Show news review of current events the world over red plot story flattened out by investigators senate votes for E extra atra 10 per cent income tax auto and coal troubles by EDWARD W PICKARD it WILLIAM A WIRT the really Demi A eminent nent educator of gary ind told his story of a rod red plot to overthrow the government of the united states so BO far as tile the democratic majority of the house investigating committee permitted and the general opinion throughout the country was wag that it was not so hot hol the democrats declared it was utter bunk the republicans who had no llopes pea to find gool good or dr W A clr A wirt political material in the affair asserted that gag rule had been enforced the revelation of the alleged scheme of the radicals said bald wirt came to him at a dinner given by miss alice barrows at a country house near washington the other guests were robert bruere david 0 coyle miss hilde halde garde kneeland and miss mary taylor all like the hostess connected with the government and lawrence tidd chief of the tass official soviet government news agency in the united states r arom rom their conversation wirt said bald he gathered that men high in the councils of the administration were plotting the overthrow of the american social order and that they considered president roosevelt as another kerensky to be followed by another stalin the six men named by wirt were secretary of agriculture henry A wallace prof rexford guy tugwell assistant secretary of agriculture and recognized head bead of tile the brain trust prof milburn L wilson head bead of the subsistence homestead division of the department of interior dr robert kohn head of the housing division of the public works administration tr tra tion dr frederick howe consumers counsel for the agricultural adjustment administration and Hen henry henret T rainey speaker of the house bouse of representatives senta tives the most serious charges made by the gentleman from indiana were directed e c t ed at professor tugwell but his b basis t L s ls for these as for practically all of his bis story was hearsay secondhand second hand information and vague statements by tome some of his fellow guests at the alie dinner in that lay its weakness though there are many serious minded americans who insist that there should be a real investigation of any government officials seeking to undermine the present form of government the committee committe having heard beard wirt adjourned for some days with the intention of calling as witnesses those who attended the country house dinner some of them already had denied flatly or belittled the statements made by writ of bickering resulted from the L LOTS wirt case and in this some of the democrats concerned did not make a good showing chairman bulwinkle of the committee for instance asserted that wirt was imprisoned at gary during war times for pro ger man activities and this was indignantly denied by numerous persons who were tn in position to know its truth or falsity secretary of the interior ickes accused doctor wirt of having sought to obtain public works money for a fairyland project in the indiana dunes by which doctor wirt was wag to sell 2000 front feet of dune land along lake michigan at 50 a fot foot a total sale price of the project was disapproved by the public works administration as ivi visionary and impractical mr ickes said doctor wirt wart issued a dental denial of secretary ickes icken tale explaining that he had no connection with the proposed project and that the company with which he was connected had held the land in question for 12 years to preserve it for park purposes representative mcgugin of kansas republican member of the investigating committee was gagged when ho he I 1 tried to make a speech on the case in the house but managed to get it inserted in the congressional record at the same time the department of justice was seeking to revive a five year old matter in which mcgugin appeared as a lawyer for mrs barnett wife of the wealthy indian jackson barnett DESPITE ahouse ESPITE the opposition of the house lenders leaders and the doubt of its approval by the president senator couzens persisted in hla his effort to put through his amendment to the tax bill calling for a flat 10 per cent increase tn crese in all income tax returns chairman pat harrlson harrison of the senate finance committee had approved it as aa an emer gencey measure and showed no disposition to reconsider when the couzens amendment was first voted on in the senate it was do de tented by tho the bare majority of 40 to 14 the michigan senator changing his bis vote to the so BO as aa to move a reconsideration IM he got busy among his follow fellow senators and was successful first in having the vote reconsidered and then in the measures adoption by a vote of 43 to 30 it was certain the proposal would be firmly opposed when the revenue blu bill went rent into conference under the couzens proposal a per son subject to a normal tax of on his 1934 income would pay next day the senate adopted the la follette estate taxes amendment to the bill thus adding nearly more to the tax load of the country the amendment puts a tax of 1 per cent on estates of this percentage Is 18 increased increase d rapidly until 60 per cent Is ae levied vied by the g government ov upon estates of and more under the present p resent law estates up to are exempted from the t tax P president ItES IDENT ROOSEVEL TS fishing trip on the Nour mahal ended with the arrival of the yacht at miami friends advised against his landing remembering the attempt on his life there two years ago but he laughed at their fears however he be and secretary mcintyre drove directly from the pier to the train and the president was back in washington on the next day general johnson donald RI ehberg chberg secretary mcintyre and some twenty white house correspondents and their wives narrowly escaped death as they were going from coral gables to meet the president at the water front A big combination automobile trailer in which they were riding got across the railway tracks just tn in time to avold avoid by inches being struck by a speeding train before he left washington tor for i JUST miami to meet tho the president and accompany him back to the capital general johnson decreed a radical reorganization of the along lines similar to those of the army the most important part of this shakeup was the appointment of col G A lynch an infantry officer of the regular army as johnsons right hand man colonel lynch whom the administrator de scribes as the most advanced thinker in the united states army la Is given full jurisdiction over fill all matters not otherwise assigned ue he has complete authority to approve codes orders amendments and other modifications anamay and may sign codes that do not require the signature of the president the administration no longer will be a one pan man affair and indeed the ground Is now laid for the retirement of general johnson which has been predicted for some time conditions in the detroit L LABOR area mostly affecting the automobile industry remained in chaotic condition despite the partly successful efforts of government mediators tors the strike at the plant of the motor products corporation which had bad caused a shutdown of the factory of the hud ad son motor company was settled when edward P Hc mcgrady Grady assistant to gen hugh johnson laid before the strikers terms that had been accepted by the corporation the workers agreed to the terms which called for a 10 per cent increase in pay and arbitration of disputes over piece work pay ra rates tes this enabled the hudson plant to reopen the 1700 employees of the campbell wyant cannon foundry at muskegon mich struck the concern makes castings for automobile builders the employees of the nash mash motor company still were on strike at kenosha wis the mechanics educational society of 0 america an organization ot of tool and dle die makers had voted to strike unless executives of jobbing plants met their demands for a 20 per cent pay increase and SC SI hour week there was a strike by employees ot of the detroit michigan stove company who demanded a 20 per cent wage increase and pickets attacked men who approached the plant to work industrial plants in connecticut were involved in numerous strikes and labor disputes the attitude of the workers was expressed by john J egan secretary of the connecticut federation of labor who said no company should declare any dividends until the 1029 wage level Is restored administrator JOHNSONS or ader der to the bituminous coal indea try to put into effect a seven hour day and new minimum wage rates was bitterly attacked by southern coal producers at a code revision hearing in washington especially objectionable to the alabama tennessee and kentucky operators was the reduction tn in wage differentials accorded southern coal fields AMURE INSULL fallen utilities S SAMUEL magnate ta Is on his way home to be tried for tits alleged misdoings mis doings tn in connection with the bankruptcy of his financial empire turned over to the american authorities by the turkish government he was taken from istanbul by coastal steamer and train to smyrna and there put aboard tile the american Amerlean export liner exilona Ex llona he ge lit is due to land tn in now new york about may 20 |