Show news review of current events MORGAN OUSTED BY fe F do D re TVA scandal handed over to congress britain will fight for her allies says chamberlain 4 4 here in confidential conversation are senator sherman minton of indi ana left chairman of the senate committee investigating lobbying and senator lewis B Sch of washington the committee s inquiry at present is directed particularly to a campaign against the government reorganization bill and its activities aroused publisher frank gannett to demand its abolition A esaw summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union morgan removed PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT re 1 moved dr arthur E morgan as member and chairman of the tennessee valley authority report ed this action to con ark gress in a special message and left washington for a visit to warm springs ga thus the entire TVA row was thrown into the lap of congress and senators and representatives senta tives continued to scrap over cheth er an investigation A E morgan of the e huge project should be made by a senatorial committee or by a joint committee of both houses mr roosevelt ousted morgan at after ter receiving from acting attorney gen eral jackson an opinion that he pos hessed 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 presidents s ac tion as dictatorial and unjustified the president told congress he had named harcourt morgan to sue suc aeed 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 gan as given by the president were that he had made grave and libelous charges against his colleagues and refused to substantiate them at the white house hearings and that he had obstructed the work of the au dhority efforts of administration lead ers in congress were exerted to see that no avowed enemies of TVA should be named on the ii investigate invest avest igat ing committee majority leader barkley declaring this a prime con 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 house shows its tem temper p er E the house of depre senta tives t want any more TVA projects started while the affairs of the authority are in such a muddle by a vote of to it refused to concur with the senate in appropriating funds to start construction of the dam at gilbertsville Gilberts ville ky in appo were democrats and 75 republicans the vote sent the matter back to conference months ago the house eions committee rejected the apropo to appropriate 2 to begin the gilbertsville Gilberts ville dam and the house left the item out of the bill the senate was induced by norris and others to put it back but still the house refused profits tax out PAT DAT HARRISON meant what he said about altering the revenue bill that was passed by the house his senate finance committee is making the changes by a vote of 17 to 4 it eliminated from the meas ure the undistributed profits tax principle substituting a flat corporation income tax of 18 per cent As a further means of stimulating business and investment mv estment the corn coin cittee adopted a provision dras modifying the capital gains and losses tax the committee re moved capital gains on assets held for more than 18 months from the income tax category and substituted instead a flat rate of 15 per cent which was what business and 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 de sires to finance proposed additional bounties to farmers amounting to a year house passes navy bill W ITH only votes in appo the house passed the ad ministration ministrations s billion dollar navy bill the measure authorizes con st ruction of the largest battle fleet in american history by adding 46 corn com bat ships 22 auxiliaries and air planes the war department announced that army and navy officers were about to study plans for an 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 1250 1 recruits and the navy the first under existing plans would be sought as volunteers in the first month before selective draft machinery like that of 1917 18 was put into operation already prepared for quick submission to congress is a draft of a selective service law britain ready to fight G REAT BRITAIN will not flatly VJ pledge itself to fight to save czechoslovakia from german ag egression gres sion but she will use her arm aments to fulfill her treaty obligations to france and bel gium glum and is ready p to go to war in their t defense if they are unjustly attacked that was the warning to hitler ut by prime mm min ister chamberlain in the house of c corn om mons in the most neville important statement chamberlain of british foreign policy since the world war declaring his belief that peace will be maintained chamberlain said I 1 cannot imagine any events in europe which would change the fundamental basis of british for eign policy which is the amainte 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 in teresta 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 Brit britain ains s help in this he flatly turned down soviet rus sia s call for consultation against aggressor nations the prime minister said that in the case of italy s conquest of echio pia a 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 declara tion interpreting it as an invitation to the great powers outside the league the united states germany japan brazil and italy to associate themselves with it to save camps representative representative WOODRUM rot of virginia a member of the appropriations committee told the house congress soon will be called on to provide a huge sum for con of the work relief program and that in anticipation of this his committee has taken steps to keep open civilian conserva tion corps camps scheduled for clos ing in july as an economy measure I 1 have discussed this matter with the president said woodrum I 1 learned that there is impounded in the treasury the sum of 28 which congress appropriated for the for the current year program and which will not be used an ap prop nation of 50 millions will ena ble the corps to carry on its present program through the next fiscal year roosevelt warns south fn an 0 N HIS IS way to warm springs president roosevelt paused in gainesville Games ville ga long enough to de liver sharp criticism of those south erners who are keeping the 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 un less this condition is changed the south cannot and will not succeed in establishing successful new in dus bustnes tries he attacked selfishness on the part of a few for holding back national progress and prosperity and added a this nation will never permanently get on the road to recovery if we leave the meth and the processes of recovery ery to those who owned the 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 ting dollars ahead of human lives they have the same type of mind said he as those re presen natives of the people who vote against legislation to help social and economic conditions proclaiming loudly that they are for the object tives but do not like the methods and then fail fall utterly to offer a better method of their own wheat crop estimate prediction by the bureau of 1 agricultural economics of the department part ment of agriculture is that this year s wheat crop will be bushels or bushels in ex cess of the 1932 36 average the survey estimates that the wheat car ry over in 1939 will be around bushels the record wheat crop is based on the following factors if farmers seed the acreage indicated in the prospective planting report and if average yields are obtained this year s spring wheat crop including durum will total about bushels this together with the winter crop of about bushels indicates a prospective output of bushels mexican oil seizures PRESIDENT CARDENAS of 1 co announced the tion of oil properties belonging to american and british companies and valued at some wells refineries and tankers were seized and workers took control of all company offices in the lie lic the american and british employees and their families fled for the present the oil industry in mexico was paralyzed cardenas made a public promise that the government would pay in for the seized oil properties vicente herrera was appoint ed general manager of the new na dional petroleum council tetlow heads coal board PERCY TETLOW a lieutenant of 1 john L lewis has been elected chairman of the national bituminous coal commission to succeed C F hosford resigned this apparently puts the C 1 I 0 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 an official of the united mine workers when appointed to the board victory for poland 0 NE immediate threat of euro war seemed to be dis solved when lithuania yielded to the demands of poland for resumption of normal diplomatic and trade relations and virtu ally gave up its claim to vilna former capital of the country which the poles seized 18 years ago general amig ly chief of the polish army and strong man of po land had mobilized general his g troops on a the snugly lithuanian border and polish warships were cruising off memel so there was nothing for the liehs to do except give in pol ish troops that had been concentrate concen trat ed in vilna paraded in celebration of the bloodless victory but in warsaw the celebration was dis ported into a I 1 pogrom in which riotous throngs attacked all the jews they could find killing several and wounding scores hundreds of jew ish owned shops were smashed be fore the police could restore order |