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iffAOg EIGHT THE BIG SPRING DAILY APRIL ringHtrtld Sunday morning and each weekday afternoon except BIO SPRING HERALD, Inc. Entered as second class mail matter at Postoffice at Big Spring rexas, under act of March 3, IbE W. GALBRAITH IOBT. W. WHEPKEY, Man.

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The riglit is reserved to reject or edit all advertising copy. All advertising orders are accepted on this basis only. UPPMAN.N MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in the Viper and also the local news published herein. All right for republication of special dispatches are also reserved. AN OVER-TAXED INDUSTRY Any industry that pays out two dollars of every three it earns to the support of the government is being pretty heavily taxed.

It is doubtful if any industry but that of petroleum could stand the gaff even that gigantic industry is beginning to reel under the burden. Judge J. C. Hunter of Abilene, president of the West Central Texas Oil Gas association, told the annual meeting of the West Texas chamber of commerce in Wichita Falls Tuesday that oil is paying a billion and eight hundred million dollars a year in taxes. It amounts to $1.08 per barrel, equivalent to 8.6 per cent of all its invested capital.

Of the gross return of 12 per cent, the government took two dollars and the industry itself, he said, had to be content with one tJollar. The oil business offers a convenient target for legislators looking for something to tax. The burden has been piled higher and higher, until at this time the raid promises to become so onerous that the goose that lays the golden eggs may be killed. If through unwise legislation and unjust taxes the oil industry becomes crippled or defunct, the government will lose a prolific source of revenue and the legislators will have to look for other geese. An increase in the cost of government in Texas of 2,500 per cent in 38 years was cited by Judge Hunter.

There you Lave the answer to the oil industry's present overtaxed condition. Politicians have so stretched the cost of carrying the public business and Jie industry offers such a convenient source that it has become the unwilling victim of a system of taxation that would put a less hardy type of business out of existence. It reached the point where oil men have to fight to prevent the tax-gatherers from taking their last pair of trousers. -NEW MEXICO'S OIL CONTROL LAW OLD AS PRODUCTION ALBUQUERQUE, N. April 28 has had oil regulation' since it first had an oil well, and now its petroleum control code "has come, to be looked upon as a inodel for other states to follow," Hiram Dow said here today.

Addressing a sciences section of the Association for the Advancement of Science, southwestern division, How said that, despite strict regulation, "the oil industry has largely written its own ticket in New Mexico." He said it was "amazing" that to this day there had been no litigation challenging any proration or ccnservation order. New Mexico's first oil well, Dow told the scientists, was brought in near Dayton, Eddy county, in 1909. 'Although its production was not more than 15 barrels a day, it prompted the 1909 territorial legislature to write Mew Mexico's first Oil control law. TOUTH DROWNED GEORGETOWN. April 28 tffi Leonard May, 21, drowned here yesterday when a boat overturned on swollen San Gabriel river.

Dick Lewis and Eric Anderson, in the boat with May. reached the bank. EAT AT THE CLUB CAFE "We Never Close" G. C. DUNHAM, Prop.

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LJppiiuui-s column Is published as mi Informational and feature. His views ttre personal are not to be construed as necessarily reflecting: the editorial opinion of The Editor's Note). A CASE FOB THE CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION A few days ago. on Thursday of last week newspaper men in Washington learned that the' president had ordered the treasury to let I Senator Minton's 'committee inspect the income tax returns of individuals and corporations for 1936 and 1937. The order was actually issued two days 'previously but, jcuriously, at least I three of the five members of the committee.

Senators Schwellenbach. Frazier and Gibson, did not inow the order had been issued until they were asked about it by newspaper men. This is the committee of which former senator from Alabama, now Mr. Justice Black, was chairman. It is the committee which was set up in 1935 to investigate lobbying against the holding company and is now, with Mr.

Minton as Mr. Black's successor, investi- the opposition to the reor- bill. The treasury order iving Mr. Minton the right to in- spoet income tax returns was signed by the acting secretary of the treasury, Mr. Magill, on Saturday, April 9.

The reorganization bill was defeated in the house on the evening of Friday, April 8. Under the power vested in Senator Minton, he may now put any taxpayer or any corporation on trial jefore his committee, he being the iudge, the prosecutor and the jury. 3e may now make public the financial condition of any taxpayer who was opposed to the reorganization jill, and his victims have no pro- ection. Senator Minton may attack any one he chooses. He can destroy lis reputation.

There are no rules of evidence. There are not the ordinary legal safeguards which even the worst criminal enjoys. Can there be any question that his is a lawless abuse of official luthority, and that it is irreconcilable with any American conception if justice through law? In order obtain revenue, the government individuals and corpora- ions to disclose facts about their inancial condition. Then, under an administrative ruling, this informa- ion is made available to a senator engaged not in studying the tax aws, but in investigating some- hing wholly unconnected with the of taxes. The information concerns only a small, number of citizens.

Of this small number some must ace the ordeal of having their private affairs published to the world; Jthers will not be subjected to this unishment. The selection of those who are to be punished is the pre- of a senator engaged in a (artisan campaign. He alone has he authority to decide who is to je punished and who is not to be unished. There is no pretense that all citizens are to be treated alike, hat every citizen must have his Drivate affairs published. There is pretense that all income taxpayers who might be charged with ax evasion or avoidance are to be reated alike.

Senator Minton is authorized by he president to embarrass, worry, errorize and destroy those particu- ar taxpayers who, Mr. Minton eels, had no right to oppose a bill ponsored by Senator Minton's party. If this is not to be described as arbitrary government and capricious tyranny what is the accur- ite way to describe it? To be this same power to cspect. income tax returns has jeen granted to other congressional committees. But I think I am right in saying that never before flr.

Roosevelt entered the White louse have income tax returns been opened, except by special au- hority of congress, to any cpmmit- concerned with anything but the tax laws themselves. The law tself, Section 257 (B) of the Revenue Act of 1926, opens the returns "the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Finance of the Senate, a committee of the House or Senate specially authorized to investigate returns jy a resolution of the Senate or House, or a joint committee so au- by concurrent resolution." The intent is clear, that returns should be open to committees that are legislating about taxes. Until Mr. Roosevelt's time it had never, I think, occurred to any one that other committees not named in the law, committees not interested in taxe? but in altogether different matters, should also have the right to delve into tax returns. Nor had it ever before occurred to any one the president had the power to say wnich committees of cor.gn ss might do this and which might not.

I do not kiiow, not being i lawyer, whether any justification can be fount), in the letter of the law for the power which Mr. Roosevelt has conferred so quietly upon Mr. Minton. But surely it is contrary to the spirit of revenue law or of any law that conforms with the American conception of civil rights. Sinci- Use beginning it has been fundamental principle the income tax that the returns iiic it is, in fact, a prison offense federal law "to divulge or to make known in any manner whatever not provided by law" the financial disclosed in an income tax return, Can it be nrgiiftu tnat the law Intended to give a conmilttfe like flow To Torture Your Husband BRIDGE StSSIOM, AMP TWe TKAYS HIGH WITH BUTTS' Daily Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Any tribunal 4.

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53 45 21 34 4-2 38 35 2o 30 31 14 4o 24- 50 It St Senator Minton's the authority to divulge such information? It would be a strange law if it did. For Senator Minton is not investigating taxes, and it seems highly improbable that congress ever meant to let income tax returns be disclosed by committees that are not studying taxes. If Senator Minton and the members his committee wish to act in the spirit of law, they will not accept this power on the extremely uncertain authority of the president. They will take the opon and honest course, which is to ask congress itself to say whether it means to give the committee this power. Let the matter be debated, and let us at least find out whether there exists a majority in favor of the grant of such inquisitorial The issue is an important one, for it turns upon a fundamental conception oi civil liberty and of the limitation of official power by law.

It is as fundamental a question of civil liberty as Mayor Hague's recent performances; the only difference, which ought not to be considered a difference at all, is that hfc the victims are to bo rich men and in Jersoy City were nbcrs of the C.I.O. In Jersey City the Civil IJbertie.s Union went into action. In this instance it is the American Liberty League. If only the roles could be reversed, one would feel more certain about the future of liberty in this country, a would be exhilarating indeed to see the American Liberty Lesigue defending the rights of C.I.O. against the lawlessness Of Mayor Hague in Jersey City and to see the Civil Liberties Union leading the fight against the lawlessness of men like Black and Minton.

I have a notion that if this happened, even once, both organizations would rise greatly in public esteem. (Copyright, 1938, New York Tribune Inc.) EMPLOYES TO SHARE IN FIRM'S DIVIDENDS DETROIT, April 28 Gar Wood Industries, announced today a profit-sharing plan under which its employes will receive 20 per cent of all declared dividends. Garfiuld A. Wood, noted speedboat race driver, is president of the corporation. Gar Wood Industries, manufactures Hydraulic motor buses, boats, air conditioning aud home healing equipment.

Man About Hollywood Sightt And Soundt by ROBBIN oddest literary office in town at present is on a movie set. Two writers and a girl secretary labor there, tue click of the portable's keys at intervals while the current scene for the movie they're writing is benig filmed and recorded. The office is a canvas shack about eight feet square. The writ ers are Bruce Manning and Fe- 3 a From the door scribes can peer out and see how the scene they've just written is being play- and see (more pertinently) how much longer they have Mile. Darrieux i to turn next.

out the All this sounds of Manhattan GEORGE TUCKER- NEW. reporter, who plays hooky whenever a chance to go hunting or fishing bobs up slipped quietly out of town the other day for a 48-hour survey ol some favorite fishing waters, and while the fishing was good and the strikes were frequent, the trip turned out to be a very costly one. He lost a friend. I will not mention this man's name, because I think a lot of him and he might not like it. Nevertheless, you have heard him, many times on the radio.

He has a summer place on this private lake where I like to angle for favorite pan fish. As vou know, the season is now closed on bass and pickerel. But one may legally take yellow perch, which are a choice fish, and game fighters on light tackle- Well, it w-s raining hard and the fish were biting, and I was having a. fine time. And suddenly a bass took the hook.

When you take a bass out of season you carefully release him, if he isn't hooked in the gills. They die, you know, when the gills are punctured, and in small lakes it is not to throw back fish that will die. Furthermore, I had been instructed by. some friends of mine, two ladies who own the lake, that if such a contretemps took place not to return any injured fish to the water. So I whacked the bass on the head and tossed it among the yellow perch.

And just then my friend drove up. He had come down to look over his cottage and make plans for summer occupancyi It was good to see him, and we chatted enthusiastically for some minutes. His wife was in the car, and while I walked over to speak to her he walked out on the dock to see the fish. In about five minutes hi! strode back to the car. He was livid with rage.

He gave me the sort of look a cop gives a sneak-thief, and then said: "You're a fine one to take bass before the season opens, I think it is a cheap, lousy trick. I don't suppose you know what sportsmanship is." Well, how to explain: Any excuse I would have made would have sounded unconvincing. That is one thing that isu't easily glossed I was getting angry And there I was caught red handed He climbed into his car and with a final "cheap, lousy trick," jerked his car into gear aud drove away. So I made no explanation whatever. Later, I related the experience to the owners of the lake, and they said, "Well, don't let it bother you.

Besides, we own this lake. It has never been stocked by the state or "he government, and if we give you permission to fish all year round that is our business." Which was true. But, talking with my friend during those ft-w blistering moments, when I stood there with a dead "illegal" black bass at my feet, really made me feel like a heel. You have to through something like that to understand how crummy you can feel. I suppose I'll run into him some summer dawn, with the mist rising' from the water on this lake, and I'll probably yell.

"Hi, Butch." But ho is a musician, and funny. And what he'll answer don't know, very much like the movie business as caricautred in those stage lam poons like "Once in a Lifetime' and "Boy Meets Girl." And when the kidding's finished and you get down to isn't such a funny, inefficient mode cf movie- making. If it is then it's the same that turned out "Three Smart rirls" and "One Hundred Men and a that, to movie fans and fainting bankers alike, should argument enough that Henry Koster's way of making pictures is a good way. The picture in question is "The Rage of Paris." That's the story in which Danielle Darrieux France is bowing to the Hollywood camera. She's getting $4,000 a week, and she was getting it al the weeks sht waited while they prepared a story for haste which might make waste.

Must Be A Smash But from the movie point view this Darrieux is a mighty important property. They couldn't rush into production with just any story, even to save time. Darrieux is with Universal for five years and to realize the maximum return in five years the first picture has to be a smash. So they had no' one, but two stories, ready to shoo before "The Rage of Paris" was selected as best for an introduc tory vehicle. And now, even though they're writing as they go along, Manning and Jackson are writing from finished script A scene at a time a ahead of the camera and sometimes only a 10-minute jump at polish, revise point up scenes, twist dialogue From 7:30 a.

m. to 11:30 p. m. they're with Koster who is a brilliant young director as his work attests. Each night they plan ou' with him-the next day's shooting.

Not Temperamental By all the this "Rage Paris" set should be a madhouse and it would be interesting to report that it is. The dull truth is that it's a pleasant place; that Darrieux, who as a foreigner coulc course, I may be a liar. The delightful Danielle may have exploded, young Fairbanks may have walked in a huff, or Koster may have had a nervous but all that would be another story not forecast by today's study of the set barometer. Director James Hogan is back from Texas where he went on location for "The Texans," a historical outdoor picture. Asked him if he thought he had an "epic" His reply: "It better be.

We've got stuff of a thundering herd going through a. blizzard, through a brush fire, through dust storms, and through water. And we brought back four carloads of for close- ups!" "get by" with temperamental explosions, doesn't have them but persists in being agreeable, demo cratic, and unassuming; that the other Fairbanks Jr Louis Hayward, Mischa uniformly respect and like Koster and his work with them; and that everybody's happy. Before this reaches print, of WATERWAY PROPOSALS WASHINGTON, April 28 UP) The war department announced today field engineers would hear loca interests on proposals to modify or otherwise improve the Sacramento and San Jaquin river system in California, and the Sabine-Neches waterway in Texas. Train -Plane- Bus Schedules Arrive Depart No.

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10:15 p. m. 8:00 m. Chapter IN AIX ITS The cabin wac dark when Judith goodnight to Gary. She was going to get a Reuben wanted to marry Suppose Reuben for a divorce she beat him to would never think kindly of her would call her a poor was going to get a new going to get ona too.

She must conquer her old fashioned Cissy would be easy to had said it with a sort of unconscious The thought that Cissy might be feigning sleep caused Judith to get quickly in bed. She lay on her back, very still, and tried to quell her thoughts. No use. Might as well let them ramble at will. A hectic period lay just ahead of Her contrary mind would not stay where she sent it, but went hopping hither and yon like an unruly grasshopper.

Reuben loved was going to discharge Gary- Her breath ragged ur-evenly at this thought If Gary lost his job- it she was deserted by Reuben, she would be without of those free women. She scurried from this idea as though it had been a rattlesnake. Over the backward trail she wandered involuntarily Her wedding day she had vowed to Reuben had offered to let her go ther, because he loved How different her life, and his, had she Jimmy No freezing nights and cluttered hot days in had promised to believe in him, to have She started up. In all fairness she should tell Reuben Gary was about to discharge him. Unkind to have him go all those miles to meet If she told, Gary would be would be furious, too, would know she had been discussing him with he had to get his wages- It was almost dawn when Judith fell asleep.

The twins' usual morning gabble awakensd Judith. She felt more tired than when she went to -bed but calm and clear-headed. The events of the preceding evening marched before her like so many grim-faced sentinels through whose lines she must pass. Search as she would for escape there was no evading them. "I'll tell Reuben about his job." She was positive about the rightness of that this morning.

It wasn't like Gary to do such an ungenerous act; to exact his pound of flesh. Quickly she got into robe and slippers. In the bed near her own Cissy white shoulder bare of her black lace nightgown sophistication washed from her unconscious face. Cissy looked very tired, very innocent, very defenseless. What Would She Say? On the sleeping porch only thf.

twins greeted her. Reuben, was and gone. "Velly early he go," Lu Wing, broom in hand, informed her. "Him take velly little breakfast." Very little breakfast. Reuben knew! Was worried.

He was always hungry in the On the small wicker night table between the twins' cribs was some paper money weighed down with a come She felt like prieved criminal. "I may be gone one week or I'm not did you you hear me?" "I hear." "I'm not pieased I can tell you but I'll settle things quickly definitely when 1 get back. Don't worry, darling." And so cncs more she was waiting for because of waiting. It -was all very ell to talfr gayly of Reno, divorce but these things were very involved, verj Afraid to dwell upon the inline diate future. She had not life with Reuben.

Had not feared poverty, illness, hunger, but. she feared the "I'm a coward," she upbraided herself. "Too sfineless to fight for is happiness? She found the routine of everyday life, unsure though it had become, strangely satisfying. To plan the children's meals; to spend long hours over books, to walk the familiar trails brought her a new content, Reuben did not come home for the week end. He sent her money.

Wrote briefly that he could not leave and to kiss the kiddies for him. That was all. Not one word for her. "I don't want a word," Judith assured herself, but it was unbelievable that 'Reuben should change so. Cissy was the cause.

Cissy got all the' wdrds now. That was all right too. If it had been anyone but Cissy! Cissy had taken Gary! True, he -was back on his knees, but the uncertainty of that period of defection would always remain, an almost. invisible scar, to annoy her. Had Cissy discarded him? That was a question that would never be asked by Judith nor answered by November.

The almost deserted, though Indian Summer, warm, June-like lay upon the land. Sometimes, tucking her babies in for the night, she wondered if this- imminent upheaval in her life was not just a figment of her imagination? From this distance Reuben and Gary, too, seemed unreal as figures upon a screen. Then, just when she had -begun to feel secure in her serenity, the storm burst in all its fury. The afternoon had grown overcast, camp, A raw mist shrouded the when Judith started to Pike's store. Halfway down Winding Hill she met Gary coming up.

The sight of him sent her heart leaping. "Gary! I didn't know you were back." "Got in 10 minutes ago." He cast a quick glance about the deserted hill, then kissed her quickly. Funny to be surreptitious about kissing back to the cabin." "I haven't time." Suppressed excitement in his Something else in it something darkly threatening. "Let's walk." They continued down the hill. "Have you been to the forest, Gary?" "Yes," shortly.

Some of the color drained froni her lovely face: lost your job?" do-you get such ideas. Judith?" "You "I'm mad!" The semblance of humor dropped from him. "I haven't lost my job, but," with satisfaction, "your precious hus- has lost his." can of talcum powder. On a bridge Reuben had scrawled: "Makej (Copyright, 1938, Blanche Smith 6:00 p. m.

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score this go as far as you can." Reuben knew! Cissy had told course. Mechanically Judith picked up the money. Thirty-five dollars. The last she would get when? Panic seized hnr. What an extravagant fool she had been! Had she been less lavish of her new friends she could have saved money this summer.

Reuben came She shuddered away from the thought, went back to it, drawn irresistibly, could they talk things over sensibly? Would sullen, horrid silence hang between them like a fog or would the storm break in its fury? Sooner or later they must have it "Up, up!" Indignantly Jimmy pulled himself up and started to climb over the side of his crib. "Up!" The slant of his eyebrows, the cock of his head reminded her so strongly of Reuben that suddenly Judith wanted to evade 'all argument with her son. "All right," she agreed weakly. Pouring milk into glasses, putting porridge into bowls, being polite to Cissy, Judith's thoughts went round and round like squirrels in now- by nine tonight Judith speeded her departing guest. She did not want Cissy under the roof tonight when Reuben came.

"Au revoir, darling. When I see you again you'll probably be the superintendent's wife," Cissy said. "Have your little joke, Cissy." "I never was further from a joke in my life." "Or nearer," Judith said. "Now what did she mean by that?" Cissy wondered she she sent icr roadster zipping across the mountain, "if she told Gary whsv. I I'll bet a cookie sliejj Cissy stepped on ths gas.

'Ir: that case there will be fireworks galore and Rinnan nightfall. I'm going be on hand collect the fj.lling stars--" Judith went througl: the morn- ng with an eye on the clock. What would she say to Reuben when ho came? What would ho say to her? At one o'clock Gary telephoned. 'I've had to change my pians, Julith." "Yes?" It didn't surprise her. Wasn't Gary always changing his plans? "I'm leaving in 10 minutes for Portland with Galbreath." Mad!" 9 I Tim! meant Reuben wouldn't Ferguson) Tomorrow: Showdown.

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