Show news review of current events the world over lobby committees quarrel over magnate b hopson president V signs social security act tri power conference on italo ethiopian question by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper un on WILL w ILL ROGERS famous actor and humorist and wiley post one of the best known fliers in the world crashed to their death in a plane while flying from fairbanks to point bar row alaska the two men close friends had been enjoying an aerial vacation trip in the north and post intended later to fly to asia news of the fatal accident was sent to seattle by sergt stanley E R morgan s gnal corps operator at point barrow he said he had recovered the bodies from the wreckage arthe in the matter of publicity the house and senate committees on the activities of lobbyists got enli a tangle that certainly d t enhance their d anity how ard C hopson the long sought heid of the assoc abed rs vis and electric utilities system permitted the emissary of the house ap committee to find him and senator hugo blick black v into a ra rae e and I 1 ad I 1 is t threaten hopson with contempt proceed proceedings ino H C hopson unless he appeared bo be fore it chairman 0 connor oconnor of the house body was angered by this an ani I 1 declared hopson is in my custody I 1 ive ve got him nobody else has got him nobody else Is going to get him the elusive chunky utilities mag nate told the house committee about his various companies and related the saga of his travels while he was be ing sought but he politely refused toan to an ewer questions concerning the sources and amount of his income he fied fled that he bel eved the associated gas system had spent eight or nine hundred thousand dollars in tion to the wt eeler gayb irn utility control bill that s just a small fraction of the equity in our companies which would be destroyed it if the bill becomes law and remains law he declared to one question by cos cox of georgia hopson replied I 1 resent that in no gentleman would have asked it whereupon cos cox threat ened to kick him out of the room un less he withdrew the answer and hop son mildly withdrew it 0 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 0 connor s bunch was through with him however it gave opportunity for a ridiculous quarrel between the new yorker and 1 I ante ank n of texas late in the day hopson calmly walked into blacks committee room and asked Is some one here 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 actor ney had been served with contempt citation OV MARTIN L DAVEY of ohio GOV has pulled a fast one on the RepublIc republicans alis in behalf of the demo cratic pirty party the O 0 0 O P leaders were demanding a state wide by elec tion in ohio to fill the vacancy created by the death of representative at large charles V truax believing the result would demonstrate deiron dewon strate even more clearly than did the rhode Is land election the waning strength of the administration but governor da tey went to washington and consult ed with president roosevelt and then announced that he would not call and could not be compelled to call a caal congressional election until next year his declared reason was the cost not fear of party defeat court action to force the calling of the elec tion has been started but davey says there Is no restriction of his diacre tion in fixing the time of the election S surrounded by a group of not ables and in the glare of photos raphers flashlights president boose velt put his signature on the social security act of which he said it if the senate and house of re presenta fives tives in this long and arduous session bad 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 V wagner of new tork york and representative john lewis of maryland who jointly drafted the bill 1111 secretary of labor frances ler tins kins who had a hand in its mall making ng and senators pat harrlson harrison william VIII Iam and edward P in a 4 talk intended for reproduction on the sound screens of the country the president said this social security measure gives 1 at least some pr protection tion to SO of our citizens who will reap direct benefits through unemployment corn com sensation pens pensa atlon tion through old age pensions and through increased services for the protection of children and the tion of ill health we can never insure per cen acte A of the population against per cent of the hazards and licis rudes of life but we have tried to arime a law which will give ghe some measure of pr lection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty rid len old ii ae e this law too represents a corner stone in a structure which Is being built but Is by no means complete a i structure intended to lessen lesen the forit fori t of possible furuie depressions to act as a protection to future adm histia eions of the government against the necessity of go ng deel ly info into debt to furnish relief to the needy a lw to flatten out the peaks and valleys of de nation and of inflation in other words a law that will take care of human needs and it at the bame time provide for the united states an economic ture of vastly greater soundness APT ANTHONY EDEN of enc eng land premier I 1 ene crie laval of france and baron pompel aloisi of italy met in paris as arranged to see if they couldn coulden t de vise an a way ay to avert the 04 italo ark a war due to begin in sep eden had a plan all prepared and after outlining it to i laval he laid it be tore fore baron the latter of course had no power to assent but was compelled to submit the proposals to premier mussolini baron alois that 11 II duce would accept it without change mas as cons dered unlikely but it formed a bass has s for discussion according to the best information the eden plan embraced these chief points I 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 un ler a league of nations mandate as Is pro vided for former german colonies in article X XII II 11 of the league of na eions covenant 3 the of an out et d 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 as well as econom c control over the coun try this great britain does not like and france prance Is rather on the fence the british insist that in any case there must be an dimmed ate show down one correspondent said if great britain adhered to the policy at which eden hinted in his 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 eu war enthat liked the new tax bill L that congress vas working on and the senate finance committee had hard work making up its mind as to the form it would becom mend wend first it altered almost every provision of the bill passed by the house and changed it from a soak the rich measure to one which would soak a practically eveia one this was done by low ering personal income tax exemptions and a starting the surtax in senator borah creases at a 3 a in stead of 50 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 nere elaml bated protests against increasing the taxes on little incomes came immediately from senators representatives and the country at large senators borah of idaho and morris norris of Neb risha were among the independents who ex pressed their disapproval mr air borah especially was vocal in opposition families with these small incomes are now paying more than their pro onate 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 fol lette plan by a vote of 8 to 7 the bill which the committee re ported was passed by the senate by a vote of 57 to 22 it contains new pro visions to compensate for those elaml bated from the house bill and the es timatea revenue is only 1000 less this is divided in the senate bill as follows graduated co po por atlon ration in come tax 60 corporation excess profits and capital stock taxes 65 dividend 3 39 9 increased detate taxes with related gift taxes increased surtaxes on in comes in excess of tl 1000 5 total 1269 the bill thus more closely follows the demands of president poosevelt roosevelt than the house measure la a athe airty commissioners representing the methodist episcopal church the th e methodist episcopal church south and the methodist protestant church have been in session in evanston III and have agreed upon a form of union that Is to be submitted to the general conferences of the three churches and if ratified by them to all the annual conferences the new organization it was agreed would be called the united methodist church and would cons st of six jurisdictional or regional conferences F AIMERS al who believe that their individual rights are being en ell broached cro ached upon by the administrations agricultural policies are offered a chance to get together by the bation and incorporation in chicago ot of the farmers independent council oc ot america dan D casement a farmer of manhattan ivan ban Is president of the body stanley IN morse south caroline farmer and consulting agri culter st Is exec executive uthe vice president and chris J abbott nebraska stock man and farmer and clyde 0 patter son III nois jersey breeder were in corp orators dr cl aries arles W burkett agricultural authority of new ew york and formerly director of the kansas agricultural esper exper ment 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 columb a Is secretary treasurer fred L crawford Illch michigan igan congress man and farm owner E E dorsett farmer and past master pennsylvania state grange and kurt greenwald farm manager and agricultural en engi gl neer new lork ork are directors Yi directors rectors to me there is but one issue whether w we are going to have a con government or have a dicta tordal regime said charles E co I 1 ns colorado Co Col lorido ovido cattleman and president den of the amer can national live stoc c isso ciati n regional vice president of the new organization S SECRETARY of agriculture wallace has changed his mind about the r of wheat acreage for 1936 in stead of asling the farmers tor for a c it of 15 per cent as was announced recently the figure is now placed at 5 per cent wallace mallace told report ers that the chan change e was decided upon after the government governments s au an gust I 1 survey of crop conditions indicated that total wheat pro A this year would amount to only COS bushels as seey wallace compared with domestic requirements of bushels the step was talen taken he asserted to assure ample supplies for dom domestic estle consumers he said that it was ex pecked to place the country in a strengthened position in the export market he ile added the change in pol pot icy ley will not result in any marled marked reduction in benefit payment to farmers he ile did not say what the exact deduc alons in the payments would amount to AAA officials estimated that irately 52 acres would be placed under contract this year they asserted that the government is given adequate powers to deal with the on if a bumper wheat harvest should result in 1936 WHEN HEN the presidents social se carity bill was finally enacted in to law the senate adopting the confer ence report already agreed to by the house probably many thousands of men and women al at over the country began figuring on the pension they would wold receive under its terms it la is unlikely that one in a thousand has any clear idea of how the ne v pro giam gams s pension system will work so we reprint here a neat summary pre pared by the associated press 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 until he is s sty five he ile will 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 1039 he will pay a salary tax of I 1 per cent or a t ta al of 30 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 72 in 1948 1946 1947 and 1948 the tax will be per cent or 90 from to 1981 inclusive the tat tax will be 3 per cent or a total of 1188 thus in 45 years bill jones will have paid in 1440 all the time his employer will have been matching his tax payments so the total paid to the federal treasury al 41 nill be 2 2880 at sixty five bill jones can expect to live perhaps 10 years more if he does he will get back 6 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 1200 1 will be multiplied by 45 giving a total of arbitrarily the bill stipulates ultes that bill jones estate shall be entitled to sva 3 per cent of that or 1 1890 less any amount he received in pensions before he died if jones dies before he gets back 1890 in pensions what he actually received Is deducted from 1890 and the remainder paid to his heirs if he lives until he gets back all of the 1890 1 and more hb heirs get nothing if jones should die before he reaches sixty five his heirs would be entitled to a payment of 3 per rent cent of the total wages on which fixes ha I 1 beep paid I 1 1 |