PAGE Folm THE MICHIGAN DAILY TIURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1935 PAGE FOtIR TUURSflAY, AUGUST 1, 193~ Party Leaders Will Try For Early Tax Vote Guarded Report Is Given To House Predicting A $270,000,000 Return RepublicansHit Bill Charge 'Political Gesture' But Measure May Get Call To Floor Thursday WASHINGTON, July 31. -- (W) - A cautiously phrased report, estimat- ing officially that the new tax bill would raise $270,000,000 a year, was submitted to the House today by the majority members of the Ways and Means Committee. It was presented a few hours after Republican committeemen had is- sued a statement criticizing the bill as a "political gesture" and contend- ing it would not raise enough money to pay running expenses of the Gov- ernment for two weeks. Chairman Robert L. Doughton (Dem., North Carolina), said he plan- ned to call the bill up on the floor Thursday, and would try to get it passed by the House before adjourn- ment Saturday. The Democratic report said nothing on the merits of the bill except that the majority "recommend that the bill do pass." Estimates Of Revenue After a full year of operation, "under present improving business conditions," the Democrats estimat- ed the additional revenue would be: Increased surtaxes on individual income, $45,000,000; graduated cor- poration tax, $15,000,000; excess profits, $100,000,000; inheritance tax, $86,000,000; gift tax, $24,000,000. "If business improved further," the Democrats added, "the provisions of this bill may ultimately bring in as much as 350 to 450 millions of dollars in additional revenue annually." On the graduated corporation in- come tax, the report said: "The President recommended the substitution of a graduated income tax on corporations in lieu of the present income tax imposed at a uni- form rate. This is a new principle which has never been used in this country and therefore your commit- tee - is recommending only a very moderate graduation." Range Approved Mr. Roosevelt suggested a gradua- tion from 10% to 16% per cent. The committee approved a range from 13% to 14% per cent. Even as Republicans of the House Ways and Means Committee con- demned the bill as bordering "on the point of confiscation," and "intended to catch votes," Senate Finance Com- mittee Democrats summoned Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, to "explain" why some of President Roosevelt's suggestions were not followed in the measure. They sought to ask Morgenthau, who had no hand in writing the bill, why the House Ways and Means Committee had virtually ignored the suggestion for a graduated tax on corporation incomes. $50,000, Not Million They also wondered why the bill increased taxes on incomes over $50,- 000 instead of merely over $1,000,000. A House tax expert had told them+ Tuesday that the President merely1 used the figure $1,000,000 as an "ex- ample." The House committee Tuesday ap- proved the bill 17 to 7 on a strict party vote. The minority report bitterly decried the motives behind the bill. "If this bill serves no other pur- pose," the minority report said, "it will at least demonstrate to the coun- try that the wasteful and extrava-I gant expenditures of the Democratic administration can not be met merely by 'soaking the rich.' Although it im- poses rates of taxation which border on the point of actual confiscation, its' proponents estimate that it will pro- duce only $275,000,000 of revenue. "This amount would pay the run- ning expenses of the Government for less than two weeks, and it falls $3,305,000,000 short of meeting the deficit for the last fiscal year. Even as a redistribution of wealth measure, it would rovide but $2.25 for each of our 120,000,000 people." 'White House Orders' The report declared that the Dem- ocratic members had been "actually hostile" to the President's proposals and "that the bill now comes before the House with their approval is further evidence of the fact that the majority are not guided by their con- victions but by the orders they re- ceive from the White House. "We concede the equity and fair- ness of making those with large in- comes contribute their fair share of the tax burden, but we do not think it is good business to increase the pro- gressive rates of the income tax to the point where they are productive of decreased, rather than increased revenue." The report also criticized the bill News Of The World As Illustrated In Associated Press PicturesI I, As the trial of Gerald Thompson for the slaying of pretty Mildred Hallmark in a lonely ewnetery, neared an end in Peoria, Ill., crowds stormed the courthouse in the hope of glimpsing the defendant for whom the state demanded death in the electric chair. Picture shows crowd jamned on the stairway and in the hall leading to the courtroom as they shoved and pushed their way in vain efforts to gain admission to the already packed room. Mrs. Evelyn Smith, former burlesque dancer, is shown with author- ities in Chicago as she signed a confession of the gruesome torso murder of Ervin Lang. She undertook the job, authorities quoted her as saying, on a promise of $500 from Lang's mother-in-law, Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, also hal1d, but denied receiving any of the money. Left to right: Mrs. Smith, Police Lieut. Tom Kelly, and Assistant State's Attorney Charles Dougherty. Fletcher Hits New Deal In Party Organ National G.O.P. Chairman Asks for 'Stock-Taking' In Publicity Sheet WASHINGTON, July 31. - (P) - Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said today the time had arrived for the American people to take stock of how much "real recovery" the New Deal had brought. In a "foreword" in the national committee's new publicity sheet, "Facts and Opinions," Fletcher said: "The Roosevelt Administration has had ample time and opportunity to justify its program, offered in the name of recovery. "The time has now arrived for the American people to make a fair ap- praisal of what these two years of experimental legislation and unpre- cedented expenditure have done for them - and to them. How much real recovery have they bought? 'Avowed Candidate' "This question becomes all the more pertinent in view of the fact that" President Roosevelt is an avowed candidate for renomination and re- election." Fletcher a s s e r t e d Democratic spokesmen already had opened the Roosevelt campaign and from now on the President "must be adjudged as a candidate and his record as properly open for inspection." "Facts and Opinions, ' Fletcher said, is to be distributed to the Republican and independent press. In starting the publicity service, he added, "the Republican National Committee will offer facts and opinions that it hopes will be of value to those papers re- ceiving it." Lobby Issue Discussed In the current issue an article en- titled "Did the White House Set Up a High Pressure Lobby" was prominent- ly displayed. It dealt with the activ- ities of Thomas Corcoran, RFC attor- ney, Charles West, confirmed yester- day as undersecretary of the inter- ior, and Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, in- terior department official, at the time the utilities bill was passed by the House. MOLEY PREDICTS VICTORY NEW YORK, July 31.- () - Ray- mond Moley declared today that "President Roosevelt will be returned to office by an overwhelming vote" in 1936. Moley, who is editor of the mag- azine "Today," returned on the Mon- arch of Bermuda from a 10-day vaca- tion in Bermuda. Where To Go 2 p.m. Majestic Theater, Charles Butterworth in "Baby Face Harring- ton" and Jesse Matthews in "Ever- green." 2 p.m. Michigan Theater, "Love Me Forever" with Grace Moore. 2 p.m. Wuerth Theater, Spencer Tracy in "It's a Small World" and James Morrison in "One Hour Late." 7 p.m. Same features at the three theaters. 8:30 p.m. Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, "Shall We Join the Ladies" and "The Doctor in Spite of Him- self" by the Michigan Repertory Players. Canoeing every afternoon and eve- ning on the Huron River, Saunder's Canoe Livery. AUGUST The Month of Specials at MILTONS SUITS Vowing vengeance on holdup men whom he said beat his son, John Hull is shown as he wept beside the hospital bed of the critically injured 11-year-old boy, Corwin, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Later a resident of the city saw this picture in a newspaper, recognized Hull as a man he saw beating a boy in the railroad yards and, police said, Hull himself confessed to the attack on his son. Texas Coaching School Will Have Everything In Football LUBBOCK, Tex., July 31.- (4') - Single, double or triple wing back; Notre Dame, Princeton or short punt system -- coaches may take their choice as they hear them discussed by leading advocates at the fifth an- nual Texas Technological college coaching school. The school, again advertised as "the largest in the world," is set for August 5 to 17. It annually attracts about 400 college and high school coaches, last summer's enrollment be- ing 472. Bernie Bierman of Minnesota, Frank Thomas of Alabama, Pop War- ner of Temple, Dana X. Bible of Ne- braska, Fritz Crisler of Princeton and Francis Schmidt of Ohio State will head this year's staff of 15 instructors. Bierman will discuss the single wing system used by his 1934 unde- feated Gophers in winning the myth-1 ical national championship. Thomas will uphold the Notrb Patman Plans Airing Of Bonus Bill Break Dame system which clicked so success fully for his last year's Crimson Tide, which piled up 316 points and then defeated Stanford, 29 to 13, in the Rose Bowl game. Bible, whose Texas A. & H. college teams won five Southwest conference championships and whose Nebraska Cornhuskers won four Big Six titles, will stress the short punt system and the open style of play which he favors. Crisler, the modern "Moses" of the gridiron, will explain the system he used to lead Princeton out of the foot- ball wilderness. The school will not be devoted to football entirely, howevereCoach Schmidt, whose University of Arkan- sas and Texas Christian University basketball teams won six Southwest conference titles, will offer cage in- struction. Bernie Moore, who coached Louisiana State's 1933 national track champions, and his two assistants, Jack Torrance and Glen Hardin, will teach track. Rodeos, barbecues, boxing and wres- tling matches, watermelon feeds, swimming, dinners, dances and a golf tournament have been planned for Curtis J. Tennyson (above), 18- year old former Cash, Ark., resident, held at Flint, Mich., confessed, au- thorities said to writing an extortion note demanding $2,000 of Mrs. Pearl Durham, wealthy widow. Britain Moves Toward Givino ilin India New Deal Parliament Approves Plan For Self-Government By New Federation LONDON, July 31. - (A) - The British government took steps today to create a new All-India Federation, the great experiment in Indian self- government. Parliament gave final approval to the New Deal for India yesterday, completing its action on the India bill with House of Commons agreement to more than 300 amendments made by the House of Lords. Arrangements were made for elec- tions and creations of new state leg- islatures as early as possible in 1936 in what are at present the British Indian provinces. At the same time officials began' work on the assignment given them by the new law of bringing the Indian states, now nominally under their owri rulers, into the federation. The All-India Federation replacing the existing centralized government, cannot actually come into being until half the population of the Indian states decides to join, but the gov- ernment is not anticipating that a few die-hard princes in some of the states will succeed in holding up early formation of the new regime. Eleven British Indian provinces will form a group of self-governing units, which in turn will elect the Federal legislature. Whilerthe units will have general control over their own local affairs the British government may intervene in certain instances. Britain will handle all defenses and foreign af- fairs for the Federal government. The viceroy will become a governor- general, the representative of parlia- ment and the crown. There will be British-appointed governors in each federal state responsible to the gov- ernor-general. Each of the states is to have a legislature chosen by direct vote. Approximately 14 per cent of the present population of the 11 prov- inces will be able to vote, as compared with about 3 per cent who now vote on certain home questions under the limited provincial participation in the centralized administration. The law requires that British of- ficers under the federation permit the ... ;.... t m1- h lhA1ty 1Sa o nnsihle Ellis Frederich (left) and Ken Ringel, Peoria, Ill. aviators are shown putting the final touches to their plane before their projected takeoff in a few days in an attempt to break the world's endurance flight record by remaining in the air a full month. The ship will be equipped for blind flying and will carry a two-way radio. Joe Louis' Dead Pan No Pose, The Boy's Just A-Concentratin' DETROIT, July 31.- (Y')- Joe Louis, called by some experts the best heavyweight since Jack. Dempsey came out of the west, is deadly serious about his ability to whip anyone he steps into the ring against. The 20-year-old Negro's "dead pan" in the ring isn't a pose -he's con- centrating! He's a serious minded youth out of the ring, extremely bash- ful when queried about his success. Perhaps that's why his manager, John Roxborough, finds it so easy to man- age him. Joe likes to dance, but if dancing interferes with his. sleep, especially when he's training for a fight, then dancing is "out." He usually gets to bed at 10 o'clock, and just before a fight he retires at 8:30 or 9 o'clock. Joe does just what he's told. Rox- borough, a Negro attorney who took an interest in Joe when he saw him fight in his amateur days and bought him his first ring outfit, has Joe live in his apartment. He's now in training for his fight with Kingfish Levinsky in Chicago August 7. Many persons have told Roxborough that it was unwise to give the slugging Levinsky a chance to land one of his round-house swings on Louis and perhaps ruin a prom- Guards Indian Mound COLFAX, Wash. -(R) - Last full- blooded survivor of the old Palouse Indian tribe, Sam Fisher, 80, keeps vigil.over graves of his ancestors in the little cemetery where the Palouse empties into the Snake. No Indian mound there has been disturbed. ising career, but Roxborough isn't worried. "Joe doesn't take chances, no mat- ter whom he's fighting," the manager said. "We use the toughest and big- gest sparring partners we can sign - and Joe's trainer, Jack Blackburn, tells the boy to get in there and fight as hard during his training as he does in a regular bout. Joe does just that -and we never let him get out of shape. He's an easy boy to man- age." 0 THERE'S DASH IN Becoming little brimmed v styles that College Girls adore. Made of sturdy felt that withstands the knocks. In the new fall $16.50 Values $22.50 Values $12.90 $17.90 WASHINGTON, July 31.-(A)- the entertainment of the visitors. The "Legion-Patman bonus split For the wives there will be horse- which gave a new twist to the un- back rides, bridge parties, teas, break- successful bonus fight in this session fasts, and free picture shows. of Congress apparently is to be car- ried to the organization's fall con- vention in St. Louis, Mo. Gerald Thompson Rep. Wright Patman (Dem.) Texas, whose bonus bill was turned down by Trial Nears Jury the American Legion this year in favor of the Vinson plan, let it be known today he would demand at the PEORIA, Ill., July 31. -()- Clos- convention that "the national com- ing arguments were begun today in mander stay out of politics." the trial of Gerald Thompson, 26. Capitol observers saw in this an- charged with ravishing and murder- other thrust by the Texan at Frank ing pretty Mildred Hallmark, 19, and N. Belgrano, present Legion head. defended as a sex-maniac. Indica- Belgrano and the Legion backed the tions were that the case would be Vinson plan, which called for im- in the hands of the jury by night- mediate cash payment but left the fall. method of financing to the Govern- Prosecutor E v . Chamnion linh- SPORT SHOES $3.75 Values... $2.95 SPECIAL! SANFORIZED WASH TROUSERS $1.19 SUITING TROUSERS Values to $6.00.$3.95 Dress Shirts_97c, $1.29 Lightweight FELT HATS $1.65 2.49