Show ne news w s review of current events the world over new tax program V stirs hot debate blacks seizure of telegrams norris norn s dam Is completed italo ethiopian peace draws nearer by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 western newspaper union ON GRESSMAN SAM B HILL of C congressman washing washington ton and his subcommittee ot of tile the timise house ways and means committee took up the heavy task of determining ter mining how tile new revenue 0 t f 51 1 I called for by president roosevelt V veit should be raised treasury officials recommended om orn that an av erase tax of S JA per cent should be levied on undivided corpor aaion profits and a tax of no 90 per cent on all refunded or un rep ss bald AAA processing 1 hill taxes in this tile the fiscal experts followed the sug suggestions of air roosevelt they told tile the subcommittee that the proposed corporation surplus tax would yield tile the government annually the president has estimated that this amount will be needed to finance the new farm program and the soldier bonus the so called win windfall drall tax on processors who successfully challenged the AAA in the courts it was believed would yield another this will be used to reimburse the treasury for losses suffered ered as a result of the supreme courts invalidation of AAA there remains an additional dit ional which it Is proposed to raise through excise taxes on a wide range of farm processors chairman hill said the experts and the members of the subcommittee were agreed that the tax on undivided surplus should not apply to banks and life insurance companies there was wide divergence of opinion concerning this tax among leaders in congress San sanator titor james hamilton lewis of illinois democrat for instance declared himself against it as an additional burden on business and indicated lie he would support instead a plan to tax the income from federal securities now exempt e senator dorah borah republican said that in principle he endorsed the plan of taxing undistributed earnings while senator hastings of delaware Dela wire also republican denounced it as fisc atory senator king of utah democrat and representative knutson of Allone minnesota sota republican were moved by the pro program gram to demand immediate cutting down of federal expenditures and in this mr air borah concurred speaker joseph AV W byrns and majority leader I W B bankhead professed to SOP see no difficult difficulties les ln in the way ot of the proposed measure one thin thing that boosted the chances of the presidents tax program was a report from secretary of commerce koper that corporation income in was SOO 00 per cent higher than in 1032 1932 IN N TITE course of his prone probe into the affairs of enemies of the new deal senator clack black of alabama clial chairman rwan of the lobby committee assur assumed ned tile right to seize arize and examine their private We telegrams grains and thus his investigation was carried into the courts silas strawn chicago attorney learned the committee was about to subpoena his telegrams and he be ob bained a temporary injunction blocking such action ile he has asked the district of columbia supreme court to make this injunction permanent the wholesale examination of telegrams was attacked by representative wadsworth of new york and defended by senator blade it strikes me wadsworth said that we have reached it a strange stage to in the development of democracy when private correspondence can be seized without court procedure or search warrant black said repeatedly it has been held that tile the senate can call for what it pleases there appears to have been a concerted effort by those who seek to influence legislation behind the scenes through subterranean channels to prevent us from getting evidence G GOVERNOR boom for the republican presidential nomination Is progressing in a way that roust must be pleasing to his supporters kansas republicans in a state convention pledged him the alie states IS delegates to the cleveland convention declaring him to be the best fitted candidate that kansas sh should out support its governor Is natural and expected but lie also Is garnering a good many delegates elsewhere and indorsement endorsement Indor in some states stales where the delegates are uninstructed sentiment favorable to landon appeared in new jersey a and nil hervey S bloore of trenton a leader was contemplating an active campaign for him in that state ON TIM third anniversary of tits his inauguration president llod ovelt pushed an electric key in the while house which set in motion ma machinery eldner v that closed the sluice gates gate of the norris dam in the tennessee valley project tills this signalizes signalized sl nall zed the completion of that part of the vast work on the clinch river 1 I hope as many people as can will CO to bee the norris darn dam la in eastern tennessee the president said in a for mal statement it exemplifies lies great engineering gi skill high construction elli eill clency and above all it Is the key to the carefully worked out control of a great glicr and its water spread over parts of seven states the norris dam Is a practical sym hot bol of better life and greater opportunity for millions of citizens of our country the nation tins come to realize that eliat national resources must murt not be wasted and tile the norris law dam Is evi dence that our program for conservation of these resources Is going forward tolt nokah BORAH and senator van kj 3 nuys of indiana the latter a democrat introduced a twill directed against a alast certain practices of the chain stores rhe measure would make it unlawful for any person engaged in commerce to grant any discount rebate allowance nee or advertising service charge to a purchaser over that available to the purchasers competitors it also would prohibit sales tit at prices lower than those exacted by said person elsewhere in the united states for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminating a competitor co operative cooperative associations would be exempted from provisions of the measure violators would be subject to a fine and a one icar jail sentence the so called robinson patman antimonopoly hill 1111 also aimed tit at chain stores will be passed by the senate before very long according to a promise made by senator robinson to a mass meeting of 1500 independent merchants who went to washington to lobby for the measure this bill legislates against special prices rebates advertising allowances and brokerage fees giving sales advantage to chain stores teen THROUGH its committee of t thirteen the league of nations a appealed p to benito mussolini and emperor nalle halle selassie to consent to immediate negotiations tons for an end to hostilities tili ties and a definite re establishment of italo pence c baw though consideration of the proposal by his cabinet council was wag delayed a few days mussolini according to advices advises from rome L was disposed to acquiesce presided ded ter giu Ou guseppe e p e altory in ethiopia al alotta ready occupied by italy Is considered hera bers and left out of the negotiations halle selassie accepted the proposal without reservation in recent days his armies in the northern sector have been routed in big battles and have lost many thousands of men and the italians have penetrated tar far toward the interior of the country find and in tile the south the In inders were preparing for a rapid advance mck ot of the les leagues gues appeal was the standing threat of extension of sanctions to include an embargo on oil this suddenly brought about a situation rather disconcerting for the leagre lr dr giuseppe motta alotta swiss foreign minister gave a warning that if the oil was applied his country might feet feel it necessary to leave the league in order to preserve its neutrality if the consequent threatened war to in resulted ted motto motta pointed out that if italy quit the league and ensued switzerland through tier her membership in the league would appear in italian eyes as a party to a hostile coalition and would be subject to invasion by italy on one side and perhaps by Gerro germany any on the other oilier alieves government evidently believes another war Is coming and intends to he be well prepared it made public a gi gigantic gantle program for increases in the army navy and air forces and for swift mobilization of man power and industry no official cost estimate was alsen ien out but authorities said the total over a three year period w would M be not less than one and a half b billion 1 W ibele dollars tle tie program includes these fea features tares army four new battalions of in fantry are pla ined all units ore are to be modernized mechanized a and nil re equipped especial attention will be paid coastal an aal antiaircraft anti antl aircraft defer defenses navy two to new battleships next year unit and an increase in cruiser strength from 50 60 to u 70 40 with five new ores to 0 o lie be laid down this bear ear naval personnel tits also will be increased bv COM a new aircraft carrier will br bo constructed and the air aim of the lie nivy navy III be strengthened air force about new nev war planes pianos will be added to tile bonit lining defense squadrons bringing the lie total to 1750 la 17 il twelve new air squadrons for imperial defense that eliat Is 13 air forces for transfer to dinger areas hlll all be added adi lel unit and more pilots will lie be recruited Fol following loIn tills this announcement the alie an nual dual naval estimates were submitted to parliament tiey cull call for fir acu 1 CU ow an increase of over the previous year jalan was calming town flown after tho the amazing revolt and attempted coup il betat of a thousand soldiers leil led hy by a group of young fascist officers olli cors who ho thoa glit lit the wat wall harn ti tile military progress pro giess of the nation so dr ns is can he be judged tit at this distance the net results of the uprising in were nere admiral VIsco viscount tnt makoto salto fonner pre premier niler and lord keeper of the privy seal Ivor ekiyo takahashi minister of fit finance innee and gen jotaro chief of military education were assassinated by the rebels pre later okada escaped death his brother inlaw in law being mistaken for hirn and st slain in the mutineers muti threatened by local troops and the leet obesid an edict by emperor and surrendered or of their 23 leaders two committed suicide the immediate concern of emperor and tits ills advisers was wag tile belec tion of a nian for premier vrho v ho could form a new nev gin eminent that would satisfy the various parties first rance prince koncic Ko noie young president of tile the house of peers was talked to undertake tills this t task s but he e declined on the ground of poor health then the choice of the erni emperor eror fell upon nolif IIi Ill rota a moderate who Is well known in n both the united states and russia hirota at once began picking out ills big ministers saying my cabinet will he be composed of young able statesmen Ill rotas selection was taken to mean that the L emperor diw has determined to proceed with the lie modernization of the country and to exercise his power to rule instead of permitting himself to be the exalted agent of military overlords lords ki GEN WILLIAM M MAJ retired one of the ardys most reliable commanders died in the army hospital on governors island at the age of seventy two lie ile served 44 years through indian campaigns in the spanish american war and in tho the philippines and went to france in the world war as a captain ile ho was rapidly promoted through grades to brigadier general on august 15 1917 and to malor major general on august 8 1918 when he was given command of the eighty eighth division a new national army unit which he trained and took overseas previously he had bad commanded the fifty sixth brigide brigade twenty eighth division a pennsylvania outfit at chauteau thierry ORE than wor workers liers in 11 M MORE OW buildings in new york city were called out on strike by james J bambrick president of the ng service employees international union and the skyscrapers sky scrapers from the battery to washington heights were badly crippled elevator men stopped their cars furnace men banked their fires and scrubwomen scrub women threw down their mops lind and all marched out ot of the buildings and formed picket lines there was some scattered fighting between the pickets and men hastily hired to take their places since the strike affected not only office buildings but Inna innumerable merable apart ment buildings also the occupants of 0 the latter were deprived of beat and telephone connections and in many cases sick persons were marooned marooned without food supplies tills this lead mayor ln la guardia to cull call the city health officials into conference and to declare a civic emergency and order health commissioner rice to see that fires were stoked and that trips necessary to health of the tenants and care of the sick were made in all resi residence deuce buildings of more than six floors I 1 immediately a after f t e r president roosebelt Roos Roo eielt signed the new soil con farm relief act passed to take the place of the invalidated AAA administrator chester C davis began planning ways to spend the authorized under his big orders more than 6 five ve thousand amplo ees ces of 0 e ao 70 awaiting i the AAA who had been 1 w waiting since january 1 6 for something to do akk got busy placing the f new program into effect C C davis the goal of the new law mr roosevelt said in announcing tits his sl signature nature Is parity not dot of farm prices but of farm income ile he said the new deal has not abandoned and wit not abandon the principle of equality for agriculture lais pin planned nned as the first move a series of four conferences with aarl cLi tural leaders in memphis chicago new york and salt lake city to formulate plana to take acres out of comme commercial reini production this year and place them in legumes and other SO sell 11 conserving crops une new law provides benefit aay pay ments to farmers who operate cooperate co in federal suggestions for conservation of 0 soil fertility in 1936 and 1127 it pro ldes idea also for fed federal prill subsidies to states setting up permanent state programs in 1038 and thereafter tip the alamo the bat R fv tie no cry of texas teas was heard all over tile state as its con centennial tennIal celebration opened tit at tile village of vasal ington on ohp where the dec ill atlon of independence froni from mexico ws ivos signed the old charter of em title was its taken fallen there from its as in the state capitol rotunda in austin anil and gov gi lamps janies V allred alfred of tens and ov philip Ia La lollette of wisconsin went along to take part in tho alie ceremonies the party then went to blunts ville where gen cen sam houston gathered an army of texans to fight the mexicans anil and there gov hill ecal ister or of tennessee made the address san antonio and other cities followed on the program and the celebrations will continue tor for months reaching a climax in the opening on june a 0 of the centennial exposition at dallas |