Show sa S a wo y I 1 summarizes THE WORL WORLDS WEEK Q western newspaper union berry claim cause of row L T ONG existing warfare between n dr A E morgan chairman ot of the tennessee valley authority and his fellow directors david lilienthal and harcourt morgan has come to a climax due to the claims of 0 sen v george L berry for because his alleged marble quarries were re flooded in the norris dam area doctor morgan has demanded a showdown in the form of A demorgan E morgan a congressional investigation vesti gation of the whole TVA setup and its activities A commission appointed by a federal court in tennessee reported the claims of berry and his associates were worthless because their properties could not be profitably operated commercially ch chairman airman morgan then issued a long statement revealing that the quarrel in the authority was due not to differences between himself and his s colleagues over policy but to his efforts to obtain honesty openness decency and fairness in government he said the berry marble case represents the kind of difficulty with which as chairman of the TVA board I 1 have been faced in the effort to maintain good standards of public service to a steadily increasing degree I 1 have contended with an attitude altitude of conspiracy secretiveness and bureaucratic manipulation which has made the proper conduct of TVA business difficult the statement declared that berry charged morgan with blocking a sacred binding agreement when the TVA chairman halted the friendly agreement reached with lilienthal and harcourt morgan in my opinion a friendly agreement M ent in the face of what seemed to me to be an obvious intent to exploit was not a good public policy and lacked several degrees of being sacred said the chairman doctor morgan intimated that the berry deal was only a part of the issue of honesty and decency which he had to face and that there was vas a lot more he be would like to tell a congressional committee 11 slaps little business OF COMMERCE S 0 ROPER told president roosevelt ve it that the little business man appears to be forsaking the policy of self help and is looking more and more to the government to solve his problems mr roper based his conclusion on an analysis of 1900 letters from among communications that grew out of the little business conference recently held in washington the secretary said he was impressed by the fact that the recommendations ions in the letters showed little understanding of the broad aspects of the problems of 0 government and he implied that small business men were vere largely self seek ers nothing was said of 0 the resolutions lut ions adopted at the little business conference which demanded that the government cease regulation and interference with business give tax relief to business and halt experimentation where it affected business corn acreage cut F of 12 commercial corn producing states were told by the agricultural gri cultural adjustment administration that they might plant this year in corn acres la in counties this compares with acres in 1123 counties harvested last year the complete national goal lor for 1938 including the commercial corn acreage allot ment is to bushels the 1933 1938 allotments by states and total acres harvested in the total number of 0 counties in each state follow illinois 1938 allotment acres in counties against 9 acres harvested in counties in 1937 indiana acres for 77 counties against in 92 counties iowa acres in 99 counties in 99 counties kansas acres for 27 counties against in counties kentucky acres for tour four counties against in counties michigan acres for five counties against in 83 counties minnesota acres in 45 counties against in 87 counties missouri acres in 6 counties against in counties nebraska acres in 64 counties against in 93 counties south dakota acres in 17 counties against acres in 69 counties wisconsin acres in 6 counties against in 71 counties ohio acres in 57 counties against in 88 83 counties under the new farm pro program ram acreage allotments will be set t by county committees tor for individual farms tax bill battle starts R D OBERT L DOUGHTON of north rv carolina chairman of the ways and means committee s submitted to the house the revenue bill formulated by a majority of the committee and ro the struggle over this measure began at once the administration leaders leader s claim the act v will stimulate trade and remove hardships on both big and little business without lowering the aggregate federal income R KL L doughton B ir doughton knew he had a fight on his hands but predicted the speedy passage of 0 the measure substantially as reported the most vulnerable provision admittedly mitt edly was a proposed penalty tax on closely held corporations mccormack of massachusetts and lamneck of ohio filed a separate report attacking this feature republican members ot of the committee united in a report which blamed new deal taxes for the franklin D roosevelt depression and which charged that the tax on closely held corporations is a political weapon to be used to purge the tha nations business structure of corporations po rations contro controlled ed by new deal toes foes chairman pat harr harrison ison democrat mississippi ot of the senate finance committee said his group would begin hearings bearings soon on the measure A majority of his committee is reported to be opposed to several provisions of 0 the house bill including the retention of the principles of 0 the undistributed profits tax disaster in california S SOUTHERN california especially the region about los angeles was swept by a destructive flood following extraordinary rains nearly 50 persons were drowned or killed in landslides and thousands fled from rom their homes it was thought the property damage might reach for a time los angeles was cut oft off from all communications except by short wave I 1 radio |