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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over r LoLI)y Committees Quarrel Over Magnate Ilopson President Signs Social Security Act Tri-Power Conference on Italo-Ethiopian Question. Dy EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. WILL ROClKItS, famous actor ami humorist, and Wiley I'ost, mm of the bi'.st known IllcrH in tin; world, craKhod to their dealli in a jilane while flying from Fairbanks to I'olnt Harrow, Alaska. The two men, close friends, had been enjoying enjoy-ing it i aerial vacallofi trit In the North, and I'ost intended later to fly to Asia. News of Ihe fatal accident acci-dent was sent to Seattle by Sert. .Stanley It. Morgan, signal corps operator op-erator at I'olnt narrow. lie said he had recovered the bodies from the wreckage. RIVALS In the mailer of publicity, pub-licity, the house and senate committees on the activities of lobbyists lob-byists sot Into a tangle that cer-t-wfrT. talnly didn't en-f en-f . hance their dignity. I Y, Howard 0. Hop- l 'i son, the Ion? .-ow sought head of the r-. Associated (!as nml. I . IOIectrle Utilities ? j system, permitted ' j the emissary of the i . f" house committee to K .':'"'; I'-.'id lilm, and Sen-y Sen-y J ntor Hugo Hindi flew Into n rage H. C. Hopson nm, lia(J ,lls com. mittee threaten Ilopson with contempt con-tempt proceedings unless he appeared ap-peared before it. Chairman O'Connor O'Con-nor of the house body was angered by this and declared: "Ilopson Is In my custody. I've got him. Nobody No-body else has Rot him. Nobody els? Is Eoi"i! to get him." So, resolutions resolu-tions were presented in both brandies of congress authorizing the ollicers of lie two chambers to take Ilopson Into custody. The elusive, chunky utilities magnate mag-nate told the bouse committee about ills various companies and related the saga of his travels while he was being sought. I5ut he politely po-litely refused to answer questions concerning the sources and amount ' of his Income. lie testified that he "believed" the Associated Ons system sys-tem had spent "eight or nine hundred hun-dred thousand dollars" in opposition opposi-tion to the Wlieoler-Rnyburn utility control bill. "That's Just a small fraction of the $:S0O,(HX),000 equity in our companies com-panies which would be destroyed If the bill becomes law and remains low," he declared. To one question by Cox of Georgia Geor-gia Ilopson replied : "I resent that Inquiry. No gentleman would have asked it." Whereupon Cox threatened threat-ened to kick him out of the room unless he withdrew the answer, and Ilopson 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 Ilopson after O'Connor's bunch was through with him. However, it gave opportunity for a ridiculous quarrel between the New Yorker and ltnnkin of Texas. Late in the day Ilopson calmly walked into I'.lack's committee room and asked : "Is some one here looking look-ing for me?" Black and his committee com-mittee 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 He-pson and his attorney had been served with contempt citation. cita-tion. OURIiOUNDRD by a group of no-J no-J tables and in the glare of photographers' pho-tographers' flashlights, 1'resident Roosevelt put his signature on the social security act of which he said: "If the senate and house of representatives in this long and arduous ar-duous session had done nothing more than pass this bill the session ses-sion would he 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 La-bor Frances IVrkins. who had a hand in Its making, and Senators I'at Harrison, William King and Edward P. Costigan. In a talk Intended for reproduction repro-duction 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 tinem-uloyment tinem-uloyment compensation, through old age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children chil-dren and the prevention of ill health. "We can never Insure 100 per cent of the population against 100 per cent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure meas-ure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age. "TK 'aw, too, represents a corner cor-ner stone In a structure which Is being bii'H but Is by no means complete com-plete a sliucture intended to les sen the force of possible future depressions, de-pressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the government gov-ernment against the necessity of going go-ing deeply Into debt to furnish relief re-lief to the needy a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation defla-tion 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 of vastly greater great-er soundness." CAI'T. ANTHONY EPF.N of England, Eng-land, Premier Pierre Laval of France and Baron Pompel Alolsl of Italy met In Paris, as arranged, to see If they couldn't -devise a way to f. avert the Italo- .'. ":J Ethiopian war, due f r to begin In Svp- fS,.- ' tember. Eden bad ;.,. y;: a plan ail prepared 1 . S and after outlining f X Yf I it to Laval he laid . I: J It before Baron Aloisi. The latter, ' -f ( of course, had no j, " power to assent but was compelled to Baron Al0,si submit the prosopals to Premier Mussolini. That II Duce would accept ac-cept it without change was eonsid-ere'd eonsid-ere'd unlikely, but It formed a basis for discussion. According to the best information, informa-tion, the Eden plan embraced these chief points: 1. Important economic concessions conces-sions 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 un-der a League of Nations mandate as is provided for former German colonies col-onies in article XXII of the League of Nations covenant. 3. The offer of an outlet direct to the sea for Ethiopia, as a measure meas-ure of compensation for its concessions. conces-sions. It was understood in Paris that Mussolini still demanded what would amount to a mandate over Ethiopia so that he would have political po-litical as well as economic control con-trol over the country. 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. One correspondent said if Great Britain adhered to the policy at which Eden hinted in his conversation with Laval, it would mean either dissolution of the League of Nations Na-tions or else collective sanctions against Mussolini, involving the risk of a European war. XTOBODY liked the new tax bill that congress was working on, and the senate finance committee had hard work making up its mind HvnVrm.jpV. as to the form it , N would recommend. First it altered al-S al-S I most every provi- f t sion of the bill I J passed by the house I and changed It from S. . a "soak the rich" k measure to one k l which would soak :! v practically every L one' This was done by lowering person-Senator person-Senator Borah : . al Income tax exemptions ex-emptions and starting the surtax increases at $3,000 instead of $50,-000. $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 Pres-ident Roosevelt had asked for were eliminated. Protests against increasing the taxes on little incomes came immediately, im-mediately, from senators, representatives represen-tatives and the country at large. Senators Borah of Idaho and Nor-ris Nor-ris of Nebraska were among the "independents" who expressed their disapproval. Mr. Borah especially was vocal in opposition. He could not see the justice or the wisdom of the proposition. So the committee suddenly reversed re-versed itself abruptly, rejected the La Follette plan by a vote of 8 to 7. and saved t lie little incomes and perhaps a lot of house members who hope to be re-elected. . The bill which the committee reported was passed by the senate by a vote of f7 to 22. It contains new provisions to compensate for those eliminated from the house hill and the estimated revenue js only 51,000,000 less. COCR thousand striking employ- ees of the .New York Shipbuilding Shipbuild-ing corporation at Camden, N. J., appealed to President Roosevelt by wire to attempt a fair settlement of their 1-4-week oid strike which has tied up $30,000,000 worth of anvy contracts. They said union recognition must be obtained before the walkout will be ended. The union also seeks wage increases and other objectives. SECRETARY UK AUU1CLL-TUP.E AUU1CLL-TUP.E WALLACE has changed his mind about the reduction of wiieat acreage for lL.'ir. Instead of asking the farmers - for a cut of j per i t cent, as was an- t , nounced recently. -r- j the figure is now E'- tj placed at 5 per ( 1 cent. " ! Wallace told re- y i j porters that the :.-"'- -r change was de- f " ; elded upon after s : J the government's L'.kIT'" 1 August 1 survey of crop conditions in- Sec' Walla dicated that total wheat production produc-tion this year would amount to only U08,00O,(KKJ bushels as compared with domestic requirements of U.'i."j.-000,000 U.'i."j.-000,000 bushels. The step was taken, he asserted, to assure ample supplies for domestic domes-tic consumers. He said that it was expected to place the country In a "strengthened position" in tile export ex-port market. He added the change in policy will not result in any marked reduction in benefit payment pay-ment to farmers. He did not say what the exact reductions in the payments would amount to. AAA officials estimated that approximately ap-proximately .72,000,000 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 1930. WHEN the President's social security se-curity bill was linally enacted enact-ed into law, tiie senate adopting adopt-ing the conference report already-agreed already-agreed to by the house, probably many thousands of men and women all over the country begap figuring on the pensions they would receive under its terms. It is unlikely that one in a thousand has any clear idea of how the new program's pension pen-sion system will work, so we reprint re-print here a neat summary prepared pre-pared by the Associated Press showing 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 will get a monthly pension, until his death, of $53.75. "In detail, here is what will happen hap-pen 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 VA per cent, or $54. - In 1943, 1944, and 1945 the tax will be 2 per cent, or $72. In 1946, 1947, and 1948 the tax will be 2 per cent, or $90. From 1949 to 19S1, inclusive, the tax will be 3 per cent, or a total of $1,1S& for those 33 years. "Thus, in 45 years, Bill Jones will have paid in $1,440. All the time his employer will have been matching match-ing his tax payments, so the total paid to the federal treasury will be $2,SS0. "At sixty-five Bill Jones can expect ex-pect 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 43 giving a total of $54,000. Arbitrarily, the bill stipulates stipu-lates that Bill Jones' estate shall be entitled to 3 per cent of that, or $1,S90 less any amount he received re-ceived in pensions before he died. "If Jones dies before he gets back $1,S90 in pensions, what he actually received is deducted from $1,890 and the remainder paid to his heirs. If he lives until he gets back all of the $1,S90 and more, his heirs gel nothing. "If Jones should die before he reaches sixty-five, his heirs would be entitled to a payment of 3 per cent of the total wages on which taxes had been paid. "For Instance, if he died after ten years, he would have paid taxes on $12,000. His heirs would be entitled en-titled to 3Mi per cent of that, or $420." ADOLF HITLER'S silence during the recently renewed Nazi warfare war-fare on Jews and Catholics led many to think the movement was j, iixt...y. being led by others. j?T'X ) Bt Der Fuehrer r emerged from his i country residence 1 .s cif to make a speech Vt 'I at Rosenheim In which he made it clear he was back- ti s ' ing the current "housecleaning" to , the limit. He de- fck.lJ Clared tl,e Nazi party would smash Adolf Hitler ,ts opponentSi con. tinuing : "Always stand to your flag, not only In good days but even more in the bad ones. Keep it up when the storm lashes and clouds the firmament." Deep apprehension still prevails among Jews in Germany as to what the future has in store for them. After Count voa Helldorf, Berlin police president, had forbidden individual in-dividual action against Jews, Wil-helm Wil-helm Frick, minister of interior, announced an-nounced : "The Jewish question will slowly but surely be gotten rid of, as the Nazi program foresees." |