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ground. 1t would be unsafe to pre-
dict that it will be adopted, but it
is certain to be debated. The gem
eral idea is in line with the propo-
sails which Senator LaFolfette of
Wisconsin has been advancing for
several years.
Farley's Retirement Definite
Now that the retirement of Post
master General Farley is definite,
Washington gossip is humming with
speculation as to his successor in the
Presidents Cabinet. The most likely
choice is believed to be Frank C.
Walker of New York. Mr.. Walker
comes originally from Montana, is
in the motion picture business. In
1882 he was M of the original Roo
sevelt supporters, was treasurer of
the Democratic National Committee,
has held several confidential Jobs in
washington, as unofficial assistant
to the President, who has great con-
ffdence in him and respect for his
ability. Mr.. Walker was Executive
Director Of the National Emergency
Council and is highly regarded gem
orally as an executive. Next to Mr..
Walker, the best guess is that Will
liam w. Howes, now First Assistant
Postmaster General has a good
chance of appointment. Mr.. Howes
has served as acting head of the de-
partment during Mr.. Farley's alb
sences on political work. Still anoth-
er possibility is Edward j.. Flynn,
Democratic leader of the County of
The Bronx in New York City. Mr..
Flynn was Mr.. Roosevelt's personal
selection for Secretary of State when
the latter was Governor.
To Try Custer
Inside gossip claims that a
Senatorial bloc is forming with
strength enough to Dust Senator
w. Barley of Kentucky from
he post Of President Protein of the
senate, and elect Senator Pat Har-
of Mississippi. This would be
axe as another slap at the Presi-
who personally selected Sen
ltor Barley as successor to the late
senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07

The signs of the times. so far as
they can be read from Washington
with Congress or vacations, points
toward a storm on Capitol Hill next
January or February when Congress
gets into the question of tax revis-
ion in earnest. Some of Washing
tons best guessers are predicting
that there will be no general over
hauling of the Federal tax system,
but that Congress will nibble around
the edges of the problem and have
some sharp run-ins with the Treas
ury in the effort to pare down some
Of the existing taxes which are bur-
1ensome to the folk who pay them.
Representative Carl Vinson of
Georgia is Chairman of the special
tax revision committee charged
with studying the whole subject and
reporting its recommendations to
the Ways and Means committee of
The House early in the next session.
Mr.. Ninson has called upon a num-
Der of tax experts to make their
recommendations when he calls his
committee together some time next
month, and the Treasury is loading
It's W experts up with similar am
munition. 1t is expected that the
Nnson committee will call upon
many leaders in business and indus
try to discuss taxation also.
Principal pressure for tax revision
comes from business corporations
which have been hard hit by the UNI
distributed profits tax, and from
others, individuals and corporations
alike who contend that the capital
gains and losses tax hampers the
investment of new capital in indus
try. Experts now studying the prob
lem are preparing to recommend
that the undistributed profits tax be
eased up in the case of corporations
desiring to use profits for plant ex-
pansion or for paying off bonded
debts, both of which Uses of profits
are penalized under the present rev.
nue. law.
Won't ABANDON Nuisance Taxes
One reason for doubling that
there will be a general tax revision
is the unwillingness of the Trea-
sury to abandon the "hidden" or
nuisance" taxes. so-called, in favor
Of an income tax on incomes below
those which are now taxed. The
manufacturers sales taxes and other
hidden imposts are easy and mex
pensive to collect. The experience
OF the Treasury with the income tax
is that the lower the income the
harder it is 10 collect the tax on
1t. To offset that objection. the plan
has been submitted to the Vinson
committee Of collecting the tax at
the source of all incomes derived
from salaries, rents and other regu-
lar sources. That is the way the
British income tax is collected, and
1t goes much farther down the line
than does the American tax.
We do, as a matter of fact. collect
one direct income tax from more
20 million persons in Just that
way. That part of the Social Secur-
lty taxes which is taken out of every
employees pay is specifically de-
in the law as an income tax:
| percent at present, more in the
future, of the gross earnings of
every w~age-earner. The idea of
ewing an income tax on all wages
'r salaries down to $1,000 a year
'r lower, and requiring employers
o hold it out of the pay, is gaining
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Christian Sonship.
John 3.
Golden Text: John 1912.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
FIRST N d. OIL WE'LL DRILLED NEAR Ra,

The first deep test well to be dug in North Dakota
is being drilled south of Ray. operations beginning
last week. Geological studies and investigations have
been conducted for several years preceding actual
work. The drilling is being handled by a Tulsa. Okla,
firm.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
LENiKE ADDRESSES GRO

Congressman William Lemke {
dressed a crowd at Crosby Tues,
tail the Frazier-I4emke farm me
conservation and other matters
portance.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07

The fifth annual mems rally of the Ur
Regional brotherhood will be held in
October 10. Outstanding speakers have
for the several sessions and the meet
massed choral music.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
FARMERs UNION PETITIONS GREssM

The Farmers Union groups of Baincile and Culbert-
son recently circulated petitions asking an early sur
vey of the irrigation possibilities in the Missouri val
lev
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
SENATOR MURRAY ADDRESSES

The Scobey high school assembly was addressed
last week by Senator James E.. Murray while in this
section on his drouth emergency tour. The senator
stressed the importance of the citizens understand
Ing of the machinery of government and advised close
attention to education.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-10-07
YOUNG DEMOCRATS OouNCn MEErs

Members of the executive board of the Young DEM
ocratc organization in Montana met in special ses-
sion at Glasgow last Sunday, arranging the meeting
10 correspond with the Presidents visit there. The
meeting was called by the state president. Vernon
Hoven.
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
Bride of ~ Expects
BLESSED Event

closely a strong hint by her father,
Joseph J. Roshia, who told news,
papermen:
1T is nice that young people
can get married. We will have
Continued on Page 3, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
POLICE LED D
TO OZARK
TH|CKET
Boy Spirited Away
as Mob Violence
Is Feared

WILLOW SPRINGS, Mo-. Feb.
3 GN.S0.-Led by a 20-year-old
farm boy, G-Men and police early
today found the bullet pierced
body of DR.. j. C. B. Davis, promi-
nent Missouri physician who was
kidnapped for ransom last week.
The youth, Robert Kenyon, i'm
mediately afterward was spirited
to a secret hiding place, after local
officers declared:
"ThiS was one man job and
we have the man in custody"
Col. Marvin B. Casteel, head of
the Missouri Highway patrol. said
Kenyon'S whereabouts was being
kept secret for fear of mob vio-
lence.
Kenyon was arrested early yes
terday by Federal agents because
he had disappeared at about the
same time as DR.. Davis. Earl j..
Connolly, chief inspector an
nounced that when seized in the
home of a farmer near Grinnett,
Mo, Kenyon was carrying an auto.
matte pistol and piece of paper
with pencil depressions viii C h
fitted exactly underneath the
words of the ransom note sent
to DR.. Davis family.
Leads Police to Body
After a 20-hour inquisition. Con-
nelly said the youth at last agreed
to lead them to the body. He took
the officers on a roundabout trip
to the foothills of the Ozarks near
Olden, about II miles south of
here. Scrambling through tn e
woods he showed them the body
behind a tangled mat of under
growth and briar where it might
have lain for years without dis
covery.
The doctor had been shot twice
in the head and three times near
the heart. His left glove was off
and he was still clutching check
book in his ungloved hand, the
officers said.
Under Close Guard
He had been dead for almost a
week.
Connolly refused to say that
Kenyon had confessed the kid
CONTINUED on Page 2. Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
u. s. Radio
Voice Aim
OF Bill

Construction of a Government
radio broadcasting station, which
would be known as the "Pan-Amer-
lean Radio Station" and used to
promote a better understanding
among the republics of the Ameri-
can continent" is provided for un-
der a bill introduced in the House
today by Representative Emanuel
Celler (DD, of New York.
The bill calls for the conStruC-
ton of the station at a cost Of
100000, and places the Supervi,
sion of the station under the Sec
retary of Navy. All details con
corning location and type of struc,
ture are left to the discretion of
the Navy Department. The bill
Stipulates:
"A radio brOadcasting station
of such power, and using such
equipment as will effectively
Continued on Page 3, Col. g.
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
Tub Death Of Woman
Is Blamed on Stroke

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 G.N.So
Officials investigating the bath tub
death of Mrs. Margaret Seaman
~, today blamed a stroke for her
demise. Fears that she might have
met with foul play were definitely
discounted by police and prosecu,
ton officials.
William F. Seaman, a reporter
for a Brooklyn newspaper, dis
covered his wife's body upon re:
turning home from work. He said
she had been subject to high blood
pressure.
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
Sand Boil Geysers
Menace to Cairo

diCted the crest will not exceed
6012 feet and Cairo's flood
fighters, confident in the strength
of their bulkhead, we're certain
their long and spectacular fight
against the river was won.
The stage of the Ohio at Cairo
at 6 a. m. today was 596, rise
of L of a foot in "a hours, the
U. S. Weather Bureau reported.
Sand boils," geySers of muddy
water forced under the seawall
by the terrific pressure of the
flood waters, plagued Cairo. Two
Continued on Page 3, Col. u
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
CONTROL
PLAN URGED
International News Service

A fourteen-reservoir flood con-
troll program for the Ohio River
drainage basin was laid before
Congress today in a section of the
National Resources Committee s
new report recommending immedi-
ate action.
Designed to prevent recurrence
of just such floods as that now re-
ceding, the program proposed a
construction plan of IA reservoirs.
This work was authorized by Con-
greSs last year, the report pointed
out, and should be started immedi-
ately. Said the report:
"A system of flood control
reservoirs on the tributaries
would provide the most prac-
tical means of controlling the
floods of the Ohio and its
branches. High floods have
swept down the Ohio from
time to time, since the days of
earliest settlement along its
banks. 1t has contributed more
than any other stream in the
devastating flOOdwaters of the
lower Mississippi"
Projects listed in the Ohio basin
plan for immediate study totalled
$930,000. Immediate construction
was recommended on a list aggre-
eating $1O5, ,272,O00. The list for
deferred construction totalled ap-
proximately $115,0O0,0O0.
The committee pictured immedi-
ate appropriation of S50O,OO0 for
new studies by Army engineers,
followed by construction of t.
IA reservoirs at a cost of $85, ,O0O,-
900 as a first STEP"
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
SENATE PROBE
OF 6. NJ. SPED

Prompt action on a Senate reSo-
luton, calling for an investigation
of working conditions in the strike
torn plants of General Motors
Corporation, was Indicated today.
Senator Black CD of Alabama.
chairman of the Education and
Labor Committee, announced that
Senator Nicely ID. of West Vir-
ginia, author of the request, will
be called before the committee to
discuss certain clauses OF the reso-
luton tomorrow.
The resolution also calls for in
quiry into the financial structure
Of the corporation.
Thurston Estate $22,9O5
JERSEY CITY, N. j., Feb, 3
G.N.SD Inventory Of the estate
Of the late Howard ThurSton,
magician, today had disclosed its
value as $22,905.
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
30 BILLIONS
ASKEDF0R
WORKS
Sum to Cover Expense
Of Proposed Policy
For 10 Years
International News Service

President Roosevelt sent to Con-
gresS today the broad outline of
proposed integrated public
works policy and national water
program.
A printed, 221-page report of
the Presidents national resources
committee comprised the big plan,
calling for creation of a pernla-
nent public works or develop
ment agency in the Government.
Under the committees outline,
the machinery of the development
program would be so created as
to speed UP or slow down at the
will of the Government-thuS
furnishing an ever present reSer-
voir of employment for use in
times of economic depression.
Four Recommendations
Specifically, the report recon-
mended:
/. Formulation and annual
revision of a siX-year program Of
Federal construction.
2. Revision and adoption OF
a list of approved projects in
cluded in the report.
3. A lump sum appropriation
under regular budget procedure
for expenditure on the approved
projects.
4. An ALLEGATION of these
funds to appropriate construc-
ton agencies.
Panel of Appraisers
Besides the single public works
or development agency, the com
mittee plan called for a panel of
"appraisers" for ALLEGATION of
costs, and a fiscal advisory COM
mittee to adjust speed of the pub
lie works program to the national
need for economic stabilization.
In a brief covering message,
transmitting the report, the Presi-
CONTINUED on Page 4, Col. p
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
MOTORS OFFICIAL
HEEDS REQUEST
OF PRESIDENT

DETROIT, Feb. GN.S).-Acting under
instruction from his close friend, President
Roosevelt, Gov. Frank Murphy today said he
hoped to have settlement of the General
Motors auto strikes at p. m.
His announcement came as a secret parley
between the high command of General Motors
and the United Auto Workers Union was held.
The conferees were William S. Knudsen, General Mo-
tors Company vice president and John L. Lewis, chief
strategist for the UAW just arrived from Washington
Almost an hour later the conference ended with Gov.
ernor Murphy announcing
"There has been interesting friendly and helpful
conference There will be another conference here to-
day. I have further comment
The Washington times., 1937-02-03

His statement was set out
in a letter last night to Gov
ernor Murphy. He also wrote:
THE wish of the Presi-
dent of the United States
leaves no alternative
At 3 p. m.-the time Governor
Murphy hopes for a new truce
authorities in Flint, according to
earlier announcements, were ready
to clear General Motors two
plants there of sit-dOwn strikers,
as ordered by Judge Paul V.
GadOla's evacuation injunction.
Also ready were several hundred
Sit-doWners, determined in an
announced death stand" to die if
necessary if armed force is used
in an attempt to carry out court
orders.
Quick Change
Rapid-fire developments preced'
ed the start of the peace confer.
ence at 1O:40 a. m. in the court
room office of Recorders Judge
George Murphy, brother of Mich.
igan's governor.
Lewis arrived at 8:O5 in a mo
comment" mood At about 1925.
Governor Murphy announced that
Lewis and KnudSen would get
together to confer on the strike
Continued on Page 2, Col. II
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair continued cold tonight minimum
temperature about "a degrees; tomorrow
fair, slowly rising temperature; gentle north
winds, becoming variable; highest tempera-
ture last "a hours, 81; lowest, %.
(Weather Details on Page 32)
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
International News Service

The Ohio River took last
cruel fling at its lower valley
today as its flood crest moved
nearer the confluence with the
Mississippi.
A rapid rise at Cairo early
today indicated, engineers said,
the approach of the crest.
Cairo's army OF 1000 patrolled
every foot of the levee today,
ready to bolster the emergency
b!llkhead atop the 60-foot con-
crete SeaWall. Engineers pre-
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
Interstate National
Banks Are Raped

Establishment of national bank
branches beyond the confines OF
the State in which the parent or
ganization is located, was con-
demned yesterday by the execu-
tive committee of the National
Association of Supervisors Of
State Banks in session here.
The Washington times., 1937-02-03

Continued on Page 4, Col
The Washington times., 1937-02-03

Entered as Second Class Matter at
Post Office at Washington. D. G.
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
Spanish Police Seize
Italians in Rebel Plot

LONDON, Feb. 3 Q.N.S).-A
number of Italians, including
several women, were arrested in
Barcelona, Spain, following dis
covery of a vast rebel spy plot"
said a Reuters telegram today.
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
Heeds Presidents S Request

The most direct presidential intervention in the strikes
thus far Knuden headed for the conference arranged
by Governor Murphy Accepting Governor Murphys invita-
ton to attend the conference Knuden said he attending
States"
The Washington times., 1937-02-03

WATERFOWL, N. j.. Feb. 3
G.N.SD.-Mrs. Leona BackuS, 12-
year-old bride, proudly announced
today that she is an eXpectant
mother.
Her announcement followed
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-02-19
URBAN LEAGUE AUXILIARY
NOTES

The Woman's Auxiliary of the
Urban League met on last Thurs
day, Feb. A, at the home of Mrs.
Josie Williams, CTS Iglehart Ave-,
at 2:30 p. m.
There was some discussion as to
the work of the Auxiliary and it
was brought out that they had
brought Judge Albert B. George
to the Twin Cities, presented him
at a mass meeting and also a ban
quet was given for him. The Aux
Hilary had sponsored Mothers Club
at the West Side Neighborhood
House, Christmas parties for the
children, motor service, transport
ing sl1ut-ins to and from hospitals
and clinics, visiting housekeeper
units, Juvenile court work, dressing
dolls and distributing toys at the
Santa Claus Club headquarters, re-
ceptions for visitors, tours through
industries, charity balls, musicales,
style shows and many other inter
esting activities have been success
fully sponsored by the Auxiliary.
The president, Mrs. Mary D. Nc
Farland, through the cooperation
of the different committees which
have been appointed, is looking for
ward to much being accomplished
during the year. The Auxiliary
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DULUTH NEWS
SAL.

Mrs. Sara Gweyne of st. Paul
was in Duluth from Friday eve
ming to Sunday visiting her moth
er, Mrs. w. Jones.
Mr.. Wallace Rodney, ST., was
rushed to st. Luke's hospital for
an emergency appendicitis opera
ton Friday, Feb. IL. 1 hear he is
rapidly recovering.
Mrs. G. Dozier left Sunday, Feb.
ID, for a visit to her home in the
east. ..
Miss Mary Kelly is going to New
York for an extended visit.
The N. A. A. c. P. dance and
banquet at Camels Hall, Friday,
Feb. IL, was very we'll attended.
The speeches given by many city
officials and Negro citizens were
excellent and lengthy, probably a
little too lengthy. Mr.. Cox's five
piece orchestra kept everyone
dancing with their wonderful mu-
sic. The Phyllis Wheatley Girls
Club were guests of honor.
Now for a little gossip:
What young lady and man of
Duluth stood in the doorway at
the N. A. "A. C. p. dance and kissed
passionately?
What dashing young Romeo was
jerked off of the floor because he
danced with charming woman at
the NJ. A. A. G. P. banquet?
Is it true that a certain Duluth
girl is slightly ga-ga about a mar
ried man?
What girls received lovely boxes
of candy and Valentines from their
sweethearts last Sunday?
What women tried to keep GER
tain man out of the dance hall at
the banquet? Why anxious?
Watch out now cause Pm watch
ing you.
What three boys made a grand
rush after what cute fem at the
N. A. A. C. P. dance? Take it
easy, boys.
Virgil.
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be little more advantageous. /.
Say, did you see the president,
vice-president and secretary of
the P. 7. s. out at the "U"? I(For
those who don't know, p. T. S.
stands for "Poison Tongue Squad"
a group Of female gossips, organ
lied for the purpose of roping in
the men and slandering any good
looking rivals.) AS it happens, a
real man is not gotten this way.
My, my, did you see HORACE
BELL and his new flame?
ROZELLA ELLIS was at the game
looking cute as ever. And
CHARLOTTE CRUMP was there.
And j. D., as usual, was in her vi
cinity. :. Well, my editor will be
getting out that horrid blue pen
Gil if I don't call a halt. So here's
wishing everyone a happy week
end and until next week don't for
get
Yours,
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Called Wool Cotton for
Many Years i'm Britain

Very few Of the millions of Lam
cashire folk who get their living
from cotton are aware Of how it
came to get that name. Yet the word
cotton had made itself at home IN
Britain long before we began to i'm
port the hairs of the gossipium
shrub, or cotton plant. Wool was
called cotton six centuries ago, says
writer in Pearson's Weekly.
In the Fourteenth century, a col
ony Of Germans were brought over
from the continent by Edward III,
and were sent to the village Of Man
chester, amid country that was then
wild and barren, to spin and weave
wooden stuffs. Shirts in those days
were woven of hair, and gowns were
wooden. And for some 200 years, the
wooden fabrics Of Manchester were
known to our ancestors as cotton.
The words cot, cottage, dollhouse
and coast, besides cotton, all mean
things laid alongside each other, like
the straw in thatch, the fibres on
thread and the sea and land along
the shore. Many other things be-
sides cotton have obtained their
names from the way in which they
are worked.
About $50 years after the arrival
of the German colony of cotton"
spinners of wooden stuffs, the hairs
of the gossipium found their way
into England from Turkey, and were
wrought into Manchester goods. Al
though vegetable had replaced an
animal material, the old name Of
the manufacturing process stuck to
the new fabric.
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TyndaIe Martyr

william Tyndale, ffty-six-year-old
Welshman who was first to issue a
printed edition Of any part Of Scrip
lures in English, was strangled and
burned in Brussels because Of il.
Tyndale, canon at Oxford, believ-
ed the Testaments should be made
accessible to the common people in
translations into their own tongue
from the Latin and Greek Of the
scholars. Higher prelates held the
common people were incapable Of
understanding and interpreting the
Scriptures, and that making the BIZ
BILE available to anybody was pro-
ductive Of heresy. Unable 10 achieve
his design in England, Tyndale had
his translation of the New Tesla
ment from Greek printed in Ant
werp, and copies were smuggled in
to England. But church members
were forbidden to read them, and
agents Of the Archbishop Of Can
terbury even bought up copies on
the continent to destroy them. FL
nally ecclesiastical authorities
caused Tyndale's arrest in Brus-
sells, and saw TO it that he and his
aides were incinerated with all their
works.