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Show SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Morgan "Removed" DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT "re- moved" Dr. Arthur E. Morgan as member and chairman of the Tennessee Valley authority, report-c report-c x -vf-, ed this action to con-gress con-gress in a special ', :rz message, and left .. - .:-vs Washington for a 1 visit to Warm : Springs, Ga. Thus ! -. .the entire TVA row - was thrown into the :' 'aP 01 congress, and : senators and repre ss -A sentatives continued - to scrap over wheth- ' ' er an investigation A. E. Morgan Q, thg huge projec, should be made by a senatorial committee or by a joint committee of both houses. Mr. Roosevelt ousted Morgan after receiving from Acting Attorney General Gen-eral Jackson an opinion that he possessed pos-sessed 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 President's action ac-tion as dictatorial and unjustified. The President told congress he had named Harcourt Morgan to succeed suc-ceed A. E. Morgan as chairman of TVA. but he did not appoint his successor as a member of the board. Reasons for the removal of Mor-gm Mor-gm 2s given by the President were that he had made grave and libelous charges against his colleagues and rtfused to substantiate them at the White House hearings, and that he had obstructed the work of the authority. au-thority. Efforts of administration leaders lead-ers in congress were exerted to see that no avowed enemies of TVA should be named on the investigating investigat-ing committee. Majority Leader Earklcy declaring this a prime consideration. con-sideration. He favored inquiry by a joint committee of five members from each house. Senator Norris wanted it done only by senators, and Mr. Borah thought that would be satisfactory. Housa Shows Its Temper EVIDENTLY the house of representatives repre-sentatives doesn't want any more TVA projects started while the affairs of the authority are in such a muddle. By a vote of 1B6 to 157 it refused to concur with the senate in appropriating funds to start construction of the $112,000,000 dam at Gilbertsvillc, Ky. In opposition oppo-sition were 111 Democrats and 75 Republicans. The vote sent the matter back to conference. Months aKo the house appropriations appropria-tions committee rejected the proposition propo-sition to appropriate $2,013,000 to besiri the G.lbertnville dam, and tho houoe left the item out of the bill. The senate was induced by Norris and fibers to put it back, but gt.il the hour.e refused. Profits Tax Out I)AT HARRISON meant what ho said about oH'Ting the revenue bill that was passed by the house. His siriate firian'e committee is making Hie chants. Ry a vote of 17 to 4 it elirnioat" 'I from the measure meas-ure the undistributed profits tax principle, substituting therefor a flat corporation income tax of If) per cent. As a further means of slimulaliriK business and Investment the rorti-,riiiieo rorti-,riiiieo ndop'ed 0 provision dras-lirall dras-lirall rno'lifins; Hie capital pains ,,, p.sses tax. The committee removed re-moved r.apit.-il pains on assets held for more than IB months fiom the income tax category and substituted instead a fiat rate of 15 per cent, which was what business and industry indus-try 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 de-sires to finance proposed additional bounties to farmers amounting to $200,000,000 a year. House Passes Navy Bill AT TITH only 100 votes in oppo- ' sition. the house passed the administration's ad-ministration's billion dollar navy bill. The measure authorizes construction con-struction of the largest battle fleet in American history by adding 46 combat com-bat ships, 22 auxiliaries and 950 airplanes. air-planes. Tr.e War department announced that army and navy officers were about to study plans for an enlistment enlist-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 1.250,000 recruits and the navy 500.000. The first 300.000, under existing plans, would be sought as volunteers in the first month, before selective draft machinery like that of 1917-'13 was put into operation. Already prepared for quick submission to congress is a draft of a selective service law. Britain Ready to Fight REAT BRITAIN will not flatly pledge itself to fight to save Czechoslovakia from German aggression. ag-gression. Eut she will use her arm-f arm-f iv v n aments to fulfill her t, ?2'' " treaty obligations to ' '. France and Eel- ' Rium, and is ready ; ' to go to war in their 1 " I de fense if they ore t' , A unjustly attacked. fr i That was the i v--y -"Li warning to Hitler ut-'"n. ut-'"n. I 1 tcrcd by Prime Mm- fvj . " 1 ister Chamberlain in ' X 1 house of com- Neville important statement Chamberlain fjf Bntish Ulxl.Agn policy since the World war. Declaring his belief that peace will be maintained. Chamberlain said: "I cannot imagine any events In Europe which would change the fundamental basis of British foreign for-eign policy, which is the maintenance mainte-nance 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 in-terests are at stake, he gave plain warning that if German aggression should result in war there, Britain might be forced into it, He urged peaceful settlement of Czechoslovakia's German minority problem and offered Britain's help in this. He flatly turned down Soviet Russia's Rus-sia's call for consultation against aggressor nations. The prime minister said that In the case of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia Ethio-pia n 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 believed the league might be revivified and strengthened. Members cheered this declaration, declara-tion, interpreting it as lin Invitation lo the grent powers outside the league Hie Unite. Mules, Ger. many, Japan, I'.rail nod Italy -to associate themselves with it. To Save CCC Camps t EPRESENTATIVE WOODRUM of Virginia, a member of the appropriations committee, told the house congress soon will be called on to provide a huge sum for continuation con-tinuation of the work relief program, pro-gram, and that, in anticipation of this, his committee has taken steps to keep open 300 Civilian Conservation Conserva-tion corps camps scheduled for closing clos-ing in July as an economy measure. "I have discussed this matter with the President," said Woodrum. "I learned that there is impounded in the Treasury the sum of $28,000,000 which congress appropriated for the CCC for the current year program and which will not be used. An appropriation ap-propriation of 50 millions will enable ena-ble the corps to carry on its present program through the next fiscal year." Roosevelt Warns South ON HIS way to Warm Springs President Roosevelt paused in Gainesville, Ga., long enough to deliver de-liver sharp criticism of those southerners south-erners who are keeping the wage-hours wage-hours legislation deadlocked in the house of representatives and who have opposed other of his New Deal measures. He asserted that southern workers are underpaid and under-employed and warned that unless un-less this condition is changed the South cannot and will not succeed in establishing successful new industries. in-dustries. He attacked "selfishness on the part of a few" for holding back "national progress and prosperity," and added: "This nation will never permanently get on the road to recovery if we leave the methods meth-ods and the processes of recovery to those who owned the government govern-ment of the United States from 1921 ' to 1933." He referred sarcastically to those who insist on a balanced budget but offer no suggestions on how this can be achieved without put- j ting "dollars ahead of human lives." "They have the same type of mind." said he, "as those representatives represen-tatives of the people who vote against legislation to help social and economic conditions, proclaiming loudly that they are for the objec- ) tives but do not like the methods and then fail utterly to offer a better method of their own." Wheat Crop Estimate PREDICTION by the bureau cf agricultural economics cf the Department De-partment of Agriculture is that this year's wheat crop will be KM.OJ.C.'O bushels, or lC0.00n.0o0 bushels in excess ex-cess cf the 1932-213 average. The survey estimates that the wheat carry-over in 1939 w.ll be around 3 .0.. 000.000 bushel.;. The record wheat crop is based on the following fact.rs: If farmers seed the acreage indicated in the prospec'.ive-plan'.ir.g report, and if average yields are obtained, this year's spring v.heat crop, ir.c'.u lini: durum, will total about 2DT.0iKi.t)i(j bushels. This, together with the winter crop of about G'iO.O'iO.OiO bushels, ind.cates n prospective output out-put of 830.0'KI.OOO bushels. Mexican Oil Seizures ORESIDFNT CARDENAS of Mcxi- Co announced the expropriation expropria-tion of oil properties belonging to American and Brili.sh companies and valued at some $100.00(1.000. Wells, refineries and tankers were seized and workers took control of all company offices in the republic. repub-lic. The American and British employees and their families fled. For the present the oil industry in Mexico was paralyzed. Cardenas marie a public promise that the government would pay indemnity in-demnity fur the seized oil properties. proper-ties. Vicente Hcrrera was appointed appoint-ed general manager of Uie new national na-tional petroleum council. Tetlow Heads Coal Board p ERCY TETLOW. a lieutenant of John L. Lewis, has been elected chairman of the national bituminous coal commission to succeed C. F. Hosford, resigned. This apparently puts the C. I. O. 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 nn-nfilrial of the United Mine Workers when appointed to the board. Victory for Poland fN'E Immediate threat of Euro-pean Euro-pean war seemed to be dissolved dis-solved when Lithuania yielded to the demands of Poland for resump-, resump-, wmi tion of normal dip- lomatic nnrl trndo J' ; relations nnd virlu- f iHy C'lvo up its f ' " ' claim to Vilnn, for- ? . iiht capital nf tho ' country, which, tho A I'nirs seized 10 years i ago. (Icneral Stnig- f ; ''V':'' 'V FtyrU. chief of tho fc V fV p I'olir.h nriny nnd L - "strong man" of I'o- ;iMr( h;,f mobilized firnrral hj, tronps on tho HmlKly-Kyili i,iUiminii,n border, nnd Polish warships wrrp cruising j olT M'-rnrl. So thf-ro was nothing for tho r.ilhs to do DfM'pt (Jivo In. i Polish troops that had hrn concentrated concen-trated in Vilna paraded In celebration celebra-tion (if tho bloodless victory, but In I Warsaw the celebrallon was distorted dis-torted Inlo n "poKrorn" In which ri-1 ri-1 otous thrones nflaeked nil the Jews , they could find, killing (several and wounding scores, llundirds of Jew-ish Jew-ish -(i word shops were smashed bo-! bo-! foio the polire could irnlorp order. |