Show news review of current Events MORGAN ASKS INQUIRY chairman of TVA brings to the surface the feud with his colleagues corn acreage allotments 3 J m W va v q N 3 X 7 w here photographed after their arrest in new york are johanna hofmann of dresden germany and guenther gustav former united states army sergeant and a deserter two of the three persons accused of complicity la in an international spy plot the alm aim of which was the sale of united states military secrets to a foreign government the woman a hairdresser on the german liner europa was messenger and paymaster paymaster paY masier for the ring A W summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 D newspaper Newt Vows paper union berry claim cause of row L LONG ONG existing warfare between dr A E morgan chairman of the tennessee valley authority and his fellow directors david lilienthal and harcourt morgan has come to a climax due to the claims of sen george L B berry e rr y for because his alleged marble quarries were flooded in the norris dam area doctor morgan has demanded a showdown i in the form of A E morgan emorgan a congressional investigation vesti gation of the whole TVA setup andeits 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 e could not be profitably operated commercially chairman morgan then issued a long statement revealing that chat the quarrel in the authority was due not to differences between himself and his colleagues over over policy but to his efforts to obtain I 1 honesty openness decency and fairness in government ile he said the berry marble case represents the kind of difficulty with which as chairman of the TVA board I 1 have been faced in the effort to maintain good standards of public service to a steadily increasing degree I 1 have contended with an attitude of c conspire con spira cy secretiveness and bureaucratic manipulation which has made the proper conduct of TVA business difficult the statement declared that berry r charged morgan with blocking a sacred binding agreement when the TVA chairman halted the friendly agreement reached with lilienthal and harcourt morgan in my opinion a friendly agreement inthe face of what seemed to me to be an obvious intent to exploit was not a good public policy and lacked several degreer degree of being sacred 0 said the chairman doctor morgan intimated that the berry deal was only a part of the issue of honesty and decency w which hibb he be had to face arid and that there was a lot more he wo would uld like to tell a congressional gress lonal committee xa w 1 slaps little Bui business iness SECRETARY OF COMMERCE ROPER told president roosevelt V elt that the little business man appears to be forsaking the policy of self help and is looking more and more to the government to solve hia problems mr roper based his conclusion on an analysis of 1900 letters from among communications that grew out of the little business conference recently held in washington the secre secretary tary said he was impressed by the tact fact that the becom in the letters showed ittle understanding of the broad aspects of the problems of government 1 and he implied that ahat small business us iness men were largely self seek rs k nothing was said of the reso anions adopted at the little bust busi less conference which demanded hat the government cease regula ton ion and interference with business live tax relief to business and halt where it affected justness orn acreage cut of 12 commercial corn producing states were told by the adjustment adminis ration that they might plant this ear in corn acres in counties this compares with acres in 1123 counties har vested last year the complete national goal for 1938 including the commercial corn acreage allot ih ment is to bushels the 1938 allotments by states and total acres harvested in the total number of counties in each state follow I 1 illinois 1938 allotment ac acres resin in counties against acres harvested in counties in 1937 indiana acres for 77 counties against in 92 counties iowa acres in 09 counties in 99 counties kansas acres tor for 27 counties against in im counties kentucky ken tucky acres for four counties against in counties michigan acres for five counties against in 83 counties minnesota acres in 45 counties against in 87 counties missouri acres in 6 counties against in counties nebraska lia acres in 64 counties against la in 83 93 coan ties south dakota acres in IV 17 counties against acres in 69 counties wisconsin acres in 6 counties against in 71 counties ohio acres counties against in 88 counties under the new farm program acreage allotments will be set by county committees lor for individual farms farm tax tak bill battle starts R 0 OBERT L DOUGHTON of north V carolina chairman of the ways and means committee submitted to the house the revenue bill formulated by a majority of the committee and the struggle over this measure began at once the admin adain j leaders e a d e r s claim the act will stimulate trade and remove hardships on both bigland big and little litile business without lowering the aggred aggregate federal income R L doughton 0 ion mr doughton knew he had a fight on his hands but predicted the speedy passage of the measure substantially as re reported pored the most vulnerable provision admittedly mitt edly was a proposed penalty tax on closely held corporations mc mccormack cormack of massachusetts and lamneck of ohio filed a separate report attacking this feature republican members of the committee united in a report which blamed new deal taxes for the franklin D roosevelt depression and which charged that the tax on closely held corporations is a ical weapon to be used to purge the nations business structure of corporations po rations controlled by new deal toes chairman pat harrlson harrison democrat mississippi of the senate finance 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 disaster in california S SOUTHERN california espe dally 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 sands tied fled from their homes it was thought the property damage might reach for a time los angeles was cut off from all communications except by short wave radio death of dannunzio G VJ DANNUNZIO poet P playwright ay wright soldier and italian patriot died at his villa in gardone riviera of a cerebral hemorrhage ile he would have been seventy event five years old in a few days the demise of this really great man an saddened the whole italian notion nation for ho he had bad made himself the idol of the people especially by his bold seizure of flume after the world war and hit his aerial ex exploits in that conflict the world of letters also mourned him deeply rolls increased C CONGRESS having sent the ter billion dollar ern emergency relief appropriation to the white house the officials immell abely authorized the state adminis orations trat ions to hire more relief workers this month aubrey williams acting ad during the consales con vales cence of harry hopkins estimated that the march increases would pull u up p local enrollments from 15 to 25 per cent depend ingon state needs williams said he expected large industrial centers to furnish heaviest demands for a slice of the ne new w relief money but added there is no part of the country that is not affected in some real degree british air program THE PHE british government announced 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 bd beginning gInnIng april I 1 the air force estimates total next was announced a 23 per cent in crease in army appropriations for the coming year gets out of china ephe HE fifteenth united states in left after a quarter century of service in north C hina china during which its officers boast it has 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 S soviet chiefs face death WITHIN a short time we may expect to read of the execution of 21 prominent citizens of soviet russia latest victims of dictator blood 5 purge they were j 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 t the e soviet union plotting Ol otting to td assassa t nate lenin and stal alexis in inspiring the assassination of sergel kiroff and putting to death th the e writer ma maxim gorky and two others previously supposed to have died of natural causes most prominent of the men put on trial were former premier alexis 1 I who succeeded lenin lenim and held office for nearly two years and nikolai Buk harin chronicler of the red revolution and editor of the government newspaper before march 1937 all ali 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 G f agents and new 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 member of the ring were under arrest and held in heavy ball two of them a former sergeant in the united states army and a private in the army were said to have confessed the third was agerman girl hairdresser on the german liner europa the gien G men were diligently searching for other members of the band guenther gustav the ex sergeant who Is a deserter said he was engaged in obtaining secrets and information concerning military militar 7 op operations C rati 0 n S 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 t to 0 the air fortifications of the metropolitan area he supplied certain a ar corps codes to johanna holman hofman the woman arrested rested admitted she was the Il lason officer and paymaster between the ring and its employers secret code keys and considerable quantities of jf money were found on her person senate to probo probe reds SENATOR S COPELAND of new york successfully put through his resolution tor for a special investigation of sub subversive aversive activities of communists in the merchant marine rine lt it will be conducted by a committee named by garner about the same time harry bridges C I 1 0 leader lowthe on the west coast arrived in washington to resist being deported as an undesirable a alien if en bridges also demanded a hearing before the senate committees on commerce and labor |