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THE EVENING STAR, Held in Robbery| What’s What MORE PROFIT NEED IN W TAX PLANS *Meney - Making Encourage- ment Held Necessary to ~ Make Levy Productive. -4 BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt has just clar- -ified another issue comparable in im- - portance only to his recent proposal for a centralized Goveynment to con- trol business and industry. It is his _ decision to recommend a program of ~increased taxes. For nearly two and a Hhalf years .the New Deal has been borrowing -huge sums to meet current deficits, but now at last it is to seek rev- enues from drastic taxation. This is a vital move, because it raises promptly two questions: What is the Federal Government doing with the money it now is spending? And what is the Federal Government do- ing or planning to dc to encourage . the making of profits by business and industry so that the new tax rates will be productive of the revenues sought? Mr. Roosevelt rightly says our tax system has been based on capacity to pay, but with it now goes a new corollary—that the tax rates shall derive from business and individual incomes a sufficient sum to meet Gov- ernment expenses without at the same time discouraging incentive and de- \moralizing the profit structure alto- gether. Government Industry Partmer. Government under the income tax system is virtually a partner in pri- rvate industry. There are instances, !especially in the higher brackets, . where the Treasury gets 80 per cent + and the individual 20 per cent. Such ,an 80-20 division is hardly likely to * cause the individual to take risks or to furnish capital for new enterprises. Rather it drives the rich man into tax-exempt securities or into low- interest investments that yield little return either to the Government or to him, but involve no risks. And ! risk is the heart of a profit-and-loss system. The President’s message would be * very encouraging news if business and . Industry were far along on the road to recovery to be able to stand heavy taxation. But the truth is the tax load is not going to help recovery. It !actually will retard progress becauss 1t will make more difficult the replace- | ment of capital in enterprises that need new “‘equity” money, as common and preferred stocks are usually termed. On the one hand the administration is putting every conceivable kind of Testriction on business, seeking by Federal commissions and regulations of various kinds ostensibly to prevent economic strength from being con- centrated in the hands of the few, but weally, on the other hand, making it difficult for the whole business mech- anism to function in a manner that will bring those corporate and in- .dividual profits from which the Gov- ‘ernment hopes to get its proper share. Just Cause for Complaint., Until now the tax issue has been in the background. Whenever an ad- ministration starts to tax, it meets serious opposition from those who feel they are unjustly taxed. Businessmen who have been clamoring for a balanced budget, however, can hardly ! complain now when Mr. Roosevelt pro- poses & method of taxation, but they have a just cause for complaint when they point out that the new tax rates will never get the revenues needed un- less the Government gives its partner —American business—a chance to make profits. With a drastic tax system must go some expansion of the profit system. And the New Deal from the beginning has insisted on the theory of limiting profits or discouraging them altogether by Government intrusions and Gov- ernment competition. Congress may not act at this session on the new tax proposals, but Mr. Roosevelt has thought it wise to lay his program before the country so that everybody may begin to adjust himself or herself to the idea of heavier taxes next year. What the administration may discover, however, is that the step will result in & more searching scrutiny of Government expenditures, & more thorough examination of how the tax burden is distributed, and what the effect.of unscientific taxation is going to be on an economic system in which incentive is the prime req- uisite for progress. (Copyright, 1935.) J. 6. U. A. M. COMING HERE Brotherhood Chooses Washington for Next Convention. PROVIDENCE, R. I, June 20 (#).— Eugene B. Martin of Nashville, Tenn., was re-elected national councilor of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, a fraternal brotherhood with more than 300,000 members, at the closing business session of the fifty-second biennial convention here Yesterday. Other officers chosen were: National conductor, Ransome J. Williams, Mullins, . C.; national out- side sentinel, H. P. Alcantara, New Or- leans; national chaplain, Dr. M. D. Collins, Fairburn, Ga.; Board of Con- ;'rolébr. Charles E. Brewer, Raleigh, The delegates selected Washington for the next convention. ANGELO PATRI One of the world’s fore- most authorities , . . writes on raising children . . . how * to train them properly . . . correct their faults . . . en- courage their good traits. Section C, Page 5 Behind News In Capital Mitchell Charges Are Greeted With Disdain. Defendants Indifferent. BY PAUL MALLON. must have been some good unexplained reasons why the Mitchell charges created no more of an immediate sensa- tion—and there were. Ordinarily the retirement of an official of Ewing Mitchell's standing as Assistant Commerce Secretary and his charges involving the friendship of the President with Messrs. Vincent Astor and Kermit Roosevelt would be enough to erect headlines three inches high. You would expect Re- publican Congressmen to leap at the insinuation that the New Dealers paid the Astor-Roosevelt ship line a need- less subsidy, especially because Presi- dent Roosevelt has often been criticized for riding on the Astor yacht. One reason why responsible New Deul oppositionists decided to look before leaping was that they knew a Republican Senator (White of Maine) looked into this same sub- ject some time ago and decided to pass it up, believing there was nothing in it; at least wothing he could find. Also the word was passed around that Mr. Mitchell was an excitable person and that it would be ad- visable to proceed cautiously. MR 1t is equally remarkable that the Democrats failed to rush to the President’s defense. Usually when po- litical defendants know a charge is groundless they make a display of throwing it down. White House Noncommittal. ‘The White House only yawned at this one. Friends of the President disdained to offer even any private comment, except -~ regarding Mr. Mitchell's haste in jumping to con- | clusions. No one demanded to be vindicated. No one even proposed an official ex- planation. The lack of reaction among New Dealers to the convention of Republi- can “grass rooters” also was wholly in violation of the unwritten customs -of politics. No one expected the White House to take any notice of the Re- publican gardeners, but you would think that some kind of publicity effort would be made to offset it in the public mind. The only New Deal official who said anything about it at all was Post- master General Farley, who has never been shy about talking politics at any time. The mimeograph machine at Democratic headquarters whirled not @ flip. The publicity man who turned it against Herbert Hoover so devastatingly a few years ago (Charles Michelson) sat beside it in silence. He told friends he could not see very many possibilities in that situation for his line of New Deal endeavor. If these few inner observations are not enough to give you a hint of the current generalship being followed by the administration, let it be recorded: 1. The New Deal high command is staking everything on a business re- covery and is not worrying about in- cidentals. . 2. The Roosevelt strategists are con- vinced he cannot lose in 36 if busi- ness continues to improve; and he cannot win if it does not. 3. No one will remember next year that there ever was a Supreme Court decision on N, R. A. if industrial pro- duction passes 100. 4. They all believe that their pur- poses will be best served, in any event, by ignoring attacks, maintaining a cocksure air and minding their own business. The bouquet which France handed to Treasury Secretary Morgenthau was highly fragrant but unsubstantial. Sale of Dollars. What Mr. Morgenthau did was to sell dollars at the request of France during the last Parisian gold crisis; but Mr. Morgenthau did not give any dollars away. He got gold for them. He left the gold on deposit in Paris. To do anything else would have made him a participant in the attack on the franc. It helped the French mo- mentarily; it did not hurt us. ‘What lay behind the almost profuse thanks’ he received from Paris was the fact that the French knew Britain did not do the same thing. British gold balances in Paris were then too high to permit her to do it. The reason Mr. Rooseveit did not send a Memorial day wreath io the grave of President Garfleld is be- cause he has a personal list of ez Presidents for wreath-laying pure poses and Garfield is mot om it. PATTANGALL ASKS | COMLTION TIKET Believes Merger of New Deal Foes Will Defeat Roose- velt in ’36. By the Associated Press. BATH, Me.; June 20.—Nomination of a presidential candidate, el-her a Republican or & Democrat, whose running mate for the vice presidency would be of the opposite party affilia- tion, was described tocday by William B. Pattangall, Maine Supreme Court chief justice and New -Deal criiic, as the “only possible way to defeat the Roosevelt administration in 1936.” A new combiration of men and women who think alike on new issues would be required, he said in a speech for delivery before the Women's Re- putlican Club >f Maine. The jurist recently wrote a letter to a friend in Washirgton which ad- vocated & Repubiican-Democratic coalition opposed to the New Deal. Pattangall formerly was a leader of the Democratic party in Mamne. He withdrew his pame from the party ~olls this year after having severely criticized the New Deal the pasc year. Urges New Party Label. “For the present,” he said, “some party label, free from the old preju- dices, should be adonted * * ~ and its platform should be such that thoughtful Americans, regardless of former political divisions, could join in its support.” He said such a combination could be designated as ‘“constitutinalists” or “nationalists” or “coalitionists.” Judge Pattanga'l said it was not the intention of those interested that a new political party be formed, “but simply to arrange co-operation be- tween those who think alike * * * and provide some means by which they may unite their vots. Cites Attitude of South. In New England, he continued, nothing more was necessary than for Republicans to adopt a platform and nominate candidates appealing to in- dependent voters. “But a different situation exists,” ne said, “in 17 States in the South, Southwest and an the border of the 2ld dividing line between the Northern and Southern scctions.” 5 It is in such States, he added, where the word “Republican” n2d be- come associated with memories of the reconstruction period, that the “very class of citizens who are most interested in preserviag our ferm of government 1s the least likaly to flxgpon & national ticket bearing that le.™ BACKS HOMESTEAD IDEA WITH CASH Senator Couzens Gives Govern- ment $550,000 for Project at Pontiac, Mich. By the Assceiated Press. DETROIT, June 20.—Senator James Couzens of Michigan backed up his disagreement with the administra- tion‘s ideas of the suosistence home- stead plan yesterday with a $550,000 gift to the Government to help estab- lish a workingmen’s homestead proj- ect in his own State. An important difference between the new rlan and the old is that the homestead will be located near the center of the Michigan industrial area instead of any attempt being made to move industries to vhe homesteads. In objecting to ihe subsistence homestead plan, Senator Couzens had contended that the cart was being placed before the horse. The Senator also objected to the word “subsist- ence” because he believed it implied placing the workers fn a position of “permanent poverty.” Associates of Couzens said today he may back the new homestead plan with as much as $1,000.000 before the The list includes Lincoln, Washing= ton, Cleveland, Jeflerson, Coolidge, Taft, T. R., Harding and Wilson. The significant absentee from this list is not Mr. Garfleld, who was a Republican, but Andrew Jacksonm, the lion-hearted Democrat. ‘The great trouble with this New Deal, its opponents say, is that there is no co-ordination. These opponents will be glad to hear that the C. C. C,, City hotels, which wanted the relief boys to know that it had rooms at $6 a day. (Copyright. 1935.) project is fully developed. Under the present agreement with Harry L. Hop- kins, Federal emerency relief admin- istrator, the Government has appro- priated $300,000 and after that amount is spent Couzens will con- tribute an additiogal amount up to $550,000. The project is to be developed on & 1,000-acre tract in the Oakland County iske district 10 miles west of Pontiac, automobile manufacturing city. Not far away are Detroit, Lan- sing and Flint. In the past Senator Couzens’ phil- anthropies have been mainly for the benefit of children. His gifts for that aid now total $20,000,000. ASSOCIATION INDORSES WISCONSIN PROJECT Chevy Chase Gardens Group Calls for Fluipg and Paving of Tracks. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. SOMERSET, Md., June 20.—In- dorsing similar action by other civic organizations, the Chevy Chase Gar- dens Citizens’ Association passed a resolution Monday night calling upon the tSate Highway Commission, the Maryland Public Utilities Commission and the Montgomery County Commis- sioners to co-operate in filling and paving the area now occupied by trol- ley tracks on Wisconsin avenue from the District line to old Georgetown road. R: P. Huff, Frederick A. Genau, R. A. Littleton and P. L. Baldwin were named by President Galbraith as a Nominating Committee to prepare a slate of officers to be voted on at the September meeting. Mrs. Lewis Eisele, chairman of the APPEAL IS DEMJED Wickersham, Gilchrist Ordered to Continue Guardianship. NEW YORK, June 20 (4).—Thom- CONSUL’S SON ARRAIGNED IN NEW YORK COURT. FRANCESCO DE ZELA PARDO, JR., Son of the Peruvian consul general, as he was arraigned in a New York City court on charges of robbery. The boy was captured in a jewelry store, where he had flourished a small pistol in an attempt to get money “to entertain girls,” accord- ing to police. He was held with- out bail. ~—A. P. Photo, D.C.WOMAN'SGOLF FINALS TOMORROW Miss Winifred Faunce to Meet Miss Elizabeth Houghton for Title. Miss Winifred Faunce of Manor, the defending title holder, and Miss Elizabeth Houghton, Chevy Chase Club, today reached the final round in the District women’s golf cham- pionship. They will meet tomorrow at 10 am. The Manor girl reached the finals by defeating Mrs. Roland MacKenzie of Congressional, 2 up, after Mrs. MacKenzie had made a game come- back when she was 5 down with 5 to play. Miss Houghton always held the upper hand in her semi-final con- test against Mrs. Leo Walper, Ken- wood, and won out on the sixteenth green, 3 and 2. If Miss Faunce wins tomorrow it will be the first repeat victory of a women’s champion in many years of local golf history. The five lower flights were con- cluded today at Indian Spring with the following results: Second flight—Mrs. George Diffen- baugh, Indian Spring, defeated Mrs. James W. Beller, Columbia, 3 and 2; third fiight, Mrs. E. L. Reed, Che Chase, defeated Mrs. J. P. Powel Manor, 4 and 3; fourth flight, Mrs. George B. McGinty, Columbia, de- feated Mrs. L. K. Rice, Manor, 1 up; ffth flight, Mrs. C. E. Purdy, Beaver Dam, defeated Mrs. J. H. Bullock, Indian Spring, 2 and 1; sixth flight, Mrs. C. D Bills, Columbia, defeated Mrs. L. E. Harris, Woodmont, 8 and 7. WALEYS DEBATE BITTER CHOICES Several Courses Open to Alleged Kidnapers as Grand Jury Re- turns Indictment. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash, June 20.—Sever- al courses were open to Harmon Wa- ley, ex-convict, and his wife today as they prepered for arraignment on Federal charges growing out of the kidnaping of 9-year-oid George Wey- erhaeuser, A Federal grand jury, after a quick appraisal of the Government case yesterday, indicted the Waleys and their fugitive co-defendant, William Mahan, for violation of the stringent Lindbergh kidnaping law, conspiracy to kidnap and using the mails for sending extortion notes. “‘Under Federal court procedure, the ‘Waleys, said by Department of Jus- tice agents to have confessed the $200,000 kidnaping, may plead guilty immediately and be sentenced forth- with. . District Judge E. E. Cushman, how- ever, might ask to hear testimony tending to show their individual parts in the case, in which case they might be tried before a petit jury next week. Also the Waleys might ask for time in which to plead. ~ b AD EDITING URGED Oklahoman Proposes Censorship Standards Be Raised. CLEVELAND, June 20 (#).—Higher standards of advertising censorship were urged yesterday by A. H. Van Duyn of the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman in an address before the Association of Newspaper Classified Managers. “Become editors, not just want ad boys and girls in the old sense,” Van Duyn told his audience. Marshall P, Trippe of the Des Moines Register-Tribune presented to the Canton Repository and the Charlotte (N, C.) Observer, plaques in recogni- tion of advertising campaigns. Senate: # ‘Will debate Bankhead farm tenant Hflugudm}w-dmmh MORGENTHAUASKS FACA. RETENTION Choate’s Plans to Resign Revealed to Committee Studying Bill. By the Associated Press. Continuation of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration as a separate agency was advocated today by Sec- retary of the Treasury Morgenthau. “It has done a splendid job,” he sald at a press conference. “Our job is to collect and protect liquor revenue; F. A. C. A's job deals with the social aspects of the situation. They are not related.” He was commenting on proposals that liquor control be placed under the Treasury. This was opposed last right by Joseph H. Choate, F. A. C. A. chairman, who indicated he intended to resign as soon as possible. Morgenthau also opposed any legis- lation that would permit the sale of liquor in bulk. Says Views Are President’s. “If we go back to the sale of liquor in barrels, I would need an army to enforce the alcohol revenue laws,” he said. “Furthermore, the President feels exactly and just as strongly about the matter as I do.” Choate went before the House Ways and Means Committee last night to criticize a bill creating a new control agency. He sald putting the agency In Treasury jurisdiction was a “fatal defect” that would destroy “effciency” and “prestige.” When Representative Fuller, Democrat, of Arkansas, asked him if he wasn't “more worried about prestige,” he answered, “I'm not worried about prestige for myself be- cause I won't be here long.” Later, he said his resignation “is subject entirely to the Presldent’s convenience.” Independent Agency Favored. Choate advocated an independent control agency, and Harold N, Graves, an assistant to Secretary Morgenthau, said the Treasury head favored that plan too. Choate and Graves also criticized the committee’s proposal to permit sale of liquor in bulk—in kegs and barrels—saying it would be a boon to bootleggers. Arthur J. Mallott, deputy Internal Revenue commissioner in charge of the alcohol tax unit, joined Graves apd Choate in opposing the com- mittee’s bill providing for bulk sales of liquor and for placing alcohol reg- ulation in the Treasury. ‘The deputy commissioner said his carried on as near as possible to the present set-up of F. A. C. A. The F. A. C. A. draft was revised by the Democrats to provide that a single commissioner be put in charge of the distilling, brewing and other beverage industries under the Secre- tary of the Treasury. The F. A. C. A. had urged the creation of a separate commission, Questioned by Crowther. In opposing the committee’s revi- sion, Choate was asked by Represent- ative Crowther, Republican, of New York whether he was for or against the bill “It is not the draft we sent up,” Choate said, adding, however, that it contained much that was in the orig- | inal proposal. Through the nearly two years of his administration of F. A. C. A., Choate said, his only difference with Secre- | tary Morgenthau was on the “volume of taxation.” Choate has urged lower taxes as a means of driving out the bootlegger. He contended, however, that the Secretary “knows nothing whatever about regulation” of the liquor in- dustry or suppressing evils in it. The purpose of the F. A. C. A, he said, was to prevent evils that had brought about prohibition. ORIGINATOR OF PLAN FOR BOULDER DAM DIES Anson Hubert Smith Was Editor and Publisher in Arizona for 53 Years. By the Associated Press. - KINGMAN, Ariz., June 20.—Anson Hubert Smith, 75, for nearly 53 years editor and publisher of the Mohave County Miner and described by former President Hoover as “the father of Boulder Dam,” died at his home here last night. His death resulted from injuries suf- fered in a fall early this Spring. Smith was born in the little town of Harnellsville, now the City of Harnell, N. Y., March 28, 1860. With his parents he moved to Salmanca, where he progressed from printer’s devil to managing editor of the Salmanca Republican. He then went to Bradford, Pa., where he became pressman and later oil reporter on the Daily Era. From there he went to the New York Times. In 1879 Smith came to Arizona, first in mining, but soon returning to newspaper work. SENEBIRE E XA SIX NAZI SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN AUSTRIA Government Drives Hard on Foes at Second Anniversary of Their Prohibition. By the Associated Press. the Nazi party from Austria by “purg- ing the National Socialist taint from numerous official organizations.” Seven officers of the federal army garrison at Salzburg were arrested on & charge of participating in Naz ac- tivities. Even children are under observation and 1,000 have been excluded from the Austrian youth movement because their patriotism was questioned. Offi- cials said more would be expelled. In Vienna a stimulated anti-Nazi drive has resulted in 60 arrests in the last 24 hours. War on Black Spider. LOS ANGELES, June 20 ()—The |* deadly black widow spider became bureau felt it essential that the regula- | tion of the liquor industry should be | Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto, they were married. Both gave their had never been married before. BY ARVILLE SCHALEFEN. Special Dispatch to The Star. PALMER, Alaska, June 20 (NAN.A). | —Tt is now confessed by officials that | the magnitude of the task of settling | 200 families in the Matanuska Valley | was mnot realized when undertaken, recognizing the tremendous amount of work remaining to be done, authorities here are making desperate efforts to get more help. Already the administrative person- |mel of the colonization division—as differentiated from the construction division, manned mainly by California transients — has bolstered. Howard Lyng of Nome been added as assistant to General Manager Don Irwin, and Ed Croning of Anchorage as purchasing and disbursing agent. To date the transient laborers and some of the colenists have been in the valley more than a month and have not made a dent in work promised the settlers. Much Work to Be Done. Trouble ahead is revealed by a brief summary of the work to be done. The colony must: Construct a community center, a| | and, monumental task in itself, consider- | ing available facilities. Erect homes for all colonists (ex- cept for a few who happened to draw | tracts with houses on them). Just one cottage is now started. Erect shelters for live stock. Provide a water supply for settlers’ homes and live stock. Clear 12 acres of land for each | colonist. Build 30-odd miles of new roads Palmer with the Anchorage road, now ending at Eklutna; and this includes & $150,000 bridge. garden and field crops for settlers and live stock during the Winter. Most of these tasks have not even been started and others just barely touched. For instance, the road pro- gram, under the Alaskan Highway Commission, is about a month behind. Director Irwin concedes that condi- tions are serious and other officials privately admit the situation is most alarming. The colonists themselves are be- coming apprehensive. Some of them talk about cutting loose and going into the woods and building their own shelters, even if they must give up their colony tracts to do it. Others of the new settlers are sick and tired of delays, bickering and mismanagement. Irwin says that four families have asked to be sent home, but rumors around the camps are that more than 30 are ready to quit. Those with serious complaints are asked to sign affidavits that cenditions were misrepresented to them by case work- ers back home. Then the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. will in- vestigate the charges and may pro- vide transportation, according to Ir- win. Nothing is definitely promised, however. Transportation, more than any other colonization problem, was over- looked. In the first place, just two bands of steel, representing the Alaska Railroad, connect this wilderness with the rest of Alaska, there being no highway. It is a small system whose trains chase themselves around in- numerable curves. The entire rail- road has only some 70 cars and there are some 12,000 and more tons of freight coming into the colonyt Railroad Swamped. Approximately 4,000 tons have come into Palmer to date and it has kept the railroad practically swamped. Costly freight that never should be left uncovered has had to be dumped off and piled around Palmer to make cars available for more shipment. Bad weather could ruin thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment. Complicating the problem, mate- rials have been shipped out of the United States that will not be needed Lily Damita," French film actress, and Errol Flynn, British actor, photographed at Los Angeles after they returned from Yuma, Ariz., where Desertion Threatens as Work Lags in Alaskan Experiment Tools Which Were to Have Been Ready for Colonists Have Not Arrived, and Only One House Has Been Started. | toward each other that their members in the valley, plus 12 miles connecting | | into the woods and cut down logs for | their own houses and later get a saw- Prepare and harvest community | ages as 26 years and both said they to haul timber out of the woods and supplement the overtaxed trucks on other haulage, but no wagons have come: The colonists finally borrowed | six in the valley and that is all they could get. But among the things which have | arrived are eight caricads of cement | which won't be used for months, re- torts for a cannery whose eite is not even staked out, radiators for a | school house which still is just a blueprint, and onion graders for a prospective marketing co-operative, altrough onions are just beginning to shoot sprouts through the fertile soil. Speaking of soil, it was most dis- heartening last week for 11 colonists to discover that, through error by sur- veyors, they had been allotted tracts which were mostly gravel covered only by moss, instead of the rich earth they so0 loudly lauded when they looked at it around Palmer. Irwin, who has stuck with the colonists through many annoying and unanticipated problems, immediately ordered new tracts for the unfortunate “gravel pit owners,” as they designated themselves. Once again fisticuffs have been re-| sorted to in the new colony, and this | time the results were serious. The latest difficulties involving per- | sonalities occurred in camp 6, one of | eight temporary home camps scattered | throughout the valley. The camp is| split wide into two factions, so bitter | refuse to work with opposing members. Colonists Settle Differences. ‘What to do about sawing logs caused the trouble. A group, headed by Camp Councilman George Conners from Douglas County, Wis.,, wanted to go mill. Other groups wanted to join camp 5 in operating & sawmill now there. Conners was voted out as council- man because of his views and replaced | by Ernest Porterfield of Michigan. After the meeting the men stood around arguing until John Bradley of Douglas County told Al Covert of Michigan to “keep your mouth shut 80 Conners can talk.” “You keep your mouth shut,” cav.ert answered, '“or I'll shut it for you!” It happens that Covert and Bradley hold adjoining tracts, and Bradley said, “If we're going to have an argu- ment, let’s settle it now.” They grappled and fell, with Brad- ley on top. The Bradley faction stood at one side yelling: “Let him have it, John! Let him have it!” And some one on the other side answered, “Yeah, they're both 21; let them go.” Wife Goes go Rescue. Mrs. Covert, in tears, jumped on Bradley as he held her husband down, but men in the crowd pulled her ay. Bradley said he wouldn't hit a man while he was down, but he kept Covert pinned down so long that the Michigan man finally suggested, “Why don’t some one serve cake and coffee!” And in a few minutes the two agreed to shake hands. Since then, however, the Conners faction, badly outnumbered by the Porterfield faction, has refused to join in general colony sawmill operations— in which all men colonists are divided into work crews according to what- ever they're fitted for—and declare they will build their own houses. They have asked for a team and wagon with which to get out logs. “I don’t care if we get only a shack,” Bradley said. “I don’t need a man- sion this year anyway. The only thing is that people back home think wish we could.” (Copyright, 1035. by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) Arouses Little Sympathy. little sympathy at emergency welfare headquarters today. Roswell G. Carr, director of rural rehabilitation, who directed the enroll- GROAD BAN HIVTE ON HOLDNG FRNS President Indicates He Will Extend Attack to Include Al Industries. By the Associated Press. Contronted by stiff opposition, Pres- ident Roosevelt indicates he will broaden his attack on public utility holding companies and make i a drive against such companies in all industries. In his special message to Congress proposing inheritance taxes and in- creased income levies in the higher brackets, he said: “Ultimately, we should seek through taxation the simplification of our cor- porate structure through the elimina~ tion of unnecessary holding companies in all lines of business.” Dissolution Clause Deleted. ‘This sweeping proposal was made only a few hours after a House sub- committee—in direct disregard of his wishes—had removed from the utili- ties holding company bill now before it provisions requiring absolute disso- lution of all “unnecessary” holding companies by 1942, In its place, the subcommittee in- serted language which would leave it to the securities commission to re- Guire, if it is in the public interest, a holding company to confine its opera- tions to one integrated public utility system. Otherwise the commission may limit the operations “to such pumber of integrated public utility systems as it finds may be included in such holding company system con- sistent with the public interest.” Rayburn Talks to President. Soon after this action, Chairman Rayburn of the full Interstate Com- merce Committee conferred with the President. Indications were that de- spite Mr. Roosevelt's insistence on the original provision, the full committee would approve the subcommittee's substitute. Many legislators thought the substitute probably would be sup- ported by the House when it comes to a vote there. The President was victorious in the Senate on this issue by only one vote. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, long a foe of holding com- panies, told newspaper men after the President’s message that he thought it would give new courage to House supporters of the utilities measure. When the latter bill passed the Senate, Wheeler predicted the time would come when all holding companies would be eliminated. A AR LEGISLATOR FINED $36 FOR SCORING OFFICIALS Ordered to Pay $35 for Remarks About Prosecutor and $1 for Libeling Judge. By the Associated Press. PRINCETON, Ky., June 20.—State Representative John W. Taylor’s eir- cularized “comment” on the manner in which a murder trial was eon- -:;l:ted here cost him fines totaling A jury of Hopkins County citizens convicted him in Caldwell Circuit Court yesterday of criminally libel- ing Commonwealth’s Attarney Alvin Lisanby and fined him $35. A jury from Christian County con- victed him yesterday of criminally libeling Circuit Judge Charles H. Wil- son and fixed his punishment at a fine of $1. The indictment grew out of a cir- cular published by Taylor after the acquittal last March of Nell Baker, a nurse, who was accused of poisoning Wanda Cox, 10, daughter of & for- mer divinity student, C. W. Cox. The circular, entitled “Protect Your Chick- ens and Poison Your Children,” ac- cused the court officials of not prop- erly handling the trial. it NORMANDIE DUE TODAY Fanfare Missing as Ship Returns on Second Westward Trip. NEW YORK, June 20 (#).—The French liner Normandie, largest vessel afloat, is due in New York this after- noon on her second westward trip across the Atlantic. Although the fanfare attending her maiden voyage will be 1issing, 175 policemen have been ordered on duty at the French Line pier when the pew queen of the seas docks. She is ex- pected to be in by 5 pm., E. 8. T. Her passenger list, far under that which she carried on the initial trip, includes Norman Armour, new Min- ister to Canada; Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists Corp, and Kay Francis, film star. TRAFFIC TIPS by the NATONQL SAFETY COUNCI The Evil Genii, according to Ara- bian mythology, were the offspring of fire. They took form from flame and smoke and appeared as huge serpents, hideous giants or monsters, to wreak destruction for the Suleyman kings, l‘mbl which they again became invis- e, Carbon monoxide, the deadly gas from the automobile exhaust, is the invisible killer of today, which, like the Evil Genil of old, causes great waste of human life, mainly among thoughtless motorists. Most cases occur on cold mornings defective exhaust, the gas into the car. It is uafiii'w odor- and invisible and is deadly as