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J! - AURORA the nine justices ruled tfet'“the Louisi wealth is not money, but land, build ings, industry, railways1 ,- faw mate ana law. imposing a puni [ye tax on the advertising of the prit ;ipaL newspa rials, manufactured goods and metals, the ' league said the most feasible pers of that state is ih constitutional. method of dividing it equally among all The law was passed b\ a legislature the people would be for the govern controlled by the- late ^Senator Huey ment to issue securities against all Long. The cour||^^' ' property, and then to take over its “ It is bad ^ A g h t of management. its history and$\. . getting, Actual division of wealth might “ give it is seen to a city apartment dw eller, an unwel culated device in ££|| a tax come pig "or sheep,” the statement to limit the circulation >f f in formation to which the public is er iiled in virtue ¡ added, while the farmer might receive an equally unwelcome piece of urban of the constitutional gu; ran fee. property. Division also would destroy “A free press stands las one of the wealth, the league argued, because great interpreters betwqni the govern separate units ; o f income producing ment and the peopl%HWB How it to w»eaftji “ would have no value.” be. fettered is to fe U e .^ iir ,^ lv ^ - < ^ pefeistent search for new subjects of tasfttipn. it is not Michigan Party Chief without significance tjat, with the Convicted of Fraud single exception of Louisiana LMER B. O’HARA, Democratic statute, so far as we din discover, no state chairman of Michigan and state during the 150 ytfprs of our na former clerk of Wayne county, which tional existence has indqrtaken to includes Detroit; State Senator A. J. impose a tax like tha now in qües- Wilkowski and 16 tion. others of lesser prom-^ “ The form in whig!); is im- inence were convicted posed is in itself’ suspit feus! lijis not in Detroit of having measured or limited by olume of attempted to steal the ed alone -advertisement. It is | 1934 election. Eight by the extent of the ci plat.] on of the defendants in the re publication in which f the » .advertise- r count case, which fyad ments are carried, w itll the plain pur been on trial for pose of penalizing the^^mblishers and nearly 12 weeks, were curtailing the circulathwof a selected acquitted. Two other group of newspapers.”| B defendants previously had pleaded guilty, Elmer B. Raskob Sued for Alleged thus bringing to 20 O’Hara the number facing sen Income Tax DeficiJicy tence for their part in the vote recount CTION against Raskob, conspiracy. former chairman « p T h e Demo For O’Hara, the verdict came as cratic. national comrr*tee ’ when Al the culmination of a series of calami Smith was the PresicjKtial nominee, ties in a brief political career. Last and who is now presiyj November a jury in Macomb county, dent of the Ameriçaifl adjacent to Wayne, found him guilty Liberty league, hasl of bribery in a drainage transaction in been begun by L.thjJ connection with real estate deals he government for. an al-1 had made before 1932 when he en leged deficiency of tered politics and was elected Wayne 026,340 on his 1929| county clerk. He awaits sentence income taxes. under that conviction. After conviction claims wp' he Wa? fFOm ofircfef " ^ -'-v- amendment to the pe-j In the recount case O’Hara was founa tition recently filed! guilty on three counts, permitting against Pierre S. dù| others to alter ballots, conspiring to Pont two days b efo r« permit others to alter ballots, and con Al Smith had bitterly! J. J. Raskob spiring to permit others to conduct assailed the New D e » * ¿In the peti the recount in an unlawful manner and tion, which Raskob described as “ New change the result of the November, Deal persecution,” ML du Pont was 1934, election. alleged to have undel^ated his 1929 ,income by $2,897,832|jjjand an addi tional tax of $617,316f was asked. In Éigid Policy Announced the amended petitiojg. accusing Mr. on F H A Mortgages Raskob, it was allegefPthat he and the OUSEHOLDERS defaulting on gov industrialist en^age<f$Hn “ fictitious” ernment-guaranteed renovation sales of securities, o ^ rJ P the other, and mortgage notes will be no more to a total.-of about $J^0O,QOO- for the gently treated by the Federal Housing purpose of showing losses. administration than are tax delin quents by the Treasury department. N ew Farm Bill PiishecF Stewart McDonald, FHA administra tor, says there has been a general mis for Early Adjournment $ understanding of this matter, and so EADERS of congress hope for an he enunciates this policy: early adjournment, by^ May 1 at “ When a borrower under the mod the latest, and therefore they pushed ernization credit plan defaults on a the new farm bill forward, trying to loan, the lending institution files claim get it through both hpuserby the end with the housing administration for of the week. In their desire to get the insurance on the loan. The inatteif away from the Capifali they already of collecting the defaulted obligation had decided to let the proposed po*- then Is turned over to the Federal manent neutrality legislation go by the Housing administration. board. “ In such cases it will be the policy The farm bill as rewritten by the of the Federal Housing administration senate agriculture committed is based on the soil erosion prevention scheme. ÿto be just as rigid as the Treasury de partment in the collection of taxes. Some Democrats join|d with many Re The collection machinery is well organ publicans in opposinglthe haeasure, one ized and, while every reasonable con o f them being SenatoV Walsh of Mas sideration will be given to borrowers sachusetts. In a stagement issued to in default, the public must not get the press he declare! it was a “ dan the impression that, the housing ad gerous” bill conferring “ autocratic and ministration will be lax in performing blanket authority” aiJfthe secretary of its duty. agriculture. He saldjthe measure was “ There is no reason to assume that “neither valid in l^w nor valid id borrowers in default will be treated economics.” like tax evaders, but rather along the Chairman Dought&a o f the house same lines as an individual who is in ways and means cranmittee said her •default of tax payments.” expected definite Word from the White House or treasury soon on the amount Relief Given Industrial and kind of taxes t|at might be im and Farming States posed to finance th® new farm pro TN D U S TR IA L states, such as Illinois, gram. L New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, Speaker Byrns sai< he could see no although they pay most of the internal reason why the tax measure should revenue taxes, receive much less of not emerge from the ommittee* by the federal relief largesse than such agri end of February. cultural states as North and South Da He and Doughton ¡Insisted they had kota, Mississippi, Alabama, New Mex no advance informa lion on what the ico, Arkansas and Arizona. This was administration mighfl propose. Many pointed out in a statement released congressmen who a ril usually well in by the Illinois Manufacturers’ associa formed said they locjked for a recom tion which compares »¿he internal rev mendation for leviep to raise more enue collections of the various states than $500,000,000, pejlaps. through ex with the amount each state received in cise taxes. relief funds for year ending June 30, E -mu A ORSËR V E R > A U R O R A , OREGON ury. Pennsylvania and Ohio did somewhat bettèr. Pennsylvania collected $244,- 355,727 and received in relief funds $173,151,832 or 71 per cent. Ohio col lected $164,079,273 and received $107,- 702,953 or 66 per cent South Dakota received $27,565,648 and collected only $1*540,795. In other words, South Dakota got back from the United States government nearly eighteen times the amount paid In in ternal revenue. . North Dakota got approximately $25 for each $1.75 paid in taxes, receiving $25,087,327 and collecting only $1,748,- 657. Mississippi received J$18,745,43 ; In relief funds or nearly seven and one- half times the amount collected in in ternal revenues. Senator Borah Formally Enters Nomination Race IL L IA M E. BORAH, the liberal Republican senator from Idaho, is now a full fledged candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination. He formally put him-' self in the running by announcing t h a. t he would enter the pri mary in Ohio which will be held May 12. That state requires t h a t the candidate shall déclare himself in writing, and this Mr. Borah said he would do. * The senator’s state Senator Borah ment follows : “After a thorough survey of the Ohio situation I am convinced that the peo ple of that state should be given an opportunity to express their ^choice in the Presidential primary oh May 12. Under the so-called ‘favorite son* plan this privilege is denied them. “ To obtain an expression of popular will it is my intention to place at least eight candidates or delegates at large in the field. “I shall make a number of speeches in Ohio and present the issues as I see them.” W Mrs. Huey Lon g Takes Thursday, February 20, 1936 Huey’s unfinished term, becoming the second woman member of the upper house. After eleven months she will be succeeded by Allen Allender, speak er o f the Louisiana house of represent atives, who was nominated for the reg ular term. Mrs. Long, middle aged and comely, said: “ In my mind I have a hazy idea about the things I want to do. but I am not yet ready to announce them. I want to take my seat in the senate and get right to work—1 -I’ll need a lot of luck.” Vandenberg Doubts Value of Florida Canal VANDENBERG of Michi S ENATOR gan has grave doubts of the eco nomic necessity or value o f the ship canal that is being dug across central Florida, and offered in the senate com- ! merce committee a resolution for Inves tig a tio n by a special committee. In support of his move he produced let ters from eleven companies operating steamships saying they would not use the canal even if no tolls were charged. They asserted the expense of employ ing canal pilots added to the risk of damage to ships would offset saving in navigation costs. Work was started some time ago on the canal, which, if completed, will cost between $140,000,000 and $200,- 000,000. j Great Britain Rushes I Rearmament Program THERE must be another war I F Europe, Great Britain proposes in to be in readiness. The government is I hurrying up its rearmament program, which will be financed by a loan of i probably about $2,000,000,000. Plans for the expansion and modernization of the army, navy and air force will be A urora Observer THE FAMILY PAPER Husband’s Senate Seat P. LONG, widow of M RS. the HUEY slain senator from Louisiana, took her seat in the senate to complete Only 50c Per Year submitted . to parliament early in March, and it is said will Inclutb* mechanization o f the entire army. Im petus to the work was given by the latest statement attributed to Mussolini that the Italo-Ethiopian war “ may yet be a world wide disaster.” There were indications that II Duce was looking more favorably on sug gestions for peace, and so some ob servers predicted that the extension of sanctions against Italy would be delayed. The Italian armies in Ethi opia, however, were continuing their activities, one of their latest exploits being an attack on Dessye by seven planes. For an hour high explosive bombs were rained on that town, which is the field headquarters of fiaille Selassie. t L un d y Island G iven Its N am e b y C ruel V ik in gs Lundy island, a tiny speck, three and one-half miles long by one-half mile wide, in the Bristol channel, 12 miles off the coast o f Devon, has no traditions handed down by word of mouth as might be expected o f a place inhabited from prehistoric times, since no population until recently had been able to maintain itself more than a few generations before being vio lently superseded by another. The remains of £ases of round towers sim ilar to thi'v archeological enigmas in Ireland are reminders of an early Celtic habitation. The name Lundy, meaninng Puffin island in the Norse language, was given it by the Vikings who used it as a base for their sea raids. After the Norman Conquest it - fe ll to the Marisco family, a younger branch of the Plahtagenets, who main tained themselves there for some two centuries in a huge stone castle with walls nine feet thick, a considerable part of which is standing, and which on its high headland location is visible for miles around. The Mariscos were a troublesome lot and twice were or dered off and the island given to the Knights Templar, but neither time did the Knights actually obtain pos session. Several members, of the fam ily were plain pirates. One was hanged for participation In a plot to assassinate Henry III, and the last of the line was beheaded for being or: the wrong side in the Barons* war which resulted in the deposing of Ed ward II. H L ___ Liberty League ifHS at > Share-Wealth Schemas A MERICAN LIB E R TY \&EAGUE has issued a document Concerning plans for sharing the national wealth, calling them “not only impractical but utterly impossible.” { Reminding that 1935. Illinois collected $323,138,933 and re ceived in federal relief grants only $113,185,365 or 35 per cent of what it sent to the United States treasury. New York collected $672,473,493 and got back $262,868,658 or 39 per cent of what it sent to the United States treas » S $1,-1 Special Bargain Offer Daily Oregon Journal and Aurora Observer by Mail at following prices: Oregon Journal, Daily and Sunday . . $8.50 Aurora Observer . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Both, one year, $8.90 Oregon Journal, Daily only . . . . . . Aurora Observer . . . . . . . . . . . . $5.00 .50 Both, one year, $5.40 Oregon Journal, Sunday only . . . . . $4.50 Aurora Observer ..................................... 50 Both, one year, $4.90 This Bargain Offer is for a Lim ited Period B Y M A IL O N L Y Send or Bring Subscriptions to Aurora Observer aBBBBaBaBBBBaaaBaaaaaBaaaaaaaa'aaaBiaaBaBBaBBaaBaBBBBaBaaBaBi
