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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1938-04-15
Sprague Apostolic

The Brotherhood and Missionary
societies of the Sprague Apostolic
church will render program Sun
day afternoon at o'clock. Bishop
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
U. S. HIGH COURT
HAS film CASE

G.N.s) The Supreme Court
will take under advisement today
an antitrust case which may es.
tabliSh new precedents to guide
the Department Of Justice in the
Administrations proposed anti
monopoly campaign.
The case involves the right Of
motion picture theaters and the
major producers to fix prices in
"Second-run" theaterS and regu-
late double-feature programs,
Since the Government won in
the lower courts, the case was ap-
pealed by the Interstate Circuit.
Inc, and other Texas theaters and
distributing companies of the
leading Hollywood producers.
The contract, which was held to
be q violation of the anti-Sherman
trust law, provides that If a feap
ture picture was shown for at
night for 40 cents or more, it
could not be shown in second.
run" theaterS later at less than
Is cents and could not be made
part Of a double-feature program.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
On Holding Companies

Personal holding companies and
other corporations, excepting util
tiles and foreign personal holding
companies in process Of hquida'
ton: Senate - Provided for a
three-year period of liquidation
with stockholders paying the cap
ital gains rates carried in the bill
House-Continued the present law
providing for a two-year hquida'
ton period.
Foreign personal holding com.
panieS: Senate-Advanced from
December 81, 1887, to June 30
1899, date for final dissolution
House-continued existing law.
Public utility holding companies
affecting by the 1885 death sen.
tence" law: Senate-Subsidiaries
fitting into the Securities Elk
change Commission reorganiZa'
ton program may be transferred
without liability for capital gains
tax. Purchasers would pay CAPT
tai gains levy on profits made
later from sales. Subsidiaries
distributed to stockholders would
be exempted from capital gains
though stockholders would have
to pay this tax If they sold at q
profit. House-No provision At
fecting dissolution.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05

A one-year carry-over for net long
term losses is allowed.
Excess long-term gains over
losses may be included in ordi
nary income, subject to personal
income tax rates. Taxpayer has
option Of paying a flat 40 per
cent rate on such an excess.
If assets are held more than
10 months but not more than IA
months, SO per cent of the gain
or loss is taken into account. The
proportion would be graduated
downward until 40 per cent would
be taken into account in the case
of assets held more than five
years.
Estate and gift taxes: Senate
Continued present law which re-
quires computation under 1925
and 1882 revenue acts, allowing
a credit for payments to States
averaging about Is per cent. Con
tinued exemption in present law
of $4,000 for annual gifts.
House-Combined 1926 and 1882
schedules, reducing the exemption
from $4,000 to $4,000 and cut
the gift exemption to $4,000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
Profit Tax Scale

Corporations having net income
exceeding $4,000 would pay 20
per cent, if they did not distribute
any of their earnings as dividends.
Stipulated is a graduated scale OF
taxes, depending upon the proper.
ton of net income distributed. If
a corporation distributes all Of it's
earnings, the tax rate would be
Is per cent.
Corporations that declare divi.
dends exceeding net income may
apply the excess for tax credit
during the following two years.
If a corporation has a net loss, it
may be applied as a dividend the
following year in determining the
credit. If stockholders agree to pay
income taxes on profits as though
they were distributed to them, a
corporation may retain its earn
ings and pay 16 per cent tax. Cor
porations with incomes slightly
under or over $4,000 are given
special treatment.
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Loss Credit PrOUisO

On long-term losses, the tax
payer is allowed a credit Of the
lesser Of the following alternative
bases Of computation: A is per
cent credit of the net loss in COM
putting income from other sources
or subtract so per cent of the net
loss from ordinary income and
compute the remainder at the per.
sonal income tax rates.
Net gains received during the
short term carry the rates fixed
for personal income. Net short
term losses may be carried for
ward one year and deducted from
capital gains.
House-Long-term gains apply
on property held more than one
year, while shortterm gains are
figured on property held less than
one year. Net short-term gains
carry personal income tax rates.
Long-term losses may be used to
offset long-term gains, but only
$4,000 Of the excess losses may be
charged against ordinary income.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05

Corporation SURPRISES: Senate
frightened section 102 to place
upon corporations the burden Of
proving whether their SURPRISES
are withheld from stockholders
for necessary business purposes
and not to enable stockholders to
escape high personal surtaxeS they
would have to pay If the SURPRISES
were distributed as dividends.
House-Continues present law.
Capital gains and losses: SEN
ate-Property held more than 10
months is considered "long term;
property held less than 10 months
is called short term" On long
term gains taxpayers may choose
the lesser: Pay a flat rate of IS
per cent or add so per cent Of the
gain to ordinary income and pay
according to the personal income
tax brackets.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
Excise Tax Changes

Investments trusts: Senate
provided they must pay the regu-
lar corporation tax Of Is per cent,
with differential on first $25, 900
of net earnings. # the invest
ment trusts distribute 80 per cent
or more Of their profits, they pay
the corporation tax only upon the
part undistributed. House-con-
tinued present law.
Excise taxes: Senate and House
repealed nuisance levies on toilet
preparations, soaps, furs, phono-
graph records, sporting goods,
chewing gum, cameras and lenses
and on imported Norway pine,
northern white pine and white
spruce. House exempted imported
Englemann spruce; Senate re-
tanned it. Senate repealed excise
tax on brewers wort and malt
syrup, which House retained.
Senate retained present excise
tax of 50 a gallon on whiskey;
House increased it to $2.25. Sen.
ate made the tax on wood and
paper matches &C per 1000,
excepting colored matches on
which SC per 1000 was ap-
piled. House repealed all excise
taxes on matches, excepting the
Sc per 1000 on colored matches.
Present law is &c per 1000 on
wooden matches and Ac on paper
matches, with SC on the colored
variety.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05

Corporations: Senate-Repealed
undistributed profits tax. Substi-
tuted 10 per cent rate on corpora
tions with annual net incomes
exceeding $4,000. On the first
$25, 900 Of net income allowed q
credit of 10 per cent of the diff
ference between the amodnt of
net income and $4,000. Credit is
deducted from the net income ami
the 10 per cent applied to the re-
mainder.
HouSe-Retained undistrlbuted
profits tax in modified form. Cor
porations with net incomes of
$25, 900 and less would pay 1914
per cent on the first $4,000; IA
per cent on the next $4,000, and
Is per cent on the remainder.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05

Charging that the king he
served, Carol of Rumania, is a
dictator, Charles Davila, former
Rumanian minister to the United
States, arrived in New York yes
terday, self-exile from his home
land.
The silver.haired diplomat, who
served as minister in Washington
for nearly decade, was known
GS q staunch advocate of denoc-
racy in diplomatic circles, where
the advocacy of such principles
grew increasingly less popular
through the years.
Davila, in 1884, broke diplo-
matte precedent with a speech at
Georgetown University in which
he rallied at the countries of his
fellow diplomats which "sup.
pressed liberty of press, political
liberties and the right Of free dis
custom" Yesterday he arrived
on the S. S. Queen Mary. confess.
ing that there is no individual
liberty" in Rumania.
Lighter side of the picture of
Q diplomat in exile is the rumor
Of impending marriage to Mrs.
Edythe Sterling Hammond of
New York. Davila, who resigned
his post here last December, met
Mrs. Hammond at Newport last
summer,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
July 18th Display
To Set New Mark

The old Showman'S banner
bigger and better than ever
was busted off today by c. Mar.
shall Finnan and his committee
aides in preparation for the Dis,
trict's Fourth of July celebration
this year. Seating space for 10, 900
persons will be provided for the
fireworks display on the Ellipse.
The committee met yesterday
at the Harrington Hotel. Aiding
Chairman Finnan are Commits.
sioner Melvin C. Hazen, Police
Chief Ernest w. Brown, Mrs. E.
K. Peoples, c. Melvin Sharpe and
Miss Sybil Baker.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
FIRST LADY HITS
SCHOOL CLOSING

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is
opposed to closing the National
Training School for Girls.
This she stated at her press
conference yesterday. It was
through Mrs. Roosevelt that the
school obtained WPA funds for
improvements and she later made
a tour Of the institution.
In commenting on the proposed
closing, Mrs. Roosevelt said:
THE real facts seem to point
to the need for keeping the in
stitution open and using it, now
that it has been improved, to do
really good piece of work in a
very difficult situation"
Minor differences, the First Lady
said, could be adjusted, but keep
ing the school open was the main
issue.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05

AAACAAhlIys
International News Service
learned that w. r. Davis, of
Boston, is here to collect $500, 900
barrels of Mexican oil.
Davis was represented here as
president Of the New York City
Holding Company for the Cru.
Sader Petroleum Industries Of
England, the Irish National Re
finerieS Of Dublin, the Europaische
Tankglager und Transporting Of
Germany and The Scanditank
concern Of Sweden.
REFINERIES IN GERMANY
He said that if he gets the oil
he seeks, the Mexican Petroleum
Administration will ship it to his
refinery in Germany.
Davis emphasized he had no
connection with Francis w. Rick
EFT and Bernard E. Smith, "mys-
terry men" Of high finance, who
were in Mexico . few days ago in
connection with a reported deal
to obtain oil from the British and
American properties recently ex-
propriated by the Mexican gov
eminent.
MY errand in Mexico" said
Davis, "has nothing to do with
the Rickett deal. I have come
here to indemnify myself for
the appropriation Of property
Of our subsidiary, the Sabalo
Transportation Company.
CITES CONTRACTS
'We had contracts to drill SO
wells in the Poza RIGA field,
giving the Government q 80 per
cent royalty. We contracted to
take 70 per cent, sustaining all
costs for equipment and pro-
auctions. We acquired the con-
tract from Sam Katz.
I'VE are going to say to the
Mexican government, when they
value the assets of the expropri-
ated Sabalo Company, and get
ready to pay, that we will take
what they give us. We think
we are entitled to $500, 900 bar
rels Of OIL"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
President Names Nay
AS Child Health Day

GNS) Declaring child health to be of "vtal concern
to the nation President Roosevelt today designated Nav
Child Health Day.
hereby call the people Of the United States to the
peaceful task of considering whether the children in their
families and IN each community are receiving the full
benefit of knowledge of how to promote the health Of
mothers and babies at the time of birth and Of children
throughout the period of growth and DEVELOPMENT and
ask them to plan how the child health work of our public
and private agencies be extended and made more
effective" declared the presidential proclamatio
also call upon the children to celebrate the gains thew
have made during the year health and strength and t
90 their part in the yearround effort to promote the
health of the nation"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
Policeman Ousted:;
Ignored 30 Tickets

HOUSTON, Tex, April 5
NS0-Policeman M. r. George
was temporarily without q
job here today because Chief
of Police C.. A. Williams just
didn't take to the idea Of him
receiving 80 traffic tickets. The
fact that George received tho
parking tickets wasn't so bad, but
when he just ignored them that
was going too far, the chief said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
In Congress Today
SENATE

Meets at noon.
Votes on Burlew nomination.
Begins consideration Of War De
partment bill.
Finance Committee meets to re-
port tax bill.
Commerce Committee considers
the merchant marine bill.
Naval Affairs Committee re-
sumes hearings on Navy expansion
bill.
HOUSE
Meets at noon.
Considers bills on the private
calendar.
Flood Control Committee con.
tinues flood hearing.
District Committee begins con-
sideration Of 1889 revenue bill.
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Senate Gets
NeW Tax Bill
CONTINUED from Page u

CONTINUED from Page II
room today as the committee went
into executive session on the new
District revenue bill.
Representatives of various
groups, who stated they had been
promised a laSt-minute hearing of
half an hour, were informed that
the committee would not hear
them today. Representative Vim
cent L. Palmisano CD of Mary
land, chairman, told them they
would have to argue their case be-
fore the Senate District Commit
tee when it gets the bill.
WAITING ON COMMITTEE
When the committee convened,
the group of would-be witnesses
were waiting in the committee
room to be heard. Mr.. Palmisano
declared that although the COM
mlttee had planned to meet in ex.
ecutive session, he would be willing
to hear the witnesses if the com.
mittee so declared.
However, Representative Everett
M. DlrkSen (RD Of Illinois, rank
ing minority member of the COM
mlttee, insisted that the commit
tee meet behind closed doors.
Before leaving the Capitol, the
delegation presented Chairman
Palmisano with a five-page state.
ment. comprising its protests,
The statement set out the
groups opposition to the income
tax, and pointed out that a Is cent
increase in the whiskey tax, plus
continuation of the SITS real es-
tate tax and imposition of the
proposed rs cent tax on beer would
De Suhclent to meet the deficit.
DELEGATION LISTED
Liquor dealers were prepared
to testify against the proposed tax
on beer. The delegation, which
submitted the statement to the
committee, included:
GoSd1 MOTIFS, chairman OF the
municipal finance committee of
the Board of Trade; James e.
ColllfloWer and Roger j. White
ford. Of the Merchants and Manu-.
facturerS Association; L. A. Car
ruthers, president of the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations:
Robert V. Fleming, president of
Riggs National Bank: Rufus
Lusk, president of the Washington
Taxpayers Association; Julia n
BrylawSh, president of the Motion
Picture. Theater Owners and
Operators Association; John Saul,
president of B. F. Saul Company,
and Fred A. Smith, vice president
OF the Washington Real Estate
Board.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
D. c. Boy Tumbles
30 Feet, Survives

Despite a 30-foot fall from the
second floor of his home, Culver
Edward Sullivan, 4, was alive and
kicking at Casualty Hospital to-
day. The child was playing in
the front bedroom Of his home at
GAL B st. S. E., when he toppled
through the window. He was
rushed to Casualty Hospital and
treated for a possible skull frac-
ture. Physicians said he would
recover.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
'ANTI-LYNCHING
LAW IN EFFECT
IN n. Y. STATE.
Gov. Lehman Signs Bill
To Outlaw MobS

ALBANY, N. Y, April
GN.S0.-A stringent anti-lynch
ing law, making participation ir
a lynching mob manslaughter
was placed on New York States
statute books today through Gov
H. H. Lehman's approval of the
Kreinheder bill.
PROVISIONS OF LAW
Passed by the legislature while
Congress was Side-tracking ma
tional legislation on the subject,
the new law provides:
That every member of a mob
participating in a lynching shall,
upon conviction, be setenced to
from 20 years to life imprison-
ment.
That every member of a mob
committing an assault upon any
person in the custody of a peace
officer or suspected, charged or
convicted of a crime shall be SEN
fenced, upon conviction, to not
more than 10 years., provided the
assault does not result in death.
MOB DEFINED
The law defines a mob as "any
aSsemblage of three or more
persons which shall exercise or
attempt to exercise by physical
violence and without authority of
law any power of correction or
punishment over any person"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
Rock Island Studies
Reorganization

CHICAGO, April S G.NS0-A
new reorganization plan, for the
Chicago Rock Island and Pacific
Railway, will be presented to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
by bondholders representatives be-
fore June %, J. E. German presi-
dent Of the road, stated In let
ter to stockholders today. MIR, Cor
man said the new Set-up would in.
corporate results of studies now
being made various trustees and
committees.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
WARM SPRINGS
MIDNIGHT STORY
FACTS REVEALED
''ReaI" Account of.
Happenings Given
BY EARL GOODWIN

Inc real story OF the release OF
the "no dictatorship" letter from
the President to an unknown
friend comes out today at the
White House.
The letter, which precipitated a
furious controversy on Capitol Hill,
was NIT known to members of the
press until I1:40 p. m. Washington
time on the Eight of March 81
and then only by the intimation
of Col. Marvin H. Mcintyre, presi-
Dental secretary, who simply
warned newspspermen that some
thing good was coming out-some-
thing With news in it," BY that
time newspapers in the eastern
standard time belt had been loaded
up with Warm Springs news and
were arranging to go to press. A
new big story meant havoc among
the Ir"nt pages.
TAKEN FROM PARTIES
Incidentally, too, Colonel McIn-
tyre refused to permit newspapers
to be warned that something else
was coming out; and furthermore,
more than half the newspaper
group were attending a Georgia
carnival at Manchester, Ca, six
miles away. However, voluntary
scouts motored to Manchester
and rounded up the merrymakers,
while others were routed out of
various parties going on around
Warm Springs. Newspaper cor
respondents had concentrated on
press headquarters within 20
minuteS-and the argument arose
as to whether the story should be
for morning paper release or held
for afternoons. The morning
papers won.
Meantime, although a mimeo-
graph machine is at Warm Springs.
the long letter was being typed by
hand with carbon copieS-the last
"a WIZ SOPACo bC1AAS dulOSt GOO ul1Il
for use Also, telegraph companies
were frantically building up spe-
cial circuits to the big cities in the
country-and still no knowledge
Of what was in the letter-or state
ment.
NO WILD RIDES ..
Finally the copies Of the letter
were distributed. It was 2:45 a. m.
Washington, D. c. time, before the
newspaper correspondents had the
letter.
However, no newspaper people
were routed out Of bed. Instead,
they waited almost two hours for
the letter. There were no wild
rides through the dark countryside
A Western Union representative
drove on paved road six miles to
Manchester to notify the CORE
spondentS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05

: The Senate, meanwhile, pre-
pared for speedy consideration of
the revised tax bill. With the
profits tax stricken out and carry
ing other concessions to business,
the measure has been hailed as
the business recovery act of
1888"
Rushed through Congress with
practically no opposition, a bill
releasing $1,500,000;O00 in RFC
funds for loans to business will
become law, awaiting only accept
ance by the Senate of changes
made by the House.
MORE RELIEF PLANNED
! The Senate unemployment COM
mittee laid down the outline of a
report to the Senate which will
recommend increased Federal ex-
penditures for work-relief projects
to revive the heavy industries and
an increased relief appropriation
to provide for immediate relief to
unemployed.
Legislation to rehabilitate the
railroads was also forecast. Presi-
dent Roosevelt plans to send a
message to Congress this week out
lining legislation to aid the car.
riers.
ESTIMATE DOUBLED
Congressional leaders indicated
strongly they expect a relief ap-
preparation of approximately S..
900, 000,0 900 for the fiscal year be-
ginning July /, double the amount
outlined in the Presidents budget
message last January. The House
Appropriations Committee plans
to begin hearings on the relief ap-
preparation about April Is.
Senator Byrnes Cd of South
Carolina, chairman of the Sen
ate Unemployment and Relief
Committee, indicated the $4,000,
100000 figure may be carried in
the Senate.
SLUMP PROBE NEARS END
Harry Hopkins, WPA Admins
traitor, will wind up the commit
tees investigation of the business
recession and relief needs Thurs
day or Friday. He has already
stressed the need Of a $4,000, 000,.
900 appropriation for next year.
Aubrey Williams, deputy WPA
administrator, told Congressional
| leaders: &&
II think we will need more
than one billion" Z And, IF
i Congress doesn't appropriate
more than one billion we will
soon have to have another ap-
preparation"
SPREAD" FACES FIGHT
Senator Schwellenbach CD of
Washington, said he is prepared
to lead Senate attempt to abolish
the So-called Woodrum amend
ment which requires WPA to
spread its funds over the fiscal
year to avoid a deficit.
While the immediate program
to revive business and industry
was receiving the major portion
of attention, there appeared a
movement for enactment Of wage
and hour legislation this session
of Congress. It was predicted a
compromise bill will be reported
in the House.
MALONEY OFFERS PLAN
Senator Maloney CD of Con-
necticut, meanwhile, urged the
Senate to enact legislation giving
the Federal Government authority
to control work hours only. He
predicted the work-week program
would be acceptable to industry
as well as labor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
NO WILD RIDES

How the Prophets may actually have
seen the future. Time o dimension
along which you can look now and then,
as you do into the distance. All Of
us probably do It occasionally, thus also
explaining presentments and uncanny
but useful lunches" An illustrated
feature in The American Weekly, with
Sundays Washington Herald Times.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
Mexican Oil Asked
To Indemnify Firm
American Seeks 3,5OO,OOO Barrels as
Payment for ErprOprinted PrODerties
BY ARTHUR CONsTANTINE

MEAlCo CITY, April Q.NS) .-Compcations in Mexco's
geo petroleum situation today with disclosure that
an American oil executive with widespread connections in
Europe in this country seeking huge quantities of oil as
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
Tax Bill Provisions
OfSenate and House
Undistributed Profits Levy, Corporate
Earning Schedules Widely Revised b

QNS) Major provisions of the bill approved
House bill follows:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05
Flood of Spending
And Loans Planned
In New Slump War
President Directs Campaign to Create Jobs
By Aiding Industry
By ROBERT A. McGILL

INS) The Administration today moved rapidly to COM
bat the recession on a broad front.
Administration strategy Capitol Hill shaping into
program for increased Federal spending increased loans
business and industry and increased appropriations for relief
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-05

RATES b. MAIL. FOB YIRqINIA, MARY
LAND. WEST VIRGINIA AND
NORTH CAROLIHA