Show AA A A AA AAI I WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By Lemuel F. F Parton v New Income Tax Ferret W The ASHINGTON The more fervId fervid fer fer- vid New-Dealers New took it pretty hard when Prof Roswell Foster Magill Magill Ma Ma- Ia- Ia gill became special assistant to the secretary of the treasury to explore explore explore ex ex- tax dod tax dodging ing and point out the dodgers He was known as a conservative and he is a son of the distinguished Hugh Stewart Magill of Chicago who as president of the American Federation of Investors is bracketed bracket bracket- ed more with the haves than the have nots The treat rough crowd here wanted Harold Groves of the University of Wisconsin for forthe forthe forthe the tax job Economic royalists are Mr Groves' Groves favorite clay targets Secretary insisted on bringing in Professor Magill 1 as asan asan asan an authority on federal taxation and andas andas andas as a man who ought to be able to uncover outs hide-outs and get in inthe inthe inthe the income tax maze The Magill report on tax evasion spurs a drive for a general overhauling and tightening tightening tightening tight tight- ening of the income tax law President President President dent Roosevelt in his last press conference made it clear that the swing on income big-income tax-dodgers tax was entirely premeditated and that thata a congressional investigation would follow This writer gathered at the conference that action would be immediate immediate immediate im im- im- im mediate and overt possibly starting starting starting start start- ing with the Presidents President's return from Hyde Park outs Hold-outs on the Magill l appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment are arc cheering the Columbia professor today There is no in indication indication indica indica- ica- ica tion that he pulled his punch in his finding fact-finding inquiry and the President President President dent seemed to think he lie had enough ammunition to sink one or all of those yachts allegedly used for tax write Professor Magill might be one of those six men with a passion for anonymity for which the President yearned when he was telling about the Brownlow report Naturally a tax expert isn't garlanded or spotlighted spotlighted spotlighted spot spot- lighted like the top-bracket top politicians politicians politicians here and that is is' is all right with Professor Magill who has been b busier sier than a gopher burrowing through the treasury tax underground underground underground under under- ground the last few months He is surprisingly human for one of his profession with nothing desiccated desiccated desiccated des des- or actuarial about him and has made a pleasant field day out of his tax evasion study Professor Magill is forty two years old old a native of Auburn Ill III He was graduated from Dartmouth and from the University of Chicago as a Doctor of Jurisprudence He was a captain in the World war and began the practice of law in Chicago in 1920 He De was on the time University of Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago faculty from 1921 to 1923 and has been with Columbia since 1924 1921 lie He was adviser to the tax commission commission commission com com- mission of Porto Rico in 1928 and andis is the author of several impressive and to the layman quite bewildering bewilder bewilder- ing books on federal taxation Conservatives on the Supreme court turn liberal Certain congressmen congress congress- men talk like Jerry Simpson Simp Simp- son and work like the Commonwealth Commonwealth Commonwealth Common Common- wealth Edison The conservative Professor Magill gets a big hand on the left Past performance doesn't seem to be the guide and indicator it used to be here in the capital Social Security Advances ITS IT'S ITS IT'S TS T'S Anchors Aweigh for th the social social social so- so cial security board as the Supreme Supreme Supreme Su Su- Su- Su preme court hands it its clearance papers Arthur J. J Altmeyer in the chart room had the course already mapped Plans for immediate wide extension of the scope and activities activities activities ties of the board in six fields are announced This extension will bring several additional million persons under the act Mr Altmeyer has burrowed in dry statistics for years coming to the surface as director of novel governmental governmental governmental govern govern- mental financial operations probably unprecedented in history He is a native of De Pere Wis the son of Dutch parents an alumnus of Wisconsin university a former statistician statistician statistician sta sta- sta- sta of the Wisconsin tax commission commission commission com com- mission and chief statistician of the Wisconsin industrial commission In 1933 he lie was made chief of the labor branch of the compliance division division division di di- vision of the and later was appointed second assistant secretary of labor Jabor He lIe is the author of several books on subjects in the field of or labor law and governmental accounting ac ac- counting 0 f Consolidated d News Features Service |