The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 19, 1932, Page 1

Ee] ti ew) BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932 PRICE FIVE CE Battle Over Taxes Still Raging Roosevelt Picks Up Gauntlet T DENESHE WOU) / Wahpeton Man Is DIVIDE CLASS 10 + GAIN NOMINATION Tells St. Paul Audience He Fav- ors Community of Inter- est in Nation PREDECESSOR IS PRAISED Commends Smith For Part in 1 Preserving New York's Power Resources St. Paul, April i9.—(#)—Gov. Franklin D, Roosevelt of New York has picked up the challenging gaun- tlet hurled at him by former Gov Alfred E. Smith. Addressing a St. Paul audience Monday night, he denied vehemently the inference of Smith that he pro- posed “to set class against class” to further the ends of his campaign for, the Democratic presidential nomina- tion. Gov. Roosevelt declared himself pledged to a program calling for a national “community of interests” as espoused by his party's founder, ‘Thomas Jefferson. “If this be treason,” he said “make the most of it.” ‘And though his rejoinder to Smith was emphatic, Gov. Roosevelt took the occasion a few minutes later to praise his “distinguished predeces- sor, Gov Smith” for his part in pre- serving New York's power resources for the people of that state. The Smith speech, to which Roose- velt replied, was made at a Jeffer- son-Day address at Washington last week and dealt with an address which New York's present chief exe- cutive delivered about two weeks ago on the subject of water power, tariff and other questions. The statement of the 1928 Demo- cratic standard-bearer immediately construed as an attack on Roosevelt, w “I would take off my coat and vest and fight to the bitter end any candi- date who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses of the working people of this country to destroy themselves. by setting class against class and rich against poor.” Cites Famous Leaders Citing Jefferson, Benjamin Frank- in and Theodore Roosevelt as cham- pions of the philosophy he is pledged to, Gov. Roosevelt said he was “pleading for a policy broad enough to include every part of our econo- mic structure.” It was a policy, he said, “that seeks to help all simultaneously, that shows an understanding of the fact that there are millions of our people who cannot be helped by merely helping their employers because they are not employes in the strict sense of the term.” He declared that by those millions he meant the farmers, the small bus- iness men and the professional peo- ple. “Help for them,” he said, “means ® greater consumption not of luxur- Jes but of the necessities of life and this means more factory wheels turn- ing in the cities, more employment. for the strictly industrial population, for the railroad workers and for the distributors. . . . He condemned the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill and blamed it for contri- buting importantly to existing condi- tions. He urged downward revision, asserting “a proper tariff policy must be a great change from the methods of the present administration.” He declared the increases provided by the Hawley-Smoot tariff “were not based on any scientific analysis,” but were “political favors.” Hope for re-establishment of peace in his relationship with Smith was expressed Tuesday by Governor Roosevelt as he started homeward. He hopes his address last night will be the final chapter in the recent cross-fire between the two men who for many years were close political friends. “That is about right, it is what I hope,” the governor said after news- paper comment had been read to him referring to his address as “an an- swer to Smith which should bring to @ close the Smith-Roosevelt breach and substitute peace for their misun- derstanding.” Cannon Raps Idea He Favors Resubmission Washington, April 19.—(#)— The idea that Bishop James Cannon, Jr., now favors resubmission of the prohi- Dition question to the people, was “equelched by the cleric Monday in an ‘address before the Women’s National Committee for Law Enforcement. . Because, a few days ago.in Rich- mond, Bishop Cannon said he ap- proved the basal elements of former Governor Byrd’s plan for making pos- sible @ direct popular vote on repeal, modification or resubmission of the 18th amendment, the noted dry lead- er has been interpreted widely as fa- voring an early popular vote on the question. But at the gathering of dry women » he went over the previous address in detail to show he was still “positively opposed to the resubmission of the prohibition amendment untt! the peo- )-ple have indicated clearly in congres- Ysional and senatorial elec tha’ the people themselves, not wet “press, not the associations opposed tc (prohibition, not even the wet women, ‘want the amendment resubmitted.” ¥ Held for Extortion COMMITTEE HEARS EVIDENCE AGAINST PAYMENT OF BONUS New York Veteran Favors Na- tional Unemployment In- surance Instead © Washington, April 19.—(?}—Nation- al unemployment insurance was of- fered Tuesday by Representative La Guardia, (Rep., N. Y.), as a counter Proposal to cash payment of the §$2,- 000,000,000 soldiers bonus. La Guardia, himself a veteran, made known his views as he took the witness stand as the first to put his opposition to full payment of the bonus before the house ways and means committee. Advocates of the payment through a two-billion-dollar currency inflation, case Monday. Under La Guardia’s unemployment insurance proposal, an unemployment jeommission would be created to main- oe an unemployment insurance fund by a welfare tax on. employes and em- ployers, including‘) special tax on all incomes. iia Shortly before the day's hearings opened, Representative Mapes (Rep., Mich.), announced his opposition to full payment of the bonus on the ground the treasury was in no shape to pay it now and the money infla- tion plan is unsound. La Guardia said the committee should consider “whether the Amer- ican people through congress have properly provided for the veterans.” “On the whole, I believe that con- gress has responded since 1919 to every demand and every request of the World. war veterans,” he said. La Guardia said the number of veterans who took advantage of the 50 per cent loan value authorized last year “far exceeded all estimates.” “AS T read the history of the treat- ment of veterans by this congress,” he said, “I am just as certain as I am standing here this morning that leg- islation will be passed refunding the interest charges on these loans. “Sponsors of this plan frankly ad- mit the object is inflation. I submit, it is hardly fair to use the veterans for the purpose of inflating the cur- jrency. That is deflate the dollar, We ipromised to pay them in good, whole- ;some, American dollars and we should pay them in that.” IBXPOSE PLOT 10 KIDNAP OFFICIALS Three Men Held in Los Angeles Jail Following Revelation of Scheme Los Angeles, April 19.—(?)—Three convicted felons were under double guard in the county jail Monday fol- lowing revelation of a plot to kidnap three high law officers of Los Angeles county in an effort to effect their re- lease, The prisoners are Ralph Sheldon, convicted kidriaper and reputed one- time aide to Al Capone; Louis Frank, accomplice of Sheldon in the kidnap- ing, and Nick Radovich, bank rob- ber. The officers to be kidnaped were Sheriff William I. Traeger, Under Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz and Jailer Clem Peoples. District Attorney Buron Fitts said one of the officers to be seized was to ‘be compelled to present a forged court order at the jail to release the prisoners. Fitts said his information was a “group of Chicago gangsters” was fostering the jail-delivery plot. Sheldon and Frank were convicted of the kidnaping and holding for ransom of E. L. “Zeke” Caress, Agua Caliente betting commissioner, and ‘Mrs. Caress. GIVE EXPORT FIGURES Ottawa, April 19.— (4) — Canada’s export of wheat during the eight months of the present crop year end- ing in March was 124,269,429 bushels according to a report issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Of that amount 71,505,107 went to the United Kingdom. Peiping, April 19.—#)-—-The League of Nations inquiry com- ‘mission Tuesday to Pp leave for Mukden, Manchuria, to continue its investigations there. ‘The was told Tues- day 6,000,000 Chinese flood suf- ferers are existing chiefly on grass and bark of trees and that some of them are being sold in a human market. Relief. workers reported, ac- cording to Shaow Peter Chuan, superintendent of “the flood re- Nef commission in the area, that the sale price of humens is one dollar in Chinese money, or about concluded the presentation of their} Fight Promoter Bound Over to| District Court After Ar- rest Monday |pono FIXED AT $5,000) Is Accused of Attempting to Get $1,500 From Richland County Publisher ‘Wahpeton, N. D., April 19.—(7)— Joseph Dorn, local fight promoter, jwas bound over to district court Monday on charges of attempting to extort $1,500 from Donald Lum, one of the publishers of the semi-weekly Richland County Farmers Globe. Bond was set at $5,000. The next term of court in Richland county is in June but as a rule no Jury is called at that session. Wheth- er a special jury will be impanelled or whether Dorn will stand trial at a later date was undetermined Tues- day. * A warrant signed by Lum charges Dorn wrote a letter threatening harm to him and his family if he did not leave $1,500 Saturday morning at a designated spot three blocks south of Wahpeton on Highway 81. Lum disregarded -epeated warnings in the letter to ke , silent concern- ing the demands and conferred with Richland County Shriff “B. F. Mc- Tiwain, At 10 a. m. Saturday Lum took a dummy package to the de- signated spot. Lum said Dorn picked up the par- cel and this statement was confirm- ed by deputy sheriffs Millard Rickert and Nick Herman, who were conceal- ed nearby. Dorn, police said, admits picking up the parcel but declared he was unaware there was money in it or that he was part of any plot. Dorn is about 35 and has lived in Wahpeton the last 30 years. He is married. He has promoted boxing cards in Wahpeton and has appear- ed in numerous North Dakota cities in wrestling engagements. He has been a former deputy sheriff and two years ago was de- feated when he ran for sheriff. Lum is the son of E. D. Lum, wide- ly known North Dakota publisher. He is president of the Wahpeton com- pany publishing the Farmer Globe and is the father of three children. SAY SHORT TRADERS NAMES ARE DUM Senate Committee Members Advocate Uncovering Real Identities Washington, April 19—(7)—In thej belief that many of the names in the st of 24,000 short sales presented for the stock market inquiry represent “dummies” for important principals, some of the senate’s banking com- mittee members Monday advocated uncovering the real traders. The committee held its inquiry in abeyance until Thursday to give Wil- liam A. Gray of Philadelphia, its new counsel, time to go through the tre- mendous list of transactions. Ad- ministration senators, among them the Republican leader, Watson of In- diana, reiterated their determination to go to the bottom of the subject and determine what influences have been depressing the market. The list of short traders’ names was guarded from publication but sena- tors who have seen it said the. great majority were unknown, leading to the belief expressed by some that in the larger transactions either fictitious names or those of agents for big oper- ators had been used. One senator said he would propose that the com- mittee pick out a few of the more im- Portant transactions and send inves- tigators into brokerage offices to find out who was behind them. Many new ahgles of the investiga- tion were being presented to mem- bers of the committee and Senator Steiwer (Rep., Ore.), said he would ask for an inquiry into the publica- tion by a certain magazine recently of the purported names of many big short traders. Publication of the names was suddenly stopped after the had announced more would be given. . League of Nations Commission Told of New Chinese Slave Market 20 cents, for each year of the person's age. A 10-year-old child sells for about $2 and the rate rises up to age 25, when it begins to recede. The chief supply of food, the commission was told, has been Telief wheat from the United States, but only 4,000 tons have reached the valley thus far ow- ing to the Sino-Japanese trouble. Two months remain before the local wheat crop will have ma- tured, witnesses said, and the prebiem is to feed the millions until then. h Dies in Washington i ——————— ———____—____+4 SENATOR W. J. HARRIS Washington, April 19.—()—Sena- ‘tor William J. Harris, 64, of Georgia, is dead. After a serious illness which had lasted for weeks, his heart gave way under the strain late Monday. For @ week the doctors had despaired of saving his life. Harris died after a lifetime in po- litical service. He began as secre- tary to Senator A. 8. Clay. He served as a Georgia state senator and as ‘a member, secretary and chairman of the Democratic state committee. In 1913 he was appointed director of the census bureau; later he was act- ing secretary of commerce and then beggme chairman of the federal trade commission, He entered the senate in 1919 and was serving his third consecutive term. Governor Russell of Georgia will fill his place by appointment un- til the November elections, TRUCK DRIVER FOR LOCAL BAKERY 1§ | HURT IN ACCIDENT John Neibauer, 21, Injured When Machine Crashes Into Telephone Pole John Neibauer, 21-year-old employe of the Western Baking company, was in a local hospital Tuesday suffering from undetermined injuries received when the truck he was driving crash- ed into a telephone pole near the In- ternational Harvester company on Main avenue about 7:45 a. m. Neibauer was thrown against the steering wheel by the impact with such force that the steering column was bent and doctors feared he might have suffered internal chest injuries. X-ray pictures of him were to be taken. The youth lost several teeth, several others were loosened, and his lips] were badly cut, according to John A. Hoffman, secretary-treasurer of the company. Still dazed Tuesday forenoon, Nei- bauer Was unable to explain how the mishap occurred. Hoffman said, however, Neibauer might have been blinded by bright reflections from the sun and lost control of the machine. Neibauer was on his way to Man- dan when the accident occurred. As salesman in Mandan for the baking firm, Neibauer drove one of a large fleet of trucks operated by the com- pany. Neibauer figured in an automobile collision early Monday afternoon near the baking company plant which sent four persons to a local hospital with minor cuts and bruises and suffering from shock. The injured were Mrs. Edward Gadske and her three children, Charles, 6, Lorraine, 4, and Lawrence, 2, all of West Chicago. The car in which the four were rid- ing, driven by Richard Lindstrom, a! so of Chicago, collided with Nei- bauer's machine as the latter drove onto U. 8. Highway No.-10 near the bakery plant. Neibauer and Lind- strom escaped uninjured, but the Lindstrom automobile was demolish- ed. Short of funds, Mrs. Gadske and her children are being cared for here by the Red Cross, according to Miss Mary Cashel, secretary of the Bur- leigh county chapter. They will be sent to Chicago by train when they recover. The Chicago group was on its way home from a visit in Sas- katchewan. Nicholas Angelo, Bismarck boot- black who was injured in an auto- mobile accident on the Memorial highway between Bismarck and Man- dan early Sunday, was showing gen- eral. improvement in a local hospital Tuesday, his doctor said. Angelo re- ceived cuts and bruises about the head and body when the automobile he was driving left the highway and over- turned. A woman with him was uninjured. Angelo will be in the hospital about a week. Cowboy and Heiress Bride Given Divorce Tucson, Ariz. April 19.—(#)—Di- vorce has ended the romance of Paul Showalter, Arizona cowboy, and his hetress-wife, the former Miss Caro- line Jackson Crittenden of Pittsburgh. ‘They married: last March 13 after @ whirlwind courtship. / Judge FP. W. Pickett granted the cowboy the decree Monday. Showal- ter charged cruelty. The suit was uncontested. rown by Smith ‘DARROW ATTENPTS TO BOLSTER STORY IN HONOLULU CASE Accused Naval Officer, Who Ad- mitted Firing Shot, Under Examination ALIENISTS WILL TESTIFY Experts Are Expected to Sup- port Theory Man Was In- sane When He Fired Shot Honolulu, April 19—(#)—A double Prop for the defense contention that Lieut. Thomas H. Massie was insanc when he allegedly held the pistol that took the life of Joseph Kahaha- jwai was brought forth Tuesday by {Clarence Darrow. Despite prosecution avowals of dis- belief that Lieutenant Massie held jthe gun which killed the young native jSuspected of having participated in the attack on Mrs. Massie, the ac- cused naval officer came through a searing cross-examination and finish- ed his story Monday without being shaken from it in any major detail. Massie’s repeated reference to his mental unrest after the attack and ta his lapse of memory which began with the firing of the fatal shot in the home of his mother-in-law and co- defendant, Mrs. Granville Fortescue. was expected to get some support from alienists, Witnesses Tuesday were expected to testify Massie was in a highly nervous State after the attack. Near the finale of his story Massie. gave a vivid account of the death of Kahahawat which he said he had ob- tained from the other defendants, Mrs. Fortescue, E. J. Lord and Albert O. Jones. Massie previously had tes- tified he had no direct remembrance of the tragedy. The witness said he had stood daz- ediy-holding the smoking pistol’ which |made the fatal wound after the native had confessed participating in the at- tack upon Mrs. Massie. The other defendants, Massie said jran about the house shouting. Mrs. |Fortescue looked on as Lord and |Jones tried vainly to wash the blood jstains from Kahahawai's clothing, he | testified. | “Massie said Mrs. Fortescue took the leadership in the move to dispose of ithe body by dashing toward the sea and had tried to get him to take a idrink of okolehao, native liquor, to bring him out of his “spell.” Massie said they decided to take him along so he could get some fresh fair and had left Jones behind to clean up the house. Prosecutor John C. Kelley pounded hard at the story, apparently seeking to trip Massie by jumping from one detail to another. The witness often said “I don’t recall,” when the prose- jcutor pressed him. BUSINESS WATCHES FARM PRICE TREND Many Leaders Feel Industry and Agriculture Must Rise Together Washington, April 19.—(?)—Busi- ness men are watching agricultural prices these days as they are the stock market for signs of returning strength that may herald better times. They believe the present economic situation is too complex for either business or agriculture to emerge in- to the sunlight alone and that they must come out more nearly together. Discussing the interplay of agri- cultural and business — influences, Chairman Stone of the farm board said he doubted if a recovery in busi- ness alone could offset the drag of low purchasing power of the 44 per cent of the nation’s population direct- ly dependent upon farming. Expressing the opinion that busi- ness and agriculture will recover al- most simultaneously, he added: “During the process of this recev- ery, business analysts will keep their eyes on agriculture as they have not done since the 90's when the price of Committee Kills Bingham Beer Bill U.S, DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR BILL GETS DRASTIC REDUCTION Three Actions Combine to Re- duce Appropriations For Various Offices Washington, April 19.—(#)—Con- gress stands virtually committted Tuesday to a program of reduction in expenditures more drastic than its most sanguine members really had expected to achieve. Three actions brought this about. The unheard of procedure in the house of accepting without a confer- ence the whole 10 per cent cut made by the senate in the interior depart- ment appropriation bill; the instruc- tion of the senate to its appropria- tions committee to cut 10 per cent off the treasury-postoffice supply meas- ure; and the senate’s approval of a $1,000,000 reduction in the prohibition enforcement fund, only important item left at the budget estimate by the house. Acceptance of the interior bill amendments, accompanied by Speak- er Garner's statement he favored the same treatment for the rest of th big money bills, was opposed by but 42 members, though it involved ap- Proval of such stupendous cuts as a reduction to $6,000,000 in the Hoover dam construction money, from the original $10,000,000 requested by the budget. When the senate ordered the treas- ury-postoffice cut it passed the most difficult hurdle in the 10 per cent re- duction program, opposition having centered largely on that bill. Tuesday another sharply trimmed appropriation measure was awaited in the house, the one for the navy, ordered taken up in place of the ap- Propriation for congress itself. LINDBERGH UNABLE wheat led the way out.” Elect Directors of Credit Organization ‘The A. W. Lucas company and Fin- ney’s Drug store were named direc- tors of the Bismarck-Mandan Credit bureau at a dinner meeting of the organization Monday night at Man- dan. The Cummins company was named as a director for Mandan. Speakers at the meeting were Gov- ernor George F. Shafer, who spoke on the need for faith in the state and reau manager. at the dinner and meeting. RAPS SMITH PLAN Washington, April 19—()—Former Governor Alfred E. Smith's proposal for & 20-year moratorium on war debts was branded in the senate Tuesday by Borah of Idaho, as a debt pow tery Pine Mule: would only obligations. TO MAKE CONTACT WITH KIDNAP GANG Says Attempts to Get in Touch With Criminals Hamper- ed by Press Hopewell, N. J., April 19.—()—Col. Charles A, Lindbergh says he has been unable to re-establish a definite contact with kidnapers of his 21- months-old son. “We are extremely anxious to re- establish contact with the kidnapers and while we sincerely appreciate the cooperation we have received from many press associations, our attempts are still greatly hampered or made impossible by press activity,” said a statement he issued last night. “Up to the present time we have been unable to re-establish a definite contact.” Curtis Would Solve Nation’s Own Trouble Washington, April 19.—(P)—A po- licy of attending to domestic needs before aiding foreign nations in dif- ficulties was advocated by Vice Presi- dent Curtis Monday night in an ad- dress opening the continental con- gress of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution.’ “Provided we are not drawn into political quarrels of other nations,” he said, the American people were ready to help other countries in every way possible, but: “Our first concern should be, and is, the welfare of our own people. We are anxious about our own de- pression, our own unemployment. Our troubles will be solved by our own farmers, our own business men, our own laboring men and our own Manufactures Committee Re- ports Adversely on Sena- tor’s Proposal COUNT ON MEASURE 7 TO 4 Two Members Fail to Vote; Fight on Floor is Forecast by Author Washington, April 19—(7)}—The Bingham bill to legalize 4 per cent beer was adversely reported Tuesday by the senate manufactures commit- tee. The long-considered legislation, in- troduced by Senator Bingham (Rep., Conn.), was beaten by 7 to 4 with two members not voting. Those who voted for the bill were Senators Metcalf (Rep., R. 1.), Bar- bour (Rep., N. J.), Bulkley (De Ohio), and La Follette (Rep., Wis. Those opposed were: McNary (Rep., Ore.), Goldsborough (Rep, Md.), Hatfield (Rep, Va.), Cutting (Rep., N. M), Costigan | (Dem., Colo.), Smith (Dem., S. C.), and Sheppard (@em., Tex.). Senators Wheeler (Dem., Mont.), and Long (Dem., La.), were not pre- ent and did not vote. Meanwhile, at the resumption of prohibition hearings before a senate judiciary subcommittee Rice Hooe of Washington, representing the federal dispensary tax reduction league, urged repeal of the dry amendment and substitution of government regu- lation. Hooe assailed prohibition as & “Pharisee, Mohammedan, Mormon, Methodist doctrine.” “If the honest leaders of prohibi- tion,” he said, “—and I eliminate the mercenaries and ecclesiastical politic- ians—would only get together with the forces of temperance and permit the word temperance to be written financial and industrial leaders.” imto this compact, the question might easily be solved.” He said prohibition is “pagan” and temperance is “Christian” and held the 18th amendment responsible for the “crime wave.” Labor's national committee for modification of the Volstead Act— through John P. Colpys, then ad- vocated 2.75 per cent beer. Colpys' said legalizing 2.75 per cent beer would put 300,000 men to work within three months. The manufactures committee spent less than half an hour reaching the adverse decision on the Bingham bill. Bingham expressed disappointment but announced he would fight for the bill on the senate floor. MONEY 10 BUILD AIRWAY IS VOTED Nye Amendment Carrying $200,000 For Northwest Approved by Senate Washington, April 19.—(#)—The senate has approved the Nye amend- ment to the commerce department appropriation bill providing $200,000 for establishment of an airmail line between Puget Sound and the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Senator Nye (Rep. N. D.) spon- sored the $200,000 fund which went through without opposition on the floor despite the economy drive. The line would operate through North Dakota. Several routes are under consider- ation by the postoffice department and final determination awaits fur- ther study. The bill carrying the appropriation remains to be approved by the senate as a whole, after which it goes to the house for action on senate amendments, then to the white house. The amendment was adopted by the penne, io Ee. ae erce bill as @ whole must yet approved by that body. " Rich Man, Poor Man, Begger Man or Bootlegger, Mendicant Has $32,917 New York, April 19.—(#)—“Rich man—” Tony Misiak had $32,917 in his pocket. “Poor man—” his clothing was threadbare, his cap old, his shoes soleless. “Beggarman—” his right hand was withered and he stood, so- liciting alms. The charge on which Newark police held him Tuesday was transporting liquor. A strange mendicant. In one ragged pocket was a bottle of gin. In another were twenty-five $1,- 000 bills, seventy-nine $100's, and seventeen $1 bills. “You were begging,” said the Police sergeant, “and yet you have $32,917 in your pocket. Where did you get it?” “Where do people get 1d snapped back Tony Misiak. “It doesn’t grow, it comes from work- ing. I saved my money.” d They booked him on a charge of transporting liquor, basing it on the bottle found in his pocket. An investigation was made, and it was learned that Misiak is mar- ried but that his wife has not lived with him for several mont DEMAND FOR TARIFR ON COPPER MADE T0 SENATE COMMITTEE Representative of Industry Says Levy is Needed to Avert Disaster een eee OPPOSITION ALSO HEARD Opposition to Eight-Per-Cent Levy on Pipe-Line Re- ceipts is Voiced Washington, April 19—(%}—Com- Plaints against taxes already in the revenue bill and appeals for new lev- {es were heaped before the senate finance committee Tuesday by a stream of witnesses. Both sides of the copper tariff ques- tion were presented. A. E. Petermann, of the Calumet and Arizona Copper company, sald a five cent tax on cop- Per imports was necessary to save the industry. Heath Steele of the American Metal company of New York, a firm which has some foreign copper interests, argued the dut would increase rather than decrease DEH cone at the mines, e committee also heard opposi- eon befies fete Per cent levy on the al for transportat ered pipe lines. ee revised administration program for meeting the government deficit by levying $1,033,000,000 in additional taxes and saving $208,000,000 by re- Loge Geen has been present- e ie committer tary Mills. : 0 eee The proposals, contained in ~ ter to Chairman Smoot, were ‘based on the original treasury recommenda- tions to the house ways and means committee. However, there were as. few important exceptions. Mills advocated a maximum surtax rate of 42 per cent on individual in- come taxes instead of the 40 per cent in the house bill and a 13 pr cent cor- Poration income levy instead of 13% ane house bill. The present rate In addition, he eliminated entirely the proposed tax on gas and electri- city domestically consumed and re- duced the suggested gasoline tax to be paid at refineries from one cent @ gallon to three-fourths of a cent. ENGLAND BALANCES BUDGET; WILL HAVE $3,000,000 SURPLUS Chancellor of Exchequer Sees no Relief For Income Tax- payers Soon London, April 19.—()—Great Bri- pain has polenced ee budget with a surplus of 5 (approximate] $3,000,000). 2 ys Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, informed parliament in his budget speech Tuesday there will be no relief for the income tax- payer this year and that the beer tax will remain at its present level. Thus the taxpayer will have to stagger along under his present burdens an- other year. Revival of trade and employment in the past few months ives Great praia, reason to hope that the worst of r economic depression is over, Chamberlain said. a “The past year,” he said, “has been one of anxiety, difficulty and hard- ship. It js only in the last few months wat some, rea of trade and em- ployment led us to hope eee the worst is over.” pies “Coming now to the financial 1932-1933, I am including in the bude get no receipts from reparations and no outgoings for war debts. The two are self-balancing. “Later in the year, after the Lau- means, conference, I shall submit whatever proposals may be to give effect to the measures, we agree upon. This decision to hold both accounts in suspense for the Present does not epee he Lat that any new decision mi “on our polic delicate question.” alt ae REED SAYS U. S. EXPECTS ie Sanat NEXT YEAR fashington, April 19.—(>)—Faih of the new British budget to provide for war debt and reparations ments next year, brought a quick declaration Tuesday from Senator Reed, of Pennsylvania, an adminis- tration spokesman, that this govern- nar aa to make the debt col-