Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1937
PRICE TEN CENTS
THREATEN HOUSE REVOLT ON TAXES BLAME RAIL UNION FOR BUS STRIKE
IMMEDIATE RELIEF IS DEMANDED
STEGMAIER BREWERYW $ AND [N61AND•S^'''W REJECTS PEACE; rRFYHnilNn WILL ENLARGE PLANT imif yj ^^fr^GREAT ATTACK FEARED ""^ J rnn
7 MILLION
Adds $350,000 To Program
For Children's Home,
Hospital, School
LARGE FEDERAL WORKS
Wyoming Valley soon will have its own share of the housing and construction program which eco¬ nomic experts in Washington claim Is necessary to revive business on a national scale.
A survey of builders and archi¬ tects last night by the Sunday Independent revealed that major construction jobs already planned for the next five months will rep¬ resent an outlay of approximately J2,000,OOO. Significant is the fact that this outlay is confined to but five jobs and does not take into consideration any other construc¬ tion work that might result from the housing program, which wiil be one of the major problems of the next Congress.
8tegniaier Plans Kxpansion
The Stegmaier Brewing Company will spend a sum estimated by its offlcials at J3.'5n,0OO in 1938. Just hnw it will be expended was not revealed by this large local con¬ cern.
The next big job lies wilh the proposed construction of a new children's home on Snuth Franklin street to replace that now in use. The new building I.s expected to cost .mOfl.OOO and is made possible by Martha Bennett, whose death occurred in Ifloa. In her will, she left tn the city of Wilkes-Barre an estate of approximately $800,000 to provide a home for poor ehil¬ dren.
Not onl.v will her money ba of tremendous value in taking care of orphans and other children without material means, but il will also be valuable in contributing to the iinusing program of the nation. Hospital   and  School
Another large sum, estimated at $700,000, will be spent on new build¬ ings  for  the  Hazleton  Slale  Hos¬ pital    by    the    Commonwealth    of | Pennsylvania,
At the present time, the school district of Nanticoke cily Is solict- Ing bids for a new school building which  will  cost ,$387,000.
On Tuesday, the state will open bids for the construction of a pro- |inspd home for the Nanticoke ."'Inte Hospital. The amount in¬ volved will be In the neighborhood of »fio,noo.
Mot sime the boom period has Wyoming Valley entered a new year with such a promising prngram. particularly with such a greal amount of money involved in a few con,struction jobs.
The only air of pessimism re¬ vealed in the survey wns the ques¬ tion nf housing, particularly in connection with the erection of moderately priced homes.
Rural Honie Building
Near Hnys Corner, P. J. Con¬ nolly, a real estate and lumber dealer of the West Side, has several houses ill rourse of constiuction. He i.s planning lo build several more with the arrival of spring weather. He expresses the convic¬ tion that the coming .year will sec considerable building in the rural districts heyond Lur.erne borough.
The foundation for a new breaker at   the   Maxwell   Colliery   has   been completed and a new breaker will 'Continued on Page A-14>
State Starting Housing Program
Harrisburg, Nov. 27. (UP) — Pennsylvania's $,')2,000,000 hous¬ ing program will be launched formally in a slate-wide confer¬ ence of hou.sing experts on December 17 at the capital.
The conference, called by Gov¬ ernor George H. Earle, will dis¬ cuss the problems of slum- clearance and filling the general shortage of homes in Pennsyl¬ vania. It will be directed by the Governor's housing com¬ mittee.
Health Secretary Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter, who.se depart¬ ment will direct stale housing activities, announced that mem¬ bers of the state housing board received assurances from Fed¬ eral Housing Administrator Nalhan Straus that stale and municipal allotments for slum- clearance would be made shortly after the  first of the year.
Pennsylvania is seeking at least $.')2,000.000 of the .11,126,000,- 000 sel aside for the federal program.
Hendaye,   Franco-Spanish   Fron- Negrin of the Loyalist government iier,   Nov.   27.   (UP)—The   Spanish 1 at Barcelona asserted;
Millions In Investments In¬ volved    If   Japan Seizes Customs
TOKYO WARNED
Washington, No\. 27.  (UP)    The United States and Greal Britain, in
Nationalist and Loyalist regimes lonight rejected neutral efforts lo bring about an armistice before Christmas and 800,000 troops moved up into advance positions along a 900-niilc front.
Apparently in preparation for the Nationalists' long-heralded offen¬ sive that may be launched at any
"We will fight on, firmly con¬ vinced that the final victory will be ours,"
To Confer In London
Although the statements of Franco and Negrin appeared to have smashed diplomatic mediation efforts, originating in London, there will   be   furlher   discussion   on   the
Hero's Funeral
For Racketeer
point.   Insurgents   airplanes   roared   possibilities    of    peace     in     Spain
E SHAFT FATALLY HURT
Directs Own'Rescue After
Plunge Down 300-Foot
Opening Is Broken
MANY TRAFFIC MISHAPS
over   enemy   bases   in   Aragon   on bombing and  machine-gun  raids.
Generalissimo   Francisco   Franco of    the    Nationalists,    in    an    an¬ nouncement from his Burgos bas" in  the  norlh,  said: ,   , . . "1   will   win   this   war   by   arms,
parallel   aoiion,   maue   representa- , ,j,^^._.p ^^^^^ ^^ „„ mediation and no
lions to Japan today in  an  effort   .,rn,i.,uce.    The   enemy   must  sur-
10 protect thoir interests in Chinese i ^p,,^^^ unconditionally."
customs,   part   of  which   are   used |    simultnneou.sly     Premier     .Tuan
to  pay  China's  foreign  debts. ;	
Secretary of Stale Cordell Hull revealed that U. S. Ambassador Joseph Grew had conferred with officials al Tokyo at the request of the American government. Earlier the British foreign ofiice disclosed that its ambassador was insiructed
to leave Japan "in no doubt what- ! 	
ever that his majesty's government
claims the righl to be consulted on Then Mi's. Amelia HaiTibui'g Of West Pittston Dis-
when Premier Camille Chautemps of France confers in London, Monday and Tuesda.v with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Onlv   24   hour-   h-,-ni-.>   '•¦'   "-.'.•ar '.- K niiinn" opclara'    -•*' ctlon.>    i»..'    r'ur^n"-.    'n.-in reached    diplomatic    circles    along the  frontier that Franco had  fixed    pQMp     LOCal Wednesday   as   the   "deadline"   for the  neutral  mediation  efforts.
Motor   Lines'   Trouble Blamed On Efforts To Benefit Railroads
Is
Murdered Man's Mother Didn't Know New Name
Men   Arrested For Disorderly Conduct   . By Scranton Police
A mine accident that left a fatal¬ ly injured workman dangling in mid-air as he directed his own rescue, and slippery pavements that created the season's worst traffic hazards, combined here yes¬ terday to roll up a heavy casually list for hospitals and police. The injured mine worker lalcr died  in
any   arrangements  concerning   the Chinese customs,"
Dispatches from Shanghai re¬ ported that the Japanese were tak¬ ing over Chinese government property and functions in terri¬ tory conquered in the undeclared war. There was no indication that : Japan proposed to divert cu.«toms I revenues from the channels to ' which they have been pledged by China.
V. K. Millions At Stake
The  Uni^il. States  has ..ft multi- million dollar stakji^'in Chinese cus¬ toms,   which   amount   to mately   .HI 17.000,000   annually,    ac cording to late statistics.
Chinese customs are pledged as partial security on wheat and cot¬ ton credits tended to China in 1931 and 1933. The U. S. Export- Import Bank, which holds the paper for these credits, said that China slill owes the United Slates $14,200,000, This sum was to be paid in quarterly installments over a six-year period starting lasl year.
covers '\N illiam King', Shot In Chicago Holdup, Is Her Son
British Business Alarmed London, Nov. 27. (UP)—Concern of British commercial interests over JSOO,000,000 in Far lOastcin investments emerged tonight as tlio underlying   cause   for   the   goverii-
a hospital after he had fallen half ' cent's stronglv-worded warning to
way down a 300-foot shaft. The aulo accidents were due chiefly to poor visibility as a fine rain drenched all of Wyoming Valley. Joseph Brozena, 34, of 98.'S West Main street, Plymouth, died in Nan¬ ticoke Slate Hospital at 4:4,^ oclock, two hours after he had been pulled from the shaft of Avondale colliery of Glen Alden Coal Company, While making repairs af the head of the shaft, Brozena lost his foot¬ ing and plumeted toward the bot¬ tom. Half way down his clothing hooked   onto   a   projection   in   the
Japan againsl atly seizure of tlie Shanghai customs and other Chinese   projects.
Premier Camille Chautemps of France, who will arrive in London with Foreign Minister Yvon Del¬ bos Monday lo confer with Cham¬ berlain, is ex|iected to follow the example of the British and Ameri¬ can  representations.
The cabinet, it vas said, is await¬ ing the Japanese reaction before deciding whal action will be taken regarding olher questions affecting the International Settlement and Jajian's  threat  lo seize  all  Chinese
func-
shaft and  suspended  him  150  feet
from the bottom.   The jolt injured , government    property    and him    internally   but   he    was    still I tions.
consrious enough to yell for help, j xhe general impression in London Al his direction other workmen ^^.a, ti,„t Japanese control of the lowered a rope which Brozena tied j shanghai customs would provide around his waist. Then hc told , ^ means of obtaining large funds the men to hoist away. As soon j which could be diverted to financ- as he was lifted to the surface | jf,g t),^ .Japanese military machine, he   lost   consciousness. j     it  was   pointed  oul   ttiat   foreign
Brozena is survived by his widow   trade    in    Manchukuo    and    Hopei
and   four  children:    Jo.seph,  Irene,
Helen and Robert: his parents. Mr.
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Missouri Toivn Held In Terror As Maniac Makes Third Attack
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Mexico Mo„ Nov, 27. (UP) — Funeral services were held today at the Methodist church for Mrs. Albert S. Mortimer, 40, who for many years sang in the church choir and whose death at the hands of fiem'sh slayer Thanks¬ giving Eve has instilled fear in the residents of this small north¬ eastern Missouri  city.
(Citizens were careful to bolt their doors lonight. Unescorted women remained off the streets. Authorities believc that a sex ¦laniac Ir at large. The assault n Mrs. Mortimer, attractive and )/oniinenl socially ind in church s'ork, was the third on women here in 18 months.
Screams Frighien <jirl
A dozen suspects, many of them Negroes, have been rounded up, queationed and released when they established alibis. Rewards total¬ ing $1,500 have been posted and Latney Barnes, the prosecuting at¬ torney, has issued public appeals for citizens to come forward with any  information  they might  have.
It was just after dusk Thanks¬ giving Kve when Mrs. Mortimer was hurrying home alone in one of the he.st residential districts of the A itw itejps behind ber wa*
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Miss Jewell Polls, 16. The dark streel shadows frightened the girl. She hurriedly passed Mrs. Morti¬ mer. When ahe was about 100 feet ahead of the choir singer. Miss Potts heard a muffled scream. She broke Inlo a run. Ofiicers believe that had Miss Polls nol hurried she would have been the victim instead of Mrs. Mortimer. Finds Wife Dying
Less than half an hour later the victim's husband was returning home from the opposite direction. Near his home he met a large Negro, at least six feel lall, he said,
"He watched ma sharply and I sized him up also," Mortimer said.
The husband went into his house. Some three hours later three boys came in and said someone was hurt. He accompanied them to the rear of the house next to his.
There he found his wife. Her stockings were torn and her clothing pulled up over her shoul¬ ders. Her face and head were covered with blood.
Nearby was a slick of while oak stove wood, IR inches long and three inches in diameter. II was hlood.stained. Mrs. Mortimer's skull had heen fractured by Ihree blows Mrs. Mortimer died three hours later in a bssultal*
province already has been discour¬ aged by Japanese occupation and asserted that the door to foreign trade in Shanghai might soon be closed in the same nianner.
JOHN N. ESCHENBACH REPORTS CAR STOLEN
John N. Eschenbach, ."514 South Franklin street, reported to city police the theft of his car from in front of lhe home early yester¬ day morning. The machine is a 1937 Chevrolet coupe, and the body has a pea-green color.
AMERICAN DUCHESS
IN FRENCH REVOLT
Paris, Nov. 27. (UP) The Ameri¬ can-born Duchess di Borgo, hurry¬ ing home from London lo aid her imprisoned husband, was charged by the leftist press tonight with having spirited away documents concerning the plot of the Cagou- lard territories to overthrow the governmeni and set up a dictator¬ ship.
The newspaper Ci Soir asserted that the attractive woman, the for¬ mer Valier Norrle of New York, fled to London wilh the compro¬ mising documents a few hours be¬ fore the arrest of Duke Porzo di Borgo, a one-time lieutenant of the French Fascist leader. Colonel Francois  de  la  Rocque.
The duchess' mother, who lives in Paris, is the Countess de Jumil- hac and her sister alsn married intn   European   nobility,   becoming
e Baroness de Neufliz*.
All day yesterday Mrs. Amelia Hamburg, 76, a widow living at 120 Delaware avenue, West Pittston, couldn't understand why a police¬ man had knocked on the door of her home to tell her that William King had been murdered by rob- licrs in Chicago. No, she didn't have any relatives by that name and she told the officer so. Fur- II,. iv i thcremore, she didn't know any family by the name of King in West Pitlslon. She also expressed sorrow for the murdered man's family, whoever they might be.
But last night she learned tragically that she did know "Wil¬ liam King" but not by that nafne. Slic knew him as her son, Mortimer Hamburg, 50, a prosperous furni¬ ture dealer who had changed his name in Chicago for business reasons. Sometime today Mrs. Hamburg, with another son, Irwin, will slart for Chicago lo claim the body. The last lime they met was on Ijabor Day, when the victim came here for the holiday. Then his molher warned him about carrying large sums of money on his  per.son.
Hiimtaurg, or King, was shot down Friday night on a Chicago street only a short distance from his home. A United Press dispatch declared they saw three men shoot him nnd then escape in an auto¬ mobile. When police reached the body, there was $750 in his pockets. Two empty pistol holders were also discovered strapped around his in¬ side clothing. Police expressed be¬ lief that Hamburg was shot by his own guns wrested from him by the robbers as he defended his money.
First news of the killing came ye:5terday morning when Sheriff William Thomas received a tele¬ gram aent by Chief of Police John L. Sullivan of Chicago.    It read:
"Notify family of William King, 120 Delaware avenue. West Pitts¬ ton. Hc was killed here lasl night. Robbery victim. Body at Drum- mon's morgue, 62nd and Doreches- ter.   Advise disposition of body."
Wilh this information Deputy Sheriff William Beaney and Chief of Police Stutz of West Pittston wenl lo the Delaware avenue ad¬ dress. They were mel by Mrs. Hamburg, who told them she knew of no one by the name of King. .She also tried to think of someone in the neighborhood who might direct the officers to the right family.
From there the search for rela¬ tives of the murdered man spread to Pittston and Sebastopol. All families by the name of King were interviewed bul none of them could help. Burgess Andrew Jones of West Pittston spent several hours altemptiiig to trace families of that name who had lived there years ago. Meanwhile Deputy Sheriff Beaney had communicated with the Pennsylvania Motor Police and the search was continued through the lifternoon.
Il was Mrs. Hamburg herself who finally received the correct clue. Hnrly last evening she re¬ ceived a telegram  direct  from the
Chicago police declaring that the murder victim was originally knnwn as Mortimer Hamburg bul had changed his name to King. She at once communicated with the authorities who had been talking with her during the day and then they all went to the Wyoming Bar¬ racks lo iV^a aure ttet it was the correct Identification. Mrs. Ham¬ burg was eventually statisfied that it was her son and she arranged to start this morning for Chicago. She declared that when her son visited her on Labor Day she warn¬ ed him about his habit of carrying large sums of cash on his person. However, he calmed her fears by saying he never had any trouble and didn't expect any. At that time nothing was said about any change in the family name.
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Second And Third Interna¬ tionale Bring Together 30 Million Workers
A. F. OF L INCLUDED
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Wanted Only
A Loaded Gun
West Boylston, Mass., Nov. 27. (UP)—Chester Brigham, 60, res¬ taurant proprietor, hailed a pa.ssing hunter, Louis Ayres, 16, today and asked him if his gun were loaded.
"Yes,"   Ayres   replied.
"Let me sec it."
Brigham took the gun, step¬ ped inside his restaurant—and commitlrd  suicide.
Moscow, Nov, 27. (UP) Nearly 20 years of strife belween the Sec¬ ond Socialist Internationale and the Communist trade unions of Russia ended today when organizations embracing nearly 30,000,000 work¬ ers of the world joined in a united front against Fascism.
The     American    Federation     of Labor  is  one  of the  adherents  to the Second  Internationale. Agree  At Conference
Leaders of the Second Interna¬ tionale, which was organized at Amsterdam in 1903 while the czars ruled Russia, signed an agreement with the Soviet's trade unions at the  close  of a six-day  conference.
The rise of totalitarian regimes and the new German-Italo-Japanese pact against Conimunism brought the workers' organizations together.
Leon Jouhaux of France, vice- president of the Amsterdam Second Internationale and head of the Gen¬ eral Labor Federation of France, said:
"Soviet adhesion is based on the nece.ssity for co-operation among non-Fascist workers of all coun¬ tries in a common struggle againsl war and  Fascism."
General t'ongreas To Mert
The exact lerms of the agree¬ ment wilh the Soviet trade unions, which are the core of the Third Internationale, were nol made pub¬ lic pending ratification by the Am¬ sterdam Internationale's executive commillee and the general con¬ gress of the Soviet trade unions which will meet soon.
The agreement was signed loday by Moskalov Nikolayeva and M. I. Shvernik of the Soviet trade unions and Jean Shevenels, leader of the Belgian trade unions and vice- president of the Amsterdam exe- cutiv    commillee.
The Soviet trade unions were the lasl lo remain  outside  the Second Internationale,   which   the   Ameri¬ can Federation  of  Mbor joined a tContinued on Page A-11)
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Cleveland, Nov. 27 (UP) Grey¬ hound Bus Line officials charged I tonight, through nine federal suit.s for a total of $7,500,000 against tho Brotherhood of Railw.ny Trainmen, that the B. R. T. called its wide¬ spread strike of Greyhound drivers in an attempt lo cripple the hus industry for the benefit of rail¬ roads.
They accused the brotherhood of insincerity in its demands fnr wate increases and a closed shop the issues of the strike -and charged that its real purpnse was to turn bus patronage back to the railroads to give employment to more train¬ men.
Four Arrests Herei (Four striking bus drivers in the Wilkes-Barre area were ar¬ rested in Scranton yesterday afternoon on a disorderly con¬ duct charge. Special police rounded them up when, they shouted epithets at a driver who refused to leave his post. Taken to Scranton police sta¬ tion, the defendants gave their names as Harold Harvard, 30, of 2 Kearn street, Pitlslon; John Dalton, 31, of 100'2 Searle street, Pittston; Fred Mat¬ thews. 31, of 1071 Exeter avenue West Pittston, and Fred Hughes 28 of 10 Bennett streel. West Pittston. They were released in cu.stody of their attorney to appear to¬ morrow for a hearing. Mean¬ while, local spokesmen for the Greyhound lines declared all schedules were in operation with the exception of the Wilkes-Barre - Philadelphia route. They explained this gap by declaring that in Philadel¬ phia the strike Is 100 percent effective.)
Railroad* Lost Passengers The suits charged violation of the Serman anti-trust laws. Earh of the eight Greyhound companies af¬ fected by the walkout and the par¬ ent holding company. Greyhound Corporation, filed a suit.
The court move came aa John Conner, federal labor conciliator, brought together management and union representatives for the first time. Conner met separately with each  group  toda.v.
Conner declined comment on the suits. He conferred with Ivan Bowen of Chicago, (ireyhound gen¬ eral counsel, who filed the actions, then with S. R. Harvey, as.ilstant president of the B. R. T. and ils spokesman in the walk-out, called early Monday.
The actions said railroads had lost passengers to bus lines to such extent that unemployment of many railroad trainmen had resulted, and that the primary interest of the brotherhood was opposed to the motor bus industry and favorable to railroads.
Would Cripple BusHes The suits asserted that the wascs demanded for bus drivcrs--5.5 cents per mile and a minimum of 200 miles a working day- are "grossly excessive" and that if they became effective the buslines would be un¬ able financially to continue.
Service   remained   partially   crip¬ pled throughout 16 populous north¬ eastern   states.   Al   the   company's (Continued on Page A-14)
Revere, Mass., Nov. 27. (UP) -A hero's funeral was given Liiuii, Gacta, SH, .il.iir. racketeer, today as a 30-man racket- busting squadron of Boston police began llie task of "clean¬ ing up" Revere on orders of Governor  Charlps  F.  Hurley.
Military honors were accord¬ ed Gaeta, a World War veteran, by the Revere American Legion Post  despite  growing  criticism.
Sharpest rebuke came from Lhe Harvard Crimson, under¬ graduate daily newspaper, which editorialized:
". . . in the ludicrous hand¬ ling of the last riles for Louis Gaeta (the Legion) has sur¬ passed itself. Yeslerday the Legion   draped  wilh   an  Ameri-
lirmcd racketeer, gambler, polit¬ ical grafter, all-around public enemy. . . . The Legion, in dis¬ gracing the nation's colors in Revere this week, has shown its own colors and ideals lo be perverted."
Gaeta, head of a horse racing syndicate, was slain Tuesday.
Rep.  Celler  Calls  Meeting Of Congressmen To Dis¬ cuss Plan Of Action
DENOUNCES DELAY
Insists   Both   Large   And
Small Business Need
Similar Aid Now
Ei OF AlO FOR STATE ROADS IS
Washington, Nov. 27. (UP)—Rep, Emanuel Celler. D., N. Y., sought tonight, despite apparent determin¬ ation of congressional leaders to delay business tax revision until the regular session, to lead a House revolt aimed at immediata temporary relief to private enter¬ prise.
Celler summoned a group of House members interested in amending the undistributed profits and capital gains taxes to a meet¬ ing early next week to discus* plans for House action. About 60 Democrats and Republicans will atlend, he said. Celler maintained that a three-fourths House • ma¬ jority for immediate modification could be obtained if a vote can ^1» Aa-anged.
Barkley Against "Kidding" The New York Deinocrat brushed aside the reiterated statements of President Roosevelt's leadera in Senate and House that a thorough- Washington, Nov. 27. (UP)- Ko'nK lax revision is in process President Roosevelt, departing for which cannol be hurried unduly, a week of rest in Florida, gave He demanded that action be taken administration leaders farewell in- i now on a four-point program, leav- structions today on maintaining I inK the more general bills for next his  budget-balancing prog: am  and i year.
mceiing a new double-barrelled lax i     While Celler revealed his planned revision drive in Congress. j revolt.     Senate    Majority    Leader
The President's altitude on both i Alben W. Barkley, D., K., said it problems was designed to bolster i was "not fair to kid the country the administration's general pro- j that it Is going tn get something! gram for encouragement of busi- before it is possible " Members of ness which will be opened formally j the House lax group, still far from Monday wilh his message to Con-1 final agreement although they have
Roosevelt Offers New Econ omy;  Departure  Givingi Congress Opportufl^''
CHANCE FOR TAX BILL
MRS. ROOSEVELT TAKES HEIRESS   TO   PROJECTS
gress on housing. But the prospect of delay until Jauuury for tax modification continued to moot op¬ position in both Scii.ntc and House. Remove  State  Road  Aid
On Tue.sday, Mr. Roosevelt will send another message, recommend¬ ing that Congre.ss reduce federal aid to stale highway systems hy approximately $120,000,000 a year to aid in balancing the 1939 budget.
In regard lo making both ends meel in the federal financial set¬ up, Mr. Roosevelt wrote a letter lo Senate  Majority Leader Alben  W
budgeted important tax savinga to business, have been infnrmed It will take from two to four weeks to draft a bill even after disposal of   all   policy   matters.
Provisions Outlined Celler advocated a composite bill containing these provisions:
1. A 30 per cent flat exemption from the undistributed profits tajc for all corporations, regardless of how they use the earnings they retain.
2. A   provision   giving   corpora*
Barkley, D„ Ky., slating that any, tions 90 days after the fiscal yeaf increased expenditures in the pend-j to determine the exact amount ot ing farm bill must be met by in- i their earnings and declare dlvl« creased revenue provisions. dends    before    paying    the    undian
Al the same time, he permitted a   tributed profits tax. White   House   slatement   that   any I     3.   Amendment    of    the    capital
bill -meaning specifically the crop control measure- -would he vetoed if it increased costs without co¬ ordinated action to increase in¬ come.
Later the President called Berk¬ ley, Chairman Robert H. Dough¬ ton, D„ N. C, of the House ways and means committee, and Rep, John E. Rankin, D., Miss., lo the White House lo discuss the gen¬ eral legislative situation.
Rankin,  co-sponsor  of the  meas-
gains and losses tax to place tha old rate of 12'3 per cent in effect and segregate capital gains from income.
4.    Provisions making  the whol* program   retroactive   for   1937, Calls Delay Dangeroua
"There must be some temporarjf emergency legislation passed," Celler said. "Business is frightened. The longer they wait the mor» drastic   the   revision   will   have   to
ure to create regional TVA's, had a j be. If they wait loo long Congresa 15-minute conferencc with the j will have to repeal the undis* President, Rankin said he could say ' tributed  profits  lax  altogether.
"definitely there will bo no change in the Tennessee Valley Authority or its yardstick policies." The   persistent   congressional  de- (Continued  on  Page  A-14)
"Business is like a man suffering
from   progressive  slac;es   of  tuber*
culosis.    The   longer   h"   waits  be*
fore applying the remedy, the mor#
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Czechoslovak Count May Become President Of Irish Free State
Dublin,   Nov.   27   (UP 1    Reports the     local    government;     General
Washingion, Nov. 27, (UP) —Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today took Mrs. James H. R. Cromwell, the former Doris Duke, on a week-end tour of governmeni homestead pro¬ jecls near Arlhurdale, W. Va.
They lefl this morning by auto¬ mobile to make an extensive tour of the area where a model govern¬ ment homesteading conimunity has been built. They probably will re¬ turn here Sunday night. Mrs. (^romwell is due back at her home in Somerville, N.  I., Monday.
Mrs. Roosevelt will go to New York  Monday for her final ChriBt-
maa shopping tour.
that Count Edward Taafe, a Czecho-Slovak of Irish descent, would succeed him as president ot the Irish Free State, were denied today by  Eamon  de Valera.
He added that Taafe was not the man he had in mind when he stated he already knew a man suitable to be the flrst president under the new constitution,  effective  Dec.  29.
Taafe's family settled in Czecho¬ slovakia more than 200 yeara ago but always retained Irish traditions. The count speaks English and Gaelic fluently. Recently he sold his estates in ('zechoslovakia and pur¬ chased an estate in Ireland, where he will live.
Despite de Valera's denial, it still waa believed in some quarters that Taafe may be the flrst president of "Eire " Clher names mentioned Include .^ean O'Kelly,  minister  of
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Dick Mulcahy former minister de* feated in the last elections for iLb derman, and .\lfred Byrne, lorij mayor of Dublin.
Novel Klertion Plan
De Valera made a fresh efforti lo overcome the crisis over tli4 formation of a new Senate by an« nouncing terms of a novel plan to form an electoral college composed of representatives of county coun¬ cils, county boroughs and lurll bodies as chambers of commerce, Rotary clubs and labor and farm organizations, to be known aa "vo¬ cational" members.
These representatives, together wilh members of the Dail, would form an electoral college of 3S5 members who wou'd make nomina¬ tions for the Senate. The new effort follows the defeat of earlier pro» posals placed hefnr* the Dail ta I reatorc the Senate bt aboUaba<L
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