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'A THE FRESNO BEE SUNDAT DECEMBER 29 1935 lews Kissing Crash Will Pay For Wedding Outfit LUXURY TAX TO MILNE KMPli HOAX SOLVED BV SIX BIG MISTAKES LEAGUE BLAMED AS EUROPE VEERS CLOSE TO WAR ISECRET PACT WITH ITALY DENIED BY FRENCH PREMIER Once Wealthy Actress Finds Joy In Flat Gridiron Program Members of the Fresno Rotary Club many of them prominent in Fresno's business and social life Divorce Is Frank Edward Rogers has filed suit for a divorce from Ruth Rogers saying he has refused to live with him during the last two years except for short periods totaling about two months Ho says she left him November 7th promising to return November 11th but did not do ea Rog- DENVER Dec Vh-From the "kissing Gertrude Miller will get a $1500 trousseau will be put on the "hot spot" tomorrow noon when the club stages its second annual gridiron program at The Californian Details of the program are being kept a secret (Continued from Page 1-A) (Continued from Page 1-A) Miss Miller was injured when a car In tha back seat of PARIS Dec 28 Oils Premier I Pierre Laval laid bare vital secrets of "behind the scenes" displomacy Democratic Leader Would Eliminate Impost On Pay rolls And Employes era aays he has done everything to him encourage hie wife to live with I in the chamber of deputies to-day double vote of confi- and won Goldie Dudley Manager of Wilson's Beauty Shop offers Clairol Tints for $185 Permanent $150 up 202 Brix Bldg 3-8215 Above Cooper a (adv They married July 27 1931 and separated November 7th dence in his foreign policy during the Italo-Ethiopian crisis SC In his desperate fight Tor the life of his cabinet Laval pried off the Drew To Address Arthur Drew local attorney will be the quiriea as to how he felt he re Me? I'm all right" MEN ENRAGED WASHINGTON Dec 0-Joaeph Keenan assistant attor ncy general In charge of crimlna cases said to-night that extortloi charges sgalnat Caleb Milne It would be pressed "if th fact: warrant" While Keenan said tha juitle department would "proved cau principal speaker on a program arranged for a meeting of Townsend which ahe waa riding crashed into another machine She sued the driver of her car Arnold Schlesinger alleging ha was kissing a girl companion just aa ths crash occurred and won a $2000 Judgment The girl la a minor and the court to-day on petition of her mother aet aside for her wedding expenses the $145674 that remained after costs of the action were paid The name of the prospective bridegroom was not revealed but the ceremony is planned for 1936 Census Soon To George A Wolfe recently appointed district supe-visor for a 1936 federal ness census has gone to Los Angeles to receive instructions regarding the a-lection of enumerators and the establishment of a district headquarters here The work is ex pected to start late this week tween Italy and Ethiopia for peaceful adjustment But for Italy the acceptance of such terms would constitute a defeat even more humiliating than tha first Aduwa forty yeara ago Must Fight To End Italy must therefore fight on to the bitter end which can only be domestic revolution If Musaolin! takes sanctions lying down and war of desperation against Great Britain if ha does not And it is the unanimous opinion of all experimental observers that II Dues will fight For myself I do not believe the sanctions ever will be imposed because during the next Club No 4 at 7:30 to-morrow at Torino Hall First and Belmont Avenues WASHINGTON Dee The idea levying sales taxes on luxuries to support tbs New Deal's social security program was suggested to-day by Chairman Buchanan Democrat of Texas of the house appropriations committee Such levies would be substitutes for tbs taxes on payrolls and employes which the security act now provides Buchann said: see no reason for example why the employer of eight or more lid of his diplomatic "Pandora's I Box" and disclosed Important details of France's relation with Italy Great Britain and Germany to prove he had clung to the traditional pattern of French diplomacy His daring gesture was successful He weathered the first vote of on a Radical-Socialist motion of censure by a majority of twenty and increased it to forty-three on a second test on a left-Radical order-of-the-day commending him Denies Duce'a Free Hand Usually foreign ministers defend tMmselvea in generalities but Laval knew he had to throw a pitiless other government lawyer: aaid Milne could bo prosecutei Burglar Takes Dixon last evening reported to police clothing valued at $60 was stolen from his room at a local hotel Dixon said he left the door unlocked during a short absence returning to find the room had been isnaacked Bankrupts Plea le Mine-kichi Kawahara Fresno hotel mpn has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court at Loe Angeles listing suets of $2000 and liabilities of $96650 persons or even the emploves who hr nave jobs should ha heavily taxed few weeks I think it is going to he come plain to tha whole world th that to pay insurance to those out of work "Besides It would impose a tremendous accounting burden on the Freenan Attends Dr Ear) Vahue has returned from a busi- light upon his ministry He ere are some of tha employes themaelvea that would ness trip to San Francisco and a without a complaint from hi grandfather who received noti demanding $20000 A twenty-ye: prison sentence of fine of $5000 or both is possible upon convic tion of using the mails to extort Attorney General Cummings declined after a long distance talk with Edgar Hoover chief of the men to comment on Milne's confession Department spokesmen 1 however said officials were en-' raged over the affair: Besides ths anxiety caused the Milne family they said tha hoax cost the government a large sum of money in the services of Rente who investigated the case in Boston New York and Philadelphia have to be duplicated in large part bjr the federal government here trip to the San Quentin Penitentiary where he attended a dental clinic FEAR DF REVOLT READER BY CALLES PASSES IN MEXICO ACI ARE DEEINED could all he avoided by a sales tax on luxuries It would raise an adequate amount to finance the Under the act as now drawn a 1 per cent tax cm payrolls of em ployers of eight or more persons goes into effect January 193s however clumsy -and shambling Baldwin and Hoars were in their actions they were correct in their appraisal of ths situation and that the imposition of an oil embarge will mean war Nor does anything suggest that France would give Britain any effective assistance in such a conflict heeause to do that would bo to precipitate a civil war In tha republic' Fublie Believes Fairy Tala Underlying all else in tha present crisis has been the widespread public belief that a great power can be starved and strangled into submission by other nations and maka no violent resistance to such a process All ths operations at Geneva have proceeded upon this assumption As Hoars and Baldwin pointed out no preparations were mane by any country other than Britain to meet the attack of Mussolini which both foresaw as likely But now if any attempt is made to on with oil embargoes then it become clear ones and for It JfS to finance unemployment insur ance with per cent added each Crash Damages Are Felipa Cabral and Maria Lira hava filed suit against Havrah Bell and Elmer Burleigh for damages of $3596280 for injuries received in an automobile accident at Rounds and McKinley Avenues Oo-tober 30th The plaintiffs say they were riding with Henry assure whose automobile was struck by one owned by Burleigh and driven bv Belt Felipa Cabral aske $5-34204 and Maria Lira $3062076 diplomatic secrets ha rsvealed Tha Fraoco-Itailan agreements Laval leached in Rome last January contained nothing to encourage Premier Benito Mussolini to gobble up Ethiopia Laval thus denied a rumor long current that he gave II Dues a in Africa in exchange for assurance of co-operation against re-arming Germany In July Laval cautioned Mussolini that his African plana might lead to dangerous results From early September Laval was in close consultation with British officials regarding application of sanctions They agreed "to discard military sanctions to refuse ail measures which would lead to a naval blockade and never envisaged closing the Sues Canal" Fourth Franca did not re-enforce year until 3 per cent is reached in 1938 The contributory old-age SACRAMENTO Dee 28-CV-An answer to tbs question of what is agricultural labor aa well ai other puzzles in unem ployment insurance act came today from the commission administering the law The question of who is an agricultural worker waa raised by farm organizations which wanted to know if the man delivering farm produce to canneries and railroad pension program ultimately will be financed by a 3 per cent tax on payrolls -and 3 per cent on em ployes' wages Buchi Uchanan's MEXICO CITY Dec Mexican officials said to-day that any threat of a revolution brought about by tha return from exile of General Plutarco Elias Calles onetime strong man and president has definitely passed This politest problem has apparently been solved without bloodshed or major disorder Tha important question of where the country Is beading economically is till to be clearly answered Leadera of the army organised labor and the peasant classes have MAY YOHE SMUTS King Her Friend depots was included Agricultural labor is exempt suggestion for a sales tax came only a abort time after Senator Harrison Democrat of Mississippi chairman of the senate finance committee indicated that there would ba no tax legislation at tha session of congress opening January 3rd iked As! bald: "I think he was talking about general tax legislation" lined up solidly against Calles and behind President Lazaro Cardenas Child Undergoes Strange Operation BOSTON Dec 28tf-Tumlng Britirt -nd whether or not It is true that ef- mum Britain waa worried only by fectlve sanctiona mean war Italtltn antl-Britlah propaganda and I hava received a good deal of th Kllld HtarMS5BSttaiIifc sh May Yohe Smuts wife of military naval and air cjrstfon down fighting and will attack Ctaptain John A Smuts her third jin case of war with Italy Laval in-Great Briuto rather than let hurtnd- 8tated PrV Political agree- oil embargo strangle his military Captain Smuts veteran of Brit- JJPJI? JHel operations Tha Italian air forces tab campaigns In India South At- JShST and submarines could do a good rica and Flandera is a cousin of itSiJu- deal of Initial harm to tbo British General Jan Christian Smuts JrtthBriKfc mtilw lath 11 fleet Actually it is notorious that South African soldier-statesman I the home fleet was sent to the After touching briefly on herLt iSwto wlthoS" prow Si W11h Germany back into jha collectivf wiuoui proper preparation it has bility and wealth aha said: I security ring I have spent almost twenty-two I The French ambassador months and many Calles broke with Cardenas and charged "Mexico is being headed toward Reds Support Cardenas An outstanding' feature of the demonstration was ths strength die-played by the Communist Party whict SAN FRANCISCO Dec: 28-M1 storm ef considerable intensity swept In from tha sea along the Oregon Coast raised snow levels In the high Sierra dampened Ban! Francisco and brought rain to m' dry Central California to-day 'I Weather bureau officials forecast 1 rain and strong southeast winds followed by clearing akiea to-morrow Storm warnings were posted along tha eoast from her to Ta toosh Island Wash New snows were predicted for tha high Sierra where the skiing season is in full swing Soda Springs -Norden Cisco Tahoe and other ski resorts reported white blankets ten to sevnteen feet deep The state division of highways said moat transsierra roads will re 1 main open despite the heavy fall They recommended chains for the Placervllle-Tahoc Highway and tha Auburn-Truckes Road 4000 members to pledge their sup- to join port to Cardenas and even NEW YORK Dec WV-A chubby 2-yea r-old girl la beiieveo recovering from a aeries of intestinal operations hitherto considered futile The child Libby Rlchvln who was horn with her bladder entirely outside the body and inverted was so far improved that surgeons predicted aha would ba able to leave tha hospital Monday for a period of convalescence at home Her father Marcua Rlchvln in cheering the statement that "tha government is not carrying out a Communistic program but a revolutionary oner of wedded biisi with Captain "fared Relchsuehrer Adolf Hitler tha ago hava been recalled for refitting Cf'f If moreover the truth of that Franco-Soviet pact waa Hoare-Lavai ever comes have had three husbands but Germany was captain I am happy to is urged surgeons to operate although there was little they advised him SAN FRANCISCO Deo 28-UB Catholic Church la unalterably opposed to Communism for many reasons outstanding among them being that "destruction la not creation" and becausa "religion has no place on tha Communistic program" the Very Rev I Callahan provincial of the Dominican Fathers In California Oregon and Washington aaid to-day Clearly defining the position of the Catholic Church towards Communism Father Callahan whose headquarters are in San Francisco made the first public statement on the subject ever made in the West by a high Catholic dignitary "In view of tha apparent contradictions between theory and Father Callahan said "there ia need of a clear statement of the attitude of the Catholic Church towards Communism "Common ownership of goods was basic in the structure of the early Christian communities There have been Communistic organizations within the Church for nineteen centuries Such bodies are flourishing the religious societies the members of which are obligated by vow to renounce private property Their existence laws and customs are approved and regulated by the Church the other hand the Catholic Church is listed among the enemies of Communism Her spokesmen take every opportunity to warn the hops of success On Tuesday nigni Dr Herman I Wenger of the Medical Arts Center completed his work of remodeling her inteatlnal system and removing the bladder The tracts leading from eacn kidney were shifted Dr Wenger said to connect with the gastrointestinal system creating a dual-purpose excretory arrangement from tha law which becomes effective January 1st Tha commission said thesa ware agricultural laborers: Those cultivating the soil growing and harvesting fruit nuta vegetables cotton and farm products pruning spraying fumigating fertilizing and heating orchards and farm fields threshing grains raising livestock poultry and bees operating a dairy ana like activities packing and preparing fruits nuta and vegetables for markets and other farm products the natural and orig'- ai state of which is -not changed Other Farm Workers Employes paid directly in the drying of frulta employes of mutual water associations furnishing water only for agricultural and horticultural purposes those paid directly by farmers horticulturists and viniculturists in transporting produce to market Employes in citrus by-products plants canneries wineries creameries slaughter houses and meat packing establishments are industrial workers subject to tha act The commission decided that contributions of employer and employe to benefit or pension reserves and payments made from such reserves are not taxable Sick benefits from a fund maintained by employes and those paid by an employer are not taxable but If a deduction Is made from an employe's pay check for contributions to a benefit fund he can not subtract it froi the amount of wage upon which hia unemployment insurance contribution ta assessed Contributions of employers to grouo insurance is not taxable but employes making contributions may not subtract them from the amount of wage taxable Employer Defined Unless there is a contract any payment by an employer to a discharged employe other than that for actual time worked Is not taxable Unless there Is a contrary legal arrangement the lessee of a leased department ta the employer of employes in the department and liable for payment of the tax An employer is one who hires and fires nays wages and has more than eight persona in his employ ment for some portion of each of twenty days each day being a different week of the year rnturvth 8 it Will be my say fiy? to Jo a non-aggreMlon pact discovered that tha admiralty had real love" with France 88 a finger in the pie Of her first marriage to Lord I Laval and German Air New March To War Francis Hope aha aaid: I Minister Goering had a three-hour In any event however Europe was the first American girl hotel room talk on a projected air has now resumed its march to war I to marry into royalty for love To-Pet during the Pliaudsky funeral and a fresh Incentive has been fur- day you will find most American at Cracow nished to Japan to push its oper- girls marrying for the title Th margin by which Laval ationa in North China and outer Rerrets Runawav survived probably ties his hands as Mongolia For Germany too op- Hon wm arsnd mJ ir £itlativ for peace portunity continues to broaden If I Jjt man ra concerned The next proposals and when moreover England Is I toolish was must coma from Roma or Addis fighting Italy with hut scant auo- wheaJ f4 hii? to wth But Ababa it waa believed front Fnce then Slron I After the more exciting In tern etnbark upon his Austrian or Lithu-ItT course my marriage toLord tionat debate in the afternoon the anian adventurs without urtner I was resented by hie mother I chamber resumed discussion to- concern Ul Iurtni er the dowager duchess of Newcastle night of the bill to dissolve eeml- hut King Eddie (Edward VII of military groups of Fascist or siml- What has happened in recem Great Britain) helped straighten lar nature in France An amend- ot matters for ment dissolving all public against the menace of the Communistic movement "Land and capital originally belonged to the community hut the experience of ths race soon discovered that this schema was not workable What is business la business Confusion neglect and quarrels were the products of the primitive Communism Division of property 1 introduced as a device to remedy thia social defect This does not imply that community of possession is wrong It it not against the moral law It does show that Communism on a large scale is not workable that it is not the bast way "The Church la (he enemy of the new Communism because religion has no niace on its program The Communists have scrapped religion because they believe it has been a narcotic to make men unconscious of social and economic injustices" 's I Hein Mojin FREEZE MODERATES CHICAGO Dec 28 Winter's first aub-sero wave waa definitely broken to-day but only after it had caused directly or indirect ly loss of at Inst 220 live and damaged crops to the extent of mllliona of dollars Snow in many sections marked the departure of the extrema frigid blast that swept over the country from the Rocky tains to the Atlantic Coast A white blanket covered the tie dust bowl" of southeastern Col- orado extended over the Continental Divide and reached from Santa Fe to Montana Tha fall broke a six weeks' drought in that area In many other sections of tha northern states the covering persisted ths mercury climbed lowly upward While the snowfall In Kansas and other wheat growing reaa waa deemed highly beneficial southern agricultural areas suffered heavily from' the frost 'Garden truck production waa the principal loser IMMEDIATE RESTORATION PLATES Dr Jeff Halford 11 TTLTOX PH 3-3715 secret societies RSIn hJ 5coH Mr- Smuts now 66 reiterated aimed especially at the Free Ma- her denial of a claim of Robert sons waa rejected by a vote of 417 FLd" I Thomas west coast actor that he to th 6y is her son by Putnam Bradles wealthy son of a former tion of the Ethiopian jirsr woulo mayor of New York and her sec- id hu fnd ond husband with whom he OIL DOM encourage violence In Asla( underinn in ioni on unonkfI'nL I Thomas has brought suit in New elation wa'r th- 0 if the enro'Sf fmXa" state And its methods were frankly I Chatting reminiscently in her and brutally realistic But its mode8t apartment Mrs Smuts reject! vs was to preserve peace called some of the reverses which 25 Tne league has now Intervened I gather how fire had swept their to prevent making peace on such New Hampshire AGXEW DOCTOR DIES SAN JOSE Dec Dr Max Hawley resident physician and phychlatrist at Agnew State Hospital for fourteen years died to-day now continue until Ethiopia is ered on it ring nation was apparent among defeated- the I "Imagine how wealthy the cap-1 congressional leaders to-night in th league endeavors tain and I would be ahe tune with but still distinctly aep-l- armte from a similar movement in fresh sanctions is is I exclaimed to impose practically certain that war will spread to Europe For the champions of the league In tha United States such an extension of the area of conflict will seem a price worth paying to establish the prestige of Geneva and to demonstrate HIM COOL TO tha efficacy of the sanctiona system For Europeans by contrast Europe The frank objective of the move which congressional leadera appeared to favor waa tha assurance that the United 8tatea would not be dragged into the I tmlo-Ethiopian or any other foreign war The objective of the embargo movement in Europe was to punish a declared aggressor and to give militant effect to various peace treaties The American attitude crystallised as Premier Pierre Laval won a vote of confidence from the French Chamber of Deputies Adolf ln8y on the assurance that bv Informed 9111 PIace the impetus 1 'of France's moral and physical COATS At 14 Vs and OFF particularly for those who may have to fight the price may presently appear excessive Aa it stands ths situation cornea down to thia: The league has defeated a plan which insured peace at the ifrice of its own dishonor It Is now to proceed with its war upon Italy to the point where Italian collapse will maka possible the imposition upon Italy of a peace consistent with league principles For Mussolini for his Fascist party for hia country therefore the war is henceforth a war for existence If the league aue- PANAMA CANAL 19 DAYS Coma cruising ig on SAN DIEGO Dec MV-Ap-ilicatlon by the city of Coronado or a second toll bridge across San Diego Bay was revealed to-day when local port authorities ware advised by the army engineer corps that a public hearing on tha request for the new bridge this time suspension structure towering 270 feet ahova tho will ba held next month Bridge building interests and Coronado authorities recently asked permission to build a drawbridge across the bay At a hearing it was brought out that construction of such a bridge probably would drive the navy out of San Diego as the obstruction of tha channel by a drawbridge would render the upper bay area mooring ground tor the battle force units useless from the navy standpoint Tha application was opposed by tha city of San Diego and a majority of the maritime interests here both naval and commercial No final decision :1 75 spotless new lin or the Greet White Fleet to romantle Panama No passports required Outdoor swimming pools all outside rooms latest mechanical vsa Illation ejta imposing its terms upon Italy then then will be revolution in the peninsula with conseaueneM peninsula with consequences for the rest of ths world wholly Iks Umct FIRS! CLASS Wtrify MHa0 16 Itoyt it NEW YORK 22ft J7 Draft NEW ORLEANS BIOS Your opportunity to procure luxurious coats from best makers including PRINTZESS AND CHARMODE COATS at one-fourth one-third and one-half off price Superior fabrics faultless workmanship superb furs Fur and self trimmed coats Sizes 12 to 54 Prices untrimmed $1295 up Fur trimmed $1995 up BERLIN Dec Hitler waa said sources to-day to ba "taking a IforcYteiiTnd thViagiTe of Nation bolder stand aa German arma- I sanctions against Italy and the ef-menta I fort to extend these sanctions to For concrete examples of this fnd other stand they said he recently reject ed both British and French moves for an arms limitation pact In-1 JeaaSr volvine Germany 1 Indicated growing srntlment in fa- Hitler they said is even more cool than ever before toward the Pmnt old French proposal for an air material deemed nggt' I essential wsr supplies to all bel- The reichs fuehrer wee reported I to have declined to discuss limits 40 assure con-tions of armaments with Sir Eric neutrality Phipps the British embassador to PJttmnn chairman Berlin who last saw Hitler Decern- 41 foreff" relations her 13th I committee said hs probably would Informed sources said Hitler would reserve the right to with- d8d had deflnJ' hold hia views until after ratifies- hl ldeV ou th tion of the Franco-Soviet pact of mutual assistance now before the 4ij McReynoida French chamber of deputies I German officials contend that ald whl1 thia pact holds threat of -r I i1 ll against Germany and closely re-1 r5e" drafted' M1 present idea ia sembles tha FTanco-Rusaian ai- tilPrldlr0Btd liance before th world war The Mipmeinf to bel- French deny this interpretation of Isary to maintain Sattrir scorn awrfrtMU itigJUb Uti Kun mgr commnv Um Sa hufim sr air Asthse-Im Tram Al(l GREAT-WHITE FLEET has yet been given in this matter id: The new bridge would bo a suspension affair with a total length of more than a mile Japan Would Be Next Assuming that tha league presently reduces Italy to anarchy and thus to submission without preclpl-pating an European war then it will at once have to turn to tne Japanese case and embark upon a similar campaign against a similar aggressor- And whether II Duct indulges in his dog" war upon England or not it is perfectly sale to aasunre that Japan will fight back from the start As Stanley Baldwin said Europe has now passed from platitudes to stark realities Three possibilities remain oil sanctions may be Gravel-Crushed Rock Concrete Plaster Sand Deferred Divided accounts without charge NO PAYMENT REQUIRED TILL FEBRUARY 1ST dropped and decision left to'ltsly and Ethiopia on the battlefield and strict neutrality Iby this government tbs treaty Corresponding reductions on apparel throughout store Favored Bv Nye -f -yv Grant-Service Rock Co Announces Senator Gerald Nye chairman of tha senate munitions committee said he favored declaring oil an Implement of war ta such action was necessary to establish a strict embargo If congress votes the president suthoritv to declare an embargo on oil shipments to belligerent nations 'such authority will be exercised if at all entirely without retard to whether the League of Nations has or la contemplating a similar embargo against Italy of-Alal asserted The opening of their new hunkers for retail delivery to con-eumers throughout tha valley The league powers under the renewed leadership of Great Britain may press for oil sanctions and prove that Mussolini seas bluffing Or with the attempt to impose such sanctions I Duce may demonstrate that Laval and Hoare were right by resorting to a war of desperation As far aa the league Is concerned if it fails to impose the oil sanctions its impotence will be disclosed As for Mussolini if he takes oil sanctions lying down then he will not only be finished but finished In a fashion even more ignominious than was William li Baldwin- Hoare Vanaittart the responsible officials of both tha British Foreign Office and the Quel all believe II Duce will fight If the deliberate judgment of those who should know Is correct It must he plain how close to war Europe la aa a result of the FRANCE STILL BUILDING PARIS Dec (A7 Completion of a huge program of eteel and concrete fortification! on the German frontier to make France safe against a r-ouible Nasi invasion was announced to-day by the reporter of the senate army committee The senate adopted the war and navy budget alter Emllle Sari the committee's reporter aaid there are "only a few remaining holes" to plug to maka tha country safe against attack Stiessing the need of more soldiers to occupy forts Sari disclosed tbst France has ly 512000 men of which 330000 are conscripts against what he said waa Adolf Hitler's 800000 Sari said the number of machine guns in Germany has teen doubled and the army Is equipped with CAPACITY SpOOO TONS PER DAY Bunkers located at Selma on tha main highway near south city limits Highest teat specification materials meeting govern- ment state city and county requirements Delivery from 8:30 A to 5:00 Dally: Delivery made to your truck or estimate given for delivery to Job site A JOHNSON OFT Specialising in Eye Correction NEW ADDRESS 297-3118 Paclflc-S Bldg Phone Selina OBox 121 Selina PHONE FRESNO K-4187 PLANT AT KOCKFIELD PHONE 3-8313 league rejection of tha Hoare-Lavai powerful trench mortars and ms chine guna firing one-inch bullets Jx proposal A.