Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1940, Page 8

Debt Limit Question May Delay Action On Defense Taxes Suggestions Made That Congress Return After Conventions By the Associated Press. A wave of support for new defense taxes swept through Congress today, but arguments over the directly- related subjects of the Federal debt limit and economy raised the pos- sibiblity of indefinite delay. Suggestions came from both Demo- erats and Republicans that Congress should return in August after the political conventions to work out general tax legislation. House Republicans expressed con- { eern that President Roosevelt might use part of the proposed $3,000,000,000 increase in the $45,000,000,000 debt limit to méet general Government expenses, rather than devoting it entirely to national defense purposes. | Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee said, however, there was a definite plan to earmark the money for defense. $656,000,000 Annual Revenue. Congressional tax experts are drafting a bill to increase income, | excise and amusement taxeés to provide new revenue of $656,000.000 | annually for five years to cancel the debt increase. “The administration is using this program to get out of the hole it | has got itself into,” said Representa- | tive Treadway of Massachusetts, ranking Republican member of the Ways and Means Committee. “If we're going into all these things, we ought to include, say, a 10 per cent cut in all Government expenditures.” Considerable sentiment was de- veloping for separation of the debt limit and tax questions, rather than lumping them together in a single bill. Republican members of the committee said they would insist on that procedure and Senator Van Nuys, Democrat, of Indiana said many, in the Senate agreed. The tax program struck its first snag in the Senate yesterday when Chairman Harrison failed to get the Finance Committee to accept in principle the fairly simple bill which -| will know just where it stands.” the House is expected to pass. Members apparently sought more detailed information. House Minority Leader Martin was among those who demanded general tax revision. “I think it would be better to pass a general tax program,” he said. “We could recess from June 15 to August 1 and come back to enact & general program so that business Republican. members of the Ways and Means Committee refusel to say whether they would accept the schedule of new tax levies made public by Representative Doughton yesterday. 10 Per Cent Increases Favored. Mr. Doughton, saying that “no better plan has been presented yet,” disclosed the administration con- templated 10 per cent increases in individual and corporate income taxes payable next March and boosts in taxes on gasoline liquot, beer, luxuries and amusement ad- missions. “We are not wedded to this sched- ule necessarily,” he said. “But it was the best we could figure ont in such a short time. Maybe we will make a lot of changes in it, or, possibly, we might recommena | something else altogether.” | Boetfiger. Fractures Arm 'In Yachting Accident By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, May 30—John Boet- tiger, publisher of the Seattle Post- Intelligencer. suffered a fracture of his left arm Tuesday while on a yacht trip with Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission. Dr. H. T. Buckner, bone specialist, said the publisher, President Roose- velt's son-in-law, acted as toastmas- ter at a banquet after the bone was set. Later he entered Providence Hospital. Legion Post Sponsors Rites at Warrenton 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va,, May 30.—Me- | morial Day exercises, sponsored by the John D. Sudduth Post, American Legion, were held here today. After a parade to the Warrenton Cemetery, graves of World War soldiers were decorated. A memorial tablet to those who gave their lives was placed in the corridor of the | clerk’s office building. 'THE EVENING STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, D.. O, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940. Norris Fears Hysferia About Fifth Column Perils Civil Liberties Repetition of World War Raids on the Innocent Dreaded; Hoover Hit By the Associated Press. Senator Norris, Independent, of Nebraska expressed concern @oday that “growing hysteria about a fifth column” might undermine clyil lib- erties, involve the United States in war and make possible “a govern- ment like Hitler’s.” The Nebraskan, the only man now in the Senate who voted against American entry into the World War, told reporters he feared a repetition of World War raids, when “hundreds of persons, entirely innecent, were arrested, shackled and handeuffed just because their enemies made false charges against them.” Senator Norris said “it is history” that J. Edgar Hoover, now head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, assisted Attorney General Palmer in directing those raids. “Afraid” of Hoover. Mr. Hoover has drawn Senator Norris’ criticism in the past, and the Senator is opposing President Roose- Vvelt's plan to shift the Immigration Service from the Labor to the Jus- tice Department because, he said, “I am afraid Mr. Hoover may get con- trol.” The Senate was expected to ap- prove the transfer this afternoon. A suggestion of Attorney General for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered every evening throughout the city and suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. Jackson that Congress require the registration of firearms to prevent their possible accumulation “on the part of subversive groups” bogged down temporarily behind the de- {fense tax bill. Mr. Jackson sent to Speaker Bankhead a proposed reg- istration bill. The Senate-approved La Follette bill forbidding the employment of Communists or German-American bundsmen by interstate industries, also was caught behind other legis- lation in a House committee. The impression prevailed that it would not veach a House vote unless the session is prolonged through the summer. Alien Registration Opposed. The American Association of Uni- versity Women yesterday sent a letter to every member of the House expressing its vew that ‘“serious dangers” are implicit in the sort of legislation passed Monday by the Senate, providing for the registra- tion and finger-printing of all aliens. “The crisis abroad,” the letter said, “is making us gealize that the one place where democracy can be de- fended and strengthened is on the American continents. The mainte- nance of American democratic insti- tutions and efforts to insure their effectiveness are as much a part of the American defense program as are armaments themselves.” . Sabbatical Leave Bill Passed by Senate A bill granting District public school teachers the privilege of tak- ing a sahbatical leave of absence for educational improvement every seven years was passed by theé Sen- nate yesterday was sent to the ‘White House for the signature of President Roosevelt. The measyre was approved by the House more than a ahonth ago. The Senate also passed two other bills in which the District is in- terested. One would allow co- operative organizations to incorpo- rate in the District and the other would permit the administrator of Civil Aeronautics Authority to lease space at the Washington National Airport at Gravelly Point to conces- sionaires for establishment of ticket offices, restaurants, etc. Both of these bills still require House approval. W[éfib and bracing Salt Air s, ¥ 0Old Point TIDEWATER VIRGINIA AUTOS $1.00 NORFOLK-WAS CITY TICKET OFFICE- 1427 H Save 200-Mile Drive Tidewater Virginia is wonderful in colorful May. 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