent, or S72. In 1946, 1947, and 194S the tax will be IVi per cent, or $90. From 19-19 to 10S1. inclusive, the tax will be 3 per cent, or a total of $1,1SS. "Thus, in 45 years, Bill Jones will have paid in $1,440. All the time his employer will have been matching his tax payments, so the total paid to the federal" treasury will be $2,SS0. "At sixty-five Bill Jones can expect to live perhaps 10 years more. If he does, he will get back $6,450. "When Bill Jones dies this Is what will happen: "His average annual salary will be multiplied by the number of years he paid taxes. In other words, If he dies after he has paid taxes for 45 years, $1,200 will be multiplied by 45 giving a total of $54,000. Arbitrarily, the bill stipulates that Bill Jones' estate shall be entitled to 32 per cent of that, or $1,S90 less any amount he received In pensions before he died. "If Jones dies before he gets back $1,S90 in pensions, what he actually received Is deducted from $1,S00 and the remainder paid to his heirs. If he lives until he gets back all of the $1,S90 and riiore, his heirs get nothing. "If Jones should die before he reaches sixty-five, his heirs would, be entitled to a payment of ZV2 per rent of the total wages on which taxes had beep paid."- Senator Borah crease Qt ?3i000 In. stead of $50,000. The latter feature was proposed by Senator La Follette and was adopted to keep him in line. Also, the inheritance taxes which President Roosevelt had asked for were eliminated. elimi-nated. Protests against Increasing the taxes on little incomes came immediately, from senators, representatives and the country at large. Senators Borah of Idaho and Norris of Nebraska were among the "independents" who expressed ex-pressed their disapproval. Mr. Borah especially was vocal In opposition. "Families with these small incomes are now paying more than their proportionate pro-portionate share of taxes and at the same time are facing higher prices for food, clothes, fuel and rents," he said. So the committee suddenly reversed itself abruptly, rejected the La Follette Fol-lette plan by a vote of S to 7, The bill which the committee reported re-ported was passed by the senate by a vote of 57 to 22. It contains new provisions pro-visions to compensate for those eliminated elimi-nated from the house bill and the estimated es-timated revenue is only $1,000,000 less. This is divided in the senate bill as follows : Graduated corporation income in-come tax t 60,000,000 Corporation excess profits and capital stock taxes 65.000,000 Intercorporate dividend taxes 39,000,000 Increased estate taxes with related gift taxes 100,000,000 Increased surtaxes on incomes in-comes in excess ot $1, 000, 000 6,000,000 Total $200,000,000 The bill thus more closely follows the demands of President Roosevelt that the house measure, |