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Show Xeirs ISevieir of Current L vents MORGAN ASKS INQUIRY Chairman of TVA Brings to the Surface the Feud With His Colleagues . . . Corn Acreage Allotments , f V , s Here, photographed after their arrest in New York, are Johanna Hof-mann Hof-mann of Dresden, Germany, and Guenther Gustav Rumrieh, former United States army sergeant and a deserter, two of the three persons accused of complicity in an international spy plot, the 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 for the ring. r SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Berry Claim Cause of Row LONG existing warfare between Dr. A. E. Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and his fellow directors, David Lilien-jjgsj Lilien-jjgsj thai and Harcourt I " Morgan, has come vf to a climax, due to f the claims of Sen. I . George L. Berry for 5,000,000.000 be-!vws be-!vws N"i ! cause nis alleged t s I marble quarries " X were flooded in the I . I Norris dam area. j Doctor Morgan has gflsji9' i dernanded a show- ' Sr" --' down in the form of A. E. Morgan a congressional investigation in-vestigation of the whole TVA setup set-up and its activities. A commission appointed by a federal fed-eral court in Tennessee reported the claims of Berry and his associates were worthless because their properties prop-erties could not be profitably operated operat-ed 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." govern-ment." He said: "The Berry marble mar-ble case represents the kind of difficulty dif-ficulty with which as chairman of the TVA board, I have been faced in the effort to maintain good standards stand-ards of public service. To a steadily steadi-ly increasing degree I have contended con-tended with an attitude of conspiracy, conspira-cy, secretiveness, and bureaucratic manipulation, which has made the proper conduct of TVA business difficult." The statement declared that Berry Ber-ry 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, agree-ment, in the face of what seemed to me to be an obvious intent to exploit ex-ploit 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 the issue of honesty and decency which he had to face and that there was a lot more he would like to tell a congressional con-gressional committee. Slaps Little Business SECRETARY OF COMMERCE ROPER told President Roosevelt Roose-velt 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 hij problems. Mr. Roper based his conclusion on an analysis of 3,000 letters from among 4.000 communications that grew out of the "little business" conference recently held in Washington. Washing-ton. The secretary said he was impressed im-pressed by the fact that the recommendations recom-mendations in the letters showed li'tle understanding of the broad aspects as-pects of the problems of govcrn-r-ient, and he implied that small business men vcrc largely self-seek-r rs. .W.hini! v.-as said of the 100 resolutions, reso-lutions, adopted at the little btisi-,.,.ss btisi-,.,.ss conf'TCncc. which demanded lhat the government cease regulator! regula-tor! and int'.-rf'T'-ncc with business. ,: tax reli' f to business, and halt zp'-rirr.'.-niation where it affected i,usin''-.s. Corn Acreage Cut "A P. Mr. ('.'"' of 12 commercial corn producing kI:iI-s vcre (old by the :;ncuMural Adjustm'-nt adminis-,;,ij,,r, adminis-,;,ij,,r, that lli'-y might plant this M ar in c.rn 4l.4'l.27 a-r. in a'.'i j I vir.t !. Thit compares Willi .'.!!,. Clfl.ViO arcs in ronnli' l har- .., -.! i 'i last y-:.r. 'I'h" c.ril'1: n:,V,rial goal for )''''' . including U: 're,'..! corn a-r-oage allot ment, is 94,000,000 to 97,000.000 bushels. The 1938 allotments by states and total acres harvested in the total number of counties in each state follow: Illinois 1938 allotment, 7,348,396 acres in 102 counties against 9,451,-000 9,451,-000 acres harvested in 102 counties in 1937. Indiana 3.456,212 acres for 77 counties against 4,706,000 in 92 counties. Iowa 9,249.259 acres in 99 counties coun-ties againt 11,180.000 in 99 counties. Kansas 2,108,602 acres for 27 counties against 2.456,000 in 105 counties. Kentucky 150.390 acres for four counties against 2,906,000 in 120 counties. Michigan 223.791 acres for five counties against 1,590,000 in 83 counties. coun-ties. Minnesota 3.319.803 acres in 45 counties against 4,788,000 in 87 counties. coun-ties. Missouri 3,267,088 acres in 6 counties against 4,260,000 in 114 counties. Nebraska 6,757,345 acres in 64 counties against 7,904,000 in 93 counties. coun-ties. South Dakota 1.635,794 acres in 17 counties against 3,155 acres in 69 counties. Wisconsin 452,810 acres in 6 counties . against 2,424,000 in 71 counties. Ohio 2,521,779 acres in 57 counties coun-ties against 3,796,000 in 88 counties. Under the new farm program, acreage allotments will be set by county committees for individual farms. Tax Bill Battle Starts nOBERT L. DOUGHTON of North Carolina, chairman of the ways and means committee, submitted to the house the revenue bill formulat-p.-y ! e by a majority of . j the committee, and A the struggle over .1 this measure began : at once. The admin-. J istration leaders claim the act will 3 stimulate trade and '"!' 1 remove hardships ' " v. i on both big and lit-f-?mjf; He business without I 4 lowerinij the aggre-' aggre-' ' , ' : gate federal income. Houston Mr. Doughton knew he had a fight on his hands, but predicted pre-dicted the speedy passage of the measure substantially as reported. The most vulnerable provision admittedly ad-mittedly was a proposed penalty tax on closely held corporations. McCormack of Massachusetts and Lamneck of Ohio filed a separate report attacking this feature. Republican members of the committee com-mittee united in a report which blamed New Deal taxes for the "Franklin D. Roosevelt de pression" and which charged that the tax on closely held corporations is a political polit-ical weapon to be used to purge the nation's business structure of corporations cor-porations controlled by New Deal foes. Chairman Pat Harrison, Democrat, Demo-crat, Mississippi, of the senate finance fi-nance committee, said his group would begin hearings soon on the measure. A majority at his committee com-mittee is reported to he opposed to several provisions of the house bill, including the retention of the- principles prin-ciples of the undistributed profits tax. Disaster in California COtrrilF.IiN CALIFORNIA, esp,.. cially the region about Los An-g, An-g, p s. was swept by a destructive flood following extraordinary rains. Nearly TiO persons were drowned or hilled in land slides and thousands lied from their huiiu s. It was thought the properly damage might reach ;.-':. Oli'i.O'KI. For a tune Los Angel' was cut oir from all ruin-ronnicatiorift ruin-ronnicatiorift except hy short wave radio. Death of D'Annunzio r1 ABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO, poet, playwright, soldier and Italian patriot, died at his villa in Gardone Riviera of a cerebral hemorrhage. He would have been seventy-five years old in a few days. The demise of this really great man saddened the whole Italian nation for he had made himself the idol of the people especially by his bold seizure of Fiume after the World war and his aerial exploits in that conflict. The world of letters also mourned him deeply. WPA Rolls Increased r"ONGRESS having sent the quar-ter quar-ter billion dollar emergency relief re-lief appropriation to the Whita House, the WPA officials immedi' ately authorized the state administrations adminis-trations to hire 500,000 more relief workers this month. Aubrey Williams, acting WPA administrator ad-ministrator during the convalescence convales-cence of Harry Hopkins, estimated that the March increases would pull up local enrollments from 15 to 25 per cent, depending on state needs. Williams said he expected large industrial centers to furnish heaviest heavi-est demands for a slice of the new relief money, but added: "There is no part of the country that is not affected in some real degree." British Air Program ' I 'HE British government an--- oounced the greatest air force estimates in the nation's history and disclosed that a corps of scientists had been mobilized to aid in secret air defense plans. For the fiscal year beginning April 1 the air force estimates total $367,500,000. Next was announced a 23 per cent increase in-crease in army appropriations for the coming year. Gets Out of China TPHE Fifteenth United States in--- fantry left Tientsin after a quarter quar-ter century of service in North China, during which, its officers boast, it has not fired a shot in anger. an-ger. The regiment, stationed there under the Boxer protocol, is being withdrawn permanently, to be replaced re-placed by a marine detachment Soviet Chiefs Face Death VW'ITHIN a short time we may " ' expect to read of the execution execu-tion of 21 prominent citizens of Soviet So-viet Russia, latest victims of Dictator Dicta-tor Stalin's blood - purge. They were . put on trial before a military tribunal, f -i t and there was little f 5 doubt as to their J fate. Among the ac- v- V cusations against ,r ; i them were conspir- , f-t ing with foreign . v . i powers to dismem- ; -JJ i ber the Soviet Union, j M plotting to assassinate assassi-nate Lenin and Stal- AlexU Kkov in, inspiring the assassination of Sergei Kiroff, 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 Alexis Alex-is I. Rykov. who succeeded Lenin and held office for nearly two years; and Nikolai Bukharin, chronicler of the red revolution and editor of the government newspaper Izvestia before be-fore March. 1937. All of the accused men admitted their guilt, but Krestinsky, former ambassador to Berlin, tried to repudiate re-pudiate his confession. The others one after another told in court of their alleged conspiracies and treasons. Th ree Taken as Spies GOVERNMENT aents and New York police broke up a ring of i spies enfiatfed in selling secrets of the Americnn army and navy to a European nation described as n world power but otherwise not named. Three aliened members of 1 the ring were under arrest and held ! in heavy bail. Two of them, n fur- I mer sergeant in the United States ' army and a private in the army, I were said to have confessed. The ' third was a Cerman cirl, hairdresser on the German liner Europa. The j G-men were diligently searching fur , other members of the band. Guenther Gustav Rumrieh, the ex-scrfieant. who is a deserter, said he was encand in obtaining secrets and information concerning military operations of the United States army and wai forwarding it through confidential channels to various va-rious addresses in Europe. Erich Glaser, the private, had been stationed at Mitchel Eield, New York, the larger-it army air base on the East coast and key to the air fortifications (if the metropolitan metropol-itan area. Tie sjipplied certain air corps codes to Rumrieh. Johanna Ilnrman, the woman arrested, ar-rested, admitted she was tlx; "liason officer and paymaster" between the ring and its employers. Secret code keys and considerable quantities of money were found on her person. Senate to Probo Reds ENATOR COI'EEANn of New York sneer ssf ill ly ,nt through his resolution for a s-peeial Investigation Investi-gation of subversive artivities of Communists In the merchant marine. ma-rine. It Will be eoiifluctefl by a counniHrr named by Garner. About the same time Marry liridgrri, ('. I. (). fi-.ider on the west co;i;t, arrived in Washington to n-.-ist being deported de-ported as an nndesimhlp alien. I. ridges al.o demanded a hearing before th. r.eual" committers on commrrre and labor. |