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Evening star., 1941-05-19
1reasuryAsks
CorporateTdx
Boost Of Billion
Revision of Excess
Profits Low Plus so
Income Levy Urged
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury John l.. Sullivan told Congress
today that revision of the excess
profits tax law along lines proposed
by the Treasury last fall and i'm
position of per cent income
surtax would net 81 ,096, 900 900 above
present corporation taxes, a boost OF
s161 500 900 from the Treasury's first
estimate
He told the House Ways and
Means Committee the excess profits
rates on which the Treasury based
its estimate were:
80 per cent on excess profits from
net income in excess of a proposed
credit up to IS per cent of invested
capital.
So per cent on IS to 30 per cent
of invested capital.
IS per cent above 80 per cent.
These compared with present
rates starting at 25 per cent on the
first $4,000 of excess profits net ,
income and ranging upward to so
per cent above S500,00O.
Called Administrat ton Program.
In reply to questions by Repre-
sentative Jenkins, Republican, of
Ohio, Mr.. Sullivan said the state
ment he read was read not only
by the Secretary of the Treasury, but
by the President of the United
States" and added it was q correct
inference" to assume he was pre-
senting the administrations pro-
gram.
Mr.. Sullivan said the Treasury
was not suggesting any change "at
this time" in its individual income
tax proposal. made several weeks
ago. 1t would continue the present
per cent normal tax and apply a
new stiffened schedule of surtaxes
starting at IL per cent on the first
dollar of taxable income. Present
exemptions of $500 for single persons
and $4,000 would be retained.
Representative Robertson, Demo-
crat, of Virginia suggested that there
were some who thought that the
exemptions should be lower and the
starting surtax less steep.
Opposes Income Tax Boost.
The Treasury official replied that
single person making 1852 a
week and a married couple making
1920 week were subject TO in
come taxes under present law and
the proposed Treasury plan.
With danger of an increase in
the cost of living" he continued, Il
have very strong doubts as to
whether we should subject q per
son earning less than SIC to an in
come tax"
Indicating willingness to agree to
revision to the Treasllry's excise
program, he said that he felt that
excess taxes on certain commodi-
ties might well be increased" and
| others lowered. He asserted that
"a very important motive" should
be whether the articles proposed
for taxation competed with the de-
fense program.
The Assistant Secretary said a
drastic overhaul Of the corporate
excess profits tax was needed in
order TO recapture some of the
profits being made from the de-
fense program.
Cites Big Defense Profits.
Mr.. Sullivan said the excess profits
tax law passed last fall has not
achieved the objective" of taxing
defense profits.
He told of one unidentified firm
which has $250,000,000 on defense
contracts and earned 20 times as
much in 1910 as in 1899 but would
pay no excess profits tax this year
under the present law.
"One company" he continued,
whose profits in 1910 were more
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Mother and Two Children
Found Beaten 10 Death
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fres6.
NEWARK, Del, May ia
mother and her two children were
found beaten to death in their farm
home five miles south of Newark to-
day and State police said the first
floor of the bungalow showed signs
Of "a terrific struggle
The body of Mrs. Ethel Webb, 30,
lay on the floor of bedroom. In
an adjoining room was the body of
6-year-old Clarence. In crib was
Judith, Z months, also dead.
State police said they had estab-
lished the three were beaten to
death, apparently with an ak. They
said they were looking for a sus-
pect.
The Webbs have been living as
tenants on a 100-acre tract used
for raising poultry. The place is
owned by H. 8. Palmer, who found
the bodies.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
R. A. +. Planes Bear Brunt
OF Compoiqn in Iroq

LONDON, May 10 OP.-The r. A.
F. bore the brunt of Britain's Iraq
campaign during the week end as
British bombers battled over the oil
rich kingdom with Nazi Messer-
schmitts, bombed Nazi-used airports
and attacked transport vehicles.
Well-informed British circles re-
garded the German occupation of
the Mosul air base, in oil-rich North
ern Iraq. as particularly serious.
Developments in Syria also were
watched closely for indications that
the war in the Near East might
bring hostilities in that French
inundated territory where the Brit
ish last week bombed three airports
reported used by German aircraft.
In Beirut, Lebanon, it was re-
ported today that French anti
aircraft batteries reopened fire on
British planes when they bombed
Kayak airdrome in Syria at noon
yesterday
(Gen. Henri Dentz, high com
missioner of French-mandated
Syria and Lebanon, called on the
people of Syria to resist criminal
aggressions" of the British.
(After the first bombings Of
Syria by the British, dispatches
from Vichy quoted semi-ofncial
French statements that the Brit
ish action would not be consid-
cred aggression)
There were no reports yesterday
of any outbreaks of land fighting
in Iraq either by the British or
Premier Rashid Ali Al Gailani's s
forces.
A communique from the r. A. r.
Near East command said two Ger
man Messerschmitts were shot down
near Baghdad by British fighters,
which then machine-gunned motor
transports and supply roads. One
large plane was reported set afire
in q British bomb attack on Mosul,
where German planes are based. An
airfield near Baghdad also was
bombed
Evening star., 1941-05-19
French Batteries Fire
Aqoin on British Planes

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 10 CP.-
French anti-aircraft batteries were
reported today to have reopened
fire on British planes when they
bombed Kayak airdrome in Syria
again at noon yesterday.
No British planes were hit, 1t was
said, and the French announced no
casualties or damage. The first
disclosure of British attacks on
Kayak and other airdromes came
last Friday. The r. A. F. returned
today on leaflet raids, dropping
propaganda in French and Arabic
on Damascus, Syria's capital, DER
Es Zpr, Hassech and Aleppo.
AS German planes continued to
arrive in neighboring Iraq, the
Baghdad general staff was reported
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Couple Who Survived
Athena Disaster
Aboard Zomzom

Two American missionaries
who survived the sinking of the
British liner Athena at the out
set OF the war were reported
aboard the Inflated Zamzam.
They were the Rev. and Mrs.
William H. Edwards, who, with
their son, Donald, %, left Eng
land on the Athena on the day
Britain and France declared
war on Germany, September
8, 1899.
The son is now a student at
the University of Chicago
Divinity School, but his parents
were said to have taken the
Zamzam on their way back to
the Congo, where they have
spent 80 years as missionaries.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Defense Public Works Fund
Is Drop in Bucket McNutt Says
Need for Schools, Hospitals and Sanitation
Reported to Agency Totals S27l 100000

areas would run between $500, ,0O0,-
600 and S400 900 900.
Officials have estimated the needs
of the District of Columbia alone at
more than $17,000,0 900.
Have you thought of trying to
get money for these purposes out of
the $1,000, ,000, 900 lease lend bin?"
asked Chairman Maloney of Con-
necticut.
Mr.. McNutt said he had not, and
indicated he did not think these
needs came within the lease-lend
appropriation.
Senator Maloney. in suggesting
possible use of some of the lease
lend appropriation, indicated he
doubted the entire $1,000 900 900
(See McNUTT. Page A-l2)
Evening star., 1941-05-19

not intended to put in at South
American port, but its owners were
induced by the Life-Fortune Co. to
change its course and pick up the
two men at Recife, Brazil.
A cablegram received on April 8
advised that they planned to board
the Zamzam the next day. Nothing
has been heard from them since
(See ZAMZAM, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Get Supplies TO Allies,
n. A. Rockefeller Urges
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSoclateu FreSs.
NEW YORK, May 1S.-Nelson A.
Rockefeller, co-ordiEator Of COM
mercial and cultural relations be-
tween the American republics, said
today the United States must see
that defense goods reach the
armies of the democracies" because
trade In q Hitler dominated world
would be impossible.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
British Planes Renew
Attack on Syrian Fields

CAIRO, Egypt, May 10 P.-
British planes have made renewed
attacks on German aircraft on
Syrian sirdromes, the r. A. F. Near
East command announced today.
The bases bombed were the same
as those raided by the r. A. F. be-
fore-Palmyra Damascus and Kayak
the communique said.
Raids also were reported on
Rashid airdrome in Iraq and Calato
airdrome on the island of Rhodes.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Summary Of Todoy's Star

More than score hurt in week END
traffic crashes nearby. Page B-1
National U. pilots win honors in in
tercollegiate meet. Page B-1
Evening star., 1941-05-19

Foreign
Germany has agreed to return 100, 900
captives, French say. Page Al
Seven British planes destroyed in
Crete, Germans claim. Page AS
Five Nazi fighters shot down of
coast, British report. Page Al
National.
Congress hurrying to clean slate for
possible recess. Page Az
Ship explosion fatal to seven "un-
avoidable," jury says. Page Al
Nation observes first 81 Am an
American Day" Page AS
204 aliens arrested in Nationwide
roundup. Page AS
Washington and Vicinity.
Plane taking OIL here missing since
Saturday. Page Al
Meeting here to determine uses Of
tied-up foreign ships. Page AS
D. c. day cancellation delays small
4. loan bill. Page B-1
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Fate 2onSunkL kLinerMystery;
1873 Americans on Egyptian Ship;
British Vessels Bombed |raq Says
English Planes
Renew Attack
In Syrio

BACKGROUND
Fighting in Iraq, Which began
May as consequence OF British
troop landings, intensified as Ger
many and Italy came to aid OF
pro-Nazi Baghdad government by
sending planes-and perhaps
mechanical torceS-across Syria.
British hare sent ,DdrpIanes into
action against them, bombing
Syrian airdromeS, Where AriS
planes ,Uere said to haze landed.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May ia Beirut
broadcast quoted a Baghdad re-
port today to the effect that the
Iraq air force most effectively
bombed British warships in the
Persian Gulf at Basra.
The Baghdad account declared
further that all hangers and the
landing field had been destroyed at
British-held Habbaniyah airdrome
and that arrival of British REIN
forcements had been cut of by con-
slant Iraq air patrols.
The question of supplies for the
British garrison beleaguered in
Habbaniyah has thus become
acute" the Baghdad report said,
land under these circumstances
IraQ military circles reckoned with
early capitulation of the garrison. /"
Evening star., 1941-05-19

Editorial and Comment.
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
This and That. Page Ale
Letters to The Star. Page Ale
David Lawrence. Page Ali
Dorothy Thompson. Page ALL
Jay Hayden. Page ALL
Constantine Brown. Page ALI
The Coming Tower. Page ALL
Sports.
Shakeup unlucky for Dodgers;
AS end Tribal streak. Page ALA.
Brown looks to Coast games to
set world dash marks. Page Ala.
Punch gives Baer chance with
Louis, despite poor defense. Page
Ais.
Macdonald Mile lures stars to
A. A. U. title meet. Page Ais.
Evening star., 1941-05-19
MisceIIonv.

Bedtime Story.
Uncle Rays Corner
Winning Contract.
Crossword Puzzle.
Natures Children.
Evening star., 1941-05-19

(See SINKING, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1941-05-19
Weather Forecast

Mostly clear, lowest temperature about
So tonight; tomorrow fair, somewhat
warmer; light variable winds. Tenn
peratures today-Highest, rs, at pm;
lowest, so, at am
From the United States Weather Bureau report
Full Details on PAGE A-2
Evening star., 1941-05-19

(See TAXES, Page A-1e0
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(See STRIKES, Page A-19)
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(See HULL, Page AID
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(See McNUTT, Page AID
Evening star., 1941-05-19

The Alexandria Navigation Co.
received a cable from London ad-
vising that the ZamZam's master,
Capt. William Gray Smith, vet
eran of 81 years at sea, was missing,
but there were no other details.
Beside the missionaries and am
hulance drivers the Zamzam was
carrying a cargo of fertilizer, trucks,
automobiles and machinery of va
rious types and was said to have
See SINKING page Al
Evening star., 1941-05-19

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-08
Wilkes Warnine

A MERICA'S strength in this war-torn world depends
a on the capacity of industry to make things
The emergency has awakened the political critics
of business to this basic truth
Industry restore its prestige through effective
productive effort.
There is question of the patriotism of Americas
industrial leaders Yet if there any falterng matter
who is to blame critics will be quick to cruelty American
business.
Wendell L. Willkie leader of the "loya opposition"
has broken his silence to issue this warning to industry
in contribution to the annual financial number of the
New York Journal and American.
Pointing out that American business faces Its most
difficult year the runnerup in the last presidential cleo
ton admonished that:
IF private industry and free labor fail to provide
national defense and aid for Brtan) larger and larger
of Specialization of productive capacity inevitable
and labor union control and regulation probable. Thus
American business faces its most difficult year. Neither
pep talks balanced phrases solve the problem Hard
work. infinite ingenuity and calm judgment may however
difficult the job"
1t is bad that industry softened by decade
of depression excessive taxation and political business
batting.
Nevertheless over the long pull American industry
has had the genius to lead the whole world in individual
productivity.
Any further Gripping of American initiative and
enterprise will weaken the nation at the very time when
1t needs to be infinitely strong.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-08
EDITORIAL PACE,
500, 900, 900 d Year
Or SIP From You

DETRoIT traffic accidents in addition to their heart
II aches and shame and manning and killing cost us
twenty million cold dollars year.
This unchalenged assertion made Monday dur
Ing round table discussion of traffic experts at the
weekly meeting of the Economic Club
Do YOU know what the sum of twenty million dollars
signifies?
Have you any real conception of one million dollars?
Do YOU appreciate how big thousand dollars looms
hundred dollars, if you need them and haven't got
them?
YOU can visualize twelve dollars That's getting down
into common language and that's roughly what
traffic accidents cost every man, and child in De-
troit every year.
Let's forget the factors of decency and prudent
driving and courteous driving.
Let's confine this to dollars and cents.
Is it worth S12 year to you to contribute by your
indifference your apathy your active participation,
to the shocking traffic muddle in your city?
The Economic Club meeting disclosed that of COM
parable cities traffic tolls in death and injury and dollars
are worse here than in New York Chicago Boston, Phia
delphia, st. Louis, Cleveland and Milwaukee.
pretty shabby showing for Detroit, isn't it?
ONE of the points emphasized at the meeting the
~ immediate need for improvement in our traffic light
ing system. 1t estimated that expenditure of
S000000 in undermining traffic lights would save close
to $5000,000 in annual traffic accident expenses.
The Detroit Times over the last year persstently has
urged this very Improvement.
The Detroit Times believes the whole present creaking
system of traffic lights should be discarded
We need thoroughly and up to date system.
We need synchronization of lights
We need traffic lights hung high in the middle
of the street. rather than tucked they on
street where visibility is poor and profuson OF
neon advertising signs bewiders drivers.
MAYBE a modern traffic lighting system would cost
lNl more than 81, 100000
That makes difference.
pressing need for the good and the safety and
the comfort of Detroit
1t is more pressing need than new arports or new
hospital centers or anything else.
1t is something need now and need imperatvely
Let's get it.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-08

|. In 1865, George III signed a bill
which specified that all news
papers. almanacs. pamphlets
and legal papers in the Amer
lean colonies were to be written
on stamped paper purchased
from the British government.
II gave rise to the famous
slogan. mo taxation without
representation.
2. Ant-eater, pangolin. aardvark.
The armadillo is not true ant
eating animal.
3. The grampus, or killer whale.
1. Pilgrims Progress, by John
Bunyan.
). A harmless lizard common to
warm climates. Falsely. it is
called by some native peoples
the father of leprosy.'
). Venice.
Z. Hawaii.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-08
Model House Not a Home,
The Pueblo Sage Declares
BY DAMON RUNYON

OUR old man was once invited
to address a meeting of
club women back in our old
home town of Pueblo on the SUBJ
Jet of housekeeping from the
viewpoint of man.
He said he was glad to oblige
because he had long wanted to
get women Strengthened out on
the difference between house.
keeping and homemaking. He
told them right off the reel that
not one woman in so could dis
tinguish between the two.
He said the greatest house.
keepers were not necessarily the
best homemakers. He said. on
the contrary, many great house
keepers he had known were not
homemakers at all.
He said this was because they
did not understand the vast diff
ference between a house and
home. He said that housekeep-
ing was purely a mechanical
function that anybody could
learn. while homemaking was
distinctly an art.
OUR old man said the knack
" of homemaking was usually
natural gift, but that it could
be acquired by all women by a
little study and close application.
He said it had been his OBJ
servation, however, that few
women who were great house.
keepers would ever sacrifice any
of their facility in that direction
in the interests of homemaking,
though he thought that this was
due to their inability to realize
that a beautifully kept house
might not also be a home.
He said when you got
woman who was able TO combine
the operations of housekeeping
and homemaking, you had a
level of incalculable value,
veritable gift from the gods.
He said he saw several such
women in The audience before
him. but that he also observed
number who were magnificent
housekeepers but not home
makers. He said he would en-
deavor TO explain what he meant
and hoped that in so doing he
would not give offense to any
one.
lie SAID he saw one lady
III whose house was model OF
housekeeping but a terrible ex-
ample of homemaking. He said 1t
was a marvel of perfection in
cleanliness and order, with the
furniture always standing just
so, and the books always neatly
racked in the bookcases, and
never a spot of dust anywhere,
and with an atmosphere of gen.
tility and decorum about the
premises inside and out.
He said that lady was hard
worker, economical and pain
stalking. and that she loved her
husband and her children and
probably prided herself on >the
precision with which she con-
Quoted her household.
But, our old man said. he had
often wondered if she had ever
noticed that few of her hus-
band s>,trfea.lS visited them and
when they did they never seemed
relaxed but sat stiffly on the
edges of her chairs and spoke
in low tones and that her hus-
band himself never seemed at
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-08

|. Answer (a).
2. In the Argentine Republic.
3. (a) Pronounced like s; OBJ as
the second of 2 consecutive
vowels TO be pronounced sepa-
rately; (c) stress that syllable
A. Newly married. $40
). Pemmican: concentrated food.
6. (a) Silicosis: caused by stone
dust.
z. Sweet land of liberty"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-08

though he was rather a jolly
fellow elsewhere.
OUR old man said that down
" the street block from this
lady's house was the residence of
another lady also present in the
audience, which was equally
clean but less precise and which
was always filled with callers
who lolled about in the chairs
and on the settees and talked
loudly and laughed without re-
straint. and there were always
books and late newspapers scat
tered around and an air of ease
and comfort about the place.
He said the husband OF this
lady was no more popular
among his friends than the
other ladys husband. and that
between the couples in point OF
responsibility and desirabillty
of association there was really
little to choose. but that there
was marked difference in their
dwelling places.
He said one was a house. the
other a home.
OUR old man said that from
" the viewpoint of a man,
which were the terms in which
he had been invited TO speak.
good housekeeping was valu-
able asset, especially in the
economic phases of the opera
ton, but that homemaking was
more important, even though ii
might involve a little inatten-
ton to the housekeeping.
He said the most orderly
house in the world was no good
to a man if he had to walk
around in it as if he were step
uhng on eggs and which was
Stunned by his friends because
of its chill of perfection.
At this point some of the most
highly rated housekeepers in
our old home town got up and
walked out on our old man, and
for months afterwards he never
got an invitation TO a house, not
even that of the lady whose
place he had boosted as home.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-08
3AERlNG DOWN ON The. NEWS:
OT'NlDvicNi BIif<pS
BY ARTHUR~"BUGS' BAER
The main trouble with free speech is the answers

There fifty different oratorcal blzes going on in
sections of America. And cannot figure how all the
little biscuits bake atso many different
temperatures
Some people for isolation, people for inter-
vention and people just for some people.
While Sweden and Russia supplying the otaitarans
with weapons the arsenal for democracy told you
in paragraph February 1896 The percentage of
slaughter embatted Europe will depend the brand OF
ammunition turned out by the neutral nations
There's your information pedigested and in tabloid FORM
We're rolling the snowbas for the other boys TO throw
That's of and with President Roose
subject Still nobodys paying much attention to
Doctrine and New Yoks Sullivan law is too local
law of averages indicates clearly you give conet 10
neighbours boy have 10 listen Of the music
The United manufacturing nation. intend %
sell anybody who purchase and will flood the bar
gain basement so you look old destroyers.
pirnb BY Ssvt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-08
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Jan. 8, 1910

Britain introduced a system
OF food rationing; in Ger
many a government order called
on Nazi leaders to bolster mo-
rale because of rationing hard
ships there.
The Firms smashed another
Red division east OF Lake XII
anita, the third TO be destroyed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-08
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
Jan. 8, 1916

General Aylmer's relief expe-
dition, marching to relieve the
British at Kut-el-Amara. de-
feated the Turks in battle at
Shiekh Saad (Tigris).
The Allies repulsed Turkish
attack at HeHeS. NN
The Austrians launched fierce
counter-attacks against the Rus
SLAMS in effort to retake Char
torysk.