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WAR their push ent oops in an Bea- 10 iWtt 3THE WEATHER Showers tonight and Wednesday; pooler in northwest Wednesday afternoon. Moderate to fresh southerly winds pn the coast. vytV, No. 282 yoluine m1 CONSOLIDATED LAFAYETTE GAZETTE JULY 1ST 1921 LAFAYETTE, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1938 FULL WIRE NEWS SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS i i VI TRY IS ASSURED BY PR SIOENT CARDENAS Magill Appeals For Retention Things Are Not WhatTheySeem t- S-rtTs Senate Foes Of Reorganization H- Bill Changing Their Tactics Of Undistributed Profits Tax OPPONENTS OF MEASURE WILL PLAN ATTACK Bill Comes Up Following Disposal Of Government Reorganization Measure Undersecretary Of Treasury Makes Plea To Senate Finance Committee Seek Specific Exemptions Rather Than Modification Of Entire Program OUTLINE PLANS WIN AUSTRIANS OVER TONAZIS New Government Feeding Poor And Attempting To Stimulate Enthusiasm Ljrr Department Ling Money To Be Paid LfropertiesTn (TO ERASE FEARS Lssary Steps Will Be ben To Protect And jroge Investments CALLED PREPOSTEROUS Nye Calls Proposal Most Insane Program That Could Be Pursued iese gif nds cnc stripe i frosts, han hro Man or woman, what do you think? Well, officials of a St. Louis hotel thought so too, and thats how Ann Brock fooled them for seven long Masquerading as a man and she does it well, dont you think? she worked as a bus boy until police just happened to learn her identity during a routine questioning session.

Her -Job gone, 27-year-old Ann planned to return to the Missouri farm where she was raised. WASHINGTON, March 22 (P) Roswell Magill, undersecretary of the treasury, appealed to the Senate Finance committee today to retain the undistributed profits tax. He told the committee, in which a strong movement for repeal of the tax has been evident, that the treasury favors the retention of a tax upon undistributed corporate earnings as a means of equalizing the distribution of the total tax burden. Under the tax revision bill passed by the House, MaGill said, approximately 88 per cent of the 200,000 corporations which paid taxes in 1938 would be exempt from the undistributed profits tax. The House bill exempts corporations with incomes of less than $25,000 and MaGill declared the House also had attempted to prevent hardships upon corporations both by specific exemptions and by lower rates.

The undersecretary urged reinstatement in the bill of the special undistributed profits tax on closely-held corporations which was drafted by the House Ways and Means committee, but was stricken on the floor of the House. He said the House Ways and Means committees plan was designed as a safeguard against deliberate tax avoidance. The undistributed profits tax, he continued, has been improved in the House bill to contain "som? notable relief features for special cases. Corporations that are bankrupt, or that are insolvent and in receivership are exempt from the undistributed profits tax, he said. So too are all banks, insurance companies, mutual investment companies, rental housing corporations, China trade act corporations, and corporations doing business chiefly in.

possessions of the United States. BRITISH CABINET WORKS ON ITS FOREIGNPOLICY Chamberlain Will Present Policy To House Of Commons On Thursday WASHIGTON, March 22 UP) Senate opponents of the government reorganization bill changed their tactics today, endeavoring to win specific exemptions rather than modification of the entire program. They urged adoption of an amendment by Senator Pittman (D-Nev) which would present presidential transfer of the Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department. Even Senator Byrnes (D-SC), floor manager for the bill, said the vote on that proposal would be extremely close. Senator Clark (D-Mo) prepared a score of amendments exempting other bureaus.

After their consideration. Senator Byrd (D-Va) will ask for a vote on his proposal to retain the comptroller generals office. Foes of the bill were defeated yesterday, 56 to 28, In their attempt to insert a statement of policy calling for a 10 per cent reduction in regular government expenditures. They were heartened last night, however, when President Wiliam Green of the American Federation of Labor advocated returning the measure to committee for further study. That would be equivalent to killing it, at least for this session.

The Senate also received the billion-dollar naval- expansion bill, which the House approved yesterday 292 to 100. Some legislators predicted it would bring a long Senate debate over the administrations foreign policy. The House, meanwhile, took up a conference report on the appropriations bill for independent federal agencies. The principal argument was over funds to start a TV A dam at Gilbertsville, Ky. The Senate finance committee called treasury experts in hopes of ending public hearings on the tax revision bill.

Business and Industrial leaders urged the committee yesterday to wipe out the present undistributed profit taxes. FORESEE LARGER FLOOD SUM THAN WAS SUGGESTED Ask Authority For Sum Far In Excess Of Amount Suggested rrai cmr March 22 HD Presl-toienw assured Mexican 'ifU, mat expropriation of for-OTPaales was exceptional MjSTmeasure was in prospect 5etS5'5tinent tooktoe toward fixing the sum to be i itolT British and American oil A of their $400,000,000 Sa President Cardenas gave his fines to industry in general in a aaenftbat: id jiier measures which might confidence of the country will nut against other business, proper-xX deposits, values and other Inna, which the government Is protect in accordance with the aid he spoke now to erase fearer jet without foundation might be lid, tore been created, as a result raws spread by parties Interested msj that the measure which the emaentfas compelled to take In re-d to the all properties, be mlslnter-m tad distorted." president said his government 4 late necessary steps to protect I wage investments and busi-) taterprises which might aid the ktffiical derelopment of the country I SHtf benefits of social character. VaitKj (V the Treasury Eduardo muted representatives of the 17 rpriated oil companies to confer ba os indemnity fear their pro- tea the terms of payment. --jtor Is planning a great parade here to demonstrate its support of jwerament for taking over the oil airy. while, there developed the pros-i financial changes, an aftermath oil reorganization, VIENNA, March 22 UP) An outline of plans designed to win over the Austrian population to its Nazi conquerors was completed today.

The plebiscite propaganda drive starts Thursday with several chleftians making personal appearances and speeches. (The April 10 plebiscite was called by Fuehrer Hitler so that the Austrian people might endorse the Austrian-German union.) Bavarian emergency kitchens fed thousands of Viennese poor, whom newspapers pictured in deepest want. Minor government workers organizations received $36,000 for charitable purposes and promises of free vacations. It was announced $800,000 would be devoted to Vienna slum clearance. Every newspaper edition promised this or that action to help prime the pump, although some of the plans were Nazi adaptations of old schemes.

The Austrian average man doesnt seem unduly cheered by the promises. Rumors still added to the peoples worries, mostly that some prominent man had committed suicide or was mistreated. Schools re-opened after a holiday. Jewish teachers and pupils were excluded from opening exercises which paid allegiance to the new Nazi regime. There is practically no night life in Vienna now.

Streets are almost deserted after 10:00 p. m. but the people are not awakened so much by sharp night noises sounding like sharp shots or autos backfiring. Ordinary conversation is increasingy guarded and one does not discuss things, even with ones friends. People lament that Vienna is only a provincial city now.

Flood Threat Subsiding In Southwest Ala. BITTER FIGHT UNDERWAY IN SUCHOW AREA Japs And Chinese Battle For Possession Of Vital Railway Junction Point FRENCH CABINET ASKS ADVANCE FOR ARMAMENTS Five Billion Francs Asked Of Bank Of France For Armament Purposes PARIS, March 22 UP) The cabinet today called for an advance of francs ($152,000,000) from the Bank of France for armament purposes while the Chamber of Deputies debated what a member called the danger of swift, Implacable wax waged by Germany. The ministers approved the proposal of Premier Leon Blum for the bank advance, which Blum will explain tomorrow before the Chambers Finance Committee. Parliaments approval then will be asked. Debate In the Chamber was devoted largely to Europes war dangers and Frances pareparations to meet them.

A government bill providing for a wartime regime for the nation was under dis-Deputy Edmond Meillet, Radical-cussion. Socialist chairman of the Chamber Army Committee, declared: German plans provide for the use of even women and children In total war. The German general staff plans for swift, implacable war. He recalled that the late General Erich Ludendorff recommended that war be started without declaration. The wartime preparation bill, originally Introduced by the government 14 years ago but since altered to meet changing requirements, contains three main points: 1.

Mobilization of the entire nation in wartime. 3. Setting up In peace time an administrative organization which could function In time of war. 3. Parliamentary approval to make such' organization legal.

Franco Pushes Campaign Open Path Sea Tanks And Planes Are Unleashed Against Govt. Defenses West Of Catalonia HENDAYE, France, At The Spanish Frontier, March 22 UP) The Spanish insurgent command unleashed tanks and planes today against government defenses Just west of Catalonia ta Its relentless campaign to open a path through eastern Spain to the sea. Mechanized forces based Calanda rammed the Castleseras-Torrevelilla line, standing before the Alcaniz-Valencia road, where gathering resistance blocked the infantrys drive to split Barcelona from the rest of government Spain. The successive asraults headed by 47 tanks and a number of planes broke on this sector Monday, government advloes 6aid. Insurgents said the fourth attack opened a gap in the defenses.

The government communiques, however, declared the line was closed again. Insurgent air raids behind the lines centered on Tortosa, Mediterranean coast objective, 35 miles east of Torrevelilla. Dispatches from Madrid said the government was heartened by the stalling of the insurgent offensive, and other dispatches from Barcelona declared enough reinforcements had been rushed up to provide a check to Generalissimo Franco. The government asserted there was but one Spaniard to seven foreigners in Francos force of 150,000 men, which in less than two weeks had marched almost two-thirds of the way to the seaboard, starting west of Belchite. In Madrid hopes were expressed the European nonintervention agreement of 27 nations would be ended soon so that the government would be able to procure much-needed war material.

WASHINGTON, March 22 The administrations naval expansion bill, outspoken critics Indicated today, will become a vehicle for far-reaching Senate debate on foreign policy, neutrality and national defense. Senate opponents of the bill, which the House passed yesterday 292 to 100, are led by Senators Borah (R-Ida) and (Pro-Wis). They were expected to decide on their strategy soon after disposal of the government reorganization bill. LaPollette, calling the projected $1,100,000,000 expenditure for new ships criticized particularly the proposal of naval experts to develop fleets capable of defending the United States on both coasts at the same time. We seem suddenly to have discovered the Atlantic Ocean, he commented.

I always thought it was an asset from a defense standpoint, but now It seem that It Is a liability which Is silly. Senator Nye (R-ND) said the big navy bill was warlike ahd would call few "the most Insane program that could be pursued. Chairman Pittman (D-Nev) of the Senate Foreign Relations committee said, however, there was no doubt that the bill would pass In virtually the same form as it was approved by the House. He added The United States hasnt any partners among the nations, doesnt want any partners. Because of that, we must be prepared to make other nations afraid to attack us.

Its the cheapest kind of peace Insurance." Secretary Hull gave renewed emphasis to this no alliance attitude yesterday In a statement deploring bombardment of non-combatants by insurgent forces In Spain. He Issued it Independently of a similar appeal made jointly by France and Great Britain. Senator Norris (Ind-Neb) told reporters he had modified his previous opposition to increasing naval armaments because of unsettled world conditions, but expressed belief the pending bill goes too far. As approved by the House, the measure carried no funds for construction, but President Roosevelt has recommended that work be started on two of the three battleships It would authorize and on two of the nine cruisers. Naval officials estimated it would require, from four to six years to carry out the program, provided Congress makes the money available.

In addition to the battleships and cruisers, the bill would authorize 950 airplanes, two aircraft carriers, 23 destroyers, nine submarines, five destroyer tenders, three submarine tenders, 11 seaplane tenders and three repair ships. Approval of the huge armament program came from Chairman McReynolds (D-Tenn) of the House Foreign Affiairs committee, who declared in a radio address last nle'ht that dictators will be fighting among themselves soon. He added that passage of the naval expansion bill was an example of wise preparation for any contingency. Opposition to the naval program, he said, was based primarily on the preposterous supposition President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull would use the expanded' fleet for aggression or enter Into secret agreements with Great Britain to policy the world. The House, having got the navy measure out of the way, will start debate tomorrow on a measure appropriating money for military expenditures of the War Department.

(Turn to page 2, col. 1) TAKEN AAREA LONDON, March 22 yP) Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his cabinet worked today on a stablizatiSm declaration to keep political peace at home and pointed toward restoration of Britains historic balance of power in European affairs. Cabinet sessions today and tomorrow were expected to produce a unanimous expression of foreign policy to be presented by Chamberlain to the House of Commons on Thursday. Observers said Chamberlain likely would prqclaim support of League of Nations principles and maintenance of a traditional friendship with France. There was a feeling among political commentators that Chamberlain was seeking to reassure Germany, Czechoslovakia (with Its fear of German Nazi incursion), and France (ally of the Czechs) all at the same time, with the same policy and with offense to none.

At the same time, it was believed, the ministers would commend the broad outlines of an Italian-British friendship agreement and seek with French urging to get foreigners out of Spains civil war. Mach 22 tn-Ji inch" of term China, Wto Koaoye told the ptetement came of a Noi T1 company bill, feed the pre operations jwid out Konoye replied, limit to which we win wn I can tell you Inch of theare 5S oSpwLeconoml( SHANGHAI, March 22 UP) Fighting raged today across a bloody Grand Canal. as Chinese and Japanese, their lines but 50 yards apart in some places, battled for possession of Suchow, vital Junction point of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow railways. Gunfire was audible In Suchow, 22 miles from the battlefield as Japanese ranged their heavy artillery along the north shore of the canal and opened bombardment of the Chinese lines. The barrage was believed to be preliminary to an assault of the Chinese positions reaching from the swamps of Lake Weishan to Likuoyih, on the north-south Tlentsin-Pukow line where the bitterest fighting was takin place.

However, Japanese were In a position for an eastward flanking movement toward Taierchwang. At Suchow they would cut the east-west Lunghai line, connecting their North and Central China conquests and move into position for an easy advance by railway to Hankow, temporary Central Chinese Central government capital. In all other directions of the compass, reports showed the Chinese launching desperate counterattacks, preventing Japanese reinforcements to the Suchow battle and adding confusion to the already mixed situation in five provinces. Nazi Demand Rejected By Brazil Govt. Brazil's Ban On German Activities Is Protested By German Government ken a iMRRAY SAYS Rivers Will Continue To Fall Unless Heavy Rains Fall In North Of State MOBILE, March 22 UP) Threat of serious flood damage In southwest Alabama apparently was fading today fts the Tombigbee river started falling at Aberdeen, and the Black Warrior receded swiftly at Tuscaloosa.

Frank T. Cole, Mobile river forecaster, said prospects of appreciable damage appeared remote at present, but added that further heavy rainfall in north Alabama and east Mississippi may change the outlook. Cole said the Tombigbees rise had already slowed in the upper stretches, and that his previous forecast of a stage Thursday or Friday of 50 feet 11 feet above flood stage at Demopolis would not be reached until Saturday or Sunday. The river stood at 45.2 feet today, a rise of two feet from yesterday at Demopolis, and at Lock One It stood at 33.1, a rise of one foot from yesterdays stage. The Warrior at Tuscaloosa today had fallen to 46.7, approximately five feet under yesterdays stage.

Flood stage at Tuscalooca Is 46 feet. PLAN INQUEST IN TRAGEDY OF THE LAST RAFT MUNCY. March 22 UP) Veteran river lumbermen who survived the wrecking of a huge raft at a cost of probably seven lives fretted today over delay in completing her 200-mile trip down the Susquehanna river. Coroner Thomas C. Brandon would not allow the raft to be moved until he holds an Inquest into the tragedy that marred the historical revival of days when Pennsylvania was a great lumber state.

True to loggerman tradition, Levi (Bud) Conner, who constructed the 112-foot craft, was unshaken by the fact his brother, Harry, was among the seven lost when she crashed into a bridge Sunday. Were ready to go on a half hours notice," Levi said. In the old days a rlvennan never left his raft. WASHINGTON, March 22 UP) House Flood Control advocates forecast today Congress would he asked to authorize expenditures far in excers of the they said President Roosevelt suggested. Chairman Whittington (D-Mlss.) said the House Flood Control Committee would recommend "priority projects approved by the army engineers.

He scheduled hearings March 30. "We will undertake, he said, to hold the authorization to $300,000,000. This figure, said a committee member who declined to be quoted, was suggested by President Roosevelt when he conferred with Mr. Whittington, hut the many needed projects approved by the army engineers would require far greater expenditure. Whittington conceded the committee would meet difficulty in picking out projects to meet a predetermined dollar figure.

He said the hearings would embrace comprehensive programs for which surveys already had ben made. The chairman said programs in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and on the Connecticut ryer would be embraced in a bill to be recommended during the current session of Congress. REMOVAL OF A.E. MORGAN SAID -A CERTAINTY WASHINGTON, March 22 UP) Presidential removal or suspension of Arthur E. Morgan as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority became a virtual certainty today, despite the veteran engineers challenge of the legality of such action.

After Morgan refused yesterday to resign or retract charges of dishonesty against -his co-directors. President Roosevelt gave him until 2:30 pm, (Eastern Standard Time) today to present any reason why he should not be ousted. The TVA head, however, left last night for his home at Yellow Springs, Ohio, without communicating further with the president. Mr. Roosevelt gave no advance indication of how he would proceed against Morgan.

There was speculation on Capitol Hill that he might issue an executive order removing the chairman and then nominate his successor at once. N. Y. WOMAN IS CLEARED KILLING OF HER HUSBAND ACTIVITIES IN U. S.

CONGRESS (By The Associated Press) TODAY: Government Reorganization Senate debates amendment to exempt forest ser Family Of Doubles vice. Appropriations House considers conference reoort on Independent offices supply bill. Taxes Senate Finance committee ask3 treasury experts for tax revision data. Rails Senate Interstate Commerce committee hears testimony on long-and-short-haul bill; subcommittee resumes rail finance Inquiry. Wage-Hour House Labor subcommittee discusses new bill.

Regional Planning House Rivers and Harbors committee consider new Mans- 5W YORK, March 22 They hysterical Patricia Ryan into a lx county courtroom early today to the verdict In her trial for the tag of ler patrolman husband, few moments later the black-clad ear-old widow walked unassisted out rear entrance of the court house for the first time in nearly five iths to return to her children, 2 1-2, and Patricia, 18 months ne men and three women Jurors debated four hours before acquitting slim, attractive' defendant, who ded she had been made temporarily ne by her husbands brutal unna-i demands, when she shot him to with his ow nservice revolver in bedroom last October 31. ie verdict was cheered by several I women waiting in the Corridor, of whom had attended every ses-of the. trial, since it began four rs 8Ryan moaned and her knees tied as the foreman pronounced guilty, but she recovered quickly. RIO DE JANIERO, March 22 UP) Efforts by the German government to regain free Nazi cultural activity for Germans in Brazil ran into a blind alley today. It was ascertained at the foreign office, that Foreign Minister Oswaldo Arahna has rejected flatly the latest series of representations against Brazils ban on Nazi activities.

Carl Ritter, the German ambassador, acted for his government. It was said reliably that the foreign minister considered a note submitted by Ritter to be couched in such strong language that he rejected it without further consideration. Ritter has been conferring with high Brazilian officials for several days. He talked yesterday with Francisco Campos, minister of Justice and of the interior, but nothing resulted to indicate any change in the situation. LYNNFIELD, March 22 Six years ago, when a maternity nurse said twins to Terrence Gibbons, he was unprepared and showed it.

Last night, when another nurse emerged from his wifes hospital room, Gibbons beat her to it. Twins? he said. The nurse nodded. It was an easy guess for Gibbons; the new arrivals were the fourth Bet of twins born to his 31-year-old wife, Evelyn, in six years. The boy and girl bom last night brought the Gibbons family to nine.

Only their first-bom, now a boy of seven, was not a twin. i bill. YESTERDAY: louse approved btllion-dollar naval anslon bill. enate defeated amendment to reor-izatlon bill aimed at 10 per cent re in government expenditures. Jisi (Turn to page 2, col.

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