Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1935, Page 5

- SWEEPING PROBE OF MOVIES URGED Sirovich Measure Would Send Committee Deeply Into Film Affairs. By the Associated Pres A congressional investigation of the effects of moving pictures on public morals, salaries paid film executives and actors and possible monopolies in the industry was proposed yesterday by Representative Sirovich, Democrat, ©of New York. He introduced a resolution propos- ng that the House create a seven-man committee to make the inquiry. The resolution recited allegations of {llegal control, restraint of trade, di- version of assets, fraudulent issuance of securities and harmful speculation in securities and litigation inaugu- rated to place control of many com- panies in banking houses and affili- ates. The resolution said that “many ehurch and religious organizations are making serious charges of immorality and lewdness in moving pictures, to- gether with advertisement and glorifi- cation of crime, immorality and crim- inals to the detriment of public morals.” “It seems,” the measure said, “es- sential for protection of the public welfare that there be made a thor- ough investigation of financial actions and affairs of persons and companies engaged in all branches of the in- dustry from initial production to the final exhibition.” It proposed, in addition, would be well to go into compensa- tions paid officials, players, writers, operators and others within and out- side the industry “with a view to cor- | rection of any and all alleged abuses or credit, stockholders’ rights and security holders’ rights * * *.” Sirovich argued it also would be| desirable to find out whether the movie companies have attempted to control public opinion, legislation or elections with propaganda or money. . Taxes (Continued From First Page.) silver transactions. The bloc of “sil- ver Senators” may join in pressing this fight. Bonus Exemption Asked. An amendment to the excess profits | tax section, by which corporations | would be given credit for bonuses to their employes whose annual income 18 less than $2.000, has been submit- ted by Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of Alabama. There may be an attempt also on| the part of Senator Connally, Demo- | crat, of Texas to amend the excess profits section to provide for as hign as 40 per cent rate on profits over 20 per cent of invested capital. A schedule comparable to this was ef- fective during a few post-war years. Using invested capital for the base rather than an adjusted declared value as at present, maintained that such a would ralse considerably revenue. Other modifying proposals are ex- pected, although only those acceptable to the majority leaders are expected to receive favorable action. In this classification there may be a success- ful attempt to restore an inheritance tax provision to the bill, although probably at lower rates than in the House measure. The bill as it now stands is esti- mated to raise $254,000,000 in addi- tional revenue in a full year of opera- tion. It calls for increases in estate taxes, capital stock taxes, excess profits taxes, gift taxes and surtaxes. It also provides for graduation of corpora- tion income taxes and taxes inter- company dividends. Eight Democrats Join Foes. Yesterday's test vote on the Van- denberg motion to recommit found schedule greater only eight Democrats departing from | the path of party regularity to cast their ballots against enactment of the legislation at this time. The eight, Joined by 11 Republicans were Burke of Nebraska, Byrd of Virginia, Cope- land of New York, Glass of Virginia, Lonergan of Connecticut, Moore of New Jersey, Tydings of Maryland and Walsh of Massachusetts. To offset their party irregularity, however, were seven members of the so-called lib- eral group of Republicans who voted ! for immediate consideration, along with 46 Democrats, a Progressive and & Farmer-Laborite. ‘The vote followed a continuous as- sault on the bill during the last half | of the afternoon the fireworks being touched off by Senator Vandenberg, who was followed in turn by Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York; Benator Hastings, Republican, of Delaware, and Senator Steiwer, Re- publican, of Oregon. Along with their generalized attacks upon the legisla- tion went a stinging minority report | in denunciation of the bill filed by Benator Hastings and Senator Metcalf, Republican, of Rhode Island, both | members of the Finance Committee. In their minority report, Senators Hastings and Metcalf recommended: “(1) Adjourn Congress immediately. “(2) Leave business alone. “(3) Eliminate extravagance and waste.in Government expenditures. “(4) Give adequate study to opera- $ion of present revenue laws. Outline “Sound” Measure. “(5) Enact a sound and compre- hensive revenue measure based upon the foregoing studies.” The summary of their objections to the pending legislation follows: *“(1) The bill is not a revenue meas- Wre for the following reasons: “(a) The only argument advanced in support of the bill is that the Presi- dent wants it. « "(b) The bill avowedly is based solely upon ‘share the wealth® and ‘social control’ fantasies, and the rais- ing of revenues, if any revenue will be raised, is admittedly incidental. “(¢) The enactment of the bill is directly contrary to the President’s recommendations in his annual bud- get, and no budget estimates have ADVERTISEMENT. Ends ltching On Feet;agl Toes ‘Sy-ptoln “Athlete’s Foot” | | 1t you suffer trom itchine feet. or if | | the skin between the toes cracks. is a ‘lhhk white, raw, or covered with tiny | blisters—be’ on your guard. It may | be “Athlete’s Foot.” I ‘ Lose no time in ridding yourself of this, infection—it can easily spread to | other parts of the body. \f negiected Use "Dr. Scholl's SOLVEX. an oint- ment f:";l‘llllll'lad :A YEIHEVC I‘I;.tellr iteh- | Tng_an e fungl causing %00 can get Dr. Scholl's SOLVEX at any drug. shoe or department store. that it Connally has | Traveling Long after the cherry blossoms have disappeared Washington is reminded of Japan by this group represen! ing the Japan Trade Promotion Association here today on a world tour preaching “Buy Japanese.' left to right: Nobuhiro Noma, Mrs. Noma, Mrs. Suzuko Iwamoto, Shinichiro Iwamoto. Jiro Kozai, Gintaro Muto, Shintaro Kobuse, Dr. Yuzuru Kako, Kojiro Kobuse, Otoichi Kinoshita. THE EVENING Salesmen Fro STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., m Japan Seated, Standing, left to right: ~—Star Staff Photo. been submitted upon which any reve- nue measure may appropriately be based. “(d) There is a demand for speed— yet no revenues conceivably can re- suit during the calendar year 1936 nor in appreciable amounts before the fiscal year 1938. ’ “(2) hTe proposed bill violates every sound principle of taxation. “(3) The majority party, both in the House and as represented by the Senate Finance Committee, evidence an utter disregard for obvious in- eanities and patent absurdities.” The report then criticized separate ing with the proposed high rates on surtaxes. In this connection, the re- port says, it is probable that Presi- dent Roosevelt “hopes that his pro- posed taxes, in 1936 and subsequent years, will hit a few of them (the his personal displeasure.” The graduated tax on corporation incomes was opposed on five grounds, among them that it disregards abil- ity to pay and discriminates against the small investor in a large cor- poration as opposed to the large in- vestor in a small corporation. English Law Is Cited. Increases in the capital stock and excess profits taxes were opposed as unfair and in connection with the latter it was recommended that per- | mission be given to corporations to carry forward their losses over a | two-year period. England allows such practice over a six-year period, it was pointed out. No justification exists for “multiple taxation” such as is imposed by a levy on intercompany dividends, the report says, other than the expressed wish of the President. ] In his castigation of the emasure | the Michigan Republican ealled upon |all his well known ability to apply | colorful phraseology as he termed the pending bill “a tin-foil measure which | snipes inconclusively at wealth” and | which finally will be drafted in a co | ference between House and Senate, “a | conference which either will deadlock over incompatible views or which will | melt under the August sun into an agreement born of dictation, despera- tion and exhaustion.” Senator Copeland next took up the | cause to charge “there is no Senator |in this chamber who can stand on' his teet and say that this is a well worked out, well considered and wise bill.” | In his attack, Senator Hasting de- | clared: ‘This particular bill was conceived in political intrigue. It is a cross be- tween a spendthrift and a social revo- lutionist. It has for its principal | object the presidential election of | 1936. It intends to drive out the | Democratic party whatever is left of the wealthy class. It is a bid for the | votes of those who have but little. It makes a pretense of meeting the d mands of those who believe the a- tion of the country is in the ‘share the wealth’ proposal. It will not raise sufficient money to pay the deficit for 20 days. Wil Not Delay ill. “I do not propose to try to delay the passage of the pending bill. I do not propose to try to amend it. 1t to stand out as one of the Roose: reduced to reduced to 133 provisions of the pending act, start-| very rich) who may have dared lncur} I want | velt accomplishments. T want thm“ | who agree with him to put their stamp | | of approval upon it. If Mr. Roosevelt thinks he has made political capital for himself and his party, let him | make the most of it.” Senator Steiwer, in conclusion, de- clared: “The tax bill, without definite plan, brings burdens without benefit. It is & sort of expression of futility without any compensating net gain to our people. There is nothing at all before us at this moment save a frenzied | effort to dispose of a poorly-drawn | piece of legislation.” | | WOMAN’S BODY SOUGHT | River Dragged for Wife Who Fell From Boat. | The Potomac River was being| dragged today for the body of Mrs. | Gladys Gilbert, 23, colored, 421 Tenth street southwest, who presumably fell fiom the rail of an excursion steamer last night as the boat was nearing lexandria. The woman's husband, James Gil- | bert, 29, and two others in the party were detained by police as witneses. Our 45th Anniversary “Put Your Car in Safe Hands” STOP- BUCKLER RESIGNS All-America Halfback to Leave Army. Second Lieut. Jack M. Buckler, all- | America halfback while at West | Point, has resigned his commission in | the Army. the War Department an- | nounced today. He is now on leave at Forth Worth, Tex. Former Wagnerian Singer Dies. PARIS, August 15 (#) —Lucienne Breval, for 30 years France's leading | ‘Wagnerian singer, died last night. Mme. Breval was born in Zurich and naturalized as a French citizen. | She made her debut in the Paris Opera in 1892. Bryan a Real Farmer. LINCOLN, Nebr, (#)—All else to the contrary notwithstanding, Charles W. Bryan, mayor of Lincoln, is & farmer, according to sworn testimony | of a neighbor, | At a court hearing, Mrs. Ida Belle | Betz testified she often had seen Ne- braska's three-time Governor operat- ing a disc behind five mules. 'Good Will Business Group CAPITAL PLEASES JAPANESE PARTY on Good ‘Will Sales Tour of World. Ten smiling little Japanese scur- ried around Washington today on their mission as good will representa- tives of their nation’s business men. Although the cherry blossoms are not in bloom, the party’s eight men and two women felt at home. “The heat,” remarked Otoichi Kin- oshita, leader of the group, “is just like in Japan.” He said it again in Japanese for Mrs. Kaoru Noma and Mrs. Suzuko Iwamoto, who speak no English. The grinning ladies, cool in_their flowered kimonos, flapped their fans and nod- ded assent. “The kimono,” explained Mr. Kin- oshita, “is ventilation itself.” Beer “Investigated.” ‘The men of the party were some- what dismayed because the custom of their American hosts doesn't reconcile a change from business suits to kimonos when the day's work is done. But they attacked this problem by converging on the Washington Hotel bar and investigat- ing the cooling qualities of beer. ‘The group comprises the sixth an- nual Nippon business men's party and its members are here on their way around the world. Some had never been in the Western Hemisphere before. They left Japan July 18, landed in Seattle and toured across| the United States and part of Canada in airplanes and air-cooled trains, the latter a novelty. They arrived here yesterday and expected to confer with Secretary of State Hull and Secretary of Commerce Roper as well as visit the Japanese Embassy. They leave for Philadelphia today and will be back in Japan October 20. Naval races, Manchuria and Vanity Fair notwithstanding, most Japanese “never doubt that the relationships between our two countries will always be peaceful,” Mr. Kinoshita, the group’s spokesman, said. “Nine hundred and ninety-nine out | Have Been Sea $67250 -ABILITY is often more important than GO-ABILITY. True—you don't expect & col- lision, OFFICIAL SERVICE BUT you must always be prepared to avold one. Regular inspection and ad- justment of your brakes is much cheaper than paying for dam- aged cafs. 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Mr. Kinoshita said Japanese busi- ness men were actively opposed to the present efforts of the militarist ele- ment to increase and continue huge budgets for armaments, although they condone the Manchurian episode as “having been forced upon us.” ‘The Vanity Fair cartoon of Emperor Hirohito drawing a cart bearing the scroll of the Nobel Peace Prize, which precipitated diplomatic exchanges, was | an “unfortunate occasion” and pro- | voked much il will among Japanese unqualified to understand that this Government has no control over the {ree press, Mr. Kinoshita told his in- terviewer. “An artist with culture and good taste would have chosen a better sub- | ject,” he said. “No Catholic nation would make a joke on the Pope—it's the same thing. If they had wanted to cartoon the Japanese premier, that would have been all right.” | Travel as Tutor. 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