Show news review of current events LID OF TVA BLOWN OFF chairman morgan demands congressional inquiry refuses to resign spanish cruiser torpedoed 2 4 g V evidently these three leaders in the fight about the administration backed third basket tax bill did not get enough pro and con on the house floor they continue their argument in the corridor with the bills author representative fred vinson of kentucky right rebuking representative senta tive allen alien T treadway of massachusetts left for his opposition to the measure representative robert L doughton of north carolina center who introduced the bill to the house backs vinson agy ag A q P lii y r W y summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK E western newspaper union berry claim cause of row I 1 LONG ONG existing warfare between AJ A J dr A E morgan chairman of the tennessee valley authority and his fellow directors david lilien thal thai and harcourt morgan has come i to a climax due to the claims of sen george L berry for because 1 his alleged in marble a r b 1 e quarries were flooded in the norris dam area doctor morgan has I 1 demanded a show down in the form of A 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 chairman morgan then issued a long statement revealing that the quarrel in the authority was due not to differences between himself and his colleagues over policy but to his efforts to obtain honesty openness decency and fairness in government dr morgan intimated that the berry deal was only a part of the issue of honesty and decency which he had bad to face and that there was a lot more he would like to tell a congressional committee lilienthal and harcourt morgan retaliated with a long defense statement severely criticizing the chairman and suggesting that he retire from the commission president roosevelt made public this statement leading observers to believe he rather sided with them but chairman morgan replied that he would not resign under fire and in a letter to representative maverick of texas reiterated his demand for an investigation by congress resolutions for such an inquiry were introduced trod and senator norris morris patron saint of TVA and similar projects sought either to smother the proposed probe or to see that it was carried on by friendly hands in the midst of the rumpus lilienthal announced that the government is willing to buy the properties of private electric power companies in the TVA area provided the owners will sell them at sacrifice prices the utility officials interested were invited to meet him and harcourt morgan for a discussion lilienthal said that it if the proposed purchases were carried out private power enterprises terp rises would be eliminated in nor alabama northeastern mississippi and nearly all ot of tennessee he also announced that the TVA would be ready to advance cities ies in the area otherwise unable financially to purchase local power plants funds from an appropriation of voted by congress in in the recently amended TVA act we take two islands orders from the prest president U UNDER secretary of the interior ickes added to the island possessions of the united states which he supervises two little bits of land in the pacific canton and enderby islands in the phoenix archipelago their value is as stopping places for transoceanic le air flights to australia great britain has held a disputed claim to the two islands as well as to others of the phoenix group the presidents order for control of the islands is based on settlements made there years ago by american citizens the government now is in a position to discuss the conflicting claims with britain included in the presidents order are lands in antarctica first visited by admiral byrd and other americans franco warship sunk S insurgents sustained a se vere loss when their cruiser ba leares was torpedoed and sunk in a big naval battle off cartegena the ton cruiser went down in flames and probably about of her crew were drowned some others were rescued by two british destroyers the loyalist attack by warships and planes was carefully planned to break the rebel blockade of government ports on the mediterranean coast the loyalist authorities were highly elated by this victory in what they called the first real naval battle of the civil war and war minister prieto said they were now prepared to fight the conflict to a finish on the seas the british admiralty announced that two british destroyers were attacked by five airplanes oft off t the he spanish coast while on anti pira 1 cy patrol duty there were no casualties general franco was reported to be reorganizing all his troops from africa so that he can carry on it if mussolini withdraws the italian contingents tin gents in accordance with the expected agreement with great britain conversations to lead to that agreement were started by british and italian diplomats borah hits navy bill JUST before the house began consideration of the administrations billion dollar naval construction bill senator borah virtually gave notice that the measure would not get through the senate without a lively fight he gave out a statement attacking the naval building program as an unjustified step toward the beginning of another world war an armaments war such a program is not in the interest of peace he s said aid it is n not ot for the welfare of our people these vast sums are being drained off from the people at a time when they are in sore distress to find means to carry on borah is the senior member of the senate foreign relations committee widens tax field N A 5 to 2 decision of af far reaching I 1 IN implications sweeping aside more than a century of precedents the united states supreme court held that income from leases of state school lands is not immune from federal taxation justice pierce butler dissenting with justice james dark clark said it was impossible to foresee the extent to which the courts opinion upsets the long settled principle of reciprocal tax immunity in our dual system of government ern ment the decision was the latest of a series in which the supreme court has greatly narrowed the field of reciprocal tax lax immunity now new french ambassador RENE DE C COUNT SAINT AINT QUENTIN who replaces replace s georges bonnet as ambassador from france arrived in washing ton and proceeded to the white house in full regalia to present his credentials 31 to president A roosevelt the count is fifty four years old and a bachelor s Z he is a distinguished 11 citizen of france and the scion of a long famous f family amily other callers ai at saint quentin the e white house who aroused much interest were the three unmarried sisters of king zog of albania the princesses are on a pleasure tour of the united states and it is officially denied that they are seeking suitable husbands over here another A trade treaty S HULL and the czech minister signed a sweeping reciprocal trade treaty between the states it includes tariff concessions covering per cent of american exports to czechoslovakia and 55 per cent of czechoslovakian exports to the united states limited concessions ces on shoes are granted the czechs czecho who manufacture vast quantities of cheap footwear for the american maiet no wage hour bill REPEATED reports that house leaders had decided not to push through the presidents wage hour bill aroused the anger of several members chairman john J oconnor of the rules committee demanded that a start on this momentous problem be made before congress adjourns he said he would be greatly disappointed if a flexible wage bill were not enacted at this session warning that the work ers are concerned with their gov ernset assuring some minimum wages which will lilt lift them out ot of starvation and some maximum hours that will free them from industrial du slivery slavery IF tax bill battle baffle rages T OBERT L DOUGHTON of north R av carolina chairman of the w ways ays and means committee submitted to the house the revenue bill formulated by a majority of the committee and the struggle over this measure began at once the administration leaders 1 e a d e r s I 1 4 I 1 claim the act will stimulate trade and remove hardships on both big and little business without lowering the aggregate federal income R L do doughton t mr doughton knew he had a fight on his hands but predicted the speedy passage ot of 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 lamanec k of ohio filed a separate report attacking this feature republican members 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 nations business structure of corporations po rations controlled by new deal toes foes chairman pat harrison democrat mississippi of the senate finance committee said his group would begin hearings soon on the measure A majority of his committee is reported to be opposed to several provisions of the house bill including the retention of the undistributed profits tax ak veto power refused legislation EGI granting president L legislation Roosevel ts request for power to veto individual items in appropriation bills was refused by a senate house conference committee such a provision had been added to the independent offices appropriation bill by the house but the senate rejected it and the conference agreed elimination ll 11 A rolls increased having sent the quarter C CONGRESS billion dollar emergency relief appropriation to io the white house the officials immediately authorized the state administrations to hire more relief workers this month aubrey williams acting ad during the of harry hopkins estimated that the march increases would pull up local enrollments from 15 to 25 per cent depending on state needs williams said he expected large industrial centers to furnish heaviest demands for a slice of the new relief money but added there is no part of the country that is not affected in some real degree 1 1 1 corn acreage cut FARMERS of 12 commercial corn producing states were told lold by the agricultural adjustment administration that they might plant this year in corn acres in counties this compares with acres in 1123 counties harvested last year the complete national goal for 1938 including the commercial corn acreage allotments is to bushels the 1938 allotments by states and total acres harvested in the total number of counties in each state f ollow follow illinois 1938 allotment acres in counties against acres harvested in counties in 1937 indiana acres tor for 77 counties against in 82 92 counties loka iowa acres in 89 99 counties against in 99 counties kansas acres for 27 counties against in 10 counties kentucky acres tor for foai counties against in counties michigan acres for five counties agai fist in 83 counties minnesota acres in 45 ay counties against in 87 counties Misso missouri url acres in six counties against in hi counties nebraska acres in 64 counties against in 93 counties ohio acres in 57 counties against in 88 counties south dakota acres in 17 counties against acres in 69 counties wisconsin acres in six counties against in 71 counties under the new farm program acreage allotments will be set by county committees for individual farms disaster in california SOUTHERN california especially J the region about los angeles was swept by a destructive flood following extraordinary rains nearly persons were drowned or killed in landslides and thousands fled from their homes it was thought the property damage might reach czechs czecho defy hitler is progressing with the HITLER cation of austria with the aid ot of interior minister in quart the latest concession being the opening of state payrolls to hundreds of nazis but czechoslovakia oslo will be a harder nut tor for the fuehrer to crack it if premier milan hodza knows what he is talking about in a statement at prague hodza defied t the h e ahr threats eats of germany and told the franti milan hodza cally cheering members of the chamber of deputies that czechoslovakia it if the necessity arises will defend defend defend herself hungary is entering the armament race to the extent of her limited abilities premier daranyi announced an internal loan of would be floated and that the money would be used principally tor for air defense and other rearmament measures some of it however will be spent tor for measures to increase employment slaps little business OF COMMERCE SECRETARY S ROPER told president roosevelt 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 government and he implied that small business men were largely self seek ers nothing was said of the resolutions lut ions adopted at the little business conference which demanded that the government cease regulation and interference with business give tax relief relict to business and halt experimentation peri where it affected business |