Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1935, Page 6

BORAH CONTINUES | POLITICAL ENIGMA 70th Birthday Finds Him Still Dominant National Figure. By the Associated Press. Senator Willia:n E. Borah of Idaho strode into his 7lst year yes- terday, apparently due to continue the enigmatic role that he has always| played—never quite a presidential candidate, but always a dominant fig- ure in presidential campaigns. Powerful was the name of Borah, even as far back as 1912, when he refused to bolt the Republican party with Theodore Roosevelt and helped to ring the death knell to that leader's political aspirations. At that time, Borah had been in the Senate less than half a dozen years. | Yesterday, his 70th birthday found him in this situation: He is demanding a reorganization of the Republican party under a plan which would all but exclude Herbert Hoover, the titular head. A. A. A. Amendments Foe. His associates know he is silently opposed to Hoover or any one shar- ing Hoover's views. He is opposed | to many New Deal agencies and spent | his birthday marshaling his forces | to attack the pending A. A. A. amend- | ments. } His present term as Senator expires | next year and Idaho expects he will | be back there seeking re-election. He is often described as “manifestly” not a presidential candidate, either for the Republican nomination cr that of a third party. although a “Borah | for President” movement has been | started in Idaho | Yet, political observers envision his absence from & national convention. Few. if any, see the slightest pros- pect for the healing of his break with Hoover. The Idahoan was a strong supporter of Hoover in 1928, but by 1929 they had divided over agricul- tural matters. Whole Program Opposed. ‘Borah urged Hoover to call a special | gession of Congress soon after he en- tered the White House to increase only agricultural schedules on the tar- iff. When that call came in 1929 it was interpreted by Borah as inviting an increase not only of agricultural schedules but those of manufacturers also. Unable to block such a develop- ment, Borah fought the whole pro- gram and never again was reconciled. The machinery now exists for his plaving a part in 1936 as he did n 1928, or the vastly different part he played in 1932. A candidate to his| liking might find him again a vigor- ous party campaigner. A candidate | not to his liking—he disliked Hoover in 1932 and spoke not a word for him—might find him attending to his own affairs in the State campaign. The primaries in Idaho are ideally arranged for him to play either part. ‘They come in August, well after the national convention, and should the national scenery not suit him, he w'll g0 home to face the stiff battle he ex- | pects with his already announced | candidate—Gov. C. Ben Ross. Suits (Continued From Pirst Page.) Flour Mills Co., and the Harvey Paper | Mill Co., charged generally that the taxes were unconstitutional. Hearings were set for July 8. Largest Sum Quarter Million. ‘The Pillsbury petition said it owed $768,101.65 in taxes, the largest single | amount involved. | In a score of other jurisdictions, suits by nearly two score packing firms as well as by other millers and textile manufacturers were pending. With the next installment of the collections, from which farmers are paid corn-hog and cotton benefits, due July 1, several of the injunction pro- ceedings seeking to bar further tax payments were scheduled for hearing in Federal courts over the country | Monday. Some of the concerns ask a refund | of taxes already paid. Government officials have estimated that nearly $900,000,000 in processing taxes have been collected to date. Administration Scoffs. At Washington Farm Administra- tion authorities scoffed at the triple- headed attack on the taxes and charged rumors of wide-spread strikes econtemplated against their payment ‘were spread by opponents seeking de- feat of A. A. A. amendments. The big Chicago firms of Armour, ‘Wilson, Cudahy and Swift, which turn in approximately $1,000,000 a month to the A. A. A, took no steps toward withholding any sums due. Swift & Co. announced it will pay all process- ing taxes due at the end of June for which extensions have not been granted. For the suing packers, it was said unofficially in trade quarters here the petition of the Rothbaum Packing Co. filed in San Francisco yesterday probably summarized the general stand. That concern alleged that continued enforcement of the A. A. A. tax pay- ments would run it out of business. It asserted it had not funds available for their payment and had not been able to borrow money for that pur- pose from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Extensive Credit Needed. Trade authorities here explained the tax necessitated extensive - credit, as some of the processed meat must be held by the packer as long as six months. They said the big concerns were able to arrange this, while smaller ones could not at all times. The Government has answered St. Louis actions and another by the Scala Packing Co. of Utica, N. Y., by asserting Federal law bars suit against collection of Federal taxes. BILL GUARDS REPORTERS Illinois Measure Would Prevent News Source Disclosures. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., June 29 (#).— Newspaper reporters would not be re- quired to disclose sources of confi- dential information unaer a bill by Representative F. W. Lewis, Robin- son, Ill, publisher, that passed the Senate today during the closing hours of the present session of the Illinols Legislature. St. Aloysius’ Carnival Continues. St. Aloysius Church will continue its garden party through Tuesday night, it was announced yesterday. The win- ners of several special prizes will be announced on the closing night. Tomorrow evening a dance in the auditorilum of the church academy will be held. The Virginia Cavaliers Orchestra will play. | or abolished. | be permitted only in the event the Idaho Senator 70 Years THE SUNDAY Senator Borah and Mrs. Borah shown in front of their home here yesterday. The Idaho Senator celebrated his 70th birthday anniversary by working as usual. —A. P. Photo. A AA (Continued From First Page) | effectiveness in intrastate affairs is made possible only by the co-opera- ton of the States in providing the necessary laws and machinery and government to carry on in the State control provisions the Federal Gov- ernment has in interstate commerce.” Scores of Suits Pending. Recently scores of processors have | filed suits against the Government for recovery of millions paid in processing taxes. As revised, the measure pro- vides that no suits may be filed against the Government for any operation of the law up to the time of the passage of the amendment bill. It also is de- signed to shut out suits for any amounts claimed by some growers to have been collected in excess of parity prices the measure seeks to establish. Chairman Smith said the limitation was justified because it was evident that in such cases the tax would al- | ready have been passed on to the con- sumer or deducted from the price paid the grower, and that there would be no justice to such suits filed by Pprocessors. As a limitation on any further ex- cess processing taxes, the committee amended the bill to provide that when any farm commodity under the tax schedule is brought up to parity or near parity, the tax may be reduced Its restoration would price sagged. Heretofore the tax has been fixed by the Secretary of Agricul- ture, subject to little change. Rayon Taxed 125 Per Cent. The committee attached a “‘com- pensatory tax” on “rayon and all fiber that in physical quality competes with cotton.” This levy amounts to 125 per cent of the processig tax applied on cotton. The extra 25 per cent was attached, Smith said, be- cause a pound of rayon compares, in its cloth producing ability, with more than a pound of cotton. Provisions permitting the Secretary of Agriculture to use 30 per cent of the Nation’s customs receipts in finan- cing export of surplus farm com- modities, and giving regional groups of citrus growers the power to pull out of any control agreement, were stricken out by the committee. At one time a supporter of the cus- toms receipts export subsidy provision, Smith said the committee had been convinced it would work to the detri- ment of American farmers and proc- essors, particularly in the case of cotton. “That,” he said, “would be inviting r.” The citrus fruit amendment origi- nally was attached at the insistence Abasolutely None Sold at This Price After Wed., | N of Senator Fletcher. Democrat, of | | Florida, because some Florida growers | | objected to quota restrictions sought by California and Rio Grande growers. | Fruits intended for canning were | | exempted by the bill as passed by the | House, but restored by the Senate | committee. Added also to the list of | ““controllable” crops were poultry and | eggs, wool and mohair. The latter two | had been deleted by the House | Other provisions of the revised bill | | include } 1. To authorize the Secretary 0(’ Agriculture to order marketing agree- | ments for handlers of milk, tobacco, | fresh fruits (except apples), fresh vegetables (except those for canning), | soy beans. walnuts, pecans, hops, poultry, eggs, wool and mohair, pro- vided 50 per cent by volume of the | handlers in a given class or region agree with it or if two-thirds of the | | farmers desire it. Milk is subject also to price fixing, and milk retailers to “orders."” Up or Down Control Allowed. 2. To prevent crop control to move | up or down, rather than merely down- | ward as under the present A. A. A. act. | 3. To permit the President to fix quotas or compensating taxes on im- ports he finds are depressing domestic farm products below the determined “parity prices.” 4. To extend the Jones-Costigan sugar quota act from May 9. 1937, to | December 31, 1937, and to extend the Bankhead cotton control act and the Smith-Kerr tobacco control act | through another crop year. | 5. To permit refunds of taxes paid on floor stocks in event the processing tax is dropped. | 6. To authorize the Secretary to maintain an “ever normal granary” | by buying up surpluses in bumper | years and redistributing to the farmers | |in lieu of benefit payments in lean 7. To promote State co-operation in carrying out for intrastate commerce what is intended by the Federal act for interstate commerce. To meet complaints that some of the co-operative marketing organiza- tions are merely private merchandising arrangements, the bill was amended to provide that Government loans would be extended to such groups only where 50 per cent of the commodity they handle is provided by its| members. Mattresses s Remade The Stein Bedding Co. 1004 Eye St. NW. ME. 9490 peated this year at a lower orice! ©® QUALITY paints made by a NATIONALLY KNOWN manufacturer. ©® Because of mention their the extreme low price we cannot name. ® Buy a supply—to use now or for future use. 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Chiappe, a Corsican, who was pre- fect of police until last February's Stavisky riots, is unofficial mayor of Paris as the result of his defeat of Godin for presidency of the council. in D. C, JUNE 30, 1935—PART ONE. Note: Gene Elo had heard 30 much about the deadly bite of the black widow spider that he decided to do a little “medical research.” With a physician nearby, Elo, 30- year-old reporter for the Amarillo News-Globe, gave a spider every opportunity to bite him. But the spider didn’t bite. Here's Elo’s own account. BY GENE ELO. Written for the Associated Press. AMARILLO, Tex., June 29.—The “black widow” spider may be venom- ous, . but it sn't The fact that one refused to bite me today adds to my conviction that the insect is highly overrated and maligned. It really is a pretty little arachnid. The specimen I used in the experi- ment had the red and black hour- glass marking more plainly than any other I've seen. She was lively and vivacious and spun & web as fine as siikk over my hand as she ran to the tips of my fingers, paused and moved slowly to the palm and wrist. The pincers extending from its mouth worked continuously. Several times the spider paused and I know that I grew taut. eporter Regrets Black Spider Wouldn’t Bite When Invited T expected to feel & twinge of pain and to see a red mark appear as in the case of & mosquito bite. Nothing happened. I jabbed at it with the tip of a s tango with the cameo ring. I regret it didn't bite. While my that the insect is not dangerous been absolutely substantiated, the effects of such a bite are still un- certain. So much talk of the spider’s horrors | have been passed around that I was not immune to some fear. I was aware that I might be mistaken. It caused a mnervous tendency, but required no great amount of will power to free the bug from its glass jar whence its eight legs carried it gracefully onto the back of my hand. A creepy feeling swept over me— spiders have always been sort of a pet horror to me. As time wore on and it still refused to take a nip, I nat- urally grew more confident. You will understand why I now have a more sympathetic feeling for “black widow” spiders. Rapid progress is being made in the construction of rallway extensions in China. ELECTRIC SERVICE CHARGE PROTESTED Deposit Required for Opening of Streets to Install Lines Hit by Roberts. The minimum deposit of $25 re- quied by the Potomac Electric Power Co. before it will make an opening in a street for installation of electrical service was called “arbitrary and un- reasonably” high in complaints filed with the Public Utilities Commission yesterday by People’s Counsel Roberts. He proposed adoption of a sliding scale based on unit cost which he believed would diminish the burden of the deposit and expedite the elec- trification of old houses. Commission engineers were asked to make a study I actual costs of such work. Roberts also protested practices of the power company in making ad- justments of past bills because of incorrect electric meters Consumers now do not get an even break with the compeny in some cases, he said. ‘Where meters are found to register more power than the customer actu- ally used, it was said, back billing is adjusted over a period of three months. In contrast to this, he said he had the record in one case where the meter accounted for less power ficiency of $40,92, covering a period of two years. He proposed that where an adjustment is to cover a period longer than three months the adjust- ment be passed on by the Public Utilities Commission. 5-YEAR RECORD SET AS 25 LINERS SAIL 14,000 Persons in One Day Off From New York to See Europe. Trafic Jammed. NEW YORK, June 290 (P— Twenty-five liners sailed from New York today carrying approximately 14,000 passengers, the largest number to sail on one day in five years. Traffic jams blocked the streets along the water front as more than 25,000 sought to reach the piers to see friends and relatives off. ‘The Europa had 2,007 passengers, a record for any ship in the last three years. The Ile de France sailed with 1417, her first capacity list in five years. On the correspond- ing Saturday a year ago, 16 ships left with 9,075 passengers. ‘Telegraph companies reported that twice as many bon voyage telegrams than was used and that the company | were delivered today as on the largest had billed the consumer for a de- ! sailing date last year. Live Monday and Tuesday News for Holiday Shoppers 6 hot drink cups, 10 plates, 100 paper. 3 pkgs., 25¢ grade rubbing alcohol. . and soothes sunburn, prickly 39c; 25c size fine, soft quality. sheets, 12c; 150 sheets Anklets, half - socks, famous makes. Candy to 105, 79c and $1.00 Silk Hose service-weight silk hose 39¢ 42, Vests, step-ins and panties mesh styles. 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